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If I export original LR only outputs the .xml file not the raw .NEF aswell. Any idea why this is? MacBook Pro Mac OS 14.6.1Adobe Lightroom Classic 14.5.1

Get started with editing your astrophotography images using Lightroom Classic with this easy step-by-step guide.    Editing images is a very personal thing. Some people like a lot of contrast in their images, some like a lot of color and others like to keep things as natural as possible. In this tutorial, I will show you the basic workflow I use to edit my Astrophotography night-time images. You can either use your own image to work on as you follow these simple steps or you can download my sample photo here.   The image I am using for the tutorial was taken on a Nikon APS-C camera mounted on a tripod in portrait orientation. I used an 18-55mm kit lens set at the maximum aperture of f/3.5 for 30 seconds at ISO1600. For this particular image, I left the shutter open slightly too long and as a result, you may see some star trails because the Earth's rotation, but zoomed out the stars look acceptably round. The ideal shutter speed for this scenario, considering that it was

I can't get the star rating to appear below the thumbnails in the bottom bar in Lightroom Classic. Please help. This is shown in the screenshot.

How can I make Lightroom import only RAW and not JPG files? (Some camera's require you to save a JPG next to a RAW to generate the best preview on the camera LCD)

Hello, I am trying ton connect a MX CONSOLE LOGITECH. It is necessary to give autorisation by external controlers. But I don't see it, though a have the latest version of lightroom classic. Help me please Thks André Callewaert

I have recently updated to Lightroom Classic version 15.5 and am having problems opening the app on my M3 Pro MacBook Pro, running MacOS 15.6.  When I first try to start a session it either fails to open and I have to force quit and try again, or takes a very long time to open.  When I do eventually get it to open if I close it down and reopen it does so with no problem. I have tried uninstalling reinstalling the app, but this makes no difference. 

I'm seeingt a bug in LR Classic Print Module's Identity Plate. Now that I've upgraded to Big Sur (11.5.2), I can no longer select the text to edit in a text box. The text shows up when I add it in the Idendity Plate panel window, but then I cannot select it on the image, so I can't move it. Useless this way, since it just shows up over the middle of the photo.  Is anyone else having this problem?    This is the second, and probably more serious of the Big Sur Print Module bugs. The other one is that the image has a color shift and desaturates when viewing in the Print Module.    I'm on an M1 iMac, MacOS 11.5.2, v10.4 LR Classic.

I just installed Lightroom CC on my Windows 11 PC, when I apply Denoise AI, my picture turns blue/purple. Any help please!

Hi everybody, I hope somebody can provide me with the right hint. I would like to view/play my slideshows with a stroke border, black or white, on the edge of each file/photo. However, when the file is cropped, very often the desired border does appear correctly in the preview but does not show at the edge— but rather at a distance from it—when the slideshow is played; the larger the crop, the more distant it shows. Why is this? I've tried with several combinations of Crop & Straighten settings (custom, original, locked/unlocked, etc.) but could not find the correct way out. Can anybody help? Thank you in advance.

In LrC I click on the Mask icon ... when I click on the brush and go to paint everythings seems fine.  When I want to lighten/darken that area there is no eposure (etc) slider ... I know it's somewhere!  An easy fix for sure but I've tried all I know ... Thanks for your help!

I am nearly finished making a photobook, but now I need to add an extra picture. I import it to the library and it sits there, I can use Develop on it,  but I cannot get it to appear in the photobook - even if I designate it a cover page in the Library!Deleting is easy but how do I add an extra picture to a photobook in progress? There are hours of work involved already, so I don't want to just clear the book and start again as each page always needs a lot of manual adjustment and captioning!

I use a hierarchical style of managing keywords. Today I noticed I had two redundant keywords, Bird and birds. I selected all photos in the catalog, clicked the arrow next to the number by birds to select all photos containing that keyword. Next I clicked on the left side of Bird to add the Bird keyword to those images. Then I unchecked on the left next to birds. Now no images have the birds keyword. But wait. It shows a 1. I selected Metadata, Purge unused keywords, and that didn't fix it. Next I exited LR and deleted the Helper.lrdata file since I read that can fix cache issues. Opening LR Classic again (Mac version), the keyword is still there. Is there any other way to fix this?

I am getting worried and pretty desperate.   I got a Mac M4 and downloaded lightroom and transfered by catalog on to the M4.   My lightroom clasic is working insanely slowly so so that it take hours to move a few pictres from one folder to the next, deleting a file takes minutes, and moving from one file to another also takes along time. I tried to move a folder from one external hardrive toanother and I could not do it (3000 pictres). On my old compter I could do it all and fast (that compter was 12 years old). I do not know where the problem is. Please help me.   NB: I had Adobe on the line for two hours and the staff could not come with solutions. The second level assistance was reqested but after more than a week, I have still not received a call.   [Moved from ‘Bugs’ to ‘Discussions’ by moderator, according to forum rules.]

In LR 11.0, MacOS 11.6.   I select several images in the grid view. Edit the location info in the Image section. The metadata is only set on the 'most" selected image. It used to correctly set the data on all selected images.   This is a real problem for me. If I go out and shoot a few hundred images, now I have to edit each one individually. Unacceptable.   I did not check to see if any other fields exhibit the same behavior. This was enough for me.   Is there another (reasonable) way to set the location os a set of images?

Bonjour,Depuis quelques semaines, il m'était impossible de copier/coller les paramètres d'une photo à une autre (ou une série d'autres). Je pensais que la dernière mise à jour allait permettre de résoudre ce problème. Raté. Il m'est toujours impossible de copier/coller les paramètres...Suis-je seul à vivre ce désagrément ? Quelle pourrait être la solution ?Merci de vos réponses,Olivier

It appears DNG photos taken on the recently released Pixel 10 mobile phone are being treated as JPEGs by Lightroom Classic in the Develop module.  In  the profile section, the full range of profiles are not available, ie Landscape, Portrait,  Adobe Colour, Standard, Vivid etc. What's available is Adaptive Colour, B&W and  Google Pixel Monochrome.Is this correct? The same thing happened on DNG photos taken on the Pixel 9, that was soon corrected, I'm not sure whether Adobe solved it or Google.  I have tried to attach a DNG photo, but the uploader says the DNG is not a supported file type!

After using Lightroom classic without significant problems for 15-20 years,today when I started the app, the Folder panel was empty. I am currently on a photography subscription and always keep my apps up to date. Apps are running on Mac mini M4 MacOS 15 Sequoia. LRC version 14.5.1. My pictures and catalog files are stored on an external ssd. All of the files and folders are findable using Mac Finder, and when I am in the Catalog panel, viewing All photographs, I can select any photograph and right-click and choose Show in Finder and there is no problem, the photos are present and in the correct folders and subfolders.However, if I right click on a photo and choose Go to Photo in Library, I get a message "No Photos in selected Folder".I also attempted to import some recent photos from my camera and got an error message:"An Internal error has occured.AgPathUtils.getStandardFilePath: can't create directory at: /Users/kenberean/Pictures. Error message = %@"Clearly, these two problems are

Curious is anyone else is having issue with Lightroom freezing since the last update. It currently happens when I select an image, make a right click and then it freezes. I am not able to change screens or apps. I have to CTRL+ALT+Delete to exit the program. Is there another option besides un-installing at this point? 

Hi all, after returing from a trip, I ran into an issue with the updated AI Denoise. In multiple of my images, the denoise tool will turn a dark area green, even though not green color is present in the raw file. This has not happened previously to me. I'm using Fujifilm GFX 100S II Raws. Has anyone else experienced this? Any workarounds?

Beim Abmelden aus LRC sichere ich für gewöhnlich immer den Katalog. Nach dem neuesten Update auf LRC 14.5.1 erhalten ich nun plötzlich die Meldung, dass der Katalog nicht mehr gesichert werden kann. Folgender zusätzliche Hinweis erscheint "Überprüfe deine Ordnerberechtigungen und stelle sicher, dass du ausreichend Speicherplatz auf Deinem Datensicherungslaufwerk und im Laufwerk des Hauptkataloges hast." Ich habe keine Änderungen vorgenommen, d. h. keine Änderungen von Ordnerberechtigungen. Ich habe mal versucht, den Speicherort für die Sicherung zu ändern und auf eine externe Festplatte zu lagen die noch 3 TB freien Speicher hat. Aber leider, auch das klappt nicht, es kommt der selbe Fehler. Wer kann helfen? Danke!!!

Recently my LrC was frequently freezing for a few seconds because I haven't updated my previews and scrolling through them was a pain.After recreating standard previews for all my pictures, I realized that I haven't update the people's list for a while. I updated the proposed suggestions but when all proposed faces were confirmed, not all had a preview.So then I tried to "Find Faces Again", folder by folder (each folder contains pictures for 1 year). I worked quite well for all folder with less than 500 pictures. But now after finding faces again in a folder with 1200 pictures, once the fetching is completed, I go into the People's view and not all images show a preview but mostly LrC hangs / freezes and I can't complete the work. I'm running LrC 14.4 with Camera Raw 17.4 on a Windows 11 PC with 32 Gb RAM and an NVidia GeForce GTX 1660 GPU and a RYZEN 7 3800X CPU.  Please help, I'm getting desperate

Hey there, I'm wanting to know what settings people are currently using for 'image resize' when you're exporting for instagram. I'm wanting settings for portrai and landscape, not the square ratio. Many times when I've asked this question, people advise to crop the image. I'm not wanting to crop, I'm wnting to resize, as sometimes when i export and go to post my photos the don't fit, despite me following guidlines I've found online. The particular photo I'm trying to resize at the moment is a portrait shot, and each time I export playign with different settings i have the same issue- the image length is slightly too high and part of the image is cropped out. There must be something I'm doing wrong! Advice would be much appreciated. Thanks

So I shot my project in 16:9 as a guide, but I want the full frame in lightroom to work with.  Whenever i scrub through my shots, it automatically crops the image one by one to "as shot" - do I really need to INDIVIDUALLY reset this for EACH shot? Like holy moly, what an awful feature to begin with. Why wouldn't it do it as a batch when imported? Secondly how do i turn this off. This sort of thing is exactly why a 10 year old version of lightroom is better than the current days. 

I would like the ability to input a color temperature instead of depending on a slider that lets me go from -100 to +100. But under custom WB the only option is the sliders? Why it would be valuable is that all my meters give me data with a color temp number, not a slider value. 

Seit einigen Wochen kann ich keine Backups vom Lightroomkatalog machen.Hier der Ablauf:Dann wird dieser Ordner mit den Dateien angeleget:Dann wird die Katalogsicherung komprimiert und es erscheinen diese Dateien.Dann bricht die Komprimierung an dieser Stelle ab...und es erscheint folgende Fehlermeldung: Lightroom hat alle Berechtigungen, die für mich erreichbar sind.Ich habe verschiedene angeschlossene Datenträger probiert, die alle mehr als 1 TB Platz haben.An der Lightroomkonfiguration habe ich nichts verändert. Es hat immer funktioniert. MacBook Pro M3 mit 48 Gb RAM und mehreren SSD un HD.Ich arbeite seit vielen Jahren mit Adobe Produkten und kanne mich gut aus.Alle meine Programme von Adobe sind aktuell, haben alle Updates.Mein Katalog umfasst mehr als 100.000 Bilder. Es wäre eine Katastrophe, wenn der verloren ginge.Hat bitte jemand eine Idee?