Lightroom Classic

Hey experts!My question is: Does LRC automatically read the xmp edit information in import (when the xmp is available)?Are there situations/ scenarios when it won't behave like that?I tested it, and it does apply the edits automatically, though I want to have 100% assurance that this is the default behavior and nothing can change it.I couldn't find the answer to this online, and I am always getting amazing responses here 🙂I appreciate your help!Best,

I have updated to LR 13.0 and found that merged dng files (for panoramas) are now very small. For example, I merged three 76MB RAW files and the resulting dng was only 18MB. Normally the merged dng file would be more than 200MB. However I found that when I exported the dng file as a tiff without compression at 300dpi it did exceed 200MB. I've gone back and checked previous merged dng panoramas and observed that they were very large but when I merged them again in the 13.0 version of LR they suddenly dropped down to about a tenth of the files merged before updating.I am using an M1 Mac Mini and running Ventura.What's going on? Any ideas? 

I went on a trip and copied files from my extenral hard drive to a samller portbable drive and worked on them while away.  When I got home I hooked up my permanent extenral drive and the files were missing because they had been relinked so I clicked on the missing file icon and relinked one to the file's original location.  I thought this would relink all of the files in the same folder but it's not.   So I am having to relink each one indivdiuually.  Why isn't Lightroom doing the automatic relinking like it usually does?  Thanks.  

Lightroom keeps crashing when trying to do Import, just when I am short on time so I cannot post some photos! I have the latest version on a Windows 10 computer. I need to get this fixed soon! LR can be vert frustrating to use and Support has been lacking.

I am with an iMac Retina, 27-inch, 2017, Ventura up-to-date 13.6.9. LR Classic fails to launch, shut down, relauched iMac, uninstalled, reinstalled LR CLassic, set prefrences to default, tried finding .plist files ... whatever I could find to troubleshoot ... still, for a second the intro screen with the silver-tinselled person might appear, then silence again. It's so frustrating, LR cloud-based and PS are still running on this iMac. On my MacBookPro all works. I just don't get what is wrong, very frustrating, anyone with a solution ... would HIGHLY appreciate ....

I recently purchased a license for Lightroom and Photoshop and even though I like Photoshop I have a very bad taste in my mouth with Lightroom and if I can't figure this out I will need to drop the software as it is more of a burden than a benefit.    To start off my computer specs are as follows: i-9900K 64 Gigs RAM 2 x M.2 SSDs GTX 970 (Support Direct X 12 and 4K) with 4 Gigs of VRAM Windows 11   I have tried every trick in the book to improve performance including Placing the catalogue on a non-OS M.2 SSD Drive Keep a lot of working space on the OS and non-OS drive (about 50%) Disabling Face and Address Lookup Reducing preview size to 1440 Using 1:1 Previews Reduced the number of images in a catalogue Change the cache size to 100 GB (and place it on a non-OS M.2 SSD Drive) Upgraded from 16 to 64 Gigs of memory   Problems I run into The program badly lags and will not respond (to a point I could lose 1/2 a day in waiting) catalogue takes a long time to build

I'm using LR Classic 13.5 and have both the NON beta of PS  v25.11.0 and the latest Beta 25.12 installed on my PC (Win 11).   Up until recently, chosing to edit in Photoshop from LR brought up the Beta, which is what I want. Now however, it has started bring up the NON beta PS 25.11.0. How can I fix this? TIA - Richard

I cannot get Lightroom Classic to open.  The lock file is open but the app will not open.  There are no warnings or messages showing.  It is trying to open and the computer is running very hard, but nothing happens for a long time and then it opens but the computer still runs very hard.

I have LR classic installed on an M1 Mac Mini with 16GB RAM. I hadn't used it for a couple of weeks and started again this week after getting a new camera body and lens. I saw that LR had been updated to 13.5.I was using LR on Friday night and left it open overnight - not unusual for me. Next morning my Mac was unresponsive and the Force Close window was open with the message that my Mac was out of application memory. I had to force quit LR to get round the issue.I used LR again to import 21 new files and did some basic editing (change the camera profile on all files with copy/paste). LR was then using 32GB of memory. In fact this happens if I just open LR and leave it without doing anything.CPU usage varied between 50% and 130% with about 115 threads, so I suspect something is running in the background that is hogging resources. Here's what I see this morning. This is on startup. This is after 5 mins with no action on my part. Has anyone else noticed this or has any sug

Good day. I bought a type-c cable to shoot directly in Lightroom. But! Lightroom sees my camera (canon eos r), gives the ability to shoot remotely (release the shutter), but I don't see any photos at all (just a grey screen). That is, there are no photos online at all! And I wanted to shoot directly in Lightroom and apply a preset. And it also doesn't save photos in the designated folder. What should I do?

My sync indicator (top right cloud icon) shows status "sync error" - if I go online via "view sync status on web" (which is hidden behind "option" key - why? second why - why do I even have to go online in browser window just to see what images have sync issues or what the problem is?!?!) there are NO ISSUES in the issues album. Where do I go from here - restarting Lightroom doesn't help.  [Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules. A ‘bug’ is not just another word for any problem with software!]

This is my last and final plea to Adobe to fix Lightroom Classic CC performance.I spent a considerable amount of money upgrading primary desktop computer in an effort to alleviate performance problems with my software stack, and the ONLY one that does not measure up is Lightroom Classic CC.  DaVinci Resolve renders clips in about 10% of the time that it used to... yet Lightroom performance has not improved at all.  In fact, with the latest version, it's gotten worse:  It is absolutely insane that I have to restart Lightroom 16 times in a single day of photo editing (like I did TODAY).  Have a look at my system if you think I'm being unreasonable.  Intel i9-7980XE Extreme Edition Processor, 64 GB RAM.  Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti, m.2 disk, etc.Last chance, Adobe.  If you don't fix this by the time my current contract expires, then I'm out.  I will not tolerate this nonsense any longer.-----Below is my system information as captured by Lightroom:Lightroom

When i try to import files, nothing happends. Even importing one picture doesnt work, from my usual camera.   I tried: - optimizing catalog - increasing cache from 5gb to 10gb - purging cache   Lightroom Classic       [Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules. A ‘bug’ is not just another word for any problem with software!]  

Please help. I made a rookie mistake while using Lightroom Classic 13.1.I spent hours going through a bunch of photos and rating them to decide which ones i will be editing.I then watched a tutorial on how to import DNG files that I purcahsed so that I can make presets from them. I assumed this would be the same as importing regular .xmp files for presets. What I didnt know is that you need to start with a fresh new empty catalogue to import DNG files or it will overwrite your progress on the current catalog that I was working on before I chose "Import Photos and Video...." Now my catalog is nothing but the DNG's that were imported to create presets from and not the hundreds of photos that I spent hours going through. Is there a way to get my work back that I spent so much time on or is it overwritten forever? If my work is lost, I really wish it wasnt so easy to lose hours worth of work in Lightroom.

I have 2 photos that I want to merge.  The first screen shot shows the 2 selected.  The one visible in the preview had exposure edits made using Masks.  When I merge the 2 images, however, the merged file shows that photo without the exposure lightening.  See 2nd screensshot.  Why doesn't it reflect these changes?  Thanks.   

I am confused with the Print module in Lightroom Classic. I want to create a template to print two selected images as 5 X 7 on an 8.5 X 11 paper. I there a monual or instructions on how to do this?

I am having trouble recovering images deleted from Lightroom Classic. All the recovery info I can find seems to pertain to Lr for mobile, etc. Can anyone help?

I'm considering moving from PC to a Mac Mini 2018 w/ i7, 16GB Ram.  Has anyone else tried this setup and how well does Lightroom and Photoshop run on it?

Hello everyoneI can create a mask and apply an adjustment to that area. When I add to that same mask, and make another adjustment, the 2nd adjustment is applied only to the area I added, not the entire mask. How to I get both parts of that mask to adjust together? Thanks for any tips!John

When i went into lightroom classic today recently edited photo files are gone. Nothing available past January of this year. When i open Lightroom they are there but not edited. How do I find all my photos.

I have only just encountered this problem so I am not sure when it started. In the past export presets remembered the location set in the preset.  This no longer works. Please fix, or am I doing something wrong? Anyone else noticed this?

Hello, I have a strange behavior with Lightroom Classic and Lens Correction. If I click 'Default' the correct profile loads,  but if I change the distrotion or vignetting slider another incorrect lens profile is loaded. So I'm not able to use the correct lens profile.  Anybody can help?Running on LrC 13.5Macbook Pro M1 MacOS 14.5  

Faulting application name: Lightroom.exe, version: 13.5.0.12, time stamp: 0x66b26577Faulting module name: video_toolkit.dll_unloaded, version: 13.5.0.0, time stamp: 0x66b2660fException code: 0xc0000005Fault offset: 0x00000000002ed0cdFaulting process id: 0x3070Faulting application start time: 0x01daf66747a8f52cFaulting application path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom Classic\Lightroom.exeFaulting module path: video_toolkit.dllReport Id: 881090f2-ec20-4fdf-810d-63bf0b2854d3Faulting package full name:Faulting package-relative application ID:

Issue: In the slideshow module, add a text overlay. The font is selectable within the system's installed fonts. The font face (italic, bold, when available) can be selected but the text overlay doesn't actually change.Lightroom Classic Version Number: 13.3OS Version Number: Sonoma 14.5Steps to reproduce:Select a photo from the galleryGo to the Slideshow moduleAdd a text overlayAttempt to change the font face, e.g. select Italic.Expected result: The text overlay chanegs to italicActual result: The text overlay remains in the Regular font face.

Lightroom keeps popping the "copy settings" window when I try to crop the picture, how to solve it? Thank you!