Lightroom Classic

Generative AI remove tool leaves a shadow behind

When trying to remove something from an image it leaves a white shadow of what was meant to be removed.

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Scott28506565m3gaParticipant

I just do not understand how the file system in Lightroom works. On the left panel is what I can work on in Lightroom. The right panel has things I want to work on but I cannot access them. Can anyone help?

I usually create a folder for my images on the hard drive by dragging and dropping from the SD card. Then I open Lightroom and point to that particular folder.

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CaitysCapturesParticipant

How to fix Subject and Background masking not working?

I have built a computer in the past year and have struggled getting the subject and background masking features to work. MY graphics drivers are up to date. I have read that AMD and adobe have had problems in the past and am curious if that is the issue now. I have a Radeon RX 6950 XT GPU Here’s the info I pulled from LRCLightroom Classic version: 15.3 [ 202604090947-8f3672ed ]License: Creative CloudLanguage setting: enOperating system: Windows 11 - Business EditionVersion: 11.0.26200Application architecture: x64System architecture: x64Logical processor count: 12Processor speed: 4.6GHzSqLite Version: 3.36.0Adobe GSDK Version: 1.4.0.213CPU Utilisation: 1.0%Power Source: Plugged InBuilt-in memory: 64631.9 MBDedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 3779.6MB / 16337.2MB (23%)Real memory available to Lightroom: 64631.9 MBReal memory used by Lightroom: 4644.2 MB (7.1%)Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 8897.8 MBGDI objects count: 1013USER objects count: 3779Process handles count: 2992Memory ca

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thomask13522231Participant

Bilder lassen sich nicht mehr in Lightroom Classic importieren

Beim Versuch, Fotos in Lightroom Classic zu importieren wurden beim ersten Mal die Vorschaubilder angezeigt und der Fortschrittbalken oben links wurde angezeigt. Der Balken zeigte aber keinen Fortschritt und das Programm fror ein. Bei den nächsten Versuchen wurden auch die Vorschaubilder nicht mehr gezeigt. Ich kopierte dann die Fotos in ein Verzeichnis meiner externen Festplatte und versuchte, die Fotos nicht zu kopieren sondern nur am aktuellen Speicherort zu importieren. Auch das geht nicht.

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ksmchKnown Participant

P: Presets with Masking Control Over Develop ParametersOpen for Voting

Preset Masking: Apply Presets Non-Destructively to Specific ParametersThe ProblemLightroom presets currently apply to the entire image and overwrite all settings — making it impossible to combine multiple presets selectively. This creates real friction in certain workflows.A concrete example from my own practice: when I want to apply my black-and-white preset to a color-graded image, I have to export a JPEG first, re-import it, and then apply the B&W preset — otherwise it wipes out all my color work. This roundabout workaround degrades image quality and breaks the non-destructive editing philosophy Lightroom is built on.The IdeaAllow presets to be applied as parameter masks — meaning a preset could be scoped to affect only a defined subset of parameters (e.g., tone curve, HSL, B&W mix) without touching the rest of the edit.How It Would HelpCombine presets freely: apply a color grade from one preset and a grain/vignette look from another, without either overwriting the other. B&

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JlevineahKnown Participant

P: A scalable or detachable curve panelOpen for Voting

Curves are one of the most powerful and most sensitive tools in any photo editor, but Lightroom's curve editor has limitations that hold back more precise color/tonal work. The curve panel is locked to a small, fixed size with no way to enlarge it, so fine-grained adjustments become a game of how small I can make my mouse movements. Enhance the curve editing experience with:A scalable or detachable curve panel that can be resized or popped out into a floating window for more room to work Snapping and precision controls for control points, including (enchanced) snap-to-grid, axis-lock (constrain movement to horizontal or vertical)A larger curve panel would make subtle adjustments practical rather than imprecise, especially for skin tone corrections, highlight rolloff, and shadow color balance. Snapping and axis-lock would prevent the accidental point drift that currently forces undo/redo cycles.

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JlevineahKnown Participant

P: Refined Clarity and Dehaze ControlsOpen for Voting

Clarity and Dehaze are powerful tools, but they operate as broad, single-axis adjustments. Clarity affects midtone contrast globally without allowing the user to control which frequency of detail is being enhanced. Dehaze can introduce color shifts and over-saturate certain tonal ranges. Neither tool provides fine-grained control over exactly how it interacts with different parts of the image. Other applications offer more nuanced micro-contrast controls. Add expanded controls beneath Clarity and Dehaze that allow users to:Adjust the frequency/scale of detail enhancement (fine detail vs. broad structure) Control the tonal range where the effect is applied (shadows, midtones, highlights independently)More accurate micro-contrast control would reduce the time spent masking and applying multiple local adjustments to achieve what should be a single global correction.

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Tom_KaaParticipating Frequently

Struggling with conversion of catalog from Lr 6.14 to LrC 15.3 (LrC 14.0)

I’m unable to convert or import from Lr 6.14 catalog. I have optimized etc., removed all links to moved files and else followed every advice I could find. Still no success. I get the following message:Lightroom faced problems, trying to upgrade the format of the catalogfile and can not use this catalog in this version of Lightroom.After this I found various recommendations on using LrC 13.2 of 14.0, to make an intermediate version, for a final import to LrC 15.3. I managed to install LrC 14.0, repeated the conversion-atempt, but received this message: We’re sorry. Lightroom couldn’t upgrade the catalogfile and can not import from it. You might want to upgrade the catalog, on the direct, by opening i with Lightroom 7. The question is: Where can I find Lightroom 7, and - does any of you have a suggestion to how I should overcome my problem/challenge?RegardsTom KaasenNorway

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ApplesawceParticipant

Get text from image

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KerttukaarinParticipant

Problem wi with LrC sync

Hi,Problem with LrC sync. The LrC/Preferences/Lr Sync tab shows Sync Activity list of tens of rows. If sync is paused and then resumed, the process goes on all the time (several days now), but no sync photos can be found nowhere on my MacStudio, Cloud or ext.discs. Managed to sync one collection of 30 photos. After that problem arouse. How to stop the process and empty the Sync Activity list? Can anybody help?Kerttukaarin

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richardb29123183Participant

I am trying to migrate my lightroom classic to the cloud based Lightroom. I tried to follow the instructions but I do not see a migrate option under the file menu? I am running LR release. Is there a different way to migrate? 15.3

I would like to be able to access my catalog from multiple devices. How can I do that as I don’t see migrate under the file menu

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mDietschParticipant

Deleted Keyword included in all exported photos.

I’ve been using Lightroom Classic for nearly 20 years now (version 1.0) and have basically kept the same catalog all of these years. Here recently I used the Smugmug plugin to export some photos to the cloud and I noticed that all of the photos had the keyword “Sheila”. The only problem is, I removed the “Sheila” keyword from my catalog along time ago. It’s not in my Keyword list anywhere. When I select any of the 200,000 photos I have and, in the Library module, view the Keyword Tags → Enter Keywords…. I do NOT see “Sheila”. However, if I change the Keyword Tags dropdown to “Will Export”, everyone one of them has a tag “Sheila”. You can’t edit this list. I’ve tried everything I can to remove. I’ve even tried exporting a folder that only had 30 or so pictures to its own catalog to see if a new catalog would fix the issue… no luck.Need help on solving this…. the only thing I can think of is that there must be a “root” keyword somewhere and for some reason “Shiela” got set as the

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Steve5115Participant

Unable to wake computer from sleep mode.

I have also seen a slowdown in Lightroom Classic 15.3.If I leave LR open and step away from the computer, the system will go in sleep mode. Usually moving / clicking the mouse or hitting the Enter key will wake it up. I just started 2 days ago to use Lightroom (after being away for a while) I had to cycle power / reboot the system 2 times to gain control again. The normal “wake up” steps did not work.Anybody else see this affect?Windows 11 Home, Lightroom Classic 15.3

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navid0321Participant

light room not working

Hi I purchase Light room 2022 downloaded on my old computer had to replace my PC and upgrade to windows , can not transfer light room , can you help with taht please , i down loaded the app, i can not even sign in to it

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P: Adding Exported Photos to Catalog is Extremely Slow

DClark064

Bug Reports

I exported 479 photos to a folder with “Add to This Catalog” selected. The export proceeded as expected but the operation to add the photos to the catalog was painfully slow. It was taking 4-10 seconds for each image. During the time to add the photos to the catalog all other importing operations are frozen. During the extended add photos operation LrC is consuming about 7-10% of CPU. The rate at which photos were added to the catalog is much slower than other operations that add photos to the catalog.LrC 15.3Win11

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StickstoffParticipant

P: Origin-specific PresetsOpen for Voting

Lightroom Classic should provide the ability to define different default presets depending on the origin of a file. Specifically, it would be very useful to set separate default settings for DNG files created by DxO PureRAW, without these settings being automatically applied to files coming from other external applications such as Photoshop, the Nik Collection, or other editing plugins.A more granular control based on file source or processing origin would significantly improve workflow management, reduce errors, and minimize the need for manual corrections.

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konradSLInspiring

Filter toolbar empty

For years we had the filter toolbar above the strip view where I can directly filter by flagged, label, whatever.Now, this toolbar is just visible for 1 sec after starting LR and then it’s gone.Even if I select “Default Columns” from the filter, it stays empty - and only the “Flagged” or “Rating” selection in the filters dropdown shows a filter (but only the selected one)

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Advarte Fabio CInspiring

How can I change the default slider settings in mask presets instead of creating a new one?

Hello, I haven't been able to find an answer on how to change the default values of the sliders in the presets within the masks. I can only find the option to “Save current settings as new default”I don't want to create a new preset default.Also, how can I delete or rename a mask presets? Regards

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johns490623Inspiring

Unable to access Lightroom Classic files after upgrade to Mac OS Sequoia 15.5

There seems to be a serious incompatibility between Mac OS Sequoia version 15.5 and Lightroom Classic v13-3. I received a message telling me to go to Systems Settings-Privacy and Security - Full Disk Access to enable Full Disk Access for Adobe Lightroom Classic, which I have done but the problem remains. This needs serious attention from Adobe and Apple. I have seen posts from professional users who are unable to work!

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AJ3DVFXParticipant

P: Add Open EXR support to lightroom classicIn Development

Feature Request: Add Open EXR support to lightroom classicCould we please add open exr support to lightroom classic as an export file format.This would be greatly appreciated in the visual effects industry, that require the .exr file format as the default image intermediate format.Example use caseWhen working with multi camera scan data, either from a lightstage rig or a photogrammetry scan, we are provided with thousands of raw images to process. The target output image is usually a 16bit zip compressed .exr file to use for texture reprojection, or in compositing software for further processing.To create the target .exr file requires multiple steps using Photoshop scripts (slow), 3rd party software, or custom compiled command line tools such as OpenImage IO. Whatever the process used, it takes valuable time away from doing the actual work its required for. It would be significantly more convenient to export a .exr file type directly from lightroom classic.   Thank you!

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francescor34253227Known Participant

Lightroom Classic crashes or freezes at ~15% when exporting slideshows

This problem hasn't been resolved for years. Can anyone help me? My patience with Adobe is running out. It seems like a very serious problem. Every time I launch export, Lightroom Classic gets stuck at about 15%.

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ting-chun_2020Participant

AI denoise no changes even at 100

Hi Lightroom Classic Community, I have trouble using the AI denoise function. I don’t get any errors when the denoise box is checked, but I also don’t yeld any changes even when the slider is at 100. What am I doing wrong?

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7NewlynParticipant

When I delete a photo from Lightroom Classic and I want to also delete from my computer file it does NOT delete the file from my computer. It used to do but not recently.

I use a Macbook Pro. I import from a folder on my Macbook into Lightroom Classic. While editing I want to discard some photos from Lightroom but also from my Macbook . The option is there to delete from Lightroom AND my laptop but it doesn’t delete the file from my laptop. It used to do on earlier versions of Lightroom (which I know not) but it hasn’t done for quite a while. What I have to do now ouside Lightroom is go into my laptop and delete to unwanted photo files.

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colins10017139Participant

Photo merge error unable to merge photos. Failed to import the final merged result

I recently went from using Lightroom Classic on a PC to using on a MAC. I had no issues with the PC. On the MAC with the same library I get "Photo merge error unable to merge photos. Failed to import the final merged result". The message pops up everytime I try to merge any photos. All my photos are RAW. Please help.

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