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Hello, I’m using Adobe Lightroom Classic 15.3 (202604090927-8f3672ed) and i can’t import keywords from CSV file. Context : I have a main catalog, made an export of photos on a another catalog to work in vacations and made an export of my keywords (cvs file). When i import thekeywords list on the new catalog, LR refuse and tell me “Error, the file cannot be imported, because it contains corrupted data.”. I have reduced the CSV file to the smallest part possible to be sure it wasn’t having non ASCII caracters and with a very simple file like this one… it still refuse to import. Example : File LR.CSVInclude On Export,Export Containing Keywords,Export Synonyms,Person Type Keyword,N,N,N,N,Top - OK"Y,Y,Y,N, Test LR""Y,Y,Y,N, Test LR2" It’s seem to be a bug of a function not working that i can reproduce easily. Matt
I don’t see a way to create catalogs in lightroom. I’m using version 9.3. I’m told it’s in File/New. It’s simply not there! Has Adobe taken this out completely? I’m able to create albums and folders, and import into them. but I don’t see any reference to the word ‘catalog’ anywhere.
I’ve had to roll back to the previous version as the masking feature no longer detects anything. Very frustrating. Everything else about the update is nice though.
ConceptWhen editing, it’s easy to unintentionally push sliders into ranges that degrade image quality (e.g., overuse of clarity, dehaze, or contrast). I propose a user-configurable system where each slider includes two thresholds (warning and limit zones). As sliders approach these zones, visual feedback (color change) and optional resistance could guide users toward more natural results without removing creative control.Helps beginners avoid over-editing Reinforces good editing habits Improves consistency Still allows full manual override User presets for thresholds Toggle on/off Works with masks and global sliders
I’ve got a bit of a weird problem where a subset of ~1.2k photos cannot have their metadata saved. All of them have this badge on their photo in the strip, and when I try to save, I get this error. Initially, I thought my RAW files might have been corrupted, and something was wrong with the file itself, but I tried opening the raws in two separate programs (XNview MP / DarkTable) and the image opened perfectly in those. That led me to trying out some other things including the ‘Import Setting from Disk’ option that pops up which you click on the ‘metadata error’ icon circled in red above When Lightroom tried to read these files, it just froze on the ‘Reading XMP Metadata’ step with it never getting any further. This is only a subset of seemingly random photos in my library across the entire history of photos Ive taken 2016-2026. File permissions and all things which could be getting between Lightroom → XMP File are all correct, so that leads me to believe the issue is either with light
Preamble: In case this case is a duplicate, please merge. Clostest I did find was this one. But it has issues with the filters themselves whereas I have issues with the display mode and file metadata. Hi and welcome back to yet another episode of me running my head against a wall with Lightroom Classic issues. As always, here are my relevant specifications first:Lightroom Classic 15.2.1, CameraRAW 18.2.2, German Language installedWindows Pro 11.0.26200 (25H2) x64 (Also known as Windows 11 Business Edition)AMD Ryzen 9 7950x3D, Adrenaline 26.3.1, Driver 25.10.43.05-260303a-19874C64GB RAM 6000MTs CL30Nvidia RTX 4070ti, Studio Driver 595.79Lightroom Catalogue located on C: drive in default location, SSD M.2 Gen4, more than 2TB space left. The issue: For a while now, I’ve been unable to do three things. I will from here on out try to refer to these issues by their number.Mark images with a color label will not mark the labels in the gallery module with that color. Displaying file informatio
The ‘select objects’ is a great tool, but when I do multiple maskings, with every new object mask, I have to click the ‘+’ key and click ‘select object’ . Is there a way to option-click a certain button, so I don’t have to go to the toolbar and click those 2 keys for every new object mask? It would save me a lot of time..
Hi all, I’ve been casually using Lightroom on my iPad/phone for 18 months or so now and am starting to use LRC, I’ve just come back from a trip and want to import/organise all of my pictures in my cloud storage, and then remove them from my PC to save space.Everything I imported previously from my iPad is stored in albums, which are organised in to folders. When I open LRC on my PC, I can’t see any of the folders I created on my iPad in the folder section - which I understand is because “Folders” represents where they are on my PC, not where they are in the cloud? So if I organised my pictures using the “Folders” feature, then deleted the files from my PC I assume I’d lose the organisation?I also see the “Collections” section, which is where all of my previously created albums are located but rather than being organised within folders they’re all in one long list organised under the “From Lightroom” heading. I mainly wanted to use LRC as an import tool, as it’s easier to connect my cam
The Object select is a great addition to the masking tool. However, it is very frustrating not to be able to select multiple objects in order to apply the same fixes using the masking tool. I have a tricky photo in which I have had to tediously select each object, at least 20 of them, individually. It would be helpful to be able to Cmd-select for multiple objects.
Sometimes sveral masks in a photo need the same edit. It will be effective if I can edit more than one mask in the same photo in a Autosync or Sync workflow.
As a user who trusts the Adobe RAW Engine, I strongly object to Lightroom being marketed as a "Retouching tool."Development is not Retouching: "Development" is about extracting truth from light, while "Retouching" is about adding fiction. Adobe has the world's best RAW engine; do not diminish its value with a cheap label. Focus on Quality over Gimmicks: Features like the "Remove" panel are currently not at a professional level. Instead of promoting these "useless" AI features, Adobe should focus on perfecting the pure RAW development process.Please bring back the pride of being the world's best "RAW Development Software." We want a digital darkroom, not a casual editing app
Since the update my lightroom has been incredibly slow. I really am unable to even work within it.
I have been able to see those options, up by the Histogram before.
I have more than a hundred folders on a drive and need to move some of them to a different drive. I’m working on a 27” iMac. I can’t drag the folder to the other drive because the screen doesn’t scroll down to where the other drive is (visually). If I could right click on the folder I want to move it would be more convenient. But this doesn’t seem possible. Any solution to the dragging approach?
I’m noticing that the left hand panel in Lightroom Classic scrolls really sluggishly and jerks / jumps around. I’m running MacOS 26.4 and it has been like this for quite some time (not just on 26).It’s really hard to scroll precisely, you have to sort of wait for it to catch up. Rather annoying.
I use lrc 15.2 on macbook pro [new m5pro with 48g ram]I found that the disk was written in a huge amount, reaching 10GB in about 10 minutes. The corresponding process is launcher. Then I used the sudo fs_usage - w - f file sys command to finally locate the file/private/var/folders/g8/47gdc5wn4yx370flbr2cms5m0000gn/T/cr_ sdk_00258352. tmp to write, which may be cr_stk_00xxxxx. tmp.These files have been continuously written but not read. My temporary solution is to create a ramdisk and mount it to/private/var/folders/g8/47gdc5wn4yx370flbr2cms5m0000gn/T to slow down hard disk consumption.
When I import photos from my Nikon D-750 and Z8, I choose the "Make a second copy to..." option to a directory on my Windows Home Server, where they are backed up into the cloud by a backup service and are also monitored by Amazon Photos for backups. I have hundreds of backup folders and they all have names like this: These names are utterly useless for finding an import backup that contains a specific date and the date created/modified is not helpful. Please allow me to specify a name for the folder, using a pattern. I'd prefer a name like YYYY-MM-DD Lightroom Import so I can find the folder containing photos taken on a specific day. I'm using Lightroom Classic 13.0.1 on Windows 11, with the backups over SMB to a Windows Server 2016 Essentials host.
To find AI Edit Status which setting can I use to create a smart collection?
I need to adjust all images in a collection to -24 tint while keeping the temp the same. Is there any way to do this?
I am working on one LR classic catalogue with smartpreviews offline.ISSUE : When i select 10 images and apply preset it applies but then i go to correct some sliders only the first one selected of 10 gets change and remaining 9 stays within the previoulsy applied preset.Same thing when i work with full resolution data works just fine.What can be the issue and the solution ?Since I edit few 100’s of images daily I need to work smartpreview with latest update to speed up my tasks as 50 megapixel full resolution in develop module takes some time with masking and things .
Set a custom color profile in the Print module, then switch to another module and back. The choice is not preserved. In general the color profile selection is not preserved. I have to reset it every time. I've tried all workarounds I could find online.
I took a photograph of people riding on a bus, from the outside of the bus. As expected, there are window reflections on it. I tried to remove the reflections in LRC but it did not remove any of them. Moving the slider to -100 shows a black image, indicating LRC did not find reflections. I opened the same image in Camera Raw, and there the reflections were mostly removed. Moving the slider to -100 shows what Camera Raw detected as reflections. I don’t understand what is going on. Can you help? I am including relevant screen shots: Original Image, LRC 100 Removal, LRC -100 Removal, CR 100 Removal, CR -100 RemovalOriginal ImageLRC 100 RemovalLRC -100 RemovalCamera Raw 100 RemovalCamera Raw -100 RemovalMy system info:Lightroom Classic version: 15.1 [ 202512101606-1bb801a8 ]License: Creative CloudLanguage setting: en-USOperating system: Mac OS 26Version: 26.2.0 [25C56]Application architecture: arm64Logical processor count: 10Processor speed: NASqLite Version: 3.36.0Adobe GSDK Version: 1.4.
my thumbnails are not loading. I thought reloading lightroom classic would help
Recently (current install) when l import my NEF images they appear as grey pictures in both library & developer view, it has not done this previously, when l select an image the picture will appear and stay displayed until l select roughly the next 4th or 5th image then the previous one will go back to being greyed out. I have tried refresh of Windows 11 and reinstalled Lightroom classic but no change.2 screen shots from Library View and Develop View
I received a batch of DNG files from one of our freelance photographers that have small previews. I imported these into Lightroom with the expectation of being able to export a new batch of DNG files with full-size previews. However, all I can get is files with the same small previews. There are 2 reasons I need full size previews.1-We use Photo Mechanic for culling and ordering images before renaming and processing them through LR.2-Our DAM relies on extracting the JPEG embedded in the DNG files for downloading. Am I missing a setting somewhere, or is there really no way to force LR to create a DNG file from scratch with a larger preview?Thanks,
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