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Introducing Assisted Culling (Early Access) in Lightroom Classic.  For providing feedback for Lightroom Desktop, click here.    We’re bringing Assisted Culling to Lightroom Classic as part of the MAX 2025 release! This AI-powered workflow helps you quickly narrow large photo sets to the best shots using objective signals.    What is Assisted Culling? Assisted Culling is one of the most requested features from advanced photographers, consistently topping feedback at customer events. It streamlines the process of identifying top photo selects from large sets—hundreds or even thousands—based on attributes like eye openness, sharpness, and more.    Assisted Culling saves photographers countless hours of manual review, letting them focus on creativity instead of sorting.  Eyes Open – Detects whether subjects’ eyes are open.  Eye Focus – Measures the sharpness of the eyes.  Subject Focus – Evaluates overall clarity.  Clean Up

Have a problem with automatical adjustment of my photos in LR mobile. When I choose a particular photo that I took in RAW48mp for futher editing, LR automatically changing its saturation. Do you have any thoughts how to disable this "improvement"? I am using Iphone 17 Pro Max.

As of today, I also still have this issue (by now we’re in 15.2.1) and the usual recommendations of “resetting your preferences” or even right out deleteing the files or copying them from a known working machine have not fixed this issue for me.Even complete system OS wipes and fresh reinstalls of the software after setting up the OS (reasons for OS reinstall unrelated to issue), with no traces left of the prior install, have fixed this for me on my system. So the logical conclusion would be this is coming from an catalog corruption. But interestingly, creating a new catalog in a fresh install on a just set up OS (Win 11 Pro) also does not fix this issue.For me the issues extend three-fold:I can’t color label my images in the gallery EXIF / IPTC / Metadata in general never loads in the grid view side panel (and knowingly exists since it’s e.g. shown in MediaInfo or ExifTool) The loupe info display doesn’t work (likely because metadata is never finished reading on the files)So 9 months

When I try to open LrC a system error pops up, "The code execution cannot proceed because mfc140u.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem" I have tried to uninstall and reinstall, and it still pops up.

LRC 15.2.1 ARM64. In the removal section for dust spot removal there is no button present to apply the found dust spots.

I use the + and - keys to adjust my sliders when going through photos quickly for minor changes, in particular, for exposure. I find that sometimes (maybe 1 in 10 images), I can see the keypad change occur, but then just as quickly bouce back as if I had never made the change. This happens while still on the image, not when moving to the next. Is this a bug? If not, what can I do to stop this happening?

Hi everyone!I hope I didn’t miss any already existing bug / issue posts for this issue. Here’s the short version again:After upgrading to Lightroom Classic 15.2, I experience an increase in repeatable and reproducable freezes with following crashes. These occur always when zooming into an image and are instantanous. The resulting CrashLog from the error report tool is attatched as well as the Lightroom System Info sheet.  System spec overview: Windows Desktop PC (custom)OS: Windows 11 25H2 Build 26200CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7950x3D (+ integrated iGPU)GPU: NVIDIA RTX 4070ti (12GB GDDR6 VRAM) [591.74 - Driver info see below]RAM: 64GB DDR5 6000MTs CL30DISK: LRc installed on M.2 Gen.4 SSD; Library on same drive; Media on 7200RPM HDDVER.: Adobe Lightroom v15.2First observations:Since version 14.1, I have encountered random issues, from increased stuttering to freezing. When those issues persistet and occured more often, I finally got a “KNOWN ISSUE” warning prompt once, which led me to the Adobe H

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

Cannot figure out why the photo text will not populate with the metadata. I feel like I have googled and tried everything. Photos have custom metadata (even default items like exposure, file name, capture time, are not populating). I have checked the settings under Book Preferences and have tried the 'update Metadata based captions". I have closed and updated and re-opened. Please help! 

Quando utilizzo la funzione di riduzione disturbo, si generano degli artefatti sulla foto, come nell’immagine che segue. Non capisco il motivo 

Since LrC 15 I get this popup: Smart previews have been the single thing that kept Lightroom Classic moving decently for me, even when my Macbook was brand new, even when I made super powerful workstations before that. Lightroom Classic has always been slow loading original images, no matter what I did, except for enabling the use of smart previews.Now the app says I should disable the only thing making usable for someone editing thousands of pics at a time. Now I have to go through several steps when I need one of the new models (because working with smart previews does indeed lower the output quality), then go through several steps again to enable the use of smart previews, when the only logical thing to do was probably a single line of code saying “if CurrentPic.source == SmartPreview {CurrentPic.source == Original} when using one of the features needing originals.Please fix this simple yet horrendous user experience bug asap.

This help page uses “Photo > Set Copy As Master”,  though it’s actually called “Photo > Set Copy As Original” in the app:https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/photos.html (The command’s name changed somewhere between LR 6.14 and today.)

I have been using LR for many years and have had no problem with dragging images in the film strip to reorder them. Recently, this has become very erratic. Sometimes it works okay other times, even though the cursor shows I have picked up the image, when I drop it it either just returns to the original place, drops somewhere random or even sometimes another image will randomly change place.I have tried shutting down and restarting both my laptop and LR but the problem persists. I have the order set to, ‘custom’. I have also collapsed and reopened the filmstrip. The problem also occurs in the library module using grid view.What once took my 5 minutes is now taking hours, it’s very frustrating. Any help would be great.Dave

Lightroom Classic - shift-click behavior of masking brushPoints are bigger (sometimes more and sometimes less pronounced) than the line drawn between them by shift-click.(Regardless of whether the use of the graphics processor is switched ON or OFF.)Lightroom Classic version: 15.2.1 [ 202603161217-0bf813d9 ]Operating system: Windows 11 - Home Premium Edition Version: 11.0.26200SqLite Version: 3.36.0Adobe GSDK Version: 1.4.0.212Internal Camera Raw version: 18.2.2 [ 2512 ]Known problem, but I can't find the related thread any more:https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-shift-click-behavior-of-brush-is-failing-on-size-changes-of-brush-tool/idi-p/15603824https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-shift-click-behavior-of-brush-is-failing-on-size-changes-of-brush-tool/idc-p/15605083This problem may be less pronounced than it used to be, but it still exists in current LRC versions! PS: I first posted this in the wrong section:  

I’m using Lightroom Classic 15.2.1 on Mac with Canon R5 RAW+JPEG B&W.I usually rely on embedded previews to see the JPEGs in B&W, but since I received a previews’s error when starting Lightroom today, LR gradually rebuilds all images in color.When I access to any folder in my Lybrary module, LR starts rebuilding all my BW previews to color.I’ve deleted Previews.lrdata, cleared the Camera Raw cache, and set previews to Low/1024, but it still converts thumbnails to color. I need a way to keep the JPEG B&W previews in Library without Lightroom regenerating them from the RAW.Can someone help me to solve this?Kind regards. 

I am getting this error message when trying to Export as Catalog: I’m running on macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 with Lightroom Classic 15.2 on MacBook Pro 16-inch, 2023 with 16GB of memory and about 197 GB free space on the hard drive.  The target for the export is an external hard drive with 1.85 TB available.  There are about 113 GB of images in the catalog (some are on external media).  A few minutes after starting the export, the progress bar seems to freeze.  About five hours after starting the export, the export process appears to die with the above message opening in its own window.  I’m trying to export around 10,000 images.  While the export is running, Lightroom Classic does not appear to be consuming a large amount of CPU or Memory.

When I click on some of the masking tools such as sky or background, LR appears to start working on it, blue circle spins, but then it just stops and doesn’t mask anything. Brush masking seems to be OK. I have updated my Graphics drivers to latest version as well (NVidia GeForce 2070 Super) but this hasn’t made a difference. Sometimes, restarting LRC will sort it, other times, I have to fully reboot my PC. This has never been an issue before prior to installing latest LRC. Happens quite frequently. Thanks.

Hello. I am experiencing an issue with Lightroom Classic.In the Library module, my photos are not displaying. Instead of thumbnails, I only see gray placeholders.I have already tried the following steps:Generated Standard and 1:1 previews Deleted the Previews.lrdata file Reset Lightroom preferences (Alt + Shift on startup) Restarted the application Verified that files are not missing (no "?" icon) Tested with a new catalog (the issue persists)Additional details:File format: Sony .ARW (RAW) OS: Windows Catalog stored on local diskThe problem seems related to preview generation or RAW decoding.Please advise on how to fix this issue.I can provide screenshots and sample files if needed.

I am unable to open Sony ARW files (Lossless Compressed RAW) created by a Sony A1 (ILCE-1) cameras running firmware Ver. 4.00. I am using the latest version of LrC 15.2.1 release and Camera Raw 18.2.2. Has anyone faced the same problem? Any solution would be much appreciated.

Lightroom hasn’t been giving me any AI suggestions for editing photos for almost two weeks now. Is there an explanation for this? However, it does work on the web version.

I import my photos into Lightroom Classic in RAW. My export settings say JPEG, yet recently I noticed when I export multiple, some of them stay in RAW. The end of the file says .jpg, but the file itself is RAW. I did this multiple times, and different pictures would be in RAW, so I know it’s not related to the specific file. In this case, I exported 20 photos and 2-4 were in RAW. I tried exporting 200 photos, and 8 were in RAW.Screenshot of export settings attached. (Note: When I unchecked Resize to Fit, 15 out of 200 exported in RAW.) 

I constantly have to tick 'photo comment ' away, it pops up at random or whenever you click on the photo frame. Does anyone else has this? 

There are some nice predesigned borders, but you cannot adjust the size or the position. Could that be made possible? 

Would it be possible to adjust the text layout for multiple pages at once? If you don't use the standard layout you have to adjust it page by page and frame by frame... 

The only solution i have found is to open the photo first in another module, then go back to the book module, then add the photo in the book. But this takes extra time.