Lightroom Classic

Dear Adobe Lightroom Team, I hope this message finds you well.I am writing to suggest an enhancement for the Adobe Lightroom Classic application to improve editing flexibility and workflow efficiency, especially for portrait and fashion photographers. Currently, the Lens Blur feature provides excellent background depth control and bokeh effects, but it lacks the ability to blur a person’s face or any selected area of the image using customizable shapes (such as a circle, square, or freeform). I would like to suggest introducing a new tool — “Face Blur” or “Custom Blur Mask” — similar to the existing Radial Gradient or Brush Mask, that would allow users to: Apply selective blur to a face or specific area of an image. Choose from multiple blur styles, including Gaussian Blur, Motion Blur, or Shape Blur (circle, square, etc.). Control blur intensity and edge feathering to match the desired artistic result. This addition would significantly streamline workflows and reduce the need

Never seen thsi behavior. I have Raw images that I edit in Lightroom using my normal workflow. At times I will edit in Phtoshop from lightroom. Upon close it saves the edited raw as a tiff. Normally this is fine, but recently it applies the orginal adjustments for basic color mixer and curves on top of the tiff on save. I would expect the settings to be flat. The pictures appears blown out. However doing a reset on the tiff and doing a side by side with the canon CR3 and the colors are constant.  This is strange.Adone Lightroom CC classic 14.5.1Phtoshop 26.11.0 Macbook pro M2 Max   [Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules.]

Suddenly, the last 26 photos I've imported in my lightroom cataloug have the wrong GPS location. The actual files have the correct GPS location. I unchecked the "remove location info" in Export.  Then, I can reset their GPS location by importing the metatada from the original file and they appear correctly in Lightroom's map feature for a few moments, until the files synce with lightroom on the web again. Then, they all have the same GPS location as the 27th photo. No matter what I do. Need some help on this one. 

I set up some presets using Adaptive Colour and some (mainly luminance) masks.Nearly every time I come back to photos I've applied the reset to and look good, no longer look good (eg they become overexposed). Sometimes they seem to come good by themselves (eventually), sometimes they don't. I can't work out what's going on. I'm about to dump Adaptive Colour for presets and try Adobe Colour.  Are there known issues with using Adaptive Colour in presets? The values you assign to the preset one day that look good, the next day look really bad on the same photo. Seems to be an endless loop of adjustments! Are there any rules to follow when using Adaptive Colour?

I bought Lightroom 6 sometime in 2017. Now my previous computer broke and lightroom went with it. Well, no problem, I thought, I can download it back from the creative cloud to my new computer. But now it turned out that it can no longer be downloaded. What are my chances now? Can I get compensation or a refund for something for I can no longer use the product I bought and paid for? I didn't get any notice that the download file should be saved to yourself, because adobe no longer offers it for download. What now?

Recently, LRC started giving me the following error message when I close the app: Lightroom was unable to back up the catalog names "Lightroom 5 Catalog..." Please check your folder permissions, and make sure that you have available space on your backup drive and the main catalog's drive." I've tried several external drives to write the backup to and all fail with the same error. All have plenty of space. LRC was given full disk access in MAC OS. I have even tried to make a new catalog and then import the old one to it. That also fails with a generic error and does not complete. Any help would be appreciated! 

i7 13700 63GB RAMRTX 4070 12GB VRAM Importing 5.000 RAW shot on R5 Mk2 so 42mpx) with standard preview generation, LrC is set to use GPU for preview generation Import took just 2 minutes, standard preview generation took 20 minutes but what puzzles me the most is the resource usage: CPU is still the one being used the most bedtween 30-95% while GPU only between 5-25% with constant 2GB VRAM used. Is this normal?  

trying to export my images in lightroom and using Mogrify - but keep getting this message tring to export  Failed to Run MogriftyMore information will be the file LRMogrifty_Log on your desktop  can anybody help ? 

I just upgraded to MAC OS 15.7.1 (from 14).Now Lightroom Classic is not working. I  have the latest update - 14.5.1 Lightroom opens, and I see my folders on the left, but none of the photos display -they are just blank. help!!!!

I selected the Rename option to rename raw files on Import from my Windows 11 C drive.  That worked.  Then I tried to import a different set of files from the C drive, but specifically unchecked the Rename option.  However, the files were still mistakenly renamed.

Hey folks, Anyone know a reason why the LrC app window has such a terrible refresh speed when being resized? I made a video which starts with Capture One for comparision.https://youtu.be/Lki7DtByTR8

I am in the need to find all entries in a LR Classic database, that actually have their link to the original photo broken. I haven't found a filter/attribute to do this.

When I download a group of pictures from LR, LR will add (number in sequence) in front of the actual number the pictures came with from the camera. How do you stop this? Original Number 1411after download from LR  -  001-1411 is there a fix?Im on LR on line Windows 11

I am having a challenge in the print module. I'm using LrC 14.5.1, Windows 11, printer is an Epson ET-8550. I have been trying to print 8.5 x 11" prints with a small border. I have all the margins set properly in the print module page layout, everything looks proper on the screen. It's the way I have been doing the prints for years. But the resulting print is consistently coming out as a 5 x 7" print on half of the paper. I'm not using any print template. I have two other printing programs, Qimage and Epson Print Layout, and they both print as expected. But I'm puzzled because LrC doesn't want to seem to print the full-page image. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 

HiMy drive with all my photos was reporting errors  and so I cloned to a new internal hard drive    renamed itto the same letter as previous so not to mess up any links for LR classic The sync to cloud  icon top right has been saying uploading 395 for the past week  since the clone  and has been left on for over 24 hour hours.I have tried all teh solutions found on adobe website but still unable to sync the latest images to Lightroom mobile on Ipad.   Pc is windows 11 with latest update   LR classic also updated before cloniong Any ideas what i can do to get the syncing to update from 395 KR Andrew

Hi!I have not used LR for the last two years. My LR catalogue contains 200.000 photos and I desperatly want to see and handle these photos.I started the Photography plan 2013. I have Windows 10 and my hardware doesn't allow me to update to Windows 11.Today I logged in on my Adobe ID. When I click the latest LR catalogue the  question on trial comes. Why trial, I have payed since 2013!I am scared to update to the latest LR version since my old computer hardware may not be compatible.I really likes LightRoom and it's a perfect way to get an overview of my photos and make collections. I can't handle my photos without LR.Please, can anyone advice me how to proceed? RegardsLotta from Sweden

Hey y'all! I work across a bunch of different catalogs as an event photographer. About a month ago I started facing an issue where LrC won't open a new catalog on my system unless I reboot the computer fully. In practice, that means I have to reboot the computer any time I'm trying to switch between projects. I don't receive an error message - LrC just never launches. Any thoughts? Windows 10 64 bit - could this be a windows 10 issue? Should I just update to 11 with support life cycle ending this yearLrC 14.5.1

I am unable to save preference changes - I suspect the "Done" button is at the very bottom of some page, which I can't get to as the page can only be moved up a couple of cm.This is on an HP laptop, 15" screen

Hi there.  I have used LR Classic for years. I am on a PC laptop. I have LR verson 14.5..1 Yesterday evening, I closed the lid to my laptop and left for church. When I came back, Lightroom was shut down and would not load. I rebooted, tried again. Nothing. I uninstalled, rebooted, then installed again from the Creative cloud.  Rebooted, then tried to load.  Nothing. A mentor advised to delete a .LCK file. Did that. rebooted. Still nothing. I really need to have LR working as I'm working on an album which is due before next week. Please help!

My last post got flagged for spam so hopefully this goes through.       I am experiencing a wierd bug where whenever I try to use the denoise tool on my photos, the box gets a checkmark like it's going to process the image, but then it just quickly unchecks itself without giving me any kind of error message. I've tried eliminating all the easy fixes that I could think of. Whenever I restart lightroom, the denoise tool will make more progress but only really lasts a few more second before it stops itself without giving me an error message. I'm running the 14.5.1 version of lightroom on my sequoia 15.7.1  2020 mac book pro with well over the ram requirements. I am editing cannon raw files with no other edits made to them before attempting to denoise. I tried resetting lightrooms preferences, turning the denoise tool on and off, and even creating a new photo catalog. Nothing has fixed the issue and my workflow has been completely disrupted. I have no other im

I've encountered an issue in Lightroom Classic (version 14.1.1) on Mac OS 15.2.0 when using the \ key to toggle between edited and unedited states of a photo. After importing an .xmp file with previously saved edits into the RAW folder and syncing the metadata, the \ key no longer displays the original, unedited version of the photo as it did before.Below are the detailed steps to reproduce the issue, along with the expected behavior and what actually happens. To illustrate the problem, I’ve also included a link to a video demonstration:https://youtu.be/jZCF08MaPb0Has anyone else experienced this or found a solution?Steps to Reproduce:Import a photo into the application.Make some adjustments to the photo.Press the \ key to view the "before" version of the photo (i.e., without edits).Place an .xmp file containing previously saved edits into the RAW folder and import the metadata from the .xmp file.Press the \ key again to view the "before" version.Issue:After importing the met

I have LRc v14.5.1 running & iPhone 15 Pro w/iOS 26 (previously iOS 18) with a high-speed data USB C cable (I've used different ones actually).It is running on a Win11 PC w/i9 14gen CPU & 4070 GPU w/32gig data on Samsung 9100 SSD.I have a large number of photos (7000) that I wanted to import into LRc.I ran it many times in iOS 18 but LRc failed and sometimes just died.I tried it again (several times) in iOS 26 and it each time LRc just failed and died. Now each time it importanted a few some number of pictures. (anywhere from 500 to 1500) before it died. It gave No error report, nothing, just closed itself down. Is there anyway to do a simple import directly from a iPhone of a large number of files?