Questions

Hi community, I am quite confused and can't even recall 100% what happened. The issue is that I can't find all images I had worked on previously in Lightroom Classic and am not sure how to retrieve the work of perhaps one or two years. I have done some Lightroom courses, followed the workflow and thought I do the right thing, however I wonder if I've done something completely wrong over the last years in terms of catalogues and backups. I have never figured out how the syncing works between desktop, tablet and phone but that's a different question. I often have my desktop open and don't shut it down. Whenever I close Lightroom, usually a question pops up if I want to do a backup of the catalogue which I always do. However, I haven't closed it for a long time so haven't done this step for a while and was editing away. I have been using smart collections and find they are a really helpful tool to create selections when edtiting and curating photos. Recently I was wond

I know this has been raised before, but I don't understand behaviour I am seeting in Lightroom. I have a catalog of all of my iPhone photographs. I want to see if I have edited any of them, if so, which ones.So, I've:(1) Looked at the "Attributes" "Edit" filter(2) Created a "Smart Collection", with the condition: "Has Adjustments" (True)(3) Created a "Smart Collection", with the condition: "Has Edits" (True) ALL 3 cases select ALL of the photos in my Catalog. But very few have actually been edited in Lightroom. If I look at one example of a photo that hasn't been edited, the "History" tab shows the Imported action (time and date) for when the photo was added to the Catalog. There are no other entries in History. All of the Adjustment sliders are set to their default settings (as no adjustements have been made). No presets have been applied. I am at a loss, I don't understand why Lightroom things these photos have been edited. Thanks William  

Please add the ability to set a specific size to the crop tool rather than just an aspect ratio.  I am adding this as another request because the prior request only asked for specific pixel dimensions, which would be useful. Still, a physical dimension in inches or mm would be preferable for most printing situations.   This would save me an enormous amount of time and storage space because now I have to make a copy of the image, open it in Photoshop, crop it to the specific dimension, and save it rather than using virtual copies in LRC (or LR) which would be both speedier and use much less storage resources. I need this like I need to breathe.  Please make it so!

When using Windows snap feature (i.e. moving the Lr windows to e.g. the right side of the screen so it fills half the screen automatically), the windows size and position is not remembered between restarts. After restarting the Lr windows has the size and position it had before using the snap feature.This is also true when using snap and then resizing the windows. I have a 32:9 monitor and use the "secondary" display as second window on the left side filling up about 1/3 of the screen. The mayin windows fills the right 2/3s of the screen. I do this by doing a snap to the right screen border to fully utilize the screen height (the window takes the right half of the screen now) and then move the left border of the Lr main windows to enlarge it to 2/3.And this I do every time I start Lr... which gets annoying to be honest. Manually resizing the windows without using snap is remembered. Also the full screen snap (moving the window to the top screen border so it automatically takes the

In Develop mode, Lighroom Classic 13.4 on MacBook Pro (Sonoma 14.5) unsets the picture display filter setting after using the AI denoise feature, meaning each and every time I use AI to denoise a picture, I also have to put back in place whatever picture display filter I was using (e.g. show only rated pictures).   [moved from bugs to discussions according to the community rules - Mod.]

Est il possible d'effacer définitivement du disque dur des photos retirées de lightroom, avant les 60 jours ou elles sont supprimées automatiquement.Je précise que je n'ai pas de dossier "Supprimé" dans "Mes Photos"Merci

Of all the times I never needed this tool, now I need it today but can't find it anywhere in Lightroom. Why?! Lol

Hi all,I've encountered  problem whereby I'm trying to create a new catalgoue and I'm unable to load photos into the 'new catalogue'.  File explorer (win) shows the folder and images etc, but I can't select any of the images into the new catalogue.  I have urgent edits to complete. Some other things of note:- I recently had to delete the Camera Raw GPU Config.txt file so I could use GPU processing again after AMD graphics update. - To action the above I had to show hidden folders to access the above file.- I've tried taking off view only (don't know how that got turned on), but still unable to select and load photos. I'm stumped. Please help!  Thanks so mcuh.

  I moved from the images from the old external drive by dragging them over to the new drive, outside of LRC (you can flog me later).  The old external drive has already been reformated, so I can't go back and do it over.I have all my images, edits, and keywords, but all my collections read zero. What is the best way for me to get them back? I have been backing up. I have not added any new images, though have done a bit of work before I remembered the backups. Mac OS 14.5LRC 16.3.1 Thanks.

I have certain presets I have made that have the option for the amount slider and some that don't. I have made them all the same way, including checking the "support amount slider box". Every time I create a new preset, even if it is off of an already-created preset that does support it, the amount slider becomes grayed out. The screen recording I made to show is too big, but here is what I have done: - Updated the preset's current settings- Reset crop & transform and updated the preset's current settings- Updated Lightroom- Optimized my catalogue- Created a completely new preset on a new photo with the same settings, but left out lens corrections, transform, and calibration- Made sure the "store presets with catalogue" button in preferences was unchecked- Restarted my laptop- Ejected my external hard drive and applied the preset on the smart preview- Plugged in my external hard drive and applied the preset to the regular image I am so behind on editing because of trying

I am editing some work using Lightroom Classic. Some images I'm clearning up using photoshop. I was running out of space on my C drive and noticed there was a photoshop update on my CC account. I tried to update it but it kept failing. So I uninstalled my Photoshop to free more space. Then tried to upload the new one. I have 7.5 GB of space. surely that's enough? Not uploading. Failed each time. 😞 Any suggestions?

Hello, I am on LightRoom Classic v.13.1 on MacBook Pro M2 and I wish to transform a photo in BW but keeping 1 colour on a particular detail, for example a picture with different people in which someone has a flower in his hands and I wish to keep the colour on the flower only while oll the rest has to be black&white. Could you mplease help me? I sow some videos but all related to all LR releases and thus I can repeate those commands on v. 13.1. - Thank you

Pretty recently I have noticed a few of my images having a circular banding effect after turning on lens corrections. There a few distinct darker circles at the edges of the image. This doesn't happen whenever the profile corrections are turned off and is only present in certain images. The pics attached are the regular image plus an image with full contrast to show the banding. If anyone knows a fix, it would be greatly appreciated! Really don't want these images to have this issue.

Hi, I am currently using LrC, mostly just for its built-in map feature and some other stuff, to sort through my photos from lots of different cameras. I am using the latest LrC version 13.4 on macOS 14.5 and have photos from Fuji X cameras - X-S10, X-S20 and X-H2S.All photos have location metadata via GeoTag Photos Pro (iOS and macOS) and most photos have their location data recognized by LrC.But today I noticed, that newer photos since May do not show any location data in LrC. Here are screenshots of macOS Preview's Inspector and LrC's metadata viewer:  Any pointers?

Goodafternoon, I have a bug happen in last days randomly, but very annoing, when I edit some in develop with photoshop, or for example with ai denoise that create a DNG, after they do not appear in the develop strip, i see only the original CR2 file and not beside the usually psd or dng, not in develop and not in library--> catalogs, but if I go in library --> folders, they are there, so I should always moving manually them from folders to catalogs and is really annoying.In past happed seldom, in last days all my editing photos I did recently are disappear from catalog (but they are in hard drive and in folders)How i can fix it? Thank you

Hallo zusammen, ich habe Schwierigkeiten bei der Verwendung von Adobe Lightroom, die sowohl die direkte Exportfunktion als auch die automatische Anpassung beim Import von RAW-Fotos betrifft. Beim Import werden die Fotos automatisch bearbeitet (Stapelbearbeitung). Wenn ich dann versuche, diese bearbeiteten Fotos direkt zu exportieren, werden die Bearbeitungseinstellungen nicht übernommen. Stattdessen muss ich jedes Bild einzeln öffnen, damit die Bearbeitungen geladen und angewendet werden können. Erst dann werden die neuen Einstellungen im Export berücksichtigt.Könnten Sie mir bitte erklären, warum dieses Problem auftritt und ob es eine Möglichkeit gibt, die Bearbeitungseinstellungen automatisch und vollständig sowohl beim Import als auch beim Export zu übernehmen? Vielen Dank im Voraus!Mario Schauster

Two weeks ago i decided to upgrade to Mac Mini M2 thinking my Intel based iMac 27" is very slow with Lr. However, now that i compared both i don't really see any dramatic difference in speed, dehaze, scrolling presets etc.Was i wrong to expect much or Lr is simply slow in certain departments no matter the machine. Really preffer iMac over anything else(speakers, 5K retina, all in one..) and now debating if it is worth keeping Mac Mini.Other than Lr i only browse web, listen to music .. completely fine with Intel and iMac i don't really care about all Silicone hype.

Bonjour à vous,j'ai lancé par erreur un synchronisation de 26000 photos; comment puis je l'annuler ?Merci !!!                    Claude

When I start up LRC it opens with the same photo every time. I have selected "open most recent folder" or even tried selecting "Ask when Lightroom is started" in the preferences, and started LRC again but this doesn't help. Could I accidentally set/locked something on that specific photo that makes it show up every time I start LRC? I use the latest update ( but the problem started before that). I hope someone can help me over here 🙂 

I'm running LR 6.14 on an eight year old laptop. If I need to replace it, can my LR 6 license be transferred to the new machine?

After the update to 13.4 my expanded cell choice of Show Header with Labels does not work.  Nothing appears.  If I click on a single cell, that one image does show my choices (file name on upper right and file type on lower right).  The "Show Rating Footer" appears normally.  I've optimized the catalog, 350000 images.  Windows 11.

Hello. I've been printing from LR Classic for years, with good success. The print templates and print settings, however, continue to confuse me. I'd like to tweak some settings and save them in settings or a template, yet when I next use LR and pull up a template, it seems I get the untweaked settings. Does anyone know how print templates and print settings differ and how to update a given template or a given setting? I find print settings very poorly documented by Adobe. Thanks, Bruce

Hello all,   I have updated my catalog as required by LR during the last major version update and rebuilt the previews from scratch. This all worked fine for pictures, but now videos don't have previews even though I am able to play them. They are various sizes, various types and extensions, so access or ability to decode doesn't seem to be the issue.   I cannot force the previews (standard or 1:1) to be created as the process gets stuck at 0% for any size of file. This is a brand new previews generate on an upgraded (optimized etc) catalog so rebuilding again wouldn't do much.   Any ideas?   Windows 10, 1060 graphics   [moved from bugs to discussions according to the community rules - Mod.]

Hello all....when I export using print to file my LR Classic 6.14 flips my image from horizontal to vertical (I always use a border).  So then I need to manually rotate each exported image back to its original landscape format.  Any suggestions to correct this are greatly appreciated.  

I used to be able to rearrange files in Collections, but all of a sudden it quit. I'm up to date in all ways. Currently working from a Macbook Pro w/ a track pad. Often work from external hard drives. Any ideas how to get it working again?