Lightroom Classic

I have just bought Lightroom Classic, and when I try to open a raw file in it, there is a modal dialog telling me that Lightroom will automatically sync my files with the cloud. The only option it gives me, is “ok” … but the thing is that I only want my images to be on my computer hard disk and no where else!I HATE having all your cloud solutions shoveled down my throat. I didn’t ask for a TB in your cloud, and I dont intent to use it at all, but I was never given the opportunity to say no thank you!Now I am not sure if I can use your product at all, without having you guys uploading my entire foto collection to your cloud? What the feck happened to good old concent here? Why isn’t this an opt-in possibility, or at least give us a chance to opt it out, for crying out loud? 😠

LightRoom Classic 15.2 build: 202602111402-ec4112e8Only this release has a fast memory leak in the graphics card memory (Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB).  It  uses up almost all the memory just exporting 8 files to Tif to be edited in PTGUI Pro that also uses graphics memory and crashes repeatedly until exiting LRC, and that fixes the problem.However it is not efficient to have to close LR every time I export files to either Photoshop or PTgui Pro.Lightroom Classic 15.2build: 202602111402-ec4112e8MS Win 11 Prov: 10.0.26200 Build 26200x-64 based PCASUS motherboard Proart z790-creator wifi96GB memoryGraphics: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GBC: drive has 495 GB free.Lightroom database and photo collection on 2 other drives has always run smoothly.Kind regards from Hans

I noticed some of one of my lightroom folders had only 20 photos when the number is showing 400. So I verified that they are all in the folder on drive. So I tried to re-import but it shows all greyed out and I cannot select them. In fact it says the photos have already been imported. They are not corrupted or missing as there is no error icon on them. But yet, they are not showing in library view. I saw advice to find old catalog but I am am not sure how and which one even to try with. Either way, I have bunch of edits and do not want to lose all those edits. How can I remedy this? My LR version is 15.1.1 

Somehow, unknown to be how, I ended in Proof Mode. I cannot exit from it. The top level menu shows Perceptual/Relative mode of Proof Copy. I just want to exit it. How do I do that?

My cat walked on my keyboard and now every time I edit a photo I'm asked if I want to save it as a proof. How do I get out of this mode? Thanks!

On Lightroom Classic 15.2.1 Mac OS 26.3.1, I’m experiencing problems with exporting my photos. I’m running a Mac Studio M4 2025 with 64BG RAM.With the latest version of Classic, I am sometimes able to export photos as usual, whether using the “Export...” dialog box or using a preset. However, mostly, the feature slows down so much that it is barely usable.If I select a preset, the exported image takes something like 30 seconds to appear on the HD. If I try using “Export...”, the Export dialog box takes about 30 seconds to open and then takes another 30 seconds for the exported file to appear on the HD.I have tried this on old and new photos and DNG and JPG photos taken with different cameras - the same problem happens - sometimes it works, and but mostly export occurs very slowly.I’ve never experienced such issues before. It appears to only have appeared with the latest update (15.2.1).Thanks

System: Windows 11 (25H2). Lightroom shows all pictures but doesn’t open them. Importing new images is totally impossible.

I am scanning a significantly large number of 35mm slides. The slides are stored in boxes and individual slide clips. To identify the location of the original slide, I am entering the box number, clip # and slide # of each slide in the source field (IPTC Status section). Example: Box 4 Clip#32 Slide 20. I would like to be able to search for slides by the source field. The metadata filters do not include a search for source. Can I add this field to the metadata filters? I can enter the information in the Label field which is a filter in the metadata search,  however it adds a white label icon to the photo which can easily be unchecked and then the search is lost. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you,Ruth Goodman 

LR 15.2,  Windows 11 up to date,  Geforce RTX 3060 with latest studio driver, latest Epson driverIt happens many times (not always) when printing on large paper (A2 42x59 cm) at  300 or 360 dpi that LR crashes during printing, just before sending data to the printer. The GPU was set to inactive in the preferences (see screen shot)attached zip file containing 2 screen shots and the error dump produced by LRThis error is really annoying, please helpThanks

Since updating to LrCC 15 yesterday (Windows 11), I find my workflow much slower. Both the library and develop modules are slower, photos taking a long time (a couple of seconds) to paste settings in the develop module (despite LRCC receiving the input to paste immediately, the effects take a few seconds to apply to the image - this is true across both my Phase One tiff/raw files and my Fujifilm X series raw files).   Anybody else experiencing some slowdowns (as usual with a new LRCC release, unfortunately). 

I have an image scanned from a print on bond paper. The image has horizontal lines across it from top to bottom. Is there a way to remove this pattern of lines without going through each one individually?

I see my biggest space suck of almost 500GB are these LR_Master Catalog-v3-……. Previews.lrdataCan I safely get rid of the older ones, say 2024 and older?   

XMP. *   Vejo a prévia dos resultados das pré-definições, mas não é possível aplicar nenhuma. Aparece mensagem na tela "os modelos de mascaramento estão sendo baixados. Progresso: 0%". E não sai disso. Alguém me ajuda?

Cross post from https://www.lightroomqueen.com/community/threads/metadata-question.54501/This thread evolved from a user who noticed that their LrC images posted to their Zenfolio pages no longer included the Exposure or Lens EXIF data when you click the “i” button on his ZF website.  There was some discussion about his workflow (converting to TIFF, passing it through Photo shop) but it turned out to be a change made at Zenfolio which has rubbed a lot of folks the wrong way.   See the above thread for further information and a workaround using Jfriedl’s ZF Publish Service plug in or his Metadata Wrangler Plug in. If you are a Zenfolio user who is angry that ZF deliberatly started stripping EXPOSURE, FOCAL LENGTH and LENS SPEED from uploaded images please voice your complaint to Zenfolio. To do so you can use the "Contact Us" button on your Zenfolio dashboard/control web site panel or send an email to: Zenfolio Support <support@zenfolio.com>   I complained to Zenfolio and here is

Windows 11 RTX 4070 12GB Driver Studio 595.79 (latest, dated 10 March) LrC 15.2 Full acceleration now disabled (was ok before driver update)    Follows system infoLightroom Classic version: 15.2 [ 202602111402-ec4112e8 ]License: Creative CloudLanguage setting: enOperating system: Windows 11 - Business EditionVersion: 11.0.26200Application architecture: x64System architecture: x64Logical processor count: 24Processor speed: 2,1GHzSqLite Version: 3.36.0Adobe GSDK Version: 1.4.0.171CPU Utilisation: 0,0%Power Source: Plugged InBuilt-in memory: 65349,3 MBDedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 275,8MB / 12010,0MB (2%)Real memory available to Lightroom: 65349,3 MBReal memory used by Lightroom: 2295,7 MB (3,5%)Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 2993,9 MBGDI objects count: 953USER objects count: 3203Process handles count: 2824Memory cache size: 2238,8MBInternal Camera Raw version: 18.2 [ 2482 ]Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2Camera Raw virtual

I am using LrC 15.2 and I will use the Web module to make some photo gallery pages.  I would prefer gallery templates that are friendly for phones, tablets, and computers.  For phones and tablets being able to swipe to go to the next or previous photo is convenient.  Are there any templates that can do that?  I already tried the Grid Gallery and Track Gallery and they require touching tiny arrow icons to navigate on a phone.

ISSUE SUMMARYLightroom Classic 15.2 reports "limited graphics acceleration is enabled" in Preferences > Performance. The "Use GPU for image processing" and "Use GPU for export" checkboxes are permanently greyed out. This has persisted for at least 6 months across multiple LrC updates. The result is that AI masking (Select Subject, Select Sky, brush masks) is slow and bogs down, even though the system has more than adequate hardware.SYSTEM SPECS- OS: Windows 11 Business Edition 11.0.26200- CPU: 20 logical cores @ 3.8GHz- RAM: 64 GB- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 (11 GB VRAM)- Driver: NVIDIA Studio Driver 595.79- LrC Version: 15.2 [202602111402-ec4112e8]- Camera Raw: 18.2 [2482]- Dual 4K monitors (3840x2160 x2)KEY SYMPTOMS FROM SYSTEM INFO- Graphics Processor Info shows: "Init State: GPU for Display supported by default"- "GPUDeviceEnabled: false" — full GPU image processing is NOT enabled- Dedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: only 63.6 MB of 11,943 MB (0%)- "Use GPU for image proce

I noticed that the metadata (Develop settings) are not included in the jpg files, from a Lumix TZ-101 camera. In this way, develop settings are lost if the file is, e.g., moved to another directory and then synchronized back to the LR Classic catalogue. The file is not protected. If I force saving (CTRL+S) the process is sometimes veeeery slow. Also the scanning for metadata update is veeeeeeeeery slow. The disk where files are store is a NVMe, should be fast, and it is actually very fast for all other operations. OS is Windows 11, up to date.I enclose a screenshot to show the upgrade bar for the save metadata (stuck there for 1 minute or more, for a single file!).May it depend from the amount of adjustments? 

I’m using Lightroom Classic 15.2 release and Camera Raw 18.2 on Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200 Build 26200.I scanned 20 negatives to 92% JPG with my Epson PerfectionV800 Photo using Silverfast 9 and gave them sequential names so they would sort correctly when sorted by Filename. I now want to set the Capture Date so they sort correctly when sorted by date.I selected the first photo and used Shift-Click to select the last photo in the folder (roll) so all photos are selected.  I then used Metadata->Edit Capture Time and set the Date/Time to 1/1/1967 12:00:00 AM 000ms, which is the scheme that I use when I know only the year.  The result: the first photo was set correctly, but the rest were set like this (still sorted by name):01/01/1967 12:00:00.000 AM12/31/1966 11:59:59.000 PM12/31/1966 11:59:58.827 PM12/31/1966 11:59:58.827 PM12/31/1966 11:59:58.827 PM12/31/1966 11:59:59.000 PM12/31/1966 11:59:58.827 PM12/31/1966 11:59:59.000 PM12/31/1966 11:59:59.000 PM01/01/1967 12:00:00.000 AM12/31/1

Hello from ItalyI need to reinstall Lightroom 5 full DVD version purchased years ago in old pc used for photo and other , cause half crash and not accessible.So I can’t read serial on pc .i have original package, but I don’t understand what’s its serial product key on sticker on package.i know it should be 24 number in six group of four and beginning with 1160.There isn’t any sticker with 24 numbers and none start with 1160Can you help how to find my serial number/product key?Thanks in advanceBye from ItalyGuido

Until this evening, I had 12,000 photos of my recent trip to Tanzania on Lightroom Classic. When I initially imported them, for some reason they imported to a folder on my desktop. However, I decided to go with this and have been editing without any issues. Today, when I went to edit some more images, it turns out that 11,000 of my photos now have missing originals. When I tried to locate them, LRC told me that the photos were in the folder on my desktop. However, most of the files have disappeared from that folder. For example, for one date when I have almost 3,000 thumbnails, there are only two remaining files in the folder for that date.  I don't know if this is an issue with LRC or with my imac, but the original files can't have just disappeared into thin air. Or can they?? Obviously, I am desperate to get them back!

Here is a screen shot of the problem. All I am doing is selecting remove. The others disappear, switch to Library and back, and they all reappear.

Problem exporting pure grayscale RGB files from Lightroom ClassicHi everyone,I’m preparing images for a photo book and ran into a problem with grayscale files.For printing, I need RGB files that contain only neutral gray values (no color information) in order to avoid any color cast in the final print.Some of my photos were edited in Adobe Lightroom Classic and currently use a Color profile. When I switch the image to Monochrome or choose Black & White in Lightroom and then export the image as a JPG, everything initially appears correct.However, when I open the exported JPG again, the file is still in color mode, not a true grayscale-only RGB file. In other words, it seems that Lightroom still exports an RGB color file with potential color channels instead of strictly neutral gray values.This happens regardless of whether I overwrite the original file or export the image under a new filename. use jpg or nef  My question:Is there a way in Lightroom Classic to export RGB files th

I have just upgraded to lightroom version 13.0.01, the photo import is painfully slow. I started importing 30 photos at 9 am, it is now 09:47 and less than 15 photos have imported. any ideas? I have already carried out a restart of the PC to no avail (that was pre 9am). I should point out that I have never had a slow photo import problem before this version.

Every time the user performs any of the following actions in the Develop module,the application becomes "Not Responding" for 3–5 seconds before resuming:  • Collapsing or expanding any panel (Basic, Tone Curve, HSL, Detail, etc.)  • Switching between tools (Crop, Heal, Masking, Object Remove, etc.)  • Switching from Develop to Library module and backThe freeze does NOT occur when:  • Navigating between photos (Next / Previous)  • Adjusting sliders within an already-open panelThis is a clear regression. The behavior was not present in LrC 14.x.The issue was first reported by many users with LrC 15.0 and was NOT fixed in 15.1 or 15.2.I performed detailed diagnostics with Claude Cowork; a full user-mode process dump was captured during an active "Not Responding" freeze and analyzed with WinDbg using the Microsoft public symbol server.Root cause was identified via WinDbg analysis.When any panel or tool transition occurs in LrC 15.x, the substrate event system spawns approximately 60 parall