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I've been playing with the new HDR mode and trying to understand whether it's useful to me. After watching a bunch of videos from Adobe and others, I'm still no clearer. Maybe my estimable colleagues can help. I sometimes capture HDR images using bracketing, but all of my work is targeted towards print, which of course is SDR at best. Is there any benefit to editing HDR files in HDR? Or is all of that information already compressed into the SDR range when I'm editing in SDR mode?

I have a few thousand photos from a vacation that I am trying organize.  In the library module, I enter text on the caption field and sync them across multiple images.  From time to time I would run into the 'unqiue contraint' error (seen screen shot).  It happens frequently and the only way around is to restart lightroom.  I have seen this error before and normally happen every once in a while.  It seems to have gotten worse with the latest version of lightroom.  The catalog is brand new, created just for this set of vacation photos.  Does anyone know a way to fix this annoying error?  On macos with latest lightroom (auto updated).

Bonjour !apres avoir mis à jour lightroom (14,2) qui fonctionnait pas mal, j'ai mis à joiur mon mac vers Séquoia et là, lightroom ne s'ouvre plus... il mouline dans le vide. j'ai redémarré mais rien ne change. l'un de vous a t il eu ce cas de figure ? merci pour votre aideKlara

Hey there, Since years, I've been shooting stacks and importing them into PS as layers.Since a while, LR allows to open as Smart Object layers in PS. Is there any way to link the files to LR instead of embedding them - so when I change a setting to the entire stack in LR, the changes automatically carry over to PS?Or ist there an efficient way to batch edit SO layers in PS so I don't have to create a preset in CR and apply that to 100 layers separately? Even if I create an action I have to manually select and OK the CR preset, since CR is an external app, apparently. 

I am using a new Macbook Pro with Lightroom and I want to store my original images on a NAS. I have been doing this with an older QNAP NAS, but lightroom keeps loosing the NAS and I have to keep finding the missing folders in lightroom. QNAP have suggested that maybe the older NAS is not upto the task. Any recomendations on NAS's. My preference is to stay with QNAP as I would like to use the current NAS as a backup and the new NAS as storage. 

Hey everyone,  I have a problem that when I import photos, every single time without  fail at least one, if not more, of the photos import like this. They are fine on the memory card when I view on the camera and before import, then for a split second after import, but then they go like this and there is nothing I can do about it. Sometimes when I log back on the next day to continue editing, another of the photos that was imported the day before and were fine, will have gone like this as well. I have tried importing them again with no luck, I have tried new memory cards, with no luck and now I am not sure what else to try...Can anyone please shed some light on why this is happening and how I fix it please! I am loosing good photos from client shoots because of this issue!Thanks in advance 

Hello, So unfortunately the agent and I struggled in our conversation and now I am left with 2 questions instead of 1: #1 - Parametric curve is adjusting the brightness of ALL colours in the relevant tonal area. Point curve DOES THE EXACT SAME THING, the only difference being you can have up to 14? tonal areas whereas Parametric curve has 4, and Point Curve can boost/decrease brightness by a maximum of up to 4 large grids vs 2 large grids. -- Correct? #2 - If Parametric curve and Point curve do the same thing, then why does only Point Curve have "refine saturation" slider? thanks

I get this massage when I open Lightroom classic, the file is there and when I choose to use different catalog it works fine, I save this in my presest options. next time I open LRC it does the same. I had this problem before and found a soloution, but can't remember where I found it of how to solve it. any ideas?Windows 11 up to date as is LRC.

Having a problem when using the new denoise feature with the image not displaying after being processed?Everything works fine with the feature, I can see the preview and then click on enhance. I can see the progress bar in the top left of the screen and then when it's complete I don't get a new photo in my collection, I get a message saying no photo selected.Looking in my collection no new photo as being added, and all filters are offI'm using LR Classic 12.3 on an iMac with Mac OS 13.3.1

What happened to the opacity slider in the remove section of Lightroom Classic in the recent upgrade? There used to be an opacity slider for both cloning and removal. Is this no longer an option?   Thanks, Joann

So I finally bit the bullet and acquiesced to Adobe’s subscription model and bought a Lightroom “plan” with lightroom classic.   I attempted to open my Lightroom 5.7 .lrcat file by right clicking and opening with the freshly downloaded "Adobe Lightroom" app (I'm assuming this is "Lightroom Classic".  "About Lightroom" says it's "Version 8.2") and got an error stating that it’s not compatible and needs to be updated to a Lightroom 6 catalog, but Lightroom six isn’t available for download.  I opened the new Lightroom Classic application, and it immediately wanted to try and upload to the “cloud”.   When I switched to looking for local folders it refused to look into subfolders and I don’t see the “include subfolders” tick-box like the one shown here:  https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/lightroom-classic-import-include-subfolders-search-entire-disk/m-p/11349218  I also see no “Import Photos” menu option.  I'm not sure

I use keywords to name different species of birds in photos. This works great in Lightroom Classic as you can quickly bring up all photos of this type of bird. When I sync the photos from Classic to Lightroom Mobile it does not sync the keywords and it is thus difficult to remember every different species of bird. If we can't sync keywords can you suggest a different way that I can get the name of the bird into Lightroom Mobile from Classic?

Bonjour,En ouvrant lightroom aujourd'hui, Adobe me dit, a ma grande surprise, que l'application est désactivé.J'ai bien été prélevé au début du mois. Je ne comprends pas. Suis-je seul dans ce cas?

Seit heute kann ich kein Bild mehr entgültig löschen. Warum? Es geht nur noch aus der Sammlung entfernen. Danke für den Fix.

I am having issues saving changes in Print Seettings, e.g. when selecting Rear Feed and Media type as I save the data but it reverts back to the Standard Cassette 2 and Plain Paper. I have spoken to Epson but they have not been able to resolve and told it maybe an Adobe/LRC issue.   I have a Epson xp 8700 print I am using Mac/Ventura 13.7.4   I have attached three print, the first how I am trying to save, the second, showing SAved and the third how it reverts.   Can you  help pleasee or does htis have to raise as a bug?        ura 13.7.4   [merged duplicate posts - Mod.]

I also updated to 14.2 and have basically lost everything!. Why would Adobe launch such a bugged and flawed latest version of Lightroom Classic. It uses so much energy my MacBook Pro goes into melt down and that spinning rainbow wheel. 

I need help! I have a new computer so I downloaded all my presets to import onto my new computer lightroom. After I import them they do not show in the preset panel. I go to preferences then to presets and I see them in my "show all lightroom presets" option in the CameraRaw file. I know they are imported but I do not know how to get them to show on my panel. I do not have "store presets with this catelog" selected. I have updated, closed and restarted and nothing has help. I have managed the presets and they do not show as an option to check a box for them. Any advice would be great! 

Hi,I have a problem with folders and my catalog. I order them by year, in Lightroom and in Windows. But in Lightroom the year 2025 is shown above and outside of the main folder "Foto's". The hover shows the physical location, wich is the same as in Windows Explorer: How can I solve this, so that the year 2025 is a sub of "Foto's" in Lightroom?Dragging the folder 2025 into Foto's is not working. It gives an error: It says "There is already a folder with the name "2025" at this location", which is correct as can be seen in the Explorer screenshot.Kind regards, Jeroen   

Hi everyone!  I have been using Lightroom Classic for a little over a year and a half.  I came across an issue recently where my lightroom will constantly show the rainbow loader.  I have tried updating the app, deleting it, and re-downloading it.  I have also tried replacing my SSD drive to see if it was a failing drive.  I even tried making a separate catalog, but nothing is working.  I can't make any edits because every change I make causes the loader to pop up.  I am very frustrated because I have deadlines I need to meet and nothing is working.  I currently am editing on a Macbook M2 with 32 GB of RAM and 2TB of internal SSD.Does anyone have a solution to this?

Hi, perhaps I first need to say that I don't think that I'm stupid, at least that stupid, I think, and I'm not blind, as I look at my photos all the time on my Mac's screen ...  - - - Anyway, I don't find a way to add some note to myself so that I could remember later what things I found important considered for this particular photo. All comments appreciated, Tuomas

I'm a wedding photographer and always export 1000+ photos. Today it randomly won't allow me to export even 1 or 3 photos. There's no error, the files can all be found, it simply won't even pop up the window to export options/setting. I click export and nothing happens unless I shrink my selection to one or two images. please help!!!!   [moved from bugs to discussions in accordance with the community rules - Mod.]

My LrC has been painfully slow with editing due to masking tools causing LrC to "not respond."  The screen goes black, then when it comes back on, the brush tool specifically will have streaked a long line across the image.  I cannot get through a single image today.  5 hours on one image and I keep having to reset, restart.  I've talked with tech support and they thought it was because my onedrive was running, but that's clearly not it. Please please help - everything is up to day and computer is running great! 

After reinstallation of Lightroom I have been unable to get re-updated to the latest version and it seems that Adobe has lost any information of my registration of the software. Mostly the software seems to work as before but it seems to have one MAJOR PROBLEM. IT LOSES THE ENTERED KEY WORD DATABASE INFO. Needless to say this is a MAJOR PROBLEM!I have had a few time when closing the program I get the following message.lightroom.exe - Application Error The exception unknown software exception (0x40000015) occurred in the application at location 0x00007FFE6902AE22Click om OK to terminate the programIt seems exception # 0x0000015 is always the same but the location number changes Example another location # is 0x00007FFD42C4AE22The loss of the Keywords doesn't seem to be directly related to these messages though. I have checked a few time by reloading the Lightroom App immediately after getting the messages and after powering down and back on and the Keywords are still there. I h

Just a conversation. Over the years of color workflow I have experienced a lot of confusion and mixed results trying to manage my color output. I spent a lot of time getting the correct icc's, making sure my management was properly setup and doing test prints until I was able to WYSIWYG for photographs. These days it just all seems to work better? But what I really dont get is why? I have lots of different paper stock and I am not using any icc's and the print workflow is very basic-but the proof is that the prints tend to look great on the first )or sometimes second) try.  I still feel the page setup-printer setting-print dialog-print configuration is all way to cumbersome, but again the prints look good?  Why?

Hey there, I have recently created a preset using the Spyder Color Checker. I'm trying to apply said preset to all 200 images of the series other than by selecting each individually and clicking the preset. I've been working with LR since 10 years now, so I'm asking myself what's going on.I have found all sorts of (outdated) guides on how to achieve this, since the logical way via "Sync" doesn't seem to work - via Develop module, Quick Develop etc. Once I click any other image than the "root" image to check, no matter what I sync, the preset isn't being applied automatically. I just can't believe this can be that difficult. Please help. Thank you!Win 10, most recent version of LR, 14.2 release,  the build of which for some reason I can't copy from the popup