Lightroom Classic

I was enjoying myself until two days ago when I upgraded LR Classic to 15.4.1 (which created a new catalogue). Since then it has been a world of pain.It works fine for a little while. After some time, I realise that none of the titles, captions and keywords I’ve been entering for 15 minutes is being registered. Seems fine while I’m typing them, keyword suggestions would come up, and no warning when I press Enter. But when I return to them, they are all blank. LR frequently freezes, requiring me to shut the program every half an hour or so. Shutting the program takes many minutes (spinning rainbow wheel). Often after shutting the program, I cannot open it again (icon bounces in the Dock for a bit, then nothing happens, not even a start screen). I need to restart my computer.Any suggested fixes? Or should I downgrade to the previous version of LR Classic (if that is even possible)?  My specs are:Lightroom Classic 15.4.1 MacBook Pro with M1  OS = Tahoe 26.5.2 16 GM memory 880 GB of disk s

Merge to HDR in LrC 15.3 is stalling (beach ball) or not responding.  I frequently merge HDR images for Real Estate photos and today, after updating to LrC 15.3 I had to Force Quit from LrC multiple times to regain control of LrC.  I stacked my bracketed shots and used CTRL+H to merge.  LrC did process a couple before stalling.  After multiple attempts resulting in Force Closing, I tried using the menu commands, no change.  I then uninstalled 15.3 and reinstalled a fresh copy of 15.3 and the HDR problem continued.  Finally I uninstalled 15.3 and downgraded to 15.2.1 and the Merge to HDR function worked as expected.  

Hello, I had purchased Lightroom 4 and 6 and had them both installed on my old computer. I have serial numbers for both. I just bought a new laptop (Windows) and I see the Lightroom 4 icon on my desktop. I clicked a setup file for Lightroom 6, it asked me to enter both serial numbers, and it installed the icon on my desktop. When I click on it, I get the message “ Adobe Application Manager, required to start your trial, is missing or damaged. Please download a new copy of Adobe Application Manager from http://www.adobe.com/go/applicationmanager” I know Application Manager has now been replaced by the Adobe Creative Cloud.  How can I get Lightroom 6 to open on my laptop so I can see my photos? Thank you

My configuration:Processor    AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT 8-Core Processor (3.80 GHz)Installed RAM    32.0 GB (31.9 GB usable)Graphics card    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 (8 GB): latest Studio Driver is activeStorage    459 GB of 1.82 TB usedSystem type    64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Lightroom is very slow despite everything that I have researched on the web. An additional problem is that when I open an window within Lightroom, for example, the preferences window, Windows goes bezerk. The screen keeps flashing showing all the apps that are open and the only way that I can stop this from happening is to open Task Manager and quit Lightroom. Pressing ESC or the CTRL, ALT keys altenatively, eventually (3 minutes after the event) works.  Why is this happening? How can I stop this madness? Thank you so much! Jaime   

Records of image’s design in some folders are lost after update .For example, I'm opening some folder from 2022, that included in past designed photos and I don’t see any designed of them.

라이트룸 클래식 사용 도중에 인물 보기에서 이름이 지정되지 않은 인물을 이름이 지정된 인물 쪽으로 드래그 앤 드롭하려고 하면 라이트룸이 응답없음 상태가 됩니다.조금 기다리면 종료되버리거나 강제로 종료 후 다시 실행해야 합니다. 윈도우 11을 새로 설치한지 1~2주 정도 되었습니다.모든 소프트웨어와 드라이버가 새로 설치된 상태입니다. AMD Ryzen 7 5700X96GB RAMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB

Lightroom Classic 15.4.1 on Windows 11 desktop PC with HDR display enabled. In Develop mode, DNG image is adjusted using AI Sky Mask to adjust hue of sky. Develop renders correctly and the exported image renders correctly. However Library Loupe and Library Full Screen regenerate a preview with a green fringe or halo in the sky along the sky/land boundary. When switching to Library you can observe Library displaying the previous preview, then the correct Develop render, then replacing it with the incorrect regenerated preview. Reproducible on a fresh HDR merge and on separate DNG files. The bug appears to be related to the setting on the exposure slider in masking, appearing with higher exposures and disappearing with lower exposures.

Hi y’all! Having issues with generative AI (Clone stamping, denoise, and masking) across the board and have been having issues for the last week+. Whenever I add an edit, it doesn’t necessarily “stick” in that it’ll read with an error message and requires refreshing. I’ve resigned on getting the clone stamping tool to work and will just do what I need to do to get a gallery out in Photoshop, but I have a set of images that need the denoise tool and some custom masks. I’ve re-rendered multiple times and exported but the images will not export with the masks. Feeling incredibly frustrated and wondering if anyone has found a fix for this? I’ve tried restarting the app, my computer, logging out and in, editing in the proper order of operations, refreshing/updating the masks, and checking for updates. So far, nothing has worked. Has anyone experienced this and was able to fix? Additional details: Currently running on LRC 15.4.1 and do not have any additional available updates. Is it possibl

I have Lightroom classic 15.4.1 .  I used the find duplicates application to create stacks of  duplicate photos.  The stacks of duplicate photos were displayed.   I then selected the option to remove duplicate photos from the hard drive.   Now it would appear that the "duplicate application" has become unresponsive.  "No duplicates found " is shown on the main Lightroom screen. In addition the photo catalogue is no longer connected to Lightroom.  The thumbnail of the Picture file has a small black/grey exclamation mark by it.    My photos are still all on the computer’s hard drive.     HELP !   How to I return Lightroom to its usual state and reconnect it to the photo catalogue?

Lightroom Classic on a iMac 27" Intel running VERY slow

Versione di Lightroom Classic: 15.5 aggiornamento di agosto 2026Sistema: MacOs Tahoe ultima versioneFile: Nikon raw convertito in DNGComportamento: sistematico, sempre riproducibileDescrizione: nell’immagine c’è una persona che voglio rimuovere. Dal modulo Sviluppo seleziono “Rimuovi” e spunto “Usa IA Generativa”. Clicco su “Persone”, attendo che LrC trovi l’area con la persona da rimuovere e premo “Rimuovi”.Da questo momento non sarà più possibile salvare i metadati, nel senso che LrC visualizzerà sempre “Metadati non salvati”. La situazione si risolve cancellando la rimozione. Nota: quando premo CMD+S sul file, per salvare il file, comunque qualche modifica viene apportata poiché il finder del mac aggiorna la “Data di modifica”.

The default location for Lightroom Classic catalogs is the user's Pictures/Lightroom folder. Modern operating systems and users frequently sync the Pictures and Documents directories automatically using services like iCloud Drive and Dropbox.When Lightroom is open, these services constantly try to sync the .lrcat and .lrcat-data files in the background while they are actively being written to. This causes frequent write-conflcts, locked databases, and critical catalog corruption.Please update Lightroom Classic to default to a local, non-synced directory (such as a dedicated folder directly in the User Home directory) to protect user data from automated cloud-syncing mechanisms.I have my .lrcat and .lrcat-data files in Pictures and I was about to update to the new Apple File Provider for Dropbox and upon researching it I found Apple will no longer also Pictures to be backed up by Dropbox. I had a double backup, one to iCloud and one to Dropbox.  I didn’t realize it would be backing up c

Hi everyone,I’ve been experiencing an ongoing issue with Adobe Lightroom Classic, currently on version 15.2. This problem has been happening for the last three updates, not just this latest one.After importing RAW files, the thumbnails do not appear in the Library module. The folder and total file count display correctly, but the preview area remains blank.The only workaround that consistently works is fully restarting Lightroom. Once I relaunch the program, all thumbnails appear normally.System details: Lightroom Classic version: 15.2 Computer: Apple M3 Pro Memory: 18GB RAM GPU acceleration: Set to Auto File type: RAW “Generate previews in parallel”: Enabled Storage: [internal SSD or external drive] This happens every time after import. Restarting fixes it temporarily, but having to do that after every import is not practical.Has anyone else experienced this over the last few updates?Is this a known issue with Apple Silicon machines?Is there a more permanent solution besid

What an awful release. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to see new developments, but this Lightroom update is an absolute disaster. After culling just 5-10 images, the AI Assist culling tool completely hogs all my RAM, causing my Mac to freeze and throw memory errors. It’s a total nightmare.Culling images via the library module is practically impossible right now - everything just locks up. Even with previews pre-generated and trying to run AI Assist culling, the performance is still abysmal. On top of that, it frequently fails to even generate a Denoise. What is going on, Adobe?! This is absolutely unacceptable!P.S. The RAM management is completely broken and goes beyond any acceptable limits!  

Our mother (a great photographer documenting the lives of her 9 children / grandkids from 1948 to 2010) has left us over 30,000 negs, slides that are now all scanned.  About half are scanned/edited/curated by her, the rest we need to do the work.  We now have over 200 descendants we want to share this with most use iPhones. some iPad. / Mac and some other smart phones/tablets.  Looking for a great photo editing / organization and sharing solution to do this.   Is Lightroom good at this?Is it decent at batch tagging people (up to about 50 different people across the 30,000)?There is no metadata on vast majority but our mom was diligent in identifying each roll with year, month and event type / location when availableWhat happens if we share html links for finished albums with the 200+ direct family descent? Thanks for any insight you may have.   Frederic

Na de update van 7 aug 2026 krijg ik bij meer dan 10000 foto’s het teken om het Adaptief Profiel bij te werken. Ik heb willekeurig een aantal foto’s gekeken maar het lijkt erop dat dit bij foto’s gebeurd waarbij het Profiel is aangepast naar Aangepaste Kleur. Ik vermoed dat dit door de nieuwste versie van LC is gekomen. Echter ben ik ook op 2 juli overgestapt naar een iMac M4 en heb toen de nieuwste software van LC geinstalleerd. Hiervoor draaide ik op een iMac uit 2017 met OS 13.7.8 (22H730), Daar kon ik niet de laatste versie van LC op draaien. Kan mijn vermoeden kloppen? 

When I attempt to synch new photos from my collection I get "synch error:. I have the collections set up to synch. I have paused synching in LrC, restarted my Win11 PC, restarted LrC but I still receive the same error. What other troubleshooting steps should I try?

Select Subject in Lightroom Classic has suddenly become significantly slower on my PC. It previously worked much faster on the same hardware (2-3 sek).System: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 12 GB, 32 GB RAM, Windows 11.Tests with the same images:Lightroom Classic 15.5: 13–14 sec Lightroom Classic 14.5.1, completely new catalog: 7–11 sec Lightroom 15.5 with GPU disabled: 14–18 secLightroom recognizes the RTX 5070 and reports full graphics acceleration. However, GPU utilization appears very low during Select Subject.Since the problem also occurs with a new catalog and different Lightroom versions, it does not appear to be catalog-specific.Around two weeks ago, Select Subject was considerably faster on this same computer.Could you please advise whether this is a known issue or help identify what may have changed?

Hi everyone, I'm currently trying to migrate my entire Lightroom CC library (about 41,440 images) into a new, empty Lightroom Classic catalog. However, the sync in Lightroom Classic is extremely slow: after more than 20 hours, only about 3,200 images have been downloaded. For comparison:On the same system, I also ran the Lightroom Downloader app, which downloads all images in about 20 hours total – many times faster. The app maintains a stable download rate of 30–100 Mbit/s, with peaks up to 200 Mbit/s. But when I pause the Downloader and activate the LrC sync instead, the download rate drops to below 1 Mbit/s, with only occasional peaks and very long idle times. Sync activity in LrC barely progresses, and it seems to load only 1–2 images at a time, with frequent stalling. Both apps are:Running on the same systemUsing the same networkTalking to the same Adobe serversSo I can safely rule out any system or network bottlenecks. I've already tried:Resetting th

I would like to know which “AI” processes are counted and automatically tagged as such.Since I’m required now to mark images as “Made with AI” and I’m still not sure how that truly applies; I’d like to see how much of the LR features that made it worthwhile I can still use without having to have my clients put AI badges all over the place, or having to provide them with 10 different versions for Social media so the markings are “clearly recognizable” on an iphone 4s as well.Discussing the principle of “faking”, i.e. retouching vs. doing it with/without AI is futile in the face of EU lawmaking, but what processes would I have to circumvent so my work doesn’t get automatically flagged via creator cloud?As much as I love the AI mass masking features, I’ve done well without them for decades and I’d rather live without my work being inadvertently AI tainted. Imo, many automated processes are and have been using some sort of artificial intelligence, video games with “opponents” always did. T