Lightroom Classic

Hello everyone,I’m having an issue with my usual workflow between Photo Mechanic and Lightroom Classic, and I’m trying to understand what’s causing it.For years my workflow has been: Select images in Photo Mechanic Add metadata (keywords, captions, etc.) in Photo Mechanic Import the images into Lightroom This has always worked correctly, and all metadata was imported into Lightroom without issues. Recently, I decided to move the entire workflow to an external SSD, including the Lightroom catalog. The photos are stored on the external SSD, I select and tag them in Photo Mechanic as usual, and then I import them into Lightroom from the same external drive.However, in this setup, the metadata added in Photo Mechanic does not appear in Lightroom after import, even though I’m following the same procedure as before.Nothing else in my workflow has changed, only the fact that I’m now working entirely from an external SSD (photos + Lightroom catalog).Is there something about working from an

I had this issue off and on for a few years.  Today is annoying and frustrating so reaching out to this community.  I called Adobe in the past and there was no solution that worked.  Sometimes dehaze works fine.  However, not today  Here is a similar question from a few years ago  Using LR Classic 15.1, Camera Raw 18.1 Have the following MacBook:     Appreciate the suggestions how to resolve the issue.  

LR Classic 15.1.1  Camera Raw 18.1  OS Windows 11 Pro 24H2Working in develop module, I have a raw image .CR2 with a brush mask applied. LR hangs when trying to copy settings. Settings>Copy Settings.. The copy settings dialog does not open and LR hangs. I have to terminate LR in task manager.If I remove the mask everything works as it should. Eric 

With LR open, the top line is ‘Lightroom Catalog-2-v12-v13-v13-3-Adobe Lightroom Classic Library’.  When I go through Edit menu to catalog settings and use ‘show’, I am taken to ‘Lightroom Catalog 2-v12.lrcat-data’. There is a catalog choice in this same explorer folder ‘Lightroom Catalog 2-v13.lrcat-data’. Seems that is most recent but my ‘show’ suggests I am not using it? I am trying to move to a new computer and this has caused a problem. Can anyone explain what is happening, or should happen, what I am to do please? Thank you.

Beim Entfernen von Elementen in Lightroom Classic wird das Element nicht restlos entfernt sondern erscheint nur farblos. Besonders dann wenn das Element vor dem Himmel steht. Siehe Beispielbilder. Was ist falsch?

Hi! Kind of a noob here, so please bear with me.   Problem: Today, while working in Lightroom Classic, I noticed that a bunch of my photos had an exclamation point icon added to them. See the image below. When I hover over the icon, it says "Error writing metadata" (pretty scary) Clicking the icon opens the window below. When I click "Import Setting from Disk" my adjustments seem to be cleared away (not great, lol).   When I click "Retry Metadata Export" that seems to fix the issue. The only problem is that there are thousands of photos that display that icon.   At first, I thought the issue was isolated to photos that I had made edits on, but upon further investigation, it seems that that is not the case.   Personal Investigation I'd Done: Naturally, I googled the issue but haven't found any definitive answers. In this thread, someone with a similar issue (I think) is told by @JohanElzenga  that this is a non-issue, Adobe is aware and working on a

I cant use tethering on my 16" Macbook Pro M1 MAX with my Canon R6M2It's as if the program doesn't recognize the camera. It's permanently in the mode where it searches for a connection.However, when I use Canon's own software, it works.Software on Camera. LR and Mac are the newest Version

I have always been able to rename my photos during import but recently that has not been working properly.I name my photos by date, then custom text, then a sequence. YYYY-MM-DD_custom-sequence #000When the photos import they are renamed in a random order and not in the order I took them.For example the 15th photo I took on my camera would be renamed 001Importing without renameing works but importing while renaming has worked since I have started using lightroom so I’m not sure whats happening. I also have not seen much on this issue online   

Les "modèles utilisateur" que j'ai créés apparaissent dans le panneau de gauche et dans l'aperçu en haut à gauche, mais ne sont pas visible dans la fenêtre principale (style de disposition : collection personnalisée) et donc, ne sont pas utilisables. De plus, le panneau de droite reste figé et ne permet pas de créer de nouveau modèles (p.ex. le sous-panneau "cellules" n'apparait pas).

Bonjour,Je fais des photos de concert et je les "débruite" systématiquement. Je viens de constater que sur ces photos le processeur  (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700T CPU @ 2.90GHz) est occupé à 70% dés que je commence à travailler sur la photo. Quand je décoche "réduction du bruit" tout redevient normal. J'ai investigué un peu : les curseurs "haute lumière" et "ombre" déclenchent ce phénomène . Si on les remet à zéro , plus de problème. J'espère que je suis clair dans la description ...Ce problème est il connu ?  Sinon , quelqu'un peut il faire l'essai ? Merci et bonne journéeJoël j'ai oublié : widows 10 sur le PC    

How can I make a layout for collages for printing and save them (for future use) in PS or LR ?

I'm having trouble with the program synchronization between my Lightroom collections with the cloud. I had a photo that was appearing multiple times in every online collection taking place of the photos that has to be there, so I deleted the sync data and then created new sync data. Now I have the green check icon in the cloud, but it's not uploading any photos to view online. I've already uninstalled and reinstalled the program, but it still not working.

So I have been trying to fix this problem for so long and I cannot seem to figure it out. Whenever I go to select an object, keep in mind the object is very clear, it literally does nothing. It maybe buffers for a second or two but then nothing selects and the mask just goes away. Every single other ai feature in lightroom classic works for me, including subject and denoise. This is the only one that doesn't seem to work. I also just recently upgraded my GPU so it is completely updated and meets the requirements for adobe lightroom classic. I am also on the most recent version of lightroom, 15.1.1. If anyone has a solution to this please reply because this has been driving me nuts. Thank you!

Dans le mode developpement, j utilise le recadrage en mettant ma souris sur les poignet  mais imposiible de recadre ou depalcer avec la min ma photo Est ce que ce bug est connu depuis la MAJ et quelle solutionPour information le reglage cadrage fonctionnebien avec le pad du pc par contre pas avec la souris tecknet (piles neuves)Merci

I have the most recent version of lightroom classic 15 installed.  All computer drivers etc are all up to date.  When in Develop module, when i try to zoom in on an image the software freezes and then crashes asking me to send a reprt to Adobe.  I send this but haven't heard nothing back from Adobe. System spec:Windows 11 Pro 64 bitMSI Pro Z890=p WIFIBIOS 1.AB0  Release 11/24/2025Intel Core Ultra 7 265KMemory Corsair DDR - 4800 32GB @ 6000MIT/sStorage SSD Western Digital B|lack SN7100 2TBStorage 2 - Kingston SNVS500GStorage 3 - Kingston SSD - SA2000M81000GGPU1 - Nvidia GeForce 5060TI 16GB - driver version 591.74 released Jan 5 2026GPU 2 - Intel Graphics ** No overclocking all running at Stock**  Lightroom Classic version: 15.1.1 [ 202601141538-a543b18a ]License: Creative CloudLanguage setting: enOperating system: Windows 11 - Business EditionVersion: 11.0.26200Application architecture: x64System architecture: x64Logical processor count: 20Pr

I encountered a severe issue where accidentally pasting a long string of JSON code (Elementor/CSS configuration data) into the Library module's Text Filter causes Lightroom Classic to become unresponsive and unusable. Steps to reproduce: Open Lightroom Classic (Library Module). Enable the Text Filter bar (\ key). Paste a complex JSON string (sample provided below) into the search field. Lightroom attempts to process the query. Actual Result: UI Freeze: The interface becomes unresponsive. Right-click context menus stop working. Develop Module Failure: Switching to the Develop module results in a blank/grey screen. The image does not load, and sliders are inactive, even though the filmstrip is visible. Persistence: The issue persists after restarting Lightroom. The application "remembers" the text in the filter and immediately freezes upon launch. Reset Failure: Resetting Preferences (Alt/Opt + Shift on launch) does not fix the issue. The b

Hello, I have been having performance issues with Lightroom Classic for a few months but I thought it was due to my old iMac needing more power. I just finished doing my transition to a new Mac mini with Mac Studio screen. It has the Mac MP4Pro chip and is loaded in terms of cores, memory etc. Unfortunately I still have the slow issue. I keep having to optimise my catalog to gain some responsiveness but it's not functional. I downloaded the Lightroom Classic version directly from the Adobe website. so I would not carry over potential issues. Does anyone have a similar situation and what can be done to fix this problem. I have a friend professional photographer with the exact same machine and she does not have this issue.   To provide more information I'm on Apple Tahoe 26,2, M4 Pro chip, 14 cores, 20 graphic processor and 16 cores neural engine. I have 64 g of unified memory and my lightroom library sits on an SSD external disk of 4 tb. My catalogue is on my iMac.   

Ladies and Gents,I'm almost out of ideas. I did anything I could - have LrC installed on fast SSD, have catalog, cache and anything on fast SSD. I've got a rig that is way beyond "high spec". I did every bit of optimalization I could find info on. And yet my Lightroom Classic, especially when working with masks is so slow I can go and make a tea before it opens new linear gradient mask layer. I'm on verge of saying bye bye to adobe, I'm paying premium for a dead carcass that should've been already built from the ground up, not just plastered with new options making it unstable and unoptimized garbage can that works well for some and like **** for many. Opening "Preferences" window in LrC is working beyond sluggish. Even my mouse cursor sometimes starts lagging. Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects - everything works perfectly fine except for Lightroom Classic. Here's my system details from LrC. If you can find something that can make it work normally again - I could kiss you. If no

In LR 15.1, after deleting the catalog's .lrcat-data file, photos with Denoise or Distraction Removal applied show the error message "An unknown error occurred" in Develop.  Trying to do Update AI Settings in Library hangs LR, requiring a force quit.  This doesn't occur with the other AI commands, nor does it occur in LR 15.0.1.    This bug makes recovery of corrupted .lrcat-data files harder, forcing the user to wait for Adobe Support to repair their catalog. (Note that Denoise and Distraction Removal use the FilterList setting internally.) To reproduce with LR 15.1 / Mac OS 15.7.1: 1. Download this tiny catalog:https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jm9r26rn62qffkc02q5b8/update-ai-settings-bug.2026-01-12.zip?rlkey=y0q8h9iysj9045f490cjtxobr&dl=0  2. Uncompress the catalog and open it in LR 15.1. 3. Open the photo in Develop. 4. Apply one of these AI commands: Denoise, Distraction Removal > Reflections, > People, or > Dus

It's been 6 months since I've had to use Lightroom Classic.  Prior to 15.1.1 I was very proficient.  But the latest version with how I have to use Update AI settings for each photo that has denoise or removal is a real waste of my time compared to prior versions. I especially dislike the ability to perform lengthy denoise from having to to into the Sync settings uncheck everything I usually use just to perform a batch denoise.  Prior functionality to select a group of photos to set the denoise options and run in batch and walk away needs to return to improve productivity. Having to regenerate AI removal after denoise is also time consuming.  Again if a batch of photos can be denoised together a 2nd pass of the batch to update AI removals would be very efficient.  If any changes occurred can be flagged/identified for review and rework would optimize my workflow. Current Update AI settings is causing me huge productivity time sync, even though rege

I am having an issue with Lightroom Classic not fully starting.  I had an issue with Photoshop, which caused me to do a Hard Restart of my computer.  After the restart, LRC will not launch completely.  It is stuck in the launch window, and if I click on the window, I get the "Not Responding" indication. I tried a regular restart of the computer multiple times with negative results. I have uninstalled and reinstalled LRC multiple times, once with a computer restart after the uninstall, but I am still stuck in the same spot.  I am up to date with the most current versions of all my applications. I've tried to contact Adobe via the Contact Us messenger window but that was of little help. Any other suggestions would be appreciated.