Lightroom Classic

the release notes simply state, that a new preview method is now in use but does not provide any details.What I have found is that for every photo in the catalog, there are now multiple preview files. The naming of these files implies, that various sizes are created: *_90, *_180, *_360, *_720, *_1440, *_2880 or *_105, *_210, *_420, *_840, *_1680, *_3360 or *_320, *_1024, *_2048, *_4096, *_8192I presume these numbers corrispond to the pixel size of the previews.And I assume, that all of these different previews are being updated every time a photo is developed - which adds quite a lot of processing to the creation of the previews and on the other hand presumably improves preformance when in library module. Hopefully the performance improvements warrant that. What I find a somewhat bad design decision, is that the preview files do not have a file suffix anymore. This makes it very difficult to exclude these new previews from backup software, also b

 Using  iMac 24" M1 chip Sonoma v. 14.5.  LrC v. 13.3.   Lots of beachballing which seems to start after using the program for a while.  Also, the brush intermittently shows strokes when using the mask and at times doesn't show them at all.  Sometimes the strokes show up after a long period of lagging which makes it impossible to figure out where you are on an image.  On a good note, the eyedropper seems to work when on WB now.  Camera Raw limit was set to 10 and have increased it to 20 to see if that makes a difference (saw this suggestion in an older post).  Everything was working fine prior to the latest update.   System Info: Lightroom Classic version: 13.3 [ 202405092057-40441e28 ]License: Creative CloudLanguage setting: enOperating system: Mac OS 14Version: 14.5.0 [23F79]Application architecture: arm64Logical processor count: 8Processor speed: NASqLite Version: 3.36.0Built-in memory: 16,384.0 MBDedicated GPU memory used by Lightro

Hi, I am new to Lightroom, but have experience in PS. I have an HDR image that was created in Lightroom from 5 bracketed photos. When I go to apply a mask to a specific area of the photo, I follow these steps:Click on Masking button on the right, in the Develop tab (or shift+W)Click BrushPaint my maskNow, when I do the last step, the part that I just masked changes - it's like I applied increased exposure to the masked part. But, I didn't. I haven't toushed any settings yet.It's not the Overlay (thats red).When I exit the masking tool, it's still there.This has happened on several different photos - both HDR and not HDR.It's like LR is arbtrarily changing settings before I apply a mask, but I can't find a way to set it back to 'baseline'. In PS, if I create a mask on a layer without any changes done yet, and use the brush tool to paint my mask, the photo doesn't change - only after I say, for example, change Curves. This is what I expect to happen in LR as

Why o' why does LR force you to create a new catalog with a DIFFERENT name???Why can't it simply move your older catalogs into a folder and build the new catalog? Because I have lots of local and cloud backup storage that are dependent on file names being the same, otherwise thing don't sync properly, I have to do this everytime an update is required.1. Create a new catalog with a new name as instructed by LR.2. Quit LR.3. Go to my catalog folder, carefully select the old LR catalog files that are right next to the new ones (don't mess this up) and move them to a different folder.4. Rename all of my new catalog files back to the original file name.5. REPEAT THIS PROCESS FOR EVER CATALOG I HAVE!!!!This can take a few hours for me. Seriously Adobe, fix this. 

Bislang lief alles ok.Habe jetzt eine neue Sammlung mit 168 Fotos in LRC angelegt und diese synchronisiert. Es werden aber nur 30 Bilder wirklich synchronisiert. Lightroom zeigt ab seit drei Tagen weiterhin an 161 Fotos werden synchronisiert ohne das etwas passiert. Es bleibt bei nur 30 Fotos die ich in LR auf iPhone und iPad angezeigt bekomme..Habe keine Erklärung was da seit drei Tagen ohne Erfolg synchronisiert wird.

Hi, thank you for reading my post...I have all my photographs on an external hard drive. I am running out of space so I have a new SSD external drive and I wish to move my entire collection of photographs over to the new SSD external drive. I dont keep any images on my internal drive they are all on an external drive. I want to move everything over to the new SSD drive and would appreciate some expert guidance before I do this please. I am using a 2023 Macbook Pro and running LR Classic v 13.3I have a large collection of images (89000 plus)As I have not done this before I really would be grateful for a pointer to a tuitorial or some first hand advice.Thank you so much....

I regularly have to switch between catalogs whilst working and until the beginning of the year I would simply go to file>open recent, select the catalog I wish to use, the app would quit and reboot using the chosen catalog. Now I select the catalog to open and nothing happens. I initially assumed it was because I was on an older mac with a really outdated version but its still happening on my new mac with the latest version. I have to quit the app and locate the catalog and launch from there. Anyone know how to resolve this issue? Thanks

I use the tablet in the field to begin working on some of the photos and will eventually transfer all the the desktop.

All my photos are GPS tagged and show the LR lookup location information. I wish to export files with "City" as part of custom name. This does not work. I think there was an issue in the past where LR, despite having the location data resolved from the GPS and allowing its use in search, could not access this for manipulation. J Friedl put together a metadata wrangler to handle this - but it is not available for current LR versions. How am I supposed to use location hased information in custom text. The function is there to include this metadata - it should work surely. Any work-around appreciated. (And no, I am not going to manually type in the location metadata...) cheers  ________________ Windows 11 current version. Latest LR 13

With latest update (LRC 13.3), no longer able to batch update GPS field either in Library or Map modules, i.e., select multiple photos in either Library grid or Map film strip, enter GPS coordinates in metadata field. The entered GPS coordinates will only register in the first photo in queue. Only way to update all photos is to enter GPS on each photo individually. This failure is frustrating as this has been my only work-around for the problem outlined below which has existed for years. This second issue in Map module has been ongoing through many updates: selecting multiple images on film strip and dragging them onto a map have them landing a distance from target. If I try to drag a single photo and drop it directly over a pre-existing flag, it, too, will "bounce" several inches away. I have seen complaints on this elsewhere on net, but have never found a solution. My only alternative has been to batch edit, but now that no longer works. 

When I export to video the image quality is circa 1995 (I have set it to high quailty).I also can not get my 4:3 image to occupy max space as when I select Zoom to Fill Frame, my shots in Portrait oriengtation get croped into Landscape.   So what is the vaule to being able to add music to something of such inferiour image quality. I went diretly to Adobe who told me Lightroom is a photo editing software and its slideshow capabiliters are limited. So, back to my question - what value is there in the Slideshow module?  

It seems that in the past 4-5 months every single time I go to use Lightroom I find something has 'broken'. As a result I'm spending more time 'fixing' LR then using it for what I bought it for and it's getting very annoying.Anyway, rant over. Two weeks ago I was using LR and everything was working correctly, then last week I was on holiday and so my iMac was switched off and nobody has used it or LR until I launched it yesterday to download all my photos. All my photos imported into my catalog fine, it did fail to import the videos I'd shot which were .MOV files but LR never seems to be able to import them and I don't really need video in LR so it's never particularly bothered me.I was able to edit and organise the photos without problem but when I try to do a slideshow I then get the message "Dynamic link media server failed to launch" after which the play button is greyed out.I tried uninstalling and reinstalling LR. No differenceI tried a solution I found on here where you open a F

Lightroom is unusable after enabling an AdHoc Wi-Fi network using this method:https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-create-a-secure-ad-hoc-network-in-macos/ ... even with the AdHoc network off, Lightroom still freezes after a few minutes. Lightroom Classic 13.3 (and 13.2) will get the spinning beach ball of death and freeze for several minutes at a time. CPU usage rises and hovers around 100%. Details:M1 MacBook Pro 16GB RAM445GB free spaceMacOS 14.5Lightroom Classic 13.3Sync Paused (off)Empty Catalog FWIW the AdHoc Wi-Fi network is needed to share shoots with clients on an iPad during tethered shooting with Capture One Pro. The AdHoc Wi-Fi network only affects Lightroom, not Photoshop, Capture One, Photo Mechanic, Microsft Word, Mail, Calendar, etc,. I suspect Lightoom is attempting to sync. Bug occurs with Sync on or off. I've reset the computer three times, reinstalling all apps/settings. The only way to resuscitate Lightroom is to remove the AdHoc netw

Hello ! First, sorry for my bad english, I hope my question will be clear. Recently, I tried to work my picture remotely from my NAS, and move my LrC Catalog to SSD external drive. From my desktop computer, linked to the NAS, I generate "Smart Preview" and "1:1" previews for all picture in my catalog.Today, I work on this catalog, on my laptop, without access to my NAS. I figured out that picture not edited may be more zoomed than newly edited. For example :This picture is not edited yet from my laptop. 100% zoom can be deepThe picture below is developed from my laptop, and 100% zoom is reducedPicture has been taken in same condition with the same camera. Do you have an idea why this behavior occurs ? This is a configuration mistake or picture generation from my side ? Thank in advance for you help 🙂 Best regards, Benjamin.

When using the AI ​​noise reduction feature, some pink dots and gray squares appear in the processed photos. The problem occurs with Fujifilm RAW files, even converted to DNG. All drivers and applications updated and tested in different versions. GPU resources (RTX 3060) whether turned on or off, have the same problem. In Lightroom classic or web for MAC, this does not happen, only with Windows 11 Pro.Tested with files Fuji XT2, XT3 and XH2.

I'm wondering if anyone knows what could be causing this error message or what it means. I've had troubles uploading books to Blurb before but usually after I retry a couple times it goes through. This time I've been getting this error message (at about the 75% mark) and have no idea what it means. I've checked all the pages over for error alerts or icons and can't find anything.

Hi I am really struggling to access older versions of lightroom for iMac. Has anyone experienced and similar and what is the best solve for this? 

Hi this is now the second time, that a catalog get screwed up.If I load this particular catalog, I cannot use the development module.Also, I cannot change the target collection.The only solution so far it to go back to last backup, so far.Quite annoying.What could be the prohblem, and ist there a solution for this problem?ThanksAndreas

I upgraded to Lightroom Classic version 13-3 today.  Adaptive subject presets no longer work.  Selecting subject or background from the create new mask menu also does not work, yet all were working yesterday prior to upgrading Lightroom today.  I have Windows 10 O.S. on a desktop pc.  Is there a solution to get these working again? 

Since a couple of weeks my system doesn't recognise my camera anymore.Apple Photo and Canon Eos Utility 3 recognise my camera (Canon Eos R5) instantly when connecting it through the USB C port but Lightroom 13.x doesn't show the camera.It's a PIA to download the shots though the Eos Utility and then import them from disk in LightroomSame issue on my Macbook Air M2.Karel.System settings: Lightroom Classic version: 13.1 [ 202312111226-41a494e8 ]License: Creative CloudLanguage setting: en-BEOperating system: Mac OS 14Version: 14.2.0 [23C64]Application architecture: arm64Logical processor count: 20Processor speed: NASqLite Version: 3.36.0Built-in memory: 65.536,0 MBReal memory available to Lightroom: 65.536,0 MBReal memory used by Lightroom: 5.101,0 MB (7,7%)Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 420.192,8 MBMemory cache size: 497,6MBInternal Camera Raw version: 16.1 [ 1728 ]Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2Camera Raw virtual memory: 0MB / 32767MB

Hello everyone.I have bought a new Apple-PC and would like to install Lightroom classic and Photoshop on it.I have been working with these two programmes on a Windows computer for years. Now I have a new PC with an unknown operating system. I would be very happy if someone could recommend a manual, video or something similar.I would also appreciate any tips on what to look out for. Thank you very much in advance. 

I updated to 13.3 over the weekend and proceeded to import about 2000+ photos. After the catalog conversion, the import seemed to be stuck, so I quit everything and upgraded the old catalog again. Then quit Lightroom and started it again to import the photos. Again, super slow. I then proceeded to import in batches, which eventually completed.   All activtities seem to be very slow. Adding keywords often doesn't work, as the processes seem busy with something else. HDR Merge is exceptionally slow, as is stacking and unstacking. There's also a crazy amount of XML file updating going on.    If find performance slightly better after restarting, but that doesn't last for long.   I have roughly 200000+ photos in the catalog. M1 Mac Mini with 16GB of RAM and using an external SSD. Processing JPG and RAW.    Anyone else noticed something similar?  

Hallo,ich hab zwar die Systemvoraussetzungen gelesen, aber dennoch hätte ich folgende Frage:Ich brauche einen neuen Laptop oder PC (noch nicht entschieden...). Welche Komponente ist den am Wichtigsten für die Nutzung von Lightroom & Photoshop?Angenommen, Ich nehme ein generell guten Laptop/PC, der bereits alle Mindestanforderungen unterstützt und hätte noch ein Budget von 500 Euro. Sollte ich das in eine bessere CPU eine bessere Grafik oder mehr RAM investieren um schnellstmöglich arbeiten zu können?Danke im Voraus und GrüßeMarkus

Hi there, I would like to apply a mask to several dozen photos. Specifically, I would like to:> Create New Mask> Select People> Select facial skin & Body Skin> Set clarity/highlights> Automatically apply / synch the facial and body skin mask to people in selected photos (in Develop mode, I would think). Is there a way to do this? Thank you in advance!

There is an option to use "collections" as part of the filter rule set for smart filters.I cannot find any documentation of how this is supposed to work. Putting in text and using "starts with" or "contains" produces random results.I have collection hierarchies: is there is syntax to resolve them in the text search? This would seem logicalAny guidance to proper documentation appreciated R