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Hello community, Since about two month I face the following problem using the latest lightroom classic verion13.3: if I want to use the remove tool in the development section, the picture is transformed into somewhat monochrome with outlines! As soon as I quit the remove tool the normal pic appears again.My System: iMac Mini M2 24GB macOS Sonoma 14.5find attached screen shot movie Can anyone advise me in this regared?Help is very much appreciated.Thank you.Josef

The help article Cameras supported by Camera Raw links to the article Photoshop or Lightroom doesn't support my camera, and though it claims to have been udpated Nov 3, 2023, it's way out-of-date: - It uses very old product names and version numbers. - It says Camera Raw and Lightroom are updated about once every 90 days, but in fact they are updated about once every eight weeks (56 days) on average.  

I cannot get Lightroom to open.  It is only running as a backgroun program.  I have tried rebooting, uninstalling both the lightroom app, as well as the Creative Cloud app.  Thanks!

I have a lot of Keywords with spaces in them (think family names with "first last"). How do I create a Smart Collection that searches for a exact, specific keyword of "Steve Parker"? There is no "equals" option, I have to choose "contains", and when I do this, I get every "Steve" and every "Parker". LR CC clearly supports tags with embedded spaces in the Names function. How do I get Smart Albums to lookup "exactly matching keywords" when those have a space in the Keyword. I've tried quoting the strings to no avail...And, for bonus points: How do I get a Smart Album to find all occurences of "Barn" without finding "Kevin Barnum" (trying to create an album of Barn pictures without finding pictures of my uncle "Kevin Barnum"). An exact search function would let me do this, but for now, I have to search for "Barn" and exclude "Barnum".I've searched around the web quite a bit for something that explains exactly how smart collection rule definitions work, but so far haven't found anything bu

When i export photos from lightroom classic and try to upload them to google drive or any other file sharing app, it says "file unreadable".    I havent changed how i previously exported, and this started randomly in the middle of exporting a large group of files ...most of them worked fine, but the last few said "files unreadable", and ever since that happened i cant figure out how to get things working like normal again.   It doesn't make to me, because i havent changed a thing.       Any help is appreciated 

I just upgraded from Lightroom Classic v12 to v13 and I'm missing a significant amount of metadata. I have about 21000 images in my catalog and the people were tagged in all of them (painstakingly over years). Now LRC is showing ~10000 unnamed people that had previously been tagged. How do I resolve this? I assume that data still exists in the v12 catalog file. Thanks to anyone who can help.

Hi guys, I'm just looking for a slider/button/setting to adjust the opacity while using the crop tool in LR (classic). As it's too much time consuming to display every ready cropped image on a second monitor while working through thousands of images, I want to avoid it. Helpful would be only to stay on the main display and let the cropped out parts of the image more faded out.So now my short question if there is any tool or setting to reduce the visibility of the imageparts outside the crop frame (maybe darken them more etc...)? Am I overlooking s.th. or isn't there no way?Thanks for your suggestions and ideas.

I have an image that is 225MB which I would like to enhance.  I've tried both .psd and .tif formats, but get a message saying that "Enhance cannot be applied to the selected photo."  I'm wondering if it is because of the size of the original file or something else.

For may years I've been able to backup my Lightroom catalog upon quiting, but now I get the message "Unable to backup catalog" after it tries to backup for a minute or so. I've unchecked the option boxes to 'check catalog intergrity' and the other check box but still get the same message. The catalog opens and seems to work fine but I am unable to backup. Any help with this for a solution would be much appreciated.  TIA, Ken

Just recently, my AI Denoise crashes at about 3/4 through processing.  Does anybody else have this problem?

LRC Version: 13.3Windows 10 OS Build 19045.4046Issue:• I have 3 screens. I edit LRC displaying on a 2560x1440 screen. I set the secondary moniter to use the largest screen, which has resolution of 3840x2160. For some unknown reason LRC randomly switches the secondary monitor to the screen with the smallest resolution, which is 1920x1080.• My video card is a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super. • This has been an issue for years, not a new problem. But I am now tried of this issue. LOL This causes me to reset the 2nd monitor multiple times within a few hours use. Again, the secondary screen switches at random times. Thank you,Alvin Robinson

I have several smart collections for publishing (e.g. in flickr) and other purposes that use the criterium FOLDER ENDS IN.These Smart Collections always worked fine and were updated whenever I changed the folders they referenced. But since Lightroom 13.3, this criterion no longer works. It doesn't find the original photos and suggests deleting all the photos from the collection. Another annoying bug coming with an update. Any ideas?Thank you.

When I import images from an SD card into a subfolder LR CC puts the images into the subfolder and into the parent of that folder. If I try to delete one set of images LR CC deletes the images from both locations. Note: I did not check "Create a second copy" on Import. Please see my attached images.

I bought a new mac and new lightroom.Everything looks very different from my old lightroom on the previous mac.The module bar is missing and i can't even see what lightroom i have.Is anyone familiar with this problem ? 🤷

Before upgrading to LR CC Classic, my Canon Pixma Pro-100 printer worked as a plug-in. Now, after updating to LR CC Classic, I get this error message: The destination folder for this action is missing.(/Library/Cache/Canon/PrintStudioPro/PrintStudioPro-LR-TEMP).Anyone know how to solve this problem so this version of LRCC will still find this plug-in for my printer?Thanks!

HiWhenever I export a photo I've edited in Lightroom Classic, it adds it to the catalogue. I don't see the point in this as any edits in the future I would also do on the original and not the exported version. Is there a way to turn off this behaviour so that exported photos don't end up in the catalogue anymore? It's getting quite repetitive to remove them every time.

Hi. Please help me understand how to prevent the photos from showing Evoto when displaying in the collection that I shared online, or anywhere really. I'm not sure where it's pulling this data from. All the photos in the collection were, at one time, edited in evoto, but not all of them are stamped in such a way. What other data do you need from me so I can better ask the question and find resolution (if any)?   

When I place a mask in a photograph is place a yellow sheem over the masked aria.   it is not the overlay colour which is red in my case. There are no presets active on masking as far as I know. I work on an Apple Mac Book pro 16" M2 and Lightroom 13.3 as of today but this issue was there on previous updates as well. Anyone have a guess what's going on and how I can fix it?

Nach Upgrade auf Lightroom Classic V13.3 stürzt ständig der Katalog ab und wird dann repariert. Anschließend sind alle Bilder, die ich über das Smugmug-Plug-in auf auf meine Homepage hochgeladen habe, "erneut zu veröffentlichen". Sie wurden aber gar nicht geändert. Lightroom hat also diesbezüglich alles vergessen. Alle Bilder erneut hochzuladen, würde mich Tage, ja Wochen blockieren. Ich verwende Windows 10, aber das hat - glaube ich - nichts damit zu tun.

When the HDR function is turned on on the computer, the preview image appears greenish

This is going to take a while uploading everything from scratch and then babysitting multiple Android devices to download again. Why is this necessary? Did you increase the Smartpreview resolution?

Hi,  i have a windows 11 , Interl I5 2.3 GHZ, 8 GB RAMbut with an Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 2GB I have raw files from Canon 6Dm2. When i try noise reduction with AI it calculates about 30  minutes per file.I have set preferences > performance so that it is forced to use GPU for displaying, processing and exporting, so to full usage.Still it says 30 minutes per file.Any tips are welcome 

I recently updated my Ligthroom Classic and since then Lightroom keeps crashing whenever I switch over to the Develop module.   [moved to the correct community and from bugs to discussions according to the community rules - Mod.]

Hi all, I've read the threads on this so am aware that viewing of the HDR changes in LR depends on your computer/phone capability (and whether you can use XL/AVIF etc). My question is slightly different. I need to save my HDR edited images on Google Drive for a client. If I export as JPEG it doesn't show the HDR change, XL/AVIF/TIF do show the HDR changes but aren't compatible with Google Drive preview so therefore not useful for the client. If I save as TIF and batch change to JPG the HDR changes are retained. However I'm guessing that there's a pretty obvious reason not to do this (such as loss of quality)? Is that the case, or is this a long-winded solution until HDR compatibility improves? Also weirdly when I batch save as JPG from TIF, half of the images come throught about 8mb, but the other half are 30+mb JPGs. All came from the same size TIFs and were consecutive shots on the day with the same settings. Any ideas why this might be happening? Thank you LR Communit

Great, that it is now possible to filter for exported images. But IMHO it needs some fine tuning to be useful (at least for me): In the SmartCollection we have the filter "is (not) exported" – and a date needs to be provided.  Dunno for what this date is good for, if you want to filter if the image is exported at all. In the Attributes filter, the exported yes/no condition works as expected. (So, I guess, it is a mistake in the case of the SmartCollection).The exported flag should be set to "not exported" when the image is re-edited: The exported flag is set if the image was exported sometime in the past. But: When you make further edits, the earlier exported image does not reflect the latest edits. So, when you make changes to the image, the exported flag should be set to "not exported".The same should hold true for Vitual Copies: The state of a new virtual copy should be set to "not exported".It would be helpful to save a list of filenames of the collection, e.g. for backup