Lightroom Classic

For Photojournalists like me it would be very great  to place a text in the Caption of the recognized faces of people in the right order (e.g. from left to right John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr) Additionally it would be great to save useful informations about the people (e.g. Function, Band, Instrument, Party, etc) e.g. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU). 

When in freeform cropping with the lock unlocked I would like to see a visual representation inside the cropping overlay with the pixel widthxheight and/or the aspect ratio (1:1 , 4:3, 16:9 etc). If these is the ability to snap to default aspect ratios when you get very close to them it would be even better. This is needed when hunting for a specific composition and using familiar crops when presented as opposed to choosing a crop before knowing it will work for the photo.

As discussed in the other thread, LrC 14.4 will store AI denoise/super resolution data in .lrcat-data. This storage seems to be permanent: once AI denoise is enabled for a photo the blob will be stored indefinitely.   The proposal is to limit the amount of AI blobs stored in .lrcat-data by some threshold size and automatically clean up old blobs. If a user opens a photo with a deleted blob again, it needs to be recomputed by running AI denoise again. So this basically trades storage space for additional processing.   I know that this means that opening a photo with a missing blob the first time will result in a significant delay. Users might still want this behavior. Standard size preview generation could use the non-AI-enhanced version of the photo since AI enhancements (except adaptive color profile) are probably not visible on small previews anyway.   This would make AI blobs work the same way was preview storage works.

For bird photographers, an application that allows editing birds independently of their surroundings (vegetation, sky, water, etc.) would be very appealing. However, birds are not always detected as the main subject, and when they are, the mask often includes vegetation or other elements.It would be fantastic to be able to edit detected birds using the "select birds" function, similar to how "select people" is currently done.

Please add the option to arrange panels on a second monitor, so we can access them immediately without constantly scrolling and expanding/collapsing sections.Please allow users to customize keyboard shortcuts and assign shortcuts to commands that currently have none. For example, Select Objects is one of the tools I use most frequently, yet it has no dedicated shortcut, even though there are still unused keys available (such as K–M range combinations) that could be assigned to commonly used functions.Also, please consider adding an option to use the Camera Raw-style interface in Lightroom.

Keywords do not sync correctly: When added on the mobile app (iOS), they do not appear in LR classic and not in LR Web (I deleted the new LR CC immediately, this version does not make sense to me). Same problem into the other direction: Keywords from LR classic do not appear on the mobile app. Attention: At this stage the whole keywording within the iOS app should not be used!

There are already features that create new images in LR, so why not add collage, and perhaps compositing. There are a whole bunch of ways in which such a UI could work, but ... here's something fairly easy to visualize in the case of collage. User has a panel from which to select collage layouts. Let's say for now they're all rectangular.User selects a layout, along with color/gradient/photo to use as background, etc., then selects photos to drop into it.With photos in the layout, drag to swap them, click and hit delete to remove, etcResize with scroll wheel, also the usual "fit/fill" etcMove borders by grabbing the border and draggingWiden/narrow borders by grabbing border edge and draggingDraw new slots with right click-drag rectangle, or whateverOverlapping slots should be fineDelete slots in one of the obvious ways, right-click context menu, click-select delete key, whateverBorder changes have optional snapping to make it easy to keep things aligned Ideally the colla

Would it be possible to combine multiple pictures into a single image? Like a grid. Or even free-range, placing them anywhere within the picture and downloading it as-is. AND,Is there a way we can download a landscape picture in a 1:1 ratio? Or even 1:1:1? Like by sections. So that when we upload to Instagram, it appears as a single continuous picture. If that makes sense. V/RNeto

Lightroom clasic has great new features with AI masking, however I am still missing animal detection. I believe this would be very helphul for equine, dog, wildlife photography and even for basic home users.    Current solution is use of AI feature subject detection, however it often fails as it does not predict well shape of an animal, this results as manual corrections needed on every mask when batch editing is used.

Exporting HDR images from Lightroom with HDR gain maps appears to embed a three channel gain map of equal size to the image. As someone who works with high resolution (60MP) images, the increase in file size from this is not manageable as it can nearly double the size of images that can themselves be 40MB+.   ISO 21496-1 accommodates for this by allowing the gain map to be smaller than the actual image by an integer scale factor, and allowing for a single channel version that is effectively a luminance map.    As an example, Apple uses a 1/4 size (scaled down by factor of 2 on each axis) single channel gain map for photos taken on iPhone. This minimizes the increase in file size. Putting aside image compression, you have 1/4 the number of pixels, and 1/3 the bits per pixel, so the parameters Apple uses may take up something like 1/12 the size of a 1:1 size three channel gain map.   In a use case like mine, a scale factor of 2 would still be a 15MP gain map whic

It would be very useful if the smart collections could work recursively. What I mean is that the filters on the upper lever would work on all collections under that collection and the lower level collections could have additional filterse.g.| Landscape| |- 5 stars| |- marked redPortraits| |-John| | |-5 stars| | |-B&W| |-Mary|-5 stars|-B&Wand so forth. This would make lot of organizing much more straight forward.

Lightroom currently allows Smart Collections to filter the contents of regular Collections, but not the results of another Smart Collection.Example:Smart Collection A:Camera Serial Number = X Filename contains YSmart Collection B:Source = Smart Collection A Folder contains “2603”This currently does not work, even though the exact same setup works when Smart Collection A is replaced by a regular Collection.Supporting Smart Collection → Smart Collection filtering would eliminate duplicated rules, simplify complex workflows, and make large archives significantly easier to manage.The current workaround is to create a regular Collection and continuously copy the contents of a Smart Collection into it. This feels like an inadequate solution to a problem Lightroom should be able to solve natively. It also introduces unnecessary maintenance and creates additional opportunities for user error, especially in larger workflows with multiple collections.

Would love it if my Lr Mobile and Browser would mimic the organization that I’ve set up in my LrC collections. Moving images and albums around in Mobile and Browser is cumbersome, practically impossible, frankly. I only use Mobile and Browser to share albums, or to show images from my phone when away from my computer. I find they are difficult to find in Browser or Mobile once synced, and manually organizing them in browser or mobile is way too many steps. 

Je travaille avec des copies virtuelles de mes Raws pour avoir diverse versions d’une même image, par exemple un cadrage en portrait, un autre en paysage, une version en noir et blanc, une autre recolorée etc, Ce ci sur plusieurs images d’une même collection, pour en conserver les divers développements dans les .xmp associés à l’image originale et les retrouver si je souhaite ouvrir une des version directement en ouvrant le Raw dans CameraRaw, sans passer par LrC, il faut que les divers développements soit enregistré dans ce .xmp pour que je puisse sélectionner la version désirée. Actuellement, je dois créer l’instantané photo apr phot, je ne peux pas en sélectionner plusires dans le film fixe, je souhaiterai que ce soit possible comme ça l’est pour d’autres paramètres ou EXIFs 

Can you please add the ability to allow “Shot Name” as a token in the filename presets within the Tether Capture Settings?It’s possible to change the Shot Name as you shoot, which is great especially when doing headshots or products - but there is no method of including that in the filename during tethering.It should be easy to implement - if it can create a folder from the shot name, there shouldn’t be any difficulty in allowing it in a filename either.Thanks.

Feature Request: Dedicated Processing Queue for Image processing and Background TasksIdea/SummaryIntroduce a dedicated, interactive Processing Queue panel in Lightroom that allows photographers to manually queue images for various purposesResource-intensive operations —such as AI Denoise, Lens Blur, AI Masking, Upscaling (Super Resolution), and background exports—and manage them in priority order using context menus and dedicated keyboard shortcuts. When there are 100’s/1000’s of images and I would like to process in a queue - would like this process. This can be manual editing or Resource intensive operations, or a mix of both.The ProblemApplying heavy AI operations (like AI Denoise) or triggering large exports forces immediate processing or utilizes a rigid, automated background sequence. This frequently bogs down system performance, causing lag in the Develop module when trying to move to the next image. There is no way to quickly "save heavy processing for later" or pause/reorder

I would like to request that we add to the export options. Currently I have been using "Export to: Same folder as original photo" and then moving the sub-folder it creates in Library View, but it would be great to just have the following option:   "Export to: Parent folder of original photo"   Here's my use-case... My photography drive structure looks like this:   Working Drive Pictures Clients YYYY-MM-DD-ShootName RAW Edited-JPEGs High-Resolution Low-Resolution Rejects   When I am editing a shoot, I begin with the RAW files. After culling, I move over all 0-star images to Rejects folder. Next, I perform all basic edits in Lightroom and I then export full-resolution full-quality JPEGs to a folder named Edited-JPEGs which currently goes under the RAW folder, then I manually move it to the parent folder in Library view. Then I do any retouching to the Edited-JPEGs in Photoshop. Once I've completed any retouching I then go back into Lightroom and export H

Lorsque l’on veut supprimer un élément dans une photo par la suppression générative par exemple, plusieurs variantes sont proposées. Il est difficile de choisir celle-ci dès lors qu’il y a un contour blanc épais autour de la zone à supprimer.

Is it possible to show the folders (like in the ‘Library’) when you’re in the “develop-mode? So you can navigate directly between the folders, in stead of going to the Library first?

I am working on scanning all our shoe boxes with photos, I am currently up to 9,184 images (still scanning more boxes). Since these are mostly family photos this seemed like a good project to try the People feature on. After spending multiple hours assigning names, I have 3,250 faces in the Confirmed collection and 10,733 remaining as Unnamed People. At this point (about 23%)  I seem to have reached the point where the face matching algorithm (Find Similar Faces) is producing mostly incorrect matches. I don't know how old the face matching algortithm is - I would hope that there is room for improvement. Thus, I would like to suggest that the algorithm for this be updated using the latest AI technology. Version of the app:13.2Platform and OS version: Windows 11 Pro - 23H2 Thanks, Adriaan Sachtler

I tried using Lightroom Classic face detection on my personal photo collection. It’s really bad at learning from my selections, to the point where getting correct IDs is mostly a manual process.  I used to recommend LR to all my friends, but LR has ceded too much ground to competitors in this area. I sure hope they pick it back up now that AI is so capable.

Currently, LrC detects “Modified” edits and displays the Eyeball icon on the relevant panels, marking them as “Active”.We should have APIs that provide the same.The API could be: •For settingsphoto:getDevelopSettingsModified() so a variation of getDevelopSettings() and LrDevelopController.getValuesModified() a variation of getValue()These APIs would return a table of edits. •For Panels I think  we could have something like LrDevelopController.getPanelsState() that would return a table of panels and their state, one of “deactivated”, “modified” (the eyeball) or “default”.I post here to see if other plug-in authors would be interested in these API ​@johnrellis ​@drtonyb What do you say?EDITTitle should have been:SDK / Implement APIs to get the "Modified" settings and the "Active/Modified" panels.I can’t edit it, sorry.

Hello Adobe team,I would like to request an improvement for Lightroom on Mac.When Lightroom starts, the scroll position in the photo grid is always at the top. In my workflow, I sort photos so that the newest photos are shown at the bottom. Because of this, every time I launch Lightroom, I have to manually scroll all the way down again.Please add an option to remember the last scroll position, or allow Lightroom to open at the bottom of the grid when sorting order places the newest photos there.This would make reviewing newly imported photos much faster and more convenient.Thank you.

I find myself keeping the info overlay on while editing to be able to see the lens and exposure settings I used, however I would rather not have it on all the time when I can just glance over at the histogram panel to see that info, yet usually when I do it’s showing me the RGB values of whatever pixel my cursor is hovering over. This is not really useful to me (at least not in Lightroom) and I would rather turn this off so the exposure and lens values are always present. This typically comes up when I click on the image to view at 100% to see if I have any motion blur and then glance over to see if what my shutter speed was… only to find the RGB value instead. 

I have a large catalog and my workflow is this:Import photos onto my local computer. Store pictures in the Pictures folder in a subfolder with year/year-month-day folder structure. Edit my photos Move my photos to my NAS storage by dragging the folder in Lightroom to the storge drive. I have photos on the NAS going back many years. Dragging in Lightroom is a complicated process:Expand the NAS drive letter Expand the year target folder Roll up any other year folders because the list is extremely long Grab the folder and drag it down. The target folder is off the screen. Drag close to the bottom and get the list to start scrolling. Scroll scroll scroll until I get to the target year, and then release.  In the middle of scrolling if I pause for even a moment, it will expand a year folder that is NOT the intended location. So I then have to scroll through all the photos in that year to move to the bottom of the list and get to the next year.All this maneuvering is done while holding the mo