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Hey there, I'm wanting to know what settings people are currently using for 'image resize' when you're exporting for instagram. I'm wanting settings for portrai and landscape, not the square ratio. Many times when I've asked this question, people advise to crop the image. I'm not wanting to crop, I'm wnting to resize, as sometimes when i export and go to post my photos the don't fit, despite me following guidlines I've found online. The particular photo I'm trying to resize at the moment is a portrait shot, and each time I export playign with different settings i have the same issue- the image length is slightly too high and part of the image is cropped out. There must be something I'm doing wrong! Advice would be much appreciated. Thanks

So I shot my project in 16:9 as a guide, but I want the full frame in lightroom to work with.  Whenever i scrub through my shots, it automatically crops the image one by one to "as shot" - do I really need to INDIVIDUALLY reset this for EACH shot? Like holy moly, what an awful feature to begin with. Why wouldn't it do it as a batch when imported? Secondly how do i turn this off. This sort of thing is exactly why a 10 year old version of lightroom is better than the current days. 

I would like the ability to input a color temperature instead of depending on a slider that lets me go from -100 to +100. But under custom WB the only option is the sliders? Why it would be valuable is that all my meters give me data with a color temp number, not a slider value. 

Seit einigen Wochen kann ich keine Backups vom Lightroomkatalog machen.Hier der Ablauf:Dann wird dieser Ordner mit den Dateien angeleget:Dann wird die Katalogsicherung komprimiert und es erscheinen diese Dateien.Dann bricht die Komprimierung an dieser Stelle ab...und es erscheint folgende Fehlermeldung: Lightroom hat alle Berechtigungen, die für mich erreichbar sind.Ich habe verschiedene angeschlossene Datenträger probiert, die alle mehr als 1 TB Platz haben.An der Lightroomkonfiguration habe ich nichts verändert. Es hat immer funktioniert. MacBook Pro M3 mit 48 Gb RAM und mehreren SSD un HD.Ich arbeite seit vielen Jahren mit Adobe Produkten und kanne mich gut aus.Alle meine Programme von Adobe sind aktuell, haben alle Updates.Mein Katalog umfasst mehr als 100.000 Bilder. Es wäre eine Katastrophe, wenn der verloren ginge.Hat bitte jemand eine Idee? 

Since updating to Lightroom 14.5 and 14.5.1, Lightroom no longer uses my GPU — neither my dedicated Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti nor my integrated GPU. The GPU selection options are completely grayed out, with no way to change or enable them. Because of this, Lightroom is now entirely relying on my CPU, which makes it extremely slow, especially when processing a large batch of photos or applying Denoise AI. I had no choice but to roll back to version 14.4, where everything works perfectly and both GPUs are properly recognized and utilized. Here are a few details about my setup:Dedicated GPU: Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti (latest driver)CPU and integrated GPU: Intel Core i7-9750H, Intel UHD Graphics 630OS: Windows 11My system fully supports DirectX 12 I have tried:Reinstalling the latest Nvidia driversRolling back to previous GPU driversRestarting Lightroom and my systemSwitching between Studio and Game Ready drivers Unfortunately, nothing has worked so far.Has anyone

I switched from MAC to a windows PC a fw days ago. I copied over the Lightroom classic catalog and its associated files. After sorting out differences in drive names all was working well untill today. LRC now gets in a loop on startup if I click Restart now. I do sync to Lightroom but not sure if this is the 'sync' its talking about. I have tried :-reinstalling Lightroom ClassicRunning the catalog from two days ago on an external drive.Seleting the X icon top right, quit and restartRestart reopens LRC as I expected but with the same errorQuit, Quits 🙂 but when you restart it still 'loops' to this message. All software uptodate as its been installed two days ago. Background info :-PC is runnning Windows 11;  i9 processor; 64gb ram; various plugins - NIK; DXORaw4; Topaz Photo Ai; qimage Any Help Appreciated.Barry

I have somehow ended up with 14 catalogs in my Lightroom folder on my computer along with the related lrcat and helper.Lrdata folders (Total of 50 folders). I didn't make these extra catalogs intentionally, but I see they are named like Catalog 2-v10 and catalog v12-2 as examples, so I'm thinking they might be resulting from various version updates?Anyway, I would like to combine them into one catalog, so I don't have my files scattered across multiple catalogs. Is there a command or a process that Lightroom can run to move all the photos to one catalog and eliminate duplicates at the same time? Will it be able to differentiate between a picture that is unedited in one catalog but edited in another and save only the edited one? Each catalog is between 8000 and 15000 images so I would prefer not to have to sort them manually.This is in preparation to get a new computer eventually as I'm currently running Windows 10 on an older HP Spectre. Running Lightroom classic 13.0.1 

Once a keyword has been converted to a person keyword is there a way to change it back to a regular keyword? I have a couple of keywords that I mistakenly clicked as a name in the people view making them person keywords and I'd like to change them back.

I am running LR Classic 14.5.1 on my 2024 iMac OS-X 15.6 and yesterday uploaded 3000 shots from a baseball championship tournament. I was culling oof shots, adjusting straightness, cropping to print etc and then LR statred locking up as in the spinning wheel of death. Now, In Library I can see the photos but if I go to Develop the photo is blank. If I go from Library to Print, the photo is missing. Back to Library, see the photos, press to go to Develop and it works until I select crop, etc. Photo disappears and I have to reboot my computer. I have 24gb RAM and 149GB of 500GB free space on the internal SSD. What should I be trying to get this resolved? Unistall LR Classic and reinstall? Use the percussion test?PS LR updates were done earlier today.

Suddenly when I import photos from my Canon G7 where I have two format in my camera; jpg and raw nowadays LR classic suddenly has started to make both jpg and raw-files to Dng-files when importing photos. I dont like that and I dont want that! I want my jpgs to stay jpg and my raw files to be dng. As it was earlier. Anyone knows why this is like this?  How to fix it. I have done nothing but maybe some bug or something?I have Macbook pro and latest version of LR classic.kind regards Jenny

Can anyone provide an insight why my Lightroom Classic lrcat-data folder has doubled in size following the updating of Lightroom Classic to v14.5.1.  I became aware of this when I realised it was taking longer to copy the Lightroom backup zip file created when closing Lightroom to an external USB drive.Using the contents of the zip files then:26th August 2025, immediately before the update, the lract-data folder in the backup contains 8 blob files, total size 622MB29th August 2025, after the update, the lract-data folder in the backup contains 10 blob files, total size 1.22 GBDuring this time no new photo's were added to the catalogue and no significant editing was done.The most recent backup taken today, 5th September 2025 contains 10 Blob files, total size 1.21GB

Okay so I know this is a total newby move so please be kind.  whenever I would upload files to lightroom they were being saved to my computer.  After a photo session I went to upload 800 photos.  Halfway through import my lightroom would no longer upload because it was full.  I realized I needed to store all the old photos from my lightroom and put them on my external hard drive.  I wasn't sure how to do this properly at the time so I just deleted all the photos from that current session out of lightroom so I could reupload them all together once I cleared some space.  I even deleted them out of the Lightroom folder on my finder. (They are now all in that same folder again in finder because deleting them did nothing)When I went to reupload them once other lightroom files files were stored the correct way on my external hard drive it would not let me hit the check box to upload them (As if they were already in lightroom. attaching a photo of what I mean) Th

No idea if this post should go to discussion, or bugs - for me it's a bug and a serious one.Any advice is appriciated - as I'm loosing faith in LRC 😞First the tech specs of my hardware: Windows 11Ryzen 9 7950xRadeon RX 7900xt32GB RAM DDR5System drive NvME 256GB Kingston - where LRC and PS are installed. about 70GB free disk space (new firmware installed)Drive for RAW files, cache (20GB), and catalogue SSD 2TB.All options of performance tab using GPU checked for full support.LRC always at latest version - but the issue persists for several months already - so version doesn't change anything. Now the issue. It happens while editing in develop tab - usually when mooving sliders, or switching to next / previous photo. While doing any of theese actions, system drive gets 100% usage for about 1-2s and LRC freezes for that second or 2. Then LRC performs action (ex. changes the photo), and unfreezes. But when I change photo again, or move ex. exp slider / highlight or any oth

I have a rare issue which I cannot figure out.My company does real estate photography and we layer two images in photoshop - run an action and reimport back into lightroom. We select two images in Lightroom, then "Open as Layers in Photoshop".  Lightroom then automatically switches us over to Photoshop.  However one of our macbooks does NOT switch over to photoshop automatically which is extremely helpful because we can open multiple files and then switch over to photoshop once we have opened all the files we want to work with.  We want to figure out how to set our other macbooks to not autoswitch to photoshop.  Any ideas?  Thanks in advance.   

There has been many posts concerning Lr performance issues. But I think there is a performance crisis.What I'm experiencing:Lightroom Classic is generally laggy, and almost unable to import, export or do other basic operations. The Map Module is especially unresponsive, i.e. very slow to load marks, to switch between photos, etc.Lightroom Desktop is a little better, but import/export is often unresponsive. Concerning Lr Desktop export, I found, when I set the cache size from 50GB to Maximum, the export becomes normal, but after changing this setting for a while (weeks), it doesn't work. This may be a clue to the problem. My environment:M1 Macbook Air 16+512, OS always updated, 50GB free disk space.Lr Classic catalog: over 226000 photos, many collections and smart collections.Catalog file and all previews on an external ssd with more than 100GB free space. I contacted an 'agent' from Adobe and in the remote control session he looked around and he first talkd about RAM the

When I try to import from an external drive, some folders do not show up, even though they show up in Windows Explorer. I'm using LR Classic, ver. 14.1 under Windows 11. How can I import from files in  folders that do exist (showing up in Explorer) but do not appear in the folder list under LR Import?

I purchased Creative Cloud including LRC. I need to print my contact sheet to PDF, but don't see Adobe PDF as an option. Does anyone know if that was included, if I need to buy more products from Adobe, or how I can accomplish this? 

My lightroom is stuck on a folder and will not allow me to return to the home page.  Any suggestions?

I'm wondering what the current recommended order of edits is for a RAW image in LrC. I'm interested in the resulting image, not performance. A post on this thread about order of edits mirrors this page about performance optimization, which puts even an AI adaptive profile at #10. Another Adobe page (and my basic understanding) states that an adaptive profile should be applied first. Instinctively, I wonder myself why a lens profile isn't applied near the beginning—but that's just me trying to think it all through. So, just wondering what the current actual guidance is! Hoping I'm just missing a link.

I have been experiencing a bug? for some time when using library filtering in a Publish Collection and the resulting photo auto-advance if an item gets removed from view after metadata modification.To replicate it:Create a Publish collection (Hard drive, Flickr or Zenfolio etc.)Place 5 or more photos in this collection.Apply an identical rating, color label or keyword to at least of the 4 photosUse a library filter to display just the photos that match the above.So, then I have for example 4 photos A,B,C,D (each rated 2 stars) that are displayed in the filtered publish collection.If I change the rating of photo A to have a single star,Photo A gets removed from the display and selected photo in LR then auto-advances to photo C instead of the expected photo B.(It moves 2 positions forward instead of 1)I have repeated this in LIghtroom 4.4, 5.71 and CC2015.9 on my desktop (Win7) and also with LR C2015.8 on my laptop (Win10).The behavior does not change with the Auto-advance menu setting c

Lightroom 14.5.1Windows 11 Home 24H2 26100.4946Graphic Processor Intel Arc B580 (32.0.101.7028) - 12 GB Latest driver - Windows says that it is working fine.When I start Lightroom the Use Graphics Processor and Use GPU for Preview is set to AutoWhen I add a mask like 'Sky' nothing happens - no red markng in the sky and when checking Prefereces again  the Use Graphics Processor is Off and it tells me that Graphics Avvelerator is disabled due to an error.I have check the support note 'Troubleshoot graphics processor (GPU) and graphics driver issues | Lightroom Classic' and tried the solutions - but nothing seems to fix the problem.regardsMagnus 

I recently replaced an old PC running Windows 10 with a new PC that came loaded with Windows 11. I installed fresh copies of Lightroom Classic and Photoshop on the new PC using Creative Cloud Desktop. I've had no problems at all for the past month or so, until now. I just tried publishing one of my photos to my Flickr account, and ran into an issue. After dragging and dropping the image into the Flickr Collection (that worked fine), when I clicked on the "Publish" button, Lightroom threw up the following error message:  I did what I always do and Googled the error message. I found several forum posts (mostly on the Adobe site) that gave suggestions on resolving the issue. Most involved removing authorization and re-authorizing the plug-in. I tried that, several times, and it didn't help. I tried running Lightroom as an Administrator (another suggestion I read); still got the error message after trying to re-authorize with Flickr. I emptied the browser (Google Chrome) cac

Lightroom Classic issue after Mac OS Updates: Software: Lightroom ClassicOS: Mac OS Sequoia 15Issue: Catalog freezing; Sync would not progress; Upon import, could not locate/existing Collections not displaying; endless/frozen Optimize Catalog I've been having issues with LrClassic ever since the big Mac OS and Adobe updates in October 2024. Here are the issues I'm running into lately!  1 - Catalog Freezing: When I open LrClassic, it freezes for 2-3 minutes completely before I can do anything. Once it is unfrozen, if I want to import images to my catalog, I cannot add anything to existing collections (they do not display, the list is empty). 2 - Sync does not progress:Sync is just stuck spinning, nothing syncs.  3 - Optimize Catalog does not work:If I try to optimize the catalog, it sits infinitely and I have to force quit Lightroom.  I spent 4 hours on the phone with Adobe, and they got it working once we copied my catalog into a new catalog. And then Mac

I recently saw a blurb attributed to Adobe saying that if one elects to use the Denoise tool that it should be the first step in the editing process before anything else is done, and it made me wonder if there is a "best" or "preferred" order for applying other tools like Enhance Details, Super Resolution, or for that matter if there exists a general guideline of the order in which one should attack the editing process?  It seems to me that setting white balance should be done before adjusting saturation, for example, but I'm wondering what I may be overlooking in the order of other steps?    Thanks for any suggestions!

I'm comparing the results of converting ORF files type (Olympus RAW files) to JPG using Lightroom Classic and using OM Workspace. It looks like the algorytm used by OMW is much better than the one from Adobe, generating images much more clear, with less noise and better general quality. I understand that OM is the creator of the ORF files format and can manipulate  them better than a generalyst software like Adobe. My question is if there is a way to play with different configurations of the JPG conversion method (other than the few ones that appear in Lightroom when exporting files) to achieve better results.  Has anyone experienced this problem and find out a way to improve it? Thanks