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The August 2026 release of Lightroom Classic (v15.5) brings a mix of creative enhancements, workflow improvements, and reliability fixes designed to help you edit with greater precision and confidence. From more refined masking controls to a new way to create rendered DNG files, this update focuses on giving photographers more flexibility while also addressing a wide range of issues reported by the community. What’s NewLightroom Classic v15.5 introduces enhanced masking capabilities with new Feather and Edge controls, giving you finer control over photo masks and more creative editing possibilities. Cropping workflows are also improved with the ability to temporarily adjust photo opacity, making it easier to see cropped-out areas and accurately frame your images.For photographers who want a fresh starting point after extensive edits, the new Render to DNG option allows you to save a rendered DNG file with all current edits permanently applied. This creates a non-raw version of your ima
The June 2026 update to Lightroom Classic (v15.4) adds a new Faces panel for people-focused culling, automatic duplicate detection, keyword sync across the Lightroom ecosystem, and more precise subject selection when masking. These updates help photographers handle large shoots and organize catalogs with less manual effort. What’s NewLightroom Classic v15.4 is built to help you move through large shoots with more speed and confidence. The new Faces panel in Assisted Culling brings a people-first approach to selection, surfacing Eye Focus and Eyes Open scores so you can instantly identify your best frames. New auto duplicate detection scans your catalog for exact matches and neatly groups them into stacks, making cleanup far less manual. Masking also gets a boost with more precise subject detection, helping you separate subjects from complex backgrounds with cleaner, faster results.On the organization side, AI-powered metadata filters and Smart Collections make it easier to sort, find,
When presented with a New Post screen in the Adobe Community, you are given three options for Conversation Type: Discussion, Bug, and Idea. If you were searching in Discussions, the New Post window will default to Discussions. If you are searching in Bugs, the New Post window will default to Bugs and likewise for Ideas. Many customers instinctually report problems they are experiencing as “Bugs”. It is natural to think that a problem you are having might be a bug. A bug is defined, for our purposes, as “something in the software that is not functioning as it was designed to function”. Interpreting whether a behavior is a bug or not is not always easy, however. Here are some reasons why you might want to consider posting first to Discussions rather than jumping straight to reporting in Bugs: Most items reported as Bugs are not actual bugs. In a typical group of reported bugs, only about 3 out of 25* bugs reported turn out to be actual bugs. Of those, typically 2 ou
Bugs should only be reported for the latest or current version of Lightroom Classic. If you believe you have a bug, it must be verified on the latest version of Classic. New bug reports will not be accepted for older versions of the software. If you believe you have encountered a bug, it is important to first search the existing bugs to see if your issue and a possible solution or workaround have already been reported. If so, please add to that thread. If not, it may be prudent to start a new thread.Greater than 90% of the bugs reported are not actually bugs. Before starting a new thread, please read:P: Do I post in Discussions or Bugs? When logging a new bug report, it's required by the Lightroom Classic team for the information in the report to include steps to reproduce the bug experience. Once we can reproduce an issue, then we can start to investigate a fix. Bug reports without reproduction steps will be moved to discussions.If, after some troubleshooti
Adobe is excited to receive requests for additional features you need to enhance your workflow. What can you do to increase the chances of being heard? Don't use the words "Feature Request" in your post's title. Search for and add to existing feature requests rather than creating duplicates. There is no advantage to creating a second request for any existing feature request. One request per thread!When creating an Idea or Feature Request thread, please keep requests for features to ONE request per thread. Doing this will allow others to vote on a single, specific feature and not confuse Upvotes amongst a list of feature requests. If an Idea thread has multiple requests in it, a moderator may ask you to split the multiple requests up into multiple threads so others can vote. In the event there remain multiple requests on a thread, the first item requested will be the arbiter of where the thread will be cross-referenced or merged. Describe how the featu
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I just upgraded my Mac Air M3 2024 from Sonoma to Sequoia. I have LR 15.3 and PS 27.6. When I try “Edit in..”I get the message The file could not be edited because Adobe Photoshop 2026 could not be launched.I have had this issue before and managed to fix it but not this time. I have read all the suggestions here and in Reddit and tried them outUninstall Lr ; Uninstall PSReinstall Ps first then reinstall Lr - doesn't workI’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling the other way round - doesn’t workI’ve tried the above combinations with or without saving preferences in Lr and/or PS - doesn't workThe Lr preferences are correct.I dont have any other PS installed and no Betas.Can someone please help - as this is driving me crazy
I’m tearing my hair out - after updating yesterday I can’t seem to generate any previews at all in LRC. When I try to create them it seems to stick on the 5th photo for some weird reason. I’ve tried generating previews for a few different selections and it always sticks on 5. Troubleshooting already tried:Purged Camera Raw CacheDeleted and rebuilt the Previews.lrdata fileConfirmed adequate free disk spaceDisabled "Use Graphics Processor"Ran File > Optimize CatalogRemoved and reimported the photosTested in a brand-new, empty catalog — same stallFully uninstalled and cleanly reinstalled Lightroom ClassicConfirmed no third-party antivirus interferingGranted Full Disk Access (fixed it previously, but issue has returned)Checked Console.app during the stall — no Lightroom-specific fault, only routine macOS system activityThe only thing that seems to work is going back to an older version of LRC (currently using 15.2.1). That seems to work perfectly fine - but my current catalog has been
lightroom wou niet verbinden met de server; de helpdesk heeft aangeraden andere licenties te nemen, en een aantal instellingen veranderd. het probleem deed zich opnieuw voor. Ik heb lightroom opnieuw geïnstalleerd, en nu kan ik geen connectie met de server maken
J,ai déroulé tout le menu mais l’option n’apparaît nulle part
Attempting to import a LRC catalog that was exported from a folder on another machine. The scenario is you have your main catalog on a desktop Mac and you have captured photos whilst mobile. You export a specific folder of folders as a catalog on a mobile MacBook. You want to incorporate what you have captured in the field back into the desktop catalog.When attempting to import, it seems only part of the content can be imported. Strange that select all folders is not working. So far I can only import 724 of the 2206 images in the folderHave several photo folders within another folder Select the folder File > Export as Catalog, save on to an external disk Note that the folder contains the four original folders of exported RAW images Switch to a different machine with LRC File > Import from Another Catalog Navigate to the lrcat that in on the external disk Choose Now see the Import from Catalog window Attempt to select All Folders - it isn’t selectable Try each other folder, it is
I've spent a couple of hours researching this thinking it was some other process i was doing and it's causing some memory issues and eventually maxing out my swap memory on my m1 max 64GB Ram macbook pro. Please advise (using Tahoe 26.5.1 (25F80)) Title: Lightroom Classic 15.5.1: Progressive physical-memory accumulation during Develop navigation with GPU acceleration enabled; memory remains retained while idleSummary:On Lightroom Classic 15.5.1, simply navigating through previously edited RAW photos in Develop, without making any new edits, causes Lightroom's OS-measured physical footprint to increase by several gigabytes per image. In a clean reproduction, Lightroom grew from ~1GB to ~31GB after viewing five images. No material reclamation occurred during a three-minute idle period. The same behavior reproduced on 15.5, where Lightroom reached ~48-51GB and remained at that level for ten minutes idle; quitting and relaunching Lightroom reset the process footprint to ~946MB.Disabling Us
Computer: Mac Version TahaoeLightroom Classic Version:15.5.1 I have recently observed a significant number of synchronisation errors when attempting to share my images with Lightroom (cloud). Many of my images become stuck during the synchronisation process. I have already tried re-builidng sync data to no avail. Additionally, for images where I have utilised AI enhancements, I need to apply updates. However, when I press Command+Option+U to implement the updates, I receive an error message stating, "Failed to apply adjustments to the following photos. This is extremely frustrating, as I receive an incomplete copy of my catalogue when I am travelling and using Lightroom Cloud. Does anyone know what could be cuasing this or what i should look into as a likely suspect? Thanks in advance.
Lightroom Classic sync with lightroom has been hung up for 2 days- 16 files stuck - lightroom recommended rebuildign the synch database- when doing so- I was told to create the diagnostics error log and send it to Adobe- Where do I send this? THANKS!
Request for additional feature, or update of current feature, as Auto (Automatically straighten the photo) is not aligning angle for each of selected photos even if Auto sync option is enabled. Auto sync option apply same angle to all photos. Solutions Within Transformation (like Level) never return as good results.Alternative - offer a keyboard shortcut for this feature.This would drastically change work flow for many of action photographers with fast changing scenes.
Hello all. I had to replace my old GPU (GTX 1660 Super) after it died. I’ve never experienced any problems using LrC with it on my pc with a Ryzen 5 5600 X processor. But since I replaced it with an RTX 5060 I’ve had nothing but problems: Any action (moving sliders, opening masks and moving masks etc) take forever to have any effect. It’s become so slow to the point of being unusable and i now have to rely on cloud based Lr to do any work. I’ve done some research and in Edit - Preferences - Performance - Use Graphics Processor I switched from Auto to Custom and toggled on “Use GPU for image processing”. It made no difference whatsoever. This is incredibly frustrating as I spent a lot of money on this GPU thinking it would improve the performance. I also updated the GPU drivers. I would be incredibly grateful if someone could shed any light on this. Many thanks!
Could Adobe Lightroom Classic incorporate a feature that automates window masking in real estate photo editing, facilitating 'window pulls' without the need for manual brushing? Love the products! greets!
Adobe Lightroom 15.4.1 is crashing repeatedly during the culling process and causing my pc computer to run terrible slow. I had to remove it and roll back to a previous version of LRC
I have had this issue since Lightroom 13.5 and was hoping it would eventually get fixed but it still hasn’t.On a Mac Studio M1 Ultra (MacOS 26.5.2 but it has happened on OS 15 onwards) when using “Export As Catalog” where I select “Include available previews” and export a relatively large amount of photos, the parent catalog will lose all of its previews requiring a deletion and regeneration of all standard previews.The exact number of photos being exported that causes the issue is hard to pin down but over 25,000-30,000 will almost always cause it. I can also make the issue appear by exporting a bunch of small catalogs that eventually total up to a larger number of photos (ie. exporting 4 catalogs of 6000 photos).During the export of the catalog, I will know the bug has occurred because it will skip the “copying previews” step of the “export as catalog” process. Upon browsing the parent catalog, all photos will show as grey boxes. Before closing Lightroom if I try generating previews
Hi, I’ve noticed in recent weeks that when I am shooting tethered with my Canon EOS 5D Mark iii and Lightroom Classic, the buttons on my camera don’t work properly, but when I unplug from the cable, the buttons on my camera work fine. It’s a tethering issue and I am guessing a software issue, rather than a camera issue since the trouble only happens when I am plugged (Tether Pro cable to macbook Pro running Sonoma 14.3 with Lightroom Classic 15.5.1). Anybody else? I have trouble choosing focus points, etc. because the buttons don’t work when tethered. Super frustrating! Thanks!
Lightroom Classic 15.5.1 was freshly installed today after subscribing to Creative Cloud.Some presets cannot be applied. When I select them, Lightroom displays “Some AI models are downloading. Please try again later” and remains at 0%.Generative Remove also fails with “Generative Remove Failed.”Lightroom Classic's Cloud Storage panel also shows “Trying to Connect with Server.”I tested the issue using both my normal internet connection and a phone hotspot, with the same result. Lightroom Desktop and Lightroom Mobile work normally.I checked the Windows hosts file and there are no Adobe-related entries blocking Adobe domains.The standard Remove/Heal/Clone functionality works correctly when “Use generative AI” is disabled.
Lightroom Classic Version: 15.5Operating System: macOS Tahoe 26.6.2 (25G83)Steps to reproduce: Open a primary Lightroom Classic catalog. Go to File > Import from Another Catalog. Select a large secondary catalog (e.g., 16,000+ or 43,000+ images). Start the import process. Expected result: The catalog import should process all images and complete successfully.Actual result: The import process fails midway with a generic "An unknown error occurred" dialog box.Key Pattern Identified: The import process stops at exact, round batch numbers: On a catalog containing 16,623 images, the import halted at exactly 15,000 images. On a catalog containing 43,881 images, the import halted at exactly 25,000 images. Additional Diagnostic Details: Telemetry log right before crash: last_command = "ag.file.import.fromlibrary" RAM usage remains low (under 3 GB / ~8% memory total), ruling out memory saturation. The exact round numbers (15k / 25k) strongly suggest a batch transaction commit fai
I'm bitten yet again by Lightroom Classic's inability to move image files to my system trash. I've gone through all the solutions I could find:Turned off Full Disk Access for Lightroom, restarted, turned Full Disk Access back on.Created an empty folder on the affected disk and trashed it.Created a Trash folder on the affected disk.I've run Disk First Aid on the disk. I still cannot move image files to my Mac's trash. I'm only allowed to permanently delete them. Are there any new solutions? Thanks for any help. MacOS Sonoma 14.4.1Mac Studio with Apple M2 Max
Description:When working quickly in the Develop module — applying an adjustment, navigating to the next photo with arrow keys, then immediately applying another adjustment — the second adjustment is visually applied for a fraction of a second, then automatically reverted. Both the image and the slider value return to their prior state. This is not a display/refresh glitch — the slider value itself rolls back, indicating the catalog write is being overwritten.Steps to Reproduce:Open Develop module, select any photo. Apply an adjustment (e.g., Exposure +1.0). Press the Right Arrow key to move to the next photo. Immediately (within ~0.3–0.5s) apply another adjustment (e.g., Exposure +1.0) via slider or keyboard shortcut. Observe: the adjustment briefly appears, then both the image and the slider revert to the original (unedited) state.Expected Result:The adjustment applied in step 4 should persist, as it does when waiting ~1 second after switching photos before adjusting.Actual Result:The
Whenever I try to use Generative AI to erase an object, I only get an error message with “Try later”, it seems the app can’t reach the Adobe servers. As it has been days, I wonder if Adobe is currently doing something about it. Anyone experiencing the same situation?
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