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Just updated to the newest release and masking is not working. 

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I have a problem that currently clicked photo sometimes is not being shown in Preview in Develop mode. This is especially annoying when having a series of photos (burst) and you want to find the best one by clicking on the bottom miniatures - you don’t know if the preview was really refreshed or not.On the screenshot below I was able to catch that glitch on very a different photos so you can see the problem - the selected miniature is the one with blue sky, but LR still displays the other photo. It seems that LR registered the “click” properly as it selected the “blue” image on miniatures panel, but somehow lost the event to repaint/refresh the main preview window. To preview “blue” image I would need to click on another photo, and again the “blue” one. I’ve seen that since a couple of versions of Lightroom Classic.OS: macOS (26.3.1), MacBook Pro 14” 2023LR: 13.3, Camera Raw: 18.3 Incorrect image is displayed 

I have been able to see those options, up by the Histogram before. 

Introducing Assisted Culling (Early Access) in Lightroom Classic. For providing feedback for Lightroom Desktop, click here.  TL;DR – Assisted Culling is getting faster, more powerful, and more accurate as we head to GA. If you tried in October 2025, we urge you to try the new version and give us feedback – especially for wedding & portrait photographers. We’re eager to hear your feedback!  Assisted Culling has received several updates since Early Access launched in October 2025. If you tried it then, here's what's new:  April 2026  Significantly improved handling of shallow depth-of-field for photos – a major customer ask. Images with intentional background blur are now more reliably recognized and kept rather than rejected as out-of-focus.  We’ve retrained the “Reject model” so it has more accurate identification of reject-worthy images. Additionally, an image can now be flagged under multiple reject reasons simultaneously:  Exposure Issues: includes a sensitivity slider so you

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? 

Lightroom Classic 15.3 on Mac. Auto Sync is enabled and working for Profiles, Presets and Denoise across multiple selected images. However Basic Develop sliders (Exposure, White Balance, Contrast etc.) affect only the first/active image. Preferences reset, catalog optimization and restart did not fix it.Seems like a bug affecting Develop parameter synchronization.

Merge to HDR in LrC 15.3 is stalling (beach ball) or not responding.  I frequently merge HDR images for Real Estate photos and today, after updating to LrC 15.3 I had to Force Quit from LrC multiple times to regain control of LrC.  I stacked my bracketed shots and used CTRL+H to merge.  LrC did process a couple before stalling.  After multiple attempts resulting in Force Closing, I tried using the menu commands, no change.  I then uninstalled 15.3 and reinstalled a fresh copy of 15.3 and the HDR problem continued.  Finally I uninstalled 15.3 and downgraded to 15.2.1 and the Merge to HDR function worked as expected.  

The Windows icons for .lrcat files have been missing for several months. See attachments containing “NOK”.I fixed this for LrC 15.2 by changing the Windows registry entry HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AdobeLightroom7.lrcat\DefaultIcon from "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom Classic\Lightroom.exe",5 to"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom Classic\Lightroom.exe",1See attachments containing “OK”.After installing LrC 15.2.1, the registry entry reverted to '5', which caused the icons to go missing.

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.

This post applies to Camera Raw and Lightroom Classic.   Dust Removal is no longer in Early Access status and can be found in the Remove edit panel for Camera Raw & Lightroom Classic. Dust Removal helps with removing distracting spots on an image that may be caused by dust on a camera's sensor.   Once enabled, your image will be scanned, and any detected dust spots will be automatically removed using Content-Aware Remove. For refinement, you can select one or multiple spots to delete or refresh. Batch removal is also supported; simply select the "Dust" checkbox under "Remove" in the copy settings dialog.Please note that scanned negatives are not in the scope of this feature at this time.    Dust spots on scans tend to be located in the focal plane, with the negative and very sharp, while sensor dust is typically positioned out of the focal plane and therefore not in focus. Scanned negative dust typically appears as white spots on a darker backgro

Je souhaite appliquer un profil lineaire à mes photo lors de l'importation dans LRc, un tel profil est déterminé pour une camera bien précise.Ce qui se passait avant et qui me convenais:J'avais importé un profil (chez Tony Kuyper) pour mon eos R6 et je l'ai installé via caméra raw en PS comme recommandé. A l'import des photos en LRc ce profil était disponible et utilisable.Maintenant je suis passé au R6mk3. J'ai donc imorté et installé le profil adequat. Il est disponible dans camera raw et aussi dans le module développement de LRc mais il n'est pas disponible à l'importation des photos. De plus comme je n'ai pas le bon profil je marque l'option "sans profil" à l'importation mais LRc semble appliquer le profil R6 (ancien) tout en spécifiant après dans le module dev qu'il est manquantA cette étape je peut cliquer les 2 triangle et choisir le profil R6mk3.Merci de votre aideThierrySur le PC, dans... cameraRaw>cameraProfiles>imported, il y a l'ancien profil R6.dcp et le nouveau R6mk

Since the latest versions of Lightroom Classic and MacOS the masking of people always shows “No people found” – even on photos where it was working before. Lightroom Classic version: 15.2 [ 202602111402-ec4112e8 ]License: Creative CloudLanguage setting: en-DEOperating system: Mac OS 26Version: 26.3.0 [25D125]Application architecture: x64Logical processor count: 24Processor speed: 3,3GHzSqLite Version: 3.36.0Adobe GSDK Version: 1.4.0.171Built-in memory: 196.608,0 MBDedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 4.743,3MB / 16.368,0MB (28%)Real memory available to Lightroom: 196.608,0 MBReal memory used by Lightroom: 3.040,3 MB (1,5%)Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 55.303,7 MBMemory cache size: 62,7MBInternal Camera Raw version: 18.2 [ 2482 ]Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2Camera Raw virtual memory: 631MB / 98303MB (0%)Camera Raw real memory: 644MB / 196608MB (0%)Cache1: Final1- RAM:519,0MB, VRAM:1.818,0MB, ALP05331.ARWNT- RAM:519,0MB, VRAM

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.

LRC 15.3Windows 11 Step to reproduceConfigure auto import. Don’t rename and don’t apply any preset. Keep is simple  Auto import settings  Copy a photo in the auto import folder. The photo is imported automaticly Launch a normal import with the "don’t import suspected duplicates" box checked Point to the initial folder were the photo was (not the auto-import one) The photo that is already in the catalog is not greyed. You can reimport it and create a duplicate even if you ask to avoid duplicates. Kind regards

To find  AI Edit Status which setting can I use to create a smart collection?

I’m experiencing a recurring problem with Lightroom Classic (v15.3) on macOS, running on a MacBook M5 Max with approximately 2.5 TB of free disk space. I haven’t encountered this issue prior to version 15.3, although I’m not certain if it is directly related.SymptomsLightroom opens the catalog, but: spinning beachball appears frequently images can sometimes be selected, but no zoom previews remain blank or don’t load UI is partially responsive, but core functionality is blocked Replacing the catalog with a backup does not fix the issue Deleting Previews.lrdata also no effect Deleting .lock, .wal, .shm has no effect Initially, a full system restart resolved the issue. However, the problem has now progressed to a point where even restarting macOS no longer fixes it. Lightroom still opens in the same unusable state (beachball, no zoom, missing previews).When the issue occured:No Lightroom process is visible anymore in Activity Monitor However, Lightroom still behaves as if something is

Hello, the “Adjust overall exposure” feature for multiple selected photos in the Develop-Module is suddenly grayed out / unavailable when I select “Right-click > Develop settings > Adjust overall exposure”.When I set “Auto-Synchronization” to ON, the grayed-out status disappears and the function becomes available again. I only have this problem in the Develop-Module - and only when using “Right-click > Develop settings > Adjust overall exposure".All other options work (without “Auto-Synchronization”):- In the Develop-Module, “Settings > Adjust overall exposure” works.- In the Library-Module, “Photo > Development Settings > Adjust overall exposure” works.- “Ctrl + Alt + Shift + M” in the Develop-Module works.- “Ctrl + Alt + Shift + M” in the Library-Module works. As I mentioned, only in the Develop-Module the “Adjust overall exposure” function suddenly is grayed out / unavailable under “Right-click > Develop Settings” and only works after enabling Auto Sync. I di

Today when I went to copy and paste settings between images it automatically pasted the previous crop. I never have the  “crop” settings checkbox selected, and when I went to deselect it it was checked on and grayed out so I couldn‘t change it. I deselected all and the selected everything except crop and masking (my default settings) and it worked for one image. However as soon as I went to the next image it was back on and grayed out again. Is this a new feature with a hidden way to disable it, or is this a current bug? Any advice would be appreciated as I’m having to completely change my editing process because of this.LR 15.3 Macbook Pro M1 Max running MacOS 26.3.1 (a) (25D771280a) 

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.

LRC won't start past update 14.4. I’ve uninstalled, reinstalled. Followed all guides, nothing.  It’s been like this for months but now i’m getting fed up paying for something that doesn‘t work.  All my graphics drivers are up to date - studio and game.Device name    DESKTOP-DF5VSK1Processor    AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 6-Core Processor              (3.90 GHz)Installed RAM    32.0 GB (31.1 GB usable)System type    64-bit operating system, x64-based processorPen and touch    Pen supportwin 11Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.297.0NVIDIA system information report created on: 04/29/2026 20:02:14NVIDIA App version: 11.0.7.237Operating system: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro, Version 10.0.26200DirectX runtime version: DirectX 12Driver: Studio Driver - 595.79 - Tue Mar 10, 2026CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 9600X 6-Core Processor             RAM: 32.0 GBStorage (4): HDD - 931.5 GB,SSD - 953.9 GB,+2 moreGraphics cardGPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060Direct3D feature level: 12_1CUDA cores: 3840Graphics clock: 2497 MHzRe