Questions

I'm using the current (16.2) version of LR Classic.I used the B&W button in the Develop module to change it from color to b&w, but am unable to change it back to color.When I drop down the profile menu the only choices are color and monochrome. I can see all the choices in the profile browser, but all are versions of monochrome.Am I missing something, is this a permanant change, or a bug?

Trying to import files from an external drive and the import process seems to stall.  Lightroom isn't hung, I can click the x on the import progress bar and it will cancel the operation and finish.  If I try to import files from the same directory and try to import again, Lightroom will import and handful of files (the last 4-5 times I have tried it has imported only 3 pictures) and then stalls again.  The import progress bar just sits there.  This has happened multiple times on different directories. Tried rebooting the computer, restarting Lightroom, ejecting and re-attaching the external drive with the same results. Running Lightroom Classic v9.4 on a Macbook Pro - Latest patches installed - 16G RAM.Tried rebooting the computer, restarting Lightroom, ejecting and re-attaching the external drive with the same results. Any help would be appreciated

In LR Classic, I enter keywords into multiple photos at the same time. I want to use the same batch method for one of the Location fields in my metadata. Despite seeing descriptions online saying I can do just that, it doesn't work.  Suggestions, please?

I'm trying to open an old catalog (V12) (from just before christmas) in V13. I got a popup saying "Lightroom - Opening: xxxx" and it has been like that  for nearly 2 hours now.Should I wait?The catalog is 1,342, 920KBIt is using 16-20% CPU and  around 50MB RAMIt is continuously creating and deleting 2 files: xxxx..lrcat-SHM and xxxx.lrcat-WALthe PC has a Ryzen 5 5600H CPU and 16Gb RAM ( and a 2Tb

I'm using LrC and are suddenly started to have sync errors every time I use the people of person features AI masks. I don't have any sync errors with images that are not using these AI masks. I can't pinpoint which of these AI masks is the culprit here as I usually use multiple. I have been using these AI masks earlier without any sync errors. Can't be sure did these issues start with LrC v13.2 or not. This is a fairly new installation on my new laptop. What the fix would be? I'm aware of resetting the sync data procedure, but I really don't want to take this drastic measure, if it can be avoided. As this issue is only limited to situations where those specific AI masks are used, I'm not too confident that resetting sync data will necessarily help. I'm trying to find an alternative way of sorting out this issue, and only revert to resetting of the sync data, if that's the last resort.   ---LrC v13.2, Win 11 Pro, Intel Core i9-13980HX, 32 GB, NVIDIA Ge

We need to be able to identify whether a specific creative profile has been imported into LrC. I know that we can see presets, but are we able to see creative profiles in the same way?Does the SDK provide this option? The only option I can think of is looping all files below the CameraRaw directory looking for a <profile name>.xmp file.

Hi brains trust my adobe has crashed and when re opening it shows photos in the bottom tool bar. (0 of 1000) but there is no preview. I have gone through previous to the crash and colour selected my pics I wish to edit. But when re opening there is no preview any thoughts on what can be causing this?

Hallo, Ich habe seit kurzem das Problem, dass Lightroom Classic nur noch als Hintergrundprozess ohne Fenster startet. Habe Lightroom Classic schon komplett deinstalliert und neu installiert, was aber das Problem nicht gelöst hat.Ich nutze Lightroom Classic unter Windows 11 mit einem AMD Ryzen 5600X und 32 GB RAM. Graphikkarte ist eine NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 mit 4 GB Arbeitsspeicher.Hatte jemand schonmal das gleiche Problem oder kann mir weiterhelfen? Danke! Sven Emmerich

ENVIRONMENTSigma fp (Bayer sensor): Firmware 5.00 (current) updated months ago and before LRC 12.4Hardware: Intel iMac 2020.OSX: Monterey 12.6.7 (current).Adobe software: LR Classic 12.4 and Camera Raw 15.4. PROBLEMAfter moving to LRC 12.4 upon importing Sigma fp files that were shot with a non 3:2 aspect ratio (like 21:9) the used aspect ratio is no longer shown/respected - it used to be semi blanked out.The 21:9 ratio is visible in the import dialogue of LRC (3:2 area displayed but with the relevant parts shown in black), but is then ignored as imported photo always shown in 3:2 aspect ratio. In Develop/Crop & Straighten: Original=As Shot.In the Library module/Metadata/DNG the preview dimensions are given as 6000x2576 which matches 21:9.Any and all aspect ratio is still functioning as expected in Sigma Photo Pro 6.8.3 (but after many years usage I am allergic to SPP…).SOLUTION?Adobe: What have you changed? How can I get back to LRC showing the files correctly?INPUT/SOLU

I will be finally upgrading my computer to the iMac Mini.  As I understand it, Lightroom 5 is not feasible to run on the M silicon apple chipset without problems.   My pictures are stored on external drives connected to the old computer.  I assume that I could copy the picture files over to a new SDD keeping the name of the hard drive and the folders it contains and copy them over to the new SSD. Then export the catalogue files to the SDD and import them in to the current Lightroom CC once it is installed on the new computer. I am starting to foresee a lot of headaches doing this and I will be forced to move to a subscription service, which I don't mind doing if it is a rather seamless process. Currently I have made due with the Affinity programs for editing but I am getting tired of having to manage my photos in Apple Photos.   So two options, keep the old computer and drives drives connected to access and edit, print my old photos, and for

I am "since ever" on the latest versionwith CC, and the CC-Desktop tells me "no new Updates available".But since the last time I used the Map function (probably a month ago) I see no longer a map, although the Meta Data shows a GPS position (in LR as well es in Bridge).So it shouldn't be a matter of my version! What's going wrong her?This is very frustrating! With every new version I loose a lot of time because of a broken workflow!That's not why I pay that much money every month!If I could I would live with a working version as long as possible, without being forced into the latest (and worse). I not even can pick an older LR version, as I could with PS and Premiere. Has anybody an idey, if a setting changed that I had to adjust? I hope so 😉Or do I have to wait for the next version (with agin changed interfaces and new bugs?):Adobe, if you listen: Please help and explain what's going on and how to solve this issue!Thanks

Totally confused. I've found numerous helpful guides online how to resize, "shrink," an image in Lightroom so it fits within Instagram's parameters, but nothing works. When I open the file in Instagram it is no different in size than the images I normally export to Instagram. I lose the impact of my images when Instagram crops them. I need the entire photo to appear, not a truncated version. I must be doing something wrong, since I would imagine this is a very common practice. Any guidance - in plain english - will be appreciated.Rob

Why does my color picture turn black and white in develop, healing mode. Quality is then so bad that healing is impossible. How do I get the colored picture back to heal/clone ?

Hi. The Denoise function is life changing for me and I use it for all photos ISO 4000 and above. Now I shoot even ISO 51200 and I have no problem with that because I know the photos will look great. But I have a problem. Every now and then I get blocks of dead pixels on photos, but different all the time. It can be 1 out of 100 or 2 out of 20. But usually is about 1 or 2% of the photos. I do the Denoise operation for a number of maximum 120 pictures at a time. I tried more, but every time Lightroom crashed. I happened even when I did Denoise for only one photo. If I do the Denoise again on the original photos, it will work just find. Do you have any idea why this can happen?I use a Mac 3.8 GHz 8-Core, AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 8 GB, 16 GB 2667 HMz DDR4 with latest updates. It worked perfectly for like 6 months and just after that the problem started. 

For the last few weeks, LRC has been automatically changing the exposure to Zero whenever I use a Subject or Background mask.  This makes editing much more complicated and wasn't something that I elected to do.  How can I adjust settings so that when I use a Subject or Background mask the exposure is not changed?  Thanks in advance for your help!  I'm using LRC 13.2 on mac OS Sonoma 14.4.1

Why is the start number grayed out when doing custom naming now??I use the start number feature all the time and now I can't use it and need to rename manually with specific numbers. Awsome...Any way to fix this? Lightroom 12.1. MacOS Ventura 13.0.1.  

I am using Lightroom Classic 13.2 with Window 11.  I have recently moved my Lightroom photos to a NAS.  I can see the all fo my previous photos in the Lightroom Library.  I imported some new photos into a new folder on the NAS.  When I go the Library, the folder was empty.  I tried to import them again and it shows they were suspected duplicates.  I uncheck it and imported again.  I can see the photos in the Library and have made several edits.  I came back a couple of days later to make more edits.  I then imported more photos into the same folder.  When I go to the Library, the new folder is empty again.  The recent previous import and edits in the same folder do not show up.   Any suggestions?

Dear LR Classic community,I have got two "issues" with my LR classic 6.14/Windows 10 home 22h2 build 19045.4291:1) Is there any chance to update this version to a higher LR classic version, based on the license for LR classic 6.14? The update tool says there are no updates available and I understand the support was stopped in 2022/2023.2) Only since I restarted work with that version in 2024 already imported and displayed Whatsapp images are not displayed anymore in the LR catalog ("A problem occured when reading the image"). I have read some postings on that dating back to 2018, but have not had problems with that until now. To my knowledge I have not changed any settings - from one day to the other the programm does not show those images anymore. Is this a windows update issue? Or has anything changed due to the stopping of support? I have not worked with Lightroom for a longer time, but certainly since October 2023. Has anyone kindly an answer to the above? Thanks so much.Silke

 Don't understand why I get this unexpected result from this Smart collection.This is just one of the many unexpected results I'm getting. 

Greetings, I use Lightroom Classic on two computers, my iMac desktop and a Microsoft SurfacePro laptop. I want to be able to open my LR catalog on both computers but I notice the Creative Cloud folders have different files. Shouldn't the files in both Creative Cloud folders be exactly the same since I'm using the same account?  Thanks in advance for your help.

I would appreciate help with this question about relocating my Lightroom Classic catalogue. I keep my RAW files on an external SDD. My LrC catalogue is on my MacBook Pro's internal SDD.  Most of my Photos are in collections which are shared. I want to move my catalogue to an external SDD (either the same one as my RAW files, or a separate one). If I copy my catalogue folder which includes LR_catalogue-v13 Helper.lrdata, LR_catalogue-v13 Previews.lrdata, LR_catalogue-v13 Smart Previews.lrdata, LR_catalogue-v13 Sync.lrdata, LR_catalogue-v13.lrcat, LR_catalogue-v13.lrcat-data to the new SSD location, then plug-in my external SSD with my RAW files, will the new catalogue sync OK? Is there anything else I should know, or do? I know that once the new catalogue is synced I wont be able to sync the old one, so I will archive it once the new catalogue is working 100%. If you have any comments about keeping the catalogue on the same SSD as the RAW fil

I'm having an issue trying to sharpen just a single subjects selected face in a small group photo.  One of the subjects is falling out of focus and a little soft. I selected the subject and made a mask of just the facial skin, but the sharpening slider is not having any effect at all, even jacked all the way to the right, viewing 100%. All of the other parameters of exposure, etc. show change in the face. I can sharpen the whole photo and see the results, but I just want the change localized. What am I doing wrong?!

I have these 2 jpg photosI want image ( 2 ) similar to image ( 1 ) in light , brightness , contrast , all other settingsHow can I do that ?What setting which i can edit it to be correct ?Is there a prepared lightroom preset that i can apply on image ( 2 ) to be similar than image ( 1 ) ? 

I'm in the process of going through my personal photos from the last 15 years, keeping only those shots that appeal on a technical or emotional level in my main catalog and shuffling the rest off to an archive drive/catalog. To make this process go faster, I'm going year-by-year and uploading to Creative Cloud so that I can do my picking on my iPad Pro.I started a new year (2013 - home stretch!) today, created a collection with everything and started it syncing, then realized that I had a lot of RAW+JPEG pairs and don't really need both. I paused syncing, turned off syncing for the 2013 collection, then deleted the collection. When I turned syncing back on to sync the new, smaller collection with the JPEGs omitted, Lightroom just kept syncing the old collection. An hour later, it's still happily plugging along, uploading thousands of shots I don't want synced, but can't find a way to stop.This seems pretty basic - if I tell it I don't want to sync a collection by turning off syncing, L

Hi, what is the difference between "20 GB photography plan" at €9.75/month and "Photoshop Lightroom" at €12.19/month?Thank you