"Adjust Overall Exposure" grayed out in Develop right-click menu when Auto Sync is off

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April 26, 2026
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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 didn’t have this problem before updating to LRC 15.3.
Because other Lightroom users have already been able to reproduce this behavior, I assume that this is a bug.

Best regards

Mike

johnrellis

Legend

Adobe is investigating this.

johnrellis

Legend

Moderators, @Rikk Flohr_Photography, please merge with this thread:

FullyWoolly

Participant

Since the update to Lightroom Classic 15.3, the Match Total Exposures command is greyed out and can’t be clicked or used via the shortcut when in Compare or Survey modes. This slows me down greatly because I use it a lot in my workflow to get a similar exposure between selected photos while comparing and sorting them. Having to switch back to Grid view to use Ctrl-Alt-Shift-M is far from ideal.

Any reason why this command was suddenly disabled?

Bob Somrak

Legend

I can confirm this is happening on my Mac with LrC15.3. This should be considered a BUG as it works correctly using the other methods and using AutoSync should not be necessary

M4 Pro Mac Mini. 48GB

Sameer K

Community Manager

Thanks for bringing this up, @Mike_Mueller, and @Bob Somrak for verifying this. I’ve shared this with the team for review. Will add more details soon.

Thanks!
Sameer K

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