Lightroom Classic

I was in the middle of a series of portrait sessions, when I regretably updated my MacBook Pro M3 Max. Now, I am unable to thether my Canon 7D MKII in Lightroom. I changed out cabling, deleted.plist files, updated camera firmaware, still dead in the water. Has anyone else encountered this. Looking for resolution!!Running LR v13.4

When I insert SD card via reader and hit Import photos and videos Lightroom frozes and is not responding. in the left corner it says Loading data sets. This used to work without any problem in the past but now it is annoying to the point I am considering of canceling the subscitpion.    When manualy copy the folder to the disk and import then it works ok (it is not coping but adding the folder though).   I have the latest Lightroom classic version and everything else is up to date. My laptop is Alienware m17 R5 AMD, Windows 11 Home.   [Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules. A ‘bug’ is not just another word for any problem with software!]

Hi, I'm new to using the community and I know this has probably been asked a million times but I haven't been able to find anything that makes me feel comfortable that I can make a change without having issues, as I wouldn't say I am the most tech savvy person in the world. My current setup with Lightroom Classic has everything stored on the internal hard drive, which isn't good but up until maybe 6 months ago it wasn't that big of a deal for me if I were to encounter an issue and lose those files. However, I want to change that and set up a more secure system for storage along with my workflow. From what I have been able to find out, it seems that the best option would be to move my photo library to an SSD while leaving the LrC catalog on the internal hard drive. The library containing my DNG files is what is taking up the most space on the hard drive. Can someone please point me in the right direction for the easiest way to move those files to the SSD and making sure they stay linked

I have a folder full of photos that were submitted for a project.Is there a way to have Lightroom automatically flag these if they are below a specific resolution or file size?thanks

This might be a bug but it certainly is unwanted behaviour. When you use auto uprighting transform it works very well (saves me a lot of squinting in manual mode) and it crops image as needed to constrain crop. Problem is that cropped areas are gone for good. In manual mode you have access to crop adjustments and you can recover cropped areas as needed. Not so in auto mode – outside areas are gone, no recovery. I wish auto upright would behave like manual upright: keep cropped image parts recoverable in crop tool view.  I might want to keep those parts and inpaint white parts of them in PS as needed. (Of course it would be preferable to have content aware fill available for white corners right in LR but I have whined about that in another post...) Does this bug you too?

Hey everyone,   I'm sort of at my wits end here. I am culling my images in Lightroom classic but the performance is baffling in its slowness and the momentum killing of my culling and rating process is being flatlined. I shoot on a Sony A7IV and forwhatever reason, scrolling between images using the cursor often results in a delay of several seconds before the new image is displayed. This was not always with lesser systems that I've owned. And while there is a slight difference (maybe?) between JPEG and RAW files, it is not very noticeable and something leads me to believe I have something set for the worst possible performance haha. Please note I checked and it appears as though Hardware GPU acceleration is all on and functioning just fine.   Thanks for any suggestions in advance. 

Hello!  I have searched this forum for answers as well as other websites and remain stumped.  I have an external hard drive, that I move a lot of my pictures to through lightroom (classic)  A few months ago, for reasons I don't know, I can no longer create new folders through lightroom.  I can create a new one within a folder that already exists, but I can't create a new one that isn't a "subfolder".  I can however create the folder in my finder (I uses a mac) .  I did this, and to try and figure out what was going on, I put a picture into that folder from my finder.  I then went into LR to import the picture into LR hoping the folder would show up.  When I imported the picture, I was able to see the folder and import the picture into lightroom, but now I can no longer see the folder in the library mode to view the picture.  I know the picture is there, but I'm unable to get access to it from LR.  I have folders that are visible and tha

Hi there! I once had a big issue with the catalog file on my external drive and have on my laptops internal drive since then. I have actually about 151'000 fotos in lightroom and the backup folder is about 248GB. That's just blocking quite a bit of my harddrive... So I wondered, what exactly would happen, if I delete some old folders in that backup folder? The previews I don't mind (they only make up a minimal amount of GB as I have set Lightroom to delete them after a week automatically), but I don't want to lose my edits or the atributes, tags and so on... I guess that would happen, right? How can I handle this? Is this why people sometimes create several catalogs and have them on different external drives? I really want to avoid this, as it can create loss of data when the external drive goes bunkers while transmitting something... What happens if I transfer the older backups to an external drive and just kind of "reload" them when needed? I feel like this is setting me up for

Hi all, so I just got a new screen.  Coming from a 1920x1200, 24" to a 27" running at 2560x1440.  I've found that everything is too small in windows, so I set scaling to 125%.  Looks good.  OK, so now my issue is LR.  It's doesn't appear to be scaling.  The interface and sliders are too small.  I found a font setting, and medium is too small, while large it too big.  Also, I found how to override high dpi settings and force LR to use the system setting.  This actually looks pretty good, but then the fonts and sliders are blurry. I found a post about editing the prefs file, but I seem to have lost it.  Is it possible to edit the prefs file and make the fonts an in-between size?  Smaller than large, but larger than medium? Thanks!

The images are corrupted by themselves, can you help me fix this? 

When editing RAW images, when is it the best time to apply noise reduction? Should I apply it before or after I apply my color edit changes in Lightroom? Should I apply it before or after I edit the image in Photoshop? I can use the following noise reduction tools: Lightroom denoise or Topaz denoise When I am editing, I apply edits in Lightroom then apply more edits in Photoshop.

Having progressed my keywording script, I've one task left which is to extend a function that creates a map of keyword name -> id so that it handles child keywords. I naively tried: local function find_all_keywords() local all_keywords = {} local function find (keyword) all_keywords[keyword:getName()]=keyword.localIdentifier for _, child in ipairs (keyword:getChildren()) do find (keyword) end end for _, keyword in ipairs (catalog:getKeywords ()) do find (keyword) end return all_keywords end However, when executing this, it creates a stack overflow which I don't understand. My keywords are only about 5 deep, and I think my logic would only attempt to find children of parents which should terminate at each leaf node?  ?:0: stack overflow 

I am trying to help a fried who has two catalogs, one for testing and his main catalog. When he launches LR he gets a message stating that the test catalog is being sync'd and if he would like to have his main catalog sync'd all the photos in the test catalog will be merged into the main catalog. He does not understand what caused LR to started syncing the test catalog. He does not want either catalog sync'd to the cloud (or anywhere else). He has paused syncing. How can he turn off syncing for the test catalog? Thanks.

How can I download and save an edited picture on a USB drive?

Quando clico em uma imagem e peço para selecionar o fundo não acontece nada. O mesmo acontece se mando selecionar o assunto, Alguém já passou por isso?

It was just fine last night, shut everything down, turned off computer, turned back on today, open lightroom.....only shows photoshop 2023.  Weird, since I last set 2024 in the preferences since the wacom tablet thing finally seems to be working with both pressure sensitivity and the Alt click bug not selecting areas, seems to happen less often.... So I click open in another program so I can reset it back to 2024, 2024 is no longer an option, it only shows 2023. Just checked to see if some random auto update or something, even though that has been disabled, somehow happened?  Nope, still on the latest version I had done manually, V25.7. So for some reason Lightroom, which also was not updated from last night, just randomly now does not want to work with photoshop 2024

Any way to copy shapes only from multiple masks and have them combined into a new one? Would let me use AI to select subject, sky, etc. then add small corrections, and then combine the area affected. If it created a new mask I could delete the prior ones and only alter the effects for one. And I could invert the new combined mask to make life much easier at times.

Has anyone else had this happen? I restarted the application and after I did, I saw all of the images that I had removed from the catalog showing up, and all of the edits that I had made reverting back to the original image on the previews. What in the heck happened?   

Hi, I'm unfamiliar with Lua and have just started hacking with Lightroom to automate some keywording. Apologies for possibly familiar 'code resuse', but I thought the result of this script would be a list of arKeyword rather than table  LrTasks.startAsyncTask( function() local all_keywords=catalog:getKeywords() if #all_keywords == 0 then return end lrItem = 1 varFileName = "" varFileNames = {} local ProgressScope = ProgressScope({title = "My progress bar title" ,caption = "My progress bar caption",}) for j, a_keyword in ipairs(all_keywords) do varFileName = varFileName .. type(a_keyword) .. ", " lrItem = lrItem + 1 ProgressScope:setPortionComplete(lrItem/#all_keywords) ProgressScope:setCaption( lrItem .. "/" .. #all_keywords .. ' ' .. j) end ProgressScope:done() local f = LrView.osFactory() local c = f:row{ bind_to_object = props, f:column { f:edit_field { value = varFileName, width_in_chars = 80, height_in_lines =

I've noticed that photos taken with my Z6ii have different names for the the same lenses I use on my D750 and the lens profile corrections are wrong for these photos.For example, my 16-35 f/4 G lens shows as:D750 - 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0Z6ii - VR 16-35mm f/4GWhen applying lens corrections the default for the Z6ii and this lens is 'VR 16-35mm f/4G' and does not correct the distortions. If I select 'Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 16-35mm f/4G ED VR' the distortions are corrected.I'm using LR Classic 13.4, Camera Raw 16.4, Mac OS 14.5Is there a way to assign the correct lens profile more easily?

hi, I have been experiencing this weird bug in my Lightroom classic where it crashes when I click for masks. I use a Mac studio with 64 GB of unified memory and an M2 Max chip. I feel like It is Lightroom issues, not the Mac, is there anyone else facing the same issue?

This bug has happened before with updates, and it seems to be happening again and is VERY frustrating.  Import from source > COPY to file destination >Selected *make a second  copy to* file> Import (RAW AND JPEG files moved into LR and deleted off original drive.   HELP PLEASE, things are backed up in multiple places but the last incident was a re-edit out of archive, once importate to lightroom, it is gone. Backing up catalogs does not work as over time I have found revisiting years later, updating old galleries can corrupt the catalog file rendering unusable.  I have paying clients and this is very frustrating.  

Recently, on opening one of my Lightroom catalogues, I noticed that some (though not all) of the images (in Library view) were displaying an exclamation mark, and on hovering over that the message was "Error writing metadata". In spite of this, I was able to work with the images as normal. I am not using Smart Previews, and many of the images are offline (i.e. downloaded from a local NAS on demand), but this does not seem to be correlated with the problem: for example, in one folder of four images, one has been downloaded and three have not, yet none displays this warning. What is perhaps the strangest is that in another folder, I have a file (xxx.CR2) that displays the warning, and a virtual copy (xxx.CR2 Copy 1) that does not. I have another catalogue where, so far as I can tell as I only checked a subset, none of the images have this warning.

I've noticed this in a bunch of nightsky images, AI denoise sometimes creates swirly artefacts in the dark regions between stars or in low texture regions.    These swirls are not real and would not appear in longer exposure tracked images. They seem like overenhanced noise patterns which the AI denoiser should ignore. TopazAI for example doesn't create these artefacts.  This happens both with traditional Bayer filter cameras, as well as Fuji X-trans images.    Lightroom 13.4, Camera Raw 16.4Windows 10Example: (AI denoise is applied with 60% opacity) The forum doesn't allow me to attach the raw file (it's too big), but it can can be sourced from here (use the Request RAW button under Download Options):https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS071&roll=E&frame=257753