Where can I find a downloadable User Guide for LIghtroom Classic v14.0

[digivox]

I have done my due diligence before posting this question, but have not found the answer. I know about the browser based User Guide but prefer a downloaded version. I have Lightroom Classic v 14.0 on my M1 mac mini. I did the search for the manual in the current Safari browser. 

Thank you in advance if you are able to help me with this seemingly simple request I have not found the answer to.

[dj_paige]

Not a download, but here is Lightroom Classic User Guide: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/user-guide.html

[digivox]

Thanks for the info. I am aware of the online version but want a downloadable copy as well. I hope that there will be one in the near future.

[John Waller]

Adobe have not produced downloadable PDFs for many years so don't bother waiting.

The online User Guide is the best you'll get from Adobe. I personally never use them because I can quickly find what I'm looking for elsewhere.

The Lightroom Queen is one of the best 3rd party resources currently available.

[digivox]

Sorry for the late reply. Yes, someone else here first told me about Lightroom Queen and I have subscribed. Thanks for taking the time to respond and giving me valuable information.

[RichardI]

Light Room Queen https://www.lightroomqueen.com has download versions of both LR and LRC. When you join up you get access to forums and ansering email enquiries on LR and LRC,

[digivox]

Thanks for your reply. It looks interesting, I will be signing up due to you making me aware of this website.

[Vernal Bogneris]

Forgive me, this is a gripe, not a helpful post. But... is this a joke? Is there really no way to search only within a User Guide? For example, I want to learn how Auto Sync works in LrC. But the only search bar online searches the entirety of Adobe.com, providing a wealth of irrelevant and useless links. What is the use of a User Guide if you can't search for topics within? 

I realize I can just go elsewhere—forums, Lightroom Queen, ChatGPT—but how could Adobe be so crap at providing help for their own products? A User Guide should be searchable, this is just... incredibly obvious, right? 

[dj_paige]

Search is available at the link I provided above.

[Vernal Bogneris]

Thank you but as I said earlier, that search box searches all of Adobe.com, not just the Lightroom User Guide, including lots or irrelevant results. 

Ah well, ChatGPT and the like do a pretty good job, so I'll stick with that. It's the way things are heading anyway. 

[Conrad_C]

ChatGPT is good, but at least from some of the questions posted here that reference an answer they got on ChatGPT, it often seems to confuse Lightroom Classic and Lightroom. If you get steps from ChatGPT that don’t work right then at least you can verify the answer in this forum.

[dj_paige]

And if you want to learn about masking, for example, in the LrC Help, you type in

Masking in Lightroom Classic

and you don't get results about Photoshop or other software

But even better, and less typing, is to use the menu on the left. You want to learn about masking? Click on Process and Develop Photos, then click on Masking, and you get the exact help for Lightroom Classic Masking. What could be simpler? Three mouse clicks, and you get the help you need, no need to worry about spelling errors, or getting help docs for Lightroom instead of Lightroom Classic.

[Vernal Bogneris]

Thanks again for your advice, but once again it's not "the" answer. 

1. It works for your Masking example, but searching for "auto sync in Lightroom" yielded a slightly different set of unhelpful results. 

2. As far as just looking for the topic in the contents menu, once again your Masking example is fine. But try to find Auto Sync. There is no heading or subheading for Auto Sync, and after clicking on a few possible topics in a trial and error way, I still haven't found the LIghtroom Classic User Guide section about Auto Sync. 

As far as ChatGPT goes, I have found it to be generally very helpful, but you do need to be clear about which software version you're using. 

[Rob_Cullen]

For AutoSync specifically-

https://jkost.com/blog/2024/09/quickly-applying-settings-to-multiple-images-in-lightroom-classic.htm...

Julianne Kost is an authorative Adobe person with some excellent video tutorials, etc at this link-

! VIDEO TUTORIALS

And there is a 'Search' capability.