Lightroom Classic

Windows PC, LRC 13.I want to select an area in an image.  Select subject (or background or sky) doesn't do it.  Select Object does a good job if I just select a small section of what I want.  Now I want to ADD to my object selection to get more of my "subject", and another one and another one.  I may want to get 4 or 5 different selections into my object and have it in the mask...HOW do I create the other objects WITHOUT having to LEAVE my place in the image, go all the way up to the top right, press Add AGAIN, go all the way back, do the selection, then repeat this every time?  I don't care if each selection is a separate Object (if it has to be), I just don't want to have to keep going back and forth and hitting Add over and over to create another of the same type of selection. I thought I saw a presentation where the person created 8 or 9 objects in the mask and I don't recall ever seeing him go all the way up and hit Add every time - is there a keyboar

I have an external hard drive to which I move my archive images, which I'll refer to as Archive here. I back this up to an identical drive, which I'll refer to as  Backup here. I have identical folder structures in both drives. The root is the drive name then beneath that there is a folder called Lightroom RAW files. Below that are all the subfolders. When I attach the Archive drive I can see it as a drive in Lightroom Classic just fine as soon as I plug it in. I can see all the folders and sub-folders. When I attach the Backup drive to my Mac I can see the drive and all the folders subfolders in Finder. Everything in the Backup drive is present and correct. When I open Lightroom I first have to add the Backup drive by clicking + in the Folders panel. So I navigate to the drive in Finder on my Mac and click on the Lightroom RAW Files folder. The drive and Lightroom RAW files folder appear and the previews start to load. Below the Lightroom RAW Files folder in Lightroom I

Quand je veux importer des photos de mon disque dur dans lightroom , je choisi importer , puis le dossier dans lequel sont mes photos sur le bureau et aucune photo n'apparait dans sur lightroom ?ou est le problème ?   Merci !

Hi, I have bought an R5 mk ii Canon camera. The RAW and C-RAW files are not recognised / able to import to Lightroom. Whereas Apple Photos does recognise them. The RAW and C-RAW files from my original R5 are recognised in Lightroom. What to do please? 

Hi,I used to have a Photography subscription, but I had to stop as I can't justify spending 10£ a month being just a hobbiest photographer.Is there any other option available? Can I buy a standalone copy of LrC?Any comment will be greatly appreciatedThanks cheers      

My dears, I am considering purchasing the following product: https://www.amazon.de/Adobe-Photoshop-Lightroom-Jahreslizenz-Download/dp/B076JT5MX2/ref=ast_sto_dp_puisHowever, it is important for me to know in advance what will happen to the LrC application if I do not continue my subscription. Will LrC remain fully usable on my desktop computer (without the CC functions, of course)?

When creating a mak and using the add or subtract with the brush tool there is no need to keep selecting the brush when you want to brush over multiple areas of the image. If I do this with the object tool I need to select an object, then hit add again, choose object and select the next portion. This is an incredible waste of time. The object tool often is faster and has better precision. Come to think og it, the add or subtract should be sticky until you turn it off. I am pretty sure I am missing something here and it is just an issue of me not knowing how to get this to work in such a way.

I have LR 14.4 and a new Nikon Z8 with 45 megapixal images. I recently switched back to Nikon from a Sony A7R (42 megapixel). I run LR on a 2019 maxed out IMAC (all SSD and 16GB RAM). Yes, it's not the newest in the world, but it handled the Sony RAW files just fine. Building previews took 2-4 seconds per file, so uploading 1000 RAW files took about an hour to generate all the previews. Note, I haven't used my Sony for big shoots in a while, so these times are with an older version of LR. I just uploaded 250 files from my Nikon and it took an hour to generate the previews (10-17 seconds per file). All 6 cores were at 100%, and even though I have "Use Graphics Processor" on Auto (It says my system fully supports acceleration), my GPU history shows that the GPU is not being touched while building previews. Does LR only use the GPU on Apple M chips and no longer Radeon or Intel? This is way slower than it used to be.

After updating LrC to 14.4, and then using super resolution on a RAW file, then exporting it to Photoshop, Photoshop starts, opens, but no file appears and no menu items or tools work in Photoshop.   Task Manager in Windows  is necessary to close Photoshop.  The same procedure is applied to the same RAW file, after resetting the RAW file, but without super resolution or denoise being applied.   The RAW file is sent to Photoshop, Photoshop opens and works as usual.      These procedures were applied to several other RAw files with and without super resolution applied.   The results in Photoshop were repeated as above.   Use super resolution on a file in LrC then go to Photoshop - Photoshop will not function.     Solution : stay with LrC 14.3.1 if you wish to use Denoise that works.  

Depuis la mise à jour 14.5, mes correcion par IA générative génèrent toute une erreur : Le service ne répond pas, veuillez vérifier vore connecion internet. Bien évidemment ma connection fonctionne correctement...

I have the follwoing structure on Pictures folder on my Mac Book: Folder Work in Progress, contained in Pictures Folder. When I select Work in Porgess and Synchronize it , Lightroom syncronizes all the Pictues Folder and not just Work in Progress.  

New Folder in LrC I recently changed computers, and since then, when I import photos, everything works correctly, but it created a new folder on my LrC desktop instead of continuing to use the one I already had. Now I have two folders: the old one:External Hard Drive/Images/Lightroom Photos And the new one it created:External Hard Drive/Images/Lightroom Photos/2025 Each folder has its own photo count, and it won't let me move folders from one place to another. How could I have a single folder with the hierarchy I already had and the total photo count? Thanks   

I've been encountering the same issue when attempting to move a file from Lightroom to Photoshop using the "Edit in Photoshop" link.  I get this error: "Lightroom is not allowed to control Photoshop.  Make sure this is allowed in System Preferences>Security & Privacy>Automation".  I've only been experiencing this since recently updating my programs with the May 2025 updates.  Anything you can recommend to resolve?   [Branched off from a non-related thread by moderator]

HalloKann ich noch einmal einen Link für den finalen Download von Lightromm 4.4. bekommen.Dieser ist leider nicht mehr gültig:(http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/lightroom/win/4.x/Lightroom_4_LS11_win_4_4_1.exe) Oder gibt es eine Möglichkeit meinen Katalog in einer älteren Version zu öffnen? Schon einmal vielen Dank. Grüße

help! i am in big problem   all of my presets that i used from user presets tab in lightroom are gone and i cannot find them in my folders also   this happened now after updating   they disappeared from my macbook and from my desktop pc also   {made reader-friendly}

I wanted to bring attention to Adobe. There is a bug in the new Lightroom Classic 14.5 update.   I downloaded the update and immediately had problems with the previews connecting to the files.  An error message popped up on the thumbnails when I clicked on it and would not render the photos correctly.   I had to uninstall the update 14.5 and go back to 14.4.   I hope Adobe can address this issue.   Thanks John

I converted my Apple Photos library on my Mac to LRc using the Avalanche program.  All Apple folders became collection sets and all albums in those folders became collections.  When I synch one of these collections to the cloud, an album by the same name is created but it has no pictures in it.  When I create a new collection - even in the same collection set - it synchs just fine.  Album and pics show up as expected.  What's wrong?  

Using LrC ver 14.3.1 on macOS 15.5..I've had 73 photos stuck in sync activity for the last 90 days, I made a little progress (I'm down to 65 now), but wondering if there's any new remedies or workarounds now available since beginning of 2025?Here's how I got from 73 -> 65 images stuck in the sync activity listThe vast majority of the issues are metadata. I clicked on the asset path to go to the file in my collection and saw msgs like below when I clicked on the sync arrow in top right of imageBy clicking "save", and waiting a couple minutes, some the list of files decreased a little.This didn't work for the next 10 items in the sync stuck list so I'm looking for other ideas.I also tried unchecking the box to stop syncing the collection(s) the photo was in. But even after the collection was no longer marked to sync with the cloud, it's *still* in the sync stuck list. Frustrating.mike

Ventura 13.7.7 LRc 14.5I recently added a new ext hd to my system. It is now the source for ALL photo images. I previously used a different ext hd, but when I bought the new one, I copied everything from the old one to the new one. My new catalogs are on the new hard drive, but older catalogs still try to find images on the older, now empty or non existent, external drives, resulting in a lot of time wasted before the message appears that LR cannot find them.I wish to edit the folders panel in Library to have solely the new external drive there as a source for all of my images, old and new, and remove sourcing from all old external drives that were previously used. I have tried to edit with the + and - swtiches, but that has done nothing, ie cannot add nor remove. If I choose import on the lower left, it brings up the import screen, and shows all of my external drives, but when I choose the new external drive, it begins importing all of its contained images—something I don't think I wa

in Lr 14 kann ich weder unter Beschriftung, Titel oder Bildunterschrift in der Bibliothek etwas eintragen. Der Eintrag erscheint höchstens in nur  1 Foto und nicht in allen Markierten. Weiß jemand Abhilfe? Benie

14.5 wrong preview rendering results, black rectangle on right of face.That not on Master Image,Master Image Import on 14.4, preview was rendered correctrelated with my older post "LrC 14.5 import Jpegs", has 14.5 serious bugs at preview rendering? 

Running LR 14.5. All of a sudden a large numer of images are gone, with the message: “_MG_2137-Edit.tif” could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it? They can be located, with an appropriate response! What happened??Is this a fixable problem?

Hi,I was entering keywords for my images and suddenly the main panel was filled with "Welcome to People View."  I can't find any way to get rid of it.  Google says to go to Edit > Preferences > General > Privacy Section > deselect Enable Prople View.  But when I go to Preferences > General, there is no Privacy option and I can't find it anywhere else.  I don't want to use People View.  Please help me get rid of this screen and disable it in Preferences.  Thanks.Zaffer