Lightroom Classic

PROBLEM Prior to LrC/13.3,  In the Lightroom Sync tab of the Preferences dialog there was a list of images that were in the process of syncing with the Adobe Cloud.  This was removed as of LrC/13.3 when the cloud sync architecture was updated to improve performance and reliability.      However, we are still seeing a large number of situations where numbers of images get stuck in the sync process and just sit there in limbo without change,  Other than being able to see how many images are in process each way, there is no place in LrC to see which images are involved other than a lenghy and complicated process to generate and then decipher a diagnostic report.  In addition it is not clear how to read those diagnostic reports.   PROPOSAL Someplace in LrC itself, please provide a list of the images that are in the process of syncing in each direction.  If possible, inlude which direction they are going and what is being synced (just metadata, f

I recently discovered that when using "Settings > Paste from previous" that LRc calulates the aspect ratio for the crop from the image dimensions and ignores the user set aspect ratio such as Original, As Shot, etc.This creates issues with images edited outside of LRc might have their aspect ratio altered as LRc sees it as a different aspect ratio from the original due to interger rounding. It would, for example,  crop a 6000x4000 image to 5999x4000 but it also the case that just because one image is 1:1 outside of LRc it doesn't mean LRc should force that ratio upon other images.   LRc should be consistent with the user facing values the same as it does with the White Balance for example, which doesn't simply paste the Kelvin value from the previous image, it respects the displayed setting, eg. As Shot, Daylight, etc.This would help greatly with workflows that involve editing work in PS before returning to LRc for further global tweaks. For example, when replacing backgro

Suggestion for Improved Virtual Copy Functionality in Quick Collection   I’ve noticed that when creating virtual copies within Quick Collection, the virtual copy automatically jumps to the beginning of the collection. This disrupts the workflow, especially when working with a large series of images. It would be much more efficient if virtual copies remained next to the original file, consistent with the behavior in Collections, Smart Collections, and regular folders.   Thank you for considering this improvement.

I use the badges to see at a glance which photos have adjustments, but now the "Photo is in collection" badge is cluttering up the badge field (is that a new badge?)  This particular badge is completely useless to me, so I'd like to be able to turn it off without turning off the "Crop" and "Adjustment" badges.     Please allow users to select *which* badges are displayed in the filmstrip (and/or any other locations).  Thank you!

Microsoft has this for many of their products. I had to call Adobe for help because there is no option to repair an installation in Lightroom Classic. Uninstalling and reinstalling just put it back the same way - with missing functions.

I would like to be able to have different Crop versions of an image, e.g. different aspect ratios for different purposes (different social channels, wallpapers on different screens, different print sizes, etc). I can do this with Virtual Copies, but that creates a new separate copy of all edits that are disconnected from the original source. I would like to be able to create a limited version of a Virtual Copy where all edits except cropping are still live-linked to the original source file and the only variable that changes in the limited Virtual Copy is the Crop. i.e. I could change Exposure or White Balance or Masks, etc on the one original source file, and all the Crop-Copies would inherit those changes within their Cropped Aspect Ratios. In the current implementation of Virtual Copies, I would either need to go make those edits again on each copy (manually or sync), or delete the Virtual Copy and re-create and re-crop a new Virtual Copy to inherit the new edits. I would like to be

Hello, the community in classic Lightroom, the latest version with noise reduction by AI, I find it fantastic and I use it absolutely all the time every time. On the other hand, would it be possible to bring a button or a function so that I can have the choice so that the original raw files no longer appear and so that only the raw files processed with accentuation appear? Otherwise I'm losing a crazy amount of time to remove the original files one by one and that doubles the number of photos and even doubles the weight of the report on my hard disk. if I ask for batch processing by AI, it's because I no longer want to have the original raw files in the dupsiser but only the accented raw files. Thank you for listening.     Bonjour, la communauté dans Lightroom classique, la dernière version avec la réduction de bruit par l'IA, je trouve ça fantastique et je m'en sers absolument tout le temps à chaque reportage. Par contre serait-il possible d'apporter un bouton ou une fonctio

I would love to be able to right-click an image and choose "find similar in catalog"  Please, please please!   Thank you ❤️

I have a 14" macbook which I use both connected and not connected to a 32" 4k external monitor. There's a pretty big difference in physical size between the 2 monitors which results in personal preference differences to the lightroom classic UI elements. Particulally thumbnail size and panels (width or visibility).So when I switch from using the laptop screen to the external monitor, my first few minutes are spent adjusting the size and locations of UI elements for the new screen. Couple ideas to streamline this and be more friendly to the user:a) lightroom remembers and applies the last state of the UI elements on a per monitor basisb) someway for me to save and apply layouts (kinda like UI state presets)mike

I would love to have the devs create an "Effective ISO" metric that reflects not just the ISO at which an image was shot, but also the ISO with the added Exposure adjustment (E.g. an image shot at 1000 ISO but with +1 Exposure would have an Effective ISO of 2000 and with a +2 Exposure would have an Effective ISO of 4000.) This would be particularly useful with adaptive presets. For instance, I create adaptive noise reduction presets for 1000, 4000, and 10000 ISO, but because I sometimes under-expose (due to running around at events), I have to adjust my Exposure a few stops to compensate. When I do that, I then have to guess what noise reduction preset to add. I can't help but think that it would be awesome to have an "Effective ISO" metric that the adaptive presets to calibrate to rather than the "ISO As Shot." I think it would also be useful just to kind of know more intuitively how ISO is changing as Exposure adjustments are added.(Granted, the Effective ISO obviously changes if you

I propose creating a tool (AI?) that would select or flag images that are blatantly undesirable.   One of my least liked aspect of my workflow it culling through thousands of images to find the gems.  It would be so helpful if Lightroom can select out those that I am highly unlikely to keep.  Blurred images.  Accidental shots of the ground or sky.  People who have heads cut off.  Etc.

I wish, I could rate my picture using my evaluation-stars and -colors directly during the import process and adding specific meta-tags maybe just to one photo (and not the entire import).For instance: I am shooting all day for 5 different projects - they all mix on one SD-card. Coming back, I have to go thru the import-process 5 times, looking thru all the pictures over and over again to sort out the pictures for these five projects.Why can ́t I do this straightaway during import? Am I over looking something already there in LR?I hope, you can understand my wish.

PROBLEM One very common issue users of LrC have are missing files and folders.  Well over 70% of my LrC Help clients come to me with some version of this problem.  The existing "Find Missing" tools in LrC work as designed, and many times re-linking one photo winds up re-linking hundreds of other nearby images at the same time.   However in many cases, depending on exactly how the images became missing,  one winds up having to manually re-link images one at a time which can be an impossible task if there are hundreds or thousands of such images (a client yesterday had over 11,000).    SUGGESTIED IDEA In the Import Dialog, add a new checkbox below the "Don't import suspected duplicates" box called "Relink Missing Photos".    If this box is checked and there is also a version of the photo in the catalog marked as missing, rather than importing the image and creating a new catalog entry for it, re-link the existing (missing)  photo to the locati

Please bring back the "Import to subfolder" in the import dialog.   Before this was removed, the default import folder was the previous one (e g "2024/08") and I could choose to put the new files in subfolder "03", and everything landed nicely in folder "2024/08/03".    That's one click and three keyboard presses.   Now the default value is my last import folder (e g "2024/08/02") and I have to click "Other destanation", get thrown out into Windows Explorer, go back up one level, press "New folder" and create the new folder.   That's just extra steps. Please bring back the previous workflow.

I am a wildlife photographer and I tend to end up with long series of the subject which I slightly different in pose of the main subject but the background is largerly the same. Well, no, not the same. Because, if those photos were made handheld, which they very frequently are, the whole backgrounds are shifted in directions.   What I do now - I manually edit one photo and crop it to fit the composition requirements, then sync it across the series, then >>> go and move the cropping window for other photos to match the original composition <<<. At this point I'll review the result and throw to the trash 90% of images. The rest 10% require more tuning. I may tend to apply fine tuning of the cropping again, for the serries to not look as obviously handheld [as it really was], matching original photo more.   The first round of crop matching is heavy because of many images. The second round of crop matching is heavy because of complicated fine tunings, which

I would like to be able to mouse click on the History State “Multiple Settings" to see what the settings applied are. A pop up screen could come up listing them  

Sometimes, I have to go back into people masks, or sometimes I just look through images, and every time the masking tab is still active, every image is scanned for people.   It would be great, if you could batch scan an entire folder and those people would be "available" later on, maybe even with an option to pre-mask teeth, cornea, whatever's in the list, but people alone would already be very helpful. On one of my devices, scanning takes quite long, so you get my point.

Hello, I write this post as an angry wedding and event photgrapher. The problem is every time I work inside Lightroom Classic I keep loosing the initial Custom Order i set while selecting images to deliver. Every time Lightroom (or me accidentally) changes the sort order inside Library from Custom to Capture Time. Sometimes I need to change image position again... and when I don't notice that the sort order option has changed (because I'm in the Develop module, and there's no way to see the sort order there), and drag a photo in the film-strip... Boom! The initial custom order is GONE FOREVER.So, to me, as a wedding and event photographer, that custom order is essential to create my story telling, and the basic Capture Time sort order can't solve the issue (considering there are often many photographers, camera bodies and many files with different names involved). So the hours passed ordering hundreds of photos is precious to me. Why I have to risk loosing it every time beacause of Lig

There are tons of threads requesting this feature, one thread has 217 upvotes since 2014. The contributor that submitted this idea, @johnrellis, wrote a plugin called Any Comment to do just this, but it is no longer compatible with LR Classic v13.3 or higher. Attached is a screenshot of how John's Any Comment plugin allowed me to write the likes and comments received from LR Web/Mobile to the metadata field of my choice in LR Classic. This allowed me to filter those comments for a specific word.Adobe, please consider adding this feature for those of us with workflows that involve team collaboration to review and comment on thousands of photos that are synced to Lightroom Mobile for review and commenting. Without this, I now have to manually add the comments from my team to the LR Classic Metadata, just so I can filter for them.

You've combined Generative AI with the old content aware brush, and they produce different results, and I try to go back and deselect the Generative AI I lose my brush strokes. If I painted with the Content Aware brush and have Generative AI selected by mistake then Lightroom takes me immediately into the Generative AI Mask Refinement menu. There's no way out of this menu to deselect Generative AI without losing my selection. If I click cancel the selection goes away. Sometimes the Generative AI sucks, so I want to deselect it but keep my brush strokes. But, no, I have to repaint my selection. This is very inefficient and annoying. Either allow us to deselect generative AI from the refine mask menu or separate generative AI from the content aware brush, and create a separate brush for generative AI.

I keyword all my bird photos.  If I am keywording for a bird that is already in my keyword list I have to type in the exact first letter for the drop down suggestions to come up.   ie if I am keywording Sulpher-crested Cockatoo I have to type Sulp.... for the bird name to show.  It would be really useful to be able to type the any of the words in the name ie if I type in 'crested' or 'cockatoo' Sulpher-crested Cockatoo shows in the drop down list.  Often I can't remember the exact name of the bird so being ably to type in any part of the word in the name would help. Thank you Belinda 

Upright mode for framed artworks, documents and other rectangular objects will be great addition to LRIn this Upright mode algorithm should prioritze outer frame of rectangular object and ignore content incide the frame. This will be extremely usefull for shooting artworks, books, documents etc.

I'm u Fujifilm user and I would like to use Enhance details functin during export process of JPG's. Why? Because making new DNG files that are usualy 3 times larger than original RAF is no option to store it for me.   So... Implement Enhance details in process of export would solve this issue. Of course it would be longer process of exporting file, but technically I do not see any issue why that wouldn't be possible to implement.   What do you think?

Lightroom is already performing JXL compression on linear DNGs created from Panorama merges and other linear operations, and it has resulted in amazing space savings. The DNG spec already allows for JPEG92 compression on bayer data and JXL compression could offer an additional ~20% space savings over that. This is especially helpful on very large image files which are becoming more common.  Lightroom already supports JXL compressed unmosaiced DNG files. Other tools can create them, and Lightroom supports those. Extending the "Create DNG" funtionality to use Lossless JXL would probably be a very user forward feature. 

while exporting pictures from lightroom can't  see remaining pictures nor remaining time...why