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I am trying to change the  front INSIDE and back INSIDE covers in Lightroom Classic Blurb book witout any luck. Yes, you can change the front and back OUTSIDE covers but I can not see any way of changing the inside covers from the default grey! Any ideas welcome. Cheers, Ray in London.

Like many others, I am experiencing frustrating slowness with LrC.First, long startup time: about 1 minute to see the LrC grid and then another minute for LrC to be responsive. That happens once a day so not a big deal. It could be an indication of something though. Now, clicking on an image in grid mode may suffer a delay of about 5 seconds. Hitting "P" to pick can suffer a delay of 5 to 7 seconds (approximately). Those two delays will add up when I have to click on a picture to select and then pick it.This is basically unworkable (especially when you have multiple selections to make).My machine is somewhat old (see below) but should be enough according to some people. For example, denoise only takes about 10 seconds for a 50 mpix photo. (12 GB GPU, M.2 4 lane SSDs, etc) I suspect there is a Windows or LrC configuration issue somewhere.I always update my GPU drivers. I have uninstalled my Norton antivirus and Loupedeck app to see if they were the culprit. (ran

When I try to use 'Edit In' to edit a photo in Photoshop, PS gets stuck on the splash screen. I can't even open PS standalone if LRc is running as it hangs as well. If I stop LRc while PS is hung, then PS opens but says I have a GPU issue. PS opens fine without opening LRc first. I also can't open any other external editing app,  like Nik, from LRc. I've uninstalled and reinstalled both programs. I've gone back to a previous version of both. Nothing works! Dennis

I now use Topaz Photo AI regularly in my LRc workflow.  It is painful to have to click on File > Plug-in Extras  > Process with Topaz Photo AI each and every time I am editing a significant number of images.  I understand that one cannot create a keystroke shortcut in LRc and am told I should do this outside of LRc.  I have researched and tried this within the MAC OS capabilities  doing the followingL  Apple > System Settings > Keystrokes > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > App Shortcuts.  LRc is not listed as one of the apps one can choose on the pull-down for All Applications, but by scrolling to Other, I can locate LRc.  From there I create a keyboard shortcut - and I tried many - and none seem to work.   Has anyone done this successfully?  If so - how?

I can't open photoshop (v.25) from lightroom (v.12.5) I can't open photoshop from lightroom, the option is turned off Thanks 

Hi everyone, I was hoping someone could help me figure out how to remove an external editor that is showing up in the "Edit in" menu of lightroom.  To my knowledge, I have removed it from my system in all locations.  In addition, I have gone into the Lightroom preferences and removed it as an external editor.  Removing it from lightroom preferences was successful in it showing up at the bottom of the Edit in menu, but it is still showing at the top (see attached photo).  Does anyone know how I can remove it from the top.  The external editor I am referring to is On1 Effects.   Thank you!   {Moved from Lightroom Cloud to Lightroom Classic Forum by Moderator}

I user Lightroom classis downloaded from the Adobe cloud app portal. I have a monthly subscription and have a new clean installation. When l import Nikon .NEF images l noticed that the files can be grainy/nosey. If l open the same .NEF files on my windows laptop using Microsoft Photo l can not see the same level of image poor quality.Has anyone had this problem before?

How does LrC work offline? When I am offline I get prompted every 5 or 6 days to connect to the internet and login. This is not long enough for me to use LrC on my laptop when traveling to remote areas. Is there any way to extend the time it asks for an internet connection?

We have a collection of photos on a LAN server which were imported into LRC. We've been using an external editor to crop those images post-import. It appears that the Synchronize Folder command does not recognize that the image was changed, and does not update the image previews.  I found a way around this by renaming the image, synchronizing (which picks up the changes), and then renaming back to original name. Is this expected behaviour for LRC? And, if so, other than the kludge above, is there any way to force-reimport in LRC ?

Hi Adobe,I’m experiencing serious performance issues in Lightroom Classic 14.4, despite using high-end hardware:My Specs:CPU: Intel i7-10700KGPU: NVIDIA RTX 2060 SuperRAM: 64 GB DDR4Drive: Samsung Gen4 NVMe SSDOS: Windows 11 (latest build)Problems:Switching between RAW images takes 3–5 secondsCropping, brushing, masking are very laggyExporting takes significantly longer than in past versionsSame lag even with Smart Previews, optimized catalog, and high cacheI’ve Already Tried:Fresh new catalogRebuilt previewsGPU settings (on/off/custom)Presets/profiles removedSmart Preview editing onlyCache bumped to 50GBLightroom-only background environmentThese issues did not exist in 12.5, which was smooth and fast. Many others across Reddit and Adobe forums have echoed this. Please escalate this issue and let us know if any fixes are coming.Thanks.

I'm currently running Lightroom Classic on an M1 Mac mini with 16 GB of RAM, and I find the the things that cause me to wait for the computer are Lightroom Classic 14.4 computing AI denoise and the Adaptive Color profile. Are there public benchmarks that show how various Apple Silicon chips perform on these operations (e.g. with M1 as 1.0 and something twice the speed as 2.0, etc.)? I'm particularly interested in what kind of performance factor M4 buys compared to M1 and what M4 Pro buys compared to M4. Are these run on the GPU or on the Neural Engine? That is, with the two variants of M4 Pro Mac minis with different numbers of GPU cores but the same number of Neural Engine cores, does the number of GPU cores make a difference?

After watching videos from influencers urging a move to Lightroom, I continue to use Lightroom Classic. At my age I need to do more creative work with the tools I am familiar with. I admit I use both apps - LR Classic on my desktop and LR on my portable devices, but LR Classic is the workhorse. I discovered one thing that further separates the two apps.I have a catalogue in LR Classic with which I can remove unwanted images, but not delete them from the hard drive. When using LR, ALL the images on the disk are availble to view, not good enough for further development, but I don't want to delete them from the hard drive or see them. So, the LR Classic catalogue only contains my "good" photos.Just saying.

My presets look TOTALLY different now with the update. They are super contrasty and warm and even when I reset, or copy and paste from a past image it looks off. Anyone else having this issues? Should I contact the company I purchased the preset from and see if they have an update? I feel like I am going crazy!TOP IS ORIGINAL IMAGE EDITED LAST WEEK, BOTTOM IS EXACT SAME PRESET AFTER UPDATE.  

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MacBook Pro M1 internal SSD 1 TB 16 GB Ram Sequoia 15.5 . While working with LRC, i try to uplod other data to my cloud. I noticed that the upload is 128 Mps and as soon as i open LRC the upload goes down to almost 0 Mps. What could be the reason for this?

I had a very strange thing happen. After I imported raw files into one of my folders many of the newly imported images replaced previously imported photos, including the metadata. The older pictures are all gone and overwritten with a newer photo, both in LR as well as on the harddrive. I could literally watch the images change on the computer screen.Can anyone explain, please. Looks like the older files are all lost, but I want to avoid this form happening again.I have attached 2 photos to show the screen before and after this overwrite. 

Lightroom Classic v14.4 sous windows 11Import de fichiers vidéo mp4 (réalisés avec mon smartphone samsung) impossible 

Hi,How do I download images that have already been downloaded once? i deleted them by mistake, I did import them again and the images appeared but when I came to edit the the image could not be found. Any help would be much appreciated.

Hi, I need help recovering my Lightroom Classic edits. Here’s everything that happened: I was originally using Lightroom Classic with everything stored on an external SSD (Extreme Pro) — including both my RAW images and my Lightroom catalog. I wanted to move my entire workflow to my Mac’s internal drive, so I wouldn’t be dependent on the SSD. So I created a new folder on my Mac called “Hana Thailand Pics” and copied everything into it. This folder now contains: FOR HANA — my main edited photosLIKE (not EDIT) — unedited photos I moved over manuallycatalog — the Lightroom catalog folder I copied from the SSD (which contains .lrcat and preview files)  I then opened that .lrcat catalog from the “catalog” folder on my Mac, thinking that was the correct catalog. Once inside Lightroom, I moved all the photos from LIKE (not EDIT) into FOR HANA manually using Finder. Then, in Lightroom, I deleted the LIKE (not EDIT) folder to reduce clutter. After that, we cli

Since the latest update, 14.4, I am experiencing pauses in Lightroom whenever I browse images in the strip of the develop module. Simply put, when I skip images with the direction arrows to the right, the main viewport (with the current image) does not update itself sometimes as I scroll. This happens randomly but frequently. It will take around 4-5 seconds until the main viewport updates itself with the actual current image. Mac Mini M4 Pro - Sequoia 15.5 (48 Gigs of ram)

I see that Adobe metadata can be compared (where it makes sense).  For example, I can create a Smart Collection where the criterion is "Long Edge > 1000" or "Shutter speed < 1/1000". I am writing a pluging that creates custom metadata that is a number.  The only data types are string, enumeration, and url.  I would love to have a number type, but that is not in the cards.  If I have a string-type metadata field that represents a number, how can I get the comparison criterion such as is available with Shutter Speed?  Is it that Adobe has secret sauce for its own metadata?

Hello, my nikon d7200 has two memory card slots. Thae camera is configured to store raw files in slot 1 and jpg in slot 2. With the "Nikon Transfer2" app i can select the slot (card) wich is used to transfer the images. The Windows explorer also brings up two devices when connecting the Camera.With Lightroomclassic there seems to be no way to select the camera slot during import dialoge. So Lightroom imports all imgiges twice: one Raw, ans one Jpg. Can lightroom classic select the camea device slot in such way as Windows and the Nikon App does? that would be very helpful! Regardsmikel

I downloaded 1 TB of images using LrC. At the time I only owned 1 external SSD so I could not create a back up. I do wish to place a copy of all the images on another SSD, as a backup.I do not want to transfer the images from the current SSD that the images are stored on, but make a copy of the images onto a different SSD. I do want to be able to access and process the backup images using LrC, should I need to.How do I manage to achieve this using Lightoom Classic for the copying process? Your help, as always, is so very appreicated. 

I have an Epson 3880 printer. I use Lightroom CC. I bought a new computer (Windows 11). The printer was previously used on a Windows 10 machine. There is no updated driver from Epson. Thankfully I had kept the installation cd that came with the printer years ago and installed the printer in Windows 11 with it. Now the printer won't recognize printer profiles that I have downloaded from Epson (it did on the Windows 10 machine). The printer Media Type dropdown only shows the papers that are included with the installation disc. All of the profiles are listed in the Color Management section in the Print module in Lightroom. All the icc profiles are in the same folder on the computer. The paper profiles that are missing are for the Legacy papers from Epson. Any help to make the printer dialogue see the profiles would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I have 2000 virtual copies created and selected.In the Library -> Metadata panel I change the Copy name.Normally this would rename all 2000 virtual copies. This always worked.However in Lightroom  14.4 only the most selected virtual copy is rename, the rest is not renamed. System infoLightroom Classic version: 14.4 [ 202506051112-5918896a ]License: Creative CloudLanguage setting: enOperating system: Windows 10 - Business EditionVersion: 10.0.19045Application architecture: x64System architecture: x64Logical processor count: 20Processor speed: 2,1GHzSqLite Version: 3.36.0CPU Utilisation: 1,0%Power Source: Plugged InBuilt-in memory: 32581,4 MBDedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 76,0MB / 12110,0MB (0%)Real memory available to Lightroom: 32581,4 MBReal memory used by Lightroom: 6872,3 MB (21,0%)Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 7591,1 MBGDI objects count: 741USER objects count: 2337Process handles count: 4407Memory cache size: 7737,6MBInternal Camera Raw version: 17.4 [ 227