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With the latest LRC version 14.1.1 and to a lesser degree earlier versions, tasks like masking did not work quickly or at all with my Wacom tablet (PTH-860).  Only if I lift the pen from the tablet and replace it onto the tablet (defocus-refocus) did it work - immediately. Everything has always been fast and fine with the mouse. All drivers (Nvidia, Wacom) are the latest.  I tried all variations of enabling and disabling GPU performance.  Starting LRC from the executable file does not solve the problem (not a corrupted shortcut).  I encountered some slowing with earlier LRC versions but this is pronounced and reproducible, with the pen and not the mouse. What solves the problem is if I invoke LRC via the Nvidia app (optimized for LRC)....and only that enables the pen tablet to work as well as the mouse, without the need for defocus-refocus to be used each time for each action in masking and elsewhere. Any thoughts on why LRC does not "see" the driver fully

I have two catalogues, one is my main catalogue that i keep all of my photos in that is backed up to a NAS. The other is my "travel" catalogue that i have on my laptop and use as a temporary spot to edit photos while I am on a vacation shooting or just traveling locally to edit photos. Once I am back from a trip or done with edits, I import photos (and edits) from my travel catalogue to my main catalogue. All good.  The other day i went to sync photos from my Main catalogue to my Travel catalogue and something happened and it stopped. I thought, no big deal, kick off the import again and this is where the problem is. My travel catalogue thinks that i have these photos already in my catalogue and wont let me sync them from my main Catalogue. On the Import from Catalogue screen, it does its search for duplicate photos and then brings up the selection window. The problem is that i cannot pick the folders from the Main library anymore, they are "uncheckable". My assumption is tha

Bonjour,J'ai Lightroom 6 depuis plusieurs années avec un Nikon D7500 et tout fonctionnait à merveille quand j'avais Windows 10 sur mon ordinateur. Maintenant j'ai Windows 11, donc j'ai du réinstaller Lightroom 6 à partir de mon CD. J'ai toujours le même appareil photo Nikon D7500 mais Lightroom ne lit plus les fichiers .nef. Message d'erreur suivant: «Le fichier n'est pas reconnu par la prise en charge du format Raw de Lightroom.»Ce type de message apparait habituellement quand on change d'appareil photo mais ce n'est pas mon cas puisque depuis 2022, je possède le Nikon D7500 avec Lightroom 6 et tout allait très bien. Pourquoi après le passge de Windows 10 à Windows 11 cela ne fonctionne plus? 

Since yesterday I have a very strange problem in Lightroom Classic.  Many images can only be seen very, very small in the ‘Develop’ module and therefore cannot be edited. They also don't react when you click on 100% or more, but remain stubbornly tiny. At first I thought they were not visible at all, until I noticed this ‘fly poo’ in the centre. Here is an example of two images that behave differently in that way. One can be seen normally, the other as discussed. All images are processed RAWs and work fine in ACR, for example. And until the day before yesterday it worked perfectly well  in LrC, too. But I also have the problem with unprocessed RAWs or TIFFs. I can't recognise any rule at this point. ​   Of the 6 pictures in the collection, 4 behave in this strange way. I did reset the default settings, did rebuild the previews, restarted LrC and the computer multiple times...  nothing helps so far. (My system: MacOS Sequoia, LrC 14.1.1)   Has anyone seen this

Dear all, I am trying to figure out how to edit only a section of my image in monochrome black and white for more black and white control rather than just taking down the saturation  and keep other areas of my image in color in Lightroom classic. How do I do that? Thanks you in advance for any help.

For no obvious reason, since the start of the year (2025) my version of  lightroom classic has suddenly developed numerous bugs/issues that render it almost unusable. Not sure exactly when it happened, but may have been after most the recent auto-update (LR v.14.11) around Christmas time. Also perhaps relevant, I had also recently upgraded my laptop from Windos 10 to Windows 11. I will probably discover more bugs, but so far;For my entire historical catalogue (9000+ files)  it seems any editing changes (exposure, crop etc etc)  have been lost and only the original raw image is available. Images imported and processed AFTER  developing the various bugs, do keep the editing changes:Keyword list has mysteriously disappeared making it very difficult to find photos : The Keyword list panel is visible but there is no list  - simply a box reading “Filter keywords” with options “all, people, other”Topaz denoise AI plug-in no longer works from the  edit-in drop dow

in Lightoom 14.1.1 / macOS 15.2 Step to reproduce: select any smart collection. delete a file. What to expect: dialog shows as modal dialog. operation is ignored except press [OK] Actual results: dialog shown by every delete operation.   [moved from bugs to discussions according to the community rules - Mod.]

Lightroom Classic does not import or sync. I have optimized the catalog. I have created a new catalog and it never imports or syncs the photos. When importing the photos they do not appear on the first screen.   When syncing the folder where I have jpg and dng files, the initial dialog box appears where it says there are 33 photos. When clicking on "sync", on the next screen the photos do not appear and the "Import" button cannot be pressed because it is disabled.     My computer is a Mac with Mac Os 15.2 and LRCC 14.1.1   [moved from bugs to discussions according to the community rules - Mod.]

I tried to import a folder whihc will contain my 2025 raw files but I can't see the folder in Light Room

Hey! I'm using Lightroom Classic. I copied all of the photo folders from a hard drive to a portable SSD, then combined three different lightroom catalogs into one master catalog. After I combined them, a number of photos say, "This File Could Not Be Found." Then have an exclamation mark in the top right corner despite being on my SSD. On settings, it says the location of the photos are the SSD. How do I "find" the files?  Thank you in advance!  

I am working with Lightroom Classic and Photoshop CS6. When I go to edit in Photoshop the images looked washed out. Lightroom, Photoshop and my EIZO monitor are all set to Adobe RGB. I have also re calibrated my monitor. Help please.

Apparently the target collection disappeared after I have renamed the catalog.  What other potential problems will happen after the catalog is renamed ? Is it possible to get back the target collection if I rename the catalog back to the old catalog name again ?  I am using the 14.1.1  Lightroom Classic windows version.   

Hello. My Lightroom Classic has become very slow after upgrading to 14.0.1. Every edit takes more time than before the update. And there are weird scratching noises coming from my laptop when I make edits. This wasn't happening before the update to 14.0.1 (from 13. something).Brush masking was hit the hardest and is a pain to use.This update impeded my work greatly, LrC worked perfectly on my rig. When can we can expect a more stable and efficietn release? My system: Lightroom Classic version: 14.0.1 [ 202410161356-30922cfc ]License: Creative CloudOperating system: Windows 10 - Home Premium EditionVersion: 10.0.19045Application architecture: x64System architecture: x64Logical processor count: 16Processor speed: 3.1GHzSqLite Version: 3.36.0CPU Utilisation: 4.0%Power Source: Plugged InBuilt-in memory: 40310.4 MBDedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 2799.1MB / 5996.0MB (46%)Real memory available to Lightroom: 40310.4 MBReal memory used by Lightroom: 3617.7 MB (8.9%)V

i have a 1.14 GB Catalog of about 86K photos. Was always working fine until a couple months ago - I would import photos but wasnt able to Flag photos and couldnt cycle through Loupe Info (when pressing "I").  But when i restart LR, it all shows up and works as normal.Ive tried Optimizing Catalog, restarting computer, resetting preferences, but the problem persists and Ive noticed its starting to happen on other catalogs also. The catalog in question is on a portable SSD drive, but it always has been.Im on Mac Studio (M1 Ultra) running Sequoia 15.2, running LR Classic 14.1.1 Release. Any help is appreciated!Evan

Lightroom classic started to crash constantly (within minutes) in ‘ Finding People’ mode.  Investigated problem in the usual way of adjusting/resetting preferences and catalogue settings, deleting and reinstalling Lightroom classic, creating a new small test catalogue of 700 images, but to no avail.  Ran Lightroom diagnostics, Event Viewer (/Windows logs/system), Task Manager for clues.  Noticed that ‘Finding People’ is a CPU-intensive activity (close to 100%).  Downloaded HWMonitor and discovered all CPU cores were running close to 100C.  Perused literature for solutions but thought it worthwhile to check grills on PC case.  Inlet grills were a series of small holes on both sides of the front panel and were partially/totally occluded.  A quick vacuum and re-ran ‘People Finder’ without problems on a catalogue of 25,000 files.  Noted CPU core temperatures were now running around 75C in a relatively warm room temperature of 30C.  I was surpris

When I try to do a custom crop, it will not allow me to drag the handles to any custom size, it just reverts to the origina crop size.  Has the crop process changed from the previous versions where Seleting Custom, then dragging the handles could create any crop size?   [moved from bugs to discussions according to the community rules - Mod.]

I am trying to print a simple 8 x 10 photo using the normal page feeder (not the manual feeded). I have the correct paper size selected in LrC and the printer has sheets of letter size paper ready to print. For some reason the printer (Canon Pro-10) gives me an error message "start manual feed printing". I don't want manual feed, but I can't figure out how to change it, so it is not manual feed by default.

Ever since the last update, lightroom has been running so incredible slow and laggy. I have the MacBook Pro M1 2021. Galleries I could have completed in 8 hours now takes 3 days because of the need to continuously optimize my catalog and reset my lightroom/mac every few days. When I try to click on a preset it takes up to 30 seconds - 1 minute to be applied. When I try to delete an image the "gathering information" can also take up to 1 minute to delete ONE photo. Copying and pasting also has a lag and viewing the next photo takes forever. I use Smart Previews so reading RAW files isn't the issue. I turn off syncing to try to help with the speed. I've set the preview size to "low". This truly has been distrupting my workflow and I haven't been able to find a solution. I have all the updated software and would appreciate some help. I can also share my information in case that may help in finding a solution. Thank you! 

When I try to open Lightroom Classic, it only opens as a background process in Windows.  I have uninstalled/reinstalled and have tried various other "solutions" on the web.  Anyone experiencing this same problem?  Have you found a solution?

Hi, when I look at the photo in LR develope mode it's sharp but when I go to library or when I do export image is less sharp, the same thing is in PS . also when I import image for example .jpg or NEF to the LR, in develop mode like it is applied some sharpening but that value is 0,. after that when I make export without any editing I get the same photo that I import. so it seems to me that in develop mod or i PS i see images sharpen but everywere else they are as they were on preview, i even print the image in 15x20 and they are less sharp.     i looked on net and there are few cases as my one but i didnt get any useful info what to do in attachment you can see differenc from PS and imported jpg in lr and exported version without any editing.many thanks for help

probleme de selection du ciel par IA   [moved from bugs to discussions according to the community rules - Mod.]

After a clean Windows 11 install, and re-installing CC (and LRC 14.1.1), my watermarks are all gone. Can I get them back?  I have my old (Windows 10) boot (and apps) drive in case it's needed for file retrieval.Also, my photo collections (and pre LRC 14.1 catalogues) are all on a separate dedicated drive which is unchanged after the Windows 11 install. Thanks, in advance!

Anybody knows how to import / install Leica camera profile to Lightroom Classic? Where to get camera specific profile for Leica CL? 

WHY DOESN''T ADOBE HAVE WEEKEND PHONE SUPPORT ? This is when many folks have the only time of the week to do photo work . An online search suggested : go to Finder >Get Info> Sharing and Permisssions>ensure read and write access which IS =checked and I do have admin privileges. That fixed nothing. Not happy This has never happened before - 9 year LR customer and I have deadline pressure today, Jan 18

Is anyone able to explain what's suddenly happening to some of my photos in Lightroom Classic - see attached image. When working in the Develop module one photo suddenly goes wonky like this - I now have one image looking like this in several folders in my catalog. The offending images appear like this in both the Library and the Develop modules. The images export perfectly but it's pretty hard to edit them. I have tried quitting and re-opening Lightroom but that didn't solve the issue. Lightroom Classic version 14.1.1 on a Mac M1.   Cheers,   Graeme   [moved from bugs to discussions according to the community rules - Mod.]