Recently installed Lightroom Classic v12.1 on macOS Ventura 13.1 on a 2022 MacBook Air with M2 chip and every time I opened up the app, it would appear greyed out as in the attach screenshot. I've uninstalled and installed multiple times, have also reinstalled Creative Cloud as well, but no luck with getting Lightroom Classic to load. Other CC apps like Photoshop seem to work fine.
Quit Lightroom Classic. macOS: Press and hold the Shift + Option keys. Windows: Press and hold the Shift + Alt keys. While holding down the keys, launch Lightroom Classic. When asked, select "Yes".
Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
Next, try disabling GPU in the preferences (Performance). Any better? If not, recalibrate and build a new ICC display profile; the old one might be corrupted. If you are using software/hardware for this task, be sure the software is set to build a matrix, not LUT profile, Version 2, not Version 4 profile. If turning OFF the GPU works, it's a GPU bug, and you need to contact the manufacturer or find out if there's an updated driver for it. This is why disabling GPU is an option as more and more functionality moves to the GPU in newer versions of many Adobe products. Disable third-party graphics accelerators. Third-party GPU overclocking utilities and haxies aren't supported. Also see: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/troubleshoot-gpu.html
Something I'm noticing is that the splash screen doesn't even load. It just leads me directly to what I had screenshot! However, I did sign out and sign back in again and no luck with that.
Try logging into another account (you may need to make one); still not working? Try starting up in Safe mode (hold down Shift Key when booting); still not working?
Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
So, as a test, I started my LrC, to see if the screen you have ever shows up. I see that screenshot you attached, and it sure looks odd, missing items.
On my rig, splash screen comes up, it gets done reading preferences, and interesting, the very screen you shared shows up, but just for a second, then the screen we are used to seeing builds and displays. So something is not getting completed on your rig.
Some of the menu items work - like under Window and Help, can browse to open a catalog but can't create a new catalog or view settings. I haven't been able to quit and everytime I have opened it, have had to do force quit.
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