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how best to subscribe to PS when I already have LR on my desktop? Are they two separate subscriptions or is there a package deal?

First off, I love Lightroom Classic.  It does everything I need, and more, and I’m finding it gets better and better with each new feature.  I use it when I’m able to finish work at home.  It works in my workflow fantastically.  Since I need to submit photos in real time, I started making a transition to Lightroom Mobile (I think) or Lightroom Cloud (?), on my iPhone 16 plus.  I then needed to be able to see the work and write the captions using a bigger platform in the field (I’m a photojournalist), so I’ve been using an iPad Air 13 that I just purchased.  I’m having all sort of issues replicating how I used my iPhone.   I just can’t seem to figure out where/what I’m on, when I’m using LR on different hardware + devices.  The features are different on the version of LR on my mobile phone from my ipad.   And, the biggest issue is, I spent a great deal of time on my iPad, creating my caption, title and key words, and now I’m finding that none of it exported when I created JPGs to submit

Hi there,I would like to clean up some storage space on my Mac and I noticed that most of my Document storage is taken by Lightroom files. Could you please advise me/explain me which of these is safe to delete? There are many backup Catalog zip files, can I get rid of them all apart from the most recent one? What about the other type of files?Many thanks,Lucia 

I switched catalogs last year and have been unable to use the cloud portion of Lightroom. I haven’t sync’d my catalog because there are a lot of photos I don’t have access to any more that are sync’d currently. I found out about Adobe Lightroom Downloader and was able to see the process and get it started. Well it turns out…“Your Lightroom account contains 811,487 photos, 1 videos, 0 deleted photos, and 0 deleted videos totaling 21.0 TB. Choose a download destination that has enough free space to hold these files.” I’ve seen people complain about 870GB download speeds… Is there a best practice to this? Any tips and info would be super helpful for a download of this size.

I have successfully upscaled both raw and jpegs a total of eight times using Generative Upscale in Lightroom v9.2. Everything worked perfectly, until yesterday evening when I received a “Service Unavailable, try again later” message. Thinking the server might be overloaded with requests, I thought I’d try again this morning and I still get the same message.I know I have enough credits as the last time I upscaled I had 80 credits left, enough for 4 more upscales this month.So, is this a server capacity issue because everyone is trying it out? Or, is there something else wrong with the system?

I lost all my albums. They simply disappeared. Where can I find them? why this happened?Folders are still there, but all of them are empty since yestarday afternoon. Is there a way to recover how I had organized my files or do I need to start from Scratch?

I would like to request for your team to optimize Lightroom and Lightroom classic to take advantage of multi-core performance, rather than rely on single-core performance. These programs have become so bloated and heavy that even with the latest, fastest, most efficient chips from Apple (M4 Max & M5 Max), routine tasks like selecting different items in the panel take up to 20-30 seconds to respond. This is unacceptable, and makes Lightroom almost unusable. Please optimize these programs to use more than a single core when editing. Make it an opt-in, kind of like the GPU acceleration in the settings. Simple, probably easy for your software engineers, and your customers will love you for it. Thanks! 

I want to share a photo directly to WhatsApp or wherever but I am unable to because  I can’t even export as either.  this is on Lightroom mobile on the iPhone

Introducing Assisted Culling (Early Access) in Lightroom Desktop  For providing feedback for Lightroom Classic, click here.   We’re excited to share an early look at Assisted Culling, an AI-powered workflow that helps photographers quickly review large photo sets and select the best shots with confidence.    What is Assisted Culling? Assisted Culling is one of the most requested features from advanced photographers, consistently topping feedback at customer events. It streamlines the process of identifying top photo selects from large sets—hundreds or even thousands—based on attributes like eye openness, sharpness, and more.    Assisted Culling saves photographers countless hours of manual review, letting them focus on creativity instead of sorting.  Eyes Open – Detects whether subjects’ eyes are open.  Eye Focus – Measures the sharpness of the eyes.  Subject Focus – Evaluates overall clarity.  Clean Up – Identifies likely r

every time I go to export a series of photos with the same name the sequence number resets back to one, making it very difficult to keep my photos organized. 

This is my second time posting this bug months later as none of the comments were helpful. The only suggestion was to fully update Lightroom Cloud (I use cloud NOT classic) and upgrade my laptop. Both are fully upgraded.  I have been having an issue where when I copy a radial or linear mask and then attempt to paste it 3-5+ times, the entire app will freeze and I will have to restart it to be able to click anything/continue editing. This is frustrating as I just bought a really intense Macbook to make sure my editing (M4 Pro 48 GB memory) was as quick and seamless as possible. It’s that what is seemingly a bug is getting in my way with every shoot I do (I am very high volume, so this is really getting in my way). Does anyone know how to resolve this? Version of the LR Cloud app9.2 (Fully upgraded as available) Platform and OS versionM4 Pro, Tahoe 26.4 (Fully upgraded as available) Basic steps to reproduce the problemCopy mask and paste it 3-5+ times, sometimes it will take 10+ timesExp

Ik ontvang emails van Adobe met tips over Lightroom met een link “aan de slag”. Bijvoorbeeld (zie hieronder). De link brengt mij niet tot iets wat over Lensvervaging in Lightroom gaat. Geen text, geen video, geen demo  niets! Doe ik iets fout of…...Creëer een prachtig vervagingseffect. Bekijk hoe voedselfotograaf Alex Lau de tool Lensvervaging in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom gebruikt om zijn voedselfoto's meer focus te geven.

I used to get notifications about likes unter the bell icon, then I was able to tap them and view/edit the photo, convert likes into picks.Now nothing happens, whats the point if I can’t work with them anymore? 

Description of Issue: The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra is supported for HDR editing. However, if "Adaptive brightness" or "Extra brightness" is enabled in the device's system display settings, the HDR editing feature in Lightroom breaks. Attempting to use HDR mode triggers an "HDR Unavailable" popup claiming the display is not supported. Restoring the HDR functionality requires disabling these system settings and performing a complete device restart  ​Lightroom Mobile Version Number: LIGHTROOM ANDROID v11.2.3​Purchased From: Galaxy Store​OS Version Number: One UI 8 / Android 16​Device Model: Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra  ​Step-by-step Reproduction Instructions:​On the device, navigate to Settings > Display.​Enable Adaptive brightness and/or Extra brightness.​Open Adobe Lightroom.​Open an HDR-capable image in the Edit module.​Attempt to toggle on Edit in HDR Mode.  ​The Expected Result: The image should enter HDR editing mode successfully, utilizing the device's HDR display capabilities rega

No matter what I want to do in Lightroom, as soon as I click on something, I get a “No response” message for two minutes while the program freezes. When it seems to start working again, the same thing happens—it freezes at the first click. This happens at every move, no matter if just trying to open a menu or trying to use color grading etc. I would like to use it, after all, I pay for it, but no way currently. My Hardware is from 2026 with a Nvidia RTX 3080 and Intel Processor, so that should not be the problem (and LR Classic, Photoshop and all others working perfectly fine). Thank you very much.  

I edited a full resolution ProRAW 48mp dng file from the 1x main lens on my iPhone 17 Pro Max using the latest lightroom mobile for iOS on the latest version of iOS, using adobe neutral profile, and output it as JPEG. When viewing that JPEG file using my One Plus Open’s native gallery app, and the Google Photos app, it looks very different than when I use the same apps on my iPhone 17 Pro Max.  However, that same ProRAW dng file edited in lightroom mobile for android on my One Plus Open, using the exact same values and settings (adobe neutral profile, all adjustments etc..) as the lightroom mobile for iOS looked identical in viewing in my iPhone 17 Pro Max native photos app, and google photos app for iOS as it did when viewing in my One Plus Open using its default native photo app and google photos for android. Is there something different when it outputs/processed from lightroom mobile for iOS that’s making it look weird on the One Plus Open’s app?  It isn’t the display of the One Plu

Why does images I exported from Lightroom Mobile becomes less vibrant than the edited photos on the app? Do I have to change some settings?  

This thread is for Lightroom Ecosystem feedback on the Early Access Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI)For Camera Raw and Lightroom Classic feedback, click here.    The Lightroom team is dedicated to building capabilities that foster trust and transparency in the age of AI. Our latest release, as part of the Content Authenticity Initiative (https://contentauthenticity.org/), allows you to add content credentials to your work when exporting in Lightroom to ensure provenance and preserve authenticity.   New content credential capabilities are available across the Lightroom ecosystem (Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, Lightroom for mobile (iOS & Android), Lightroom for web), and Adobe Camera Raw in Early Access. When exporting a JPEG from Lightroom, you can attach your name, social media handle, and a list of edits via a digital signature.   You can find the option to apply Content Credentials while exporting a JPEG in the export panel. It is, by default, turned OFF.

Bonjour à tous, je souhaite savoir si je neutralise la synchronisation de mon unique catalogue LrC principal qui est posée sur MacMini pour créer un nouveau catalogue LrC sur mon MacBook pour un voyage afin de déposer les photos dans ce nouveau catalogue temporaire le temps du voyage. Mettre en place pour ce catalogue voyage la synchronisation permettant de traiter le tri des photos du voyage. De retour à la maison fusion des catalogues par import du catalogue voyage dans le catalogue principal et remettre la synchronisation du catalogue principal en action.Ceci est il possible et sans aucun problème pour l’actuelle synchronisation qui est composée de plus de 30000 photos.Merci pour votre retour et aide.

I'm having an issue with lightroom on android, export won't work in any format besides “original" (in my case .orf raw) and neither will “save copy to device". “share" does work, but obviously not at full resolution.The error message returned is “Couldn't complete export"Everything synced, attempted with a variety of photos, attempted with album stored locally, cache cleared, app reinstalled, permissions checked with no luck.Android 13 with latest app version, any help would be appreciated. 

I didn’t found option to print pictures from ligthroom

Lightroom sidan blinkar när jag redigerar och även när jag inte gör något. Det ser lite ut som om sidan ska krascha men den blinkar bara.

This has been a bug for a few versions now, but when the edit panel is open the (Show Original) button on the bottom panel under the filmstrip half gets covered,  It looks like a half square that has been cut off by the edit panel. instead of condensing it all it now covers when it can make items on the panel under the film strip, which can be frustrating when trying to edit.

Long story short I have lost my entire local light room catalog (3500 images) after deleting the app. I purchased more cloud storage just before this happened but the catalog did not fully upload as all these images now sit unusable in the sync issues folder. I am wondering whether there is any way of reinstating these images without deleting and re uploading as I want to retain the edit settings. The alternative would be to try and recover the deleted catalog on my laptop (there is no backup) if anyone has any suggestions I would be very grateful. 

Ich bearbeite mehrere Bilder im .CR3 Format mit Lightroom. Eines davon öffne ich mit Photoshop um den Hautglätten Neuralfilter zu verwenden. Nach ausführen und speichern schließe ich PS. Nun bin ich wieder in LR, jedoch hat keine Änderung stattgefunden / wurde nicht übernommen.