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Known Participant
October 19, 2022
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P: Allow searching by "Exposure Bias" in the Lightroom Classic Metadata Library Filter

  • October 19, 2022
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Exposure Bias is not currently a searchable field, pleaseinclude it in the Metadata Library Filters. Multiple reasons why this is useful, from photographers who use bracketing, and want to sort through images at 0ev, using fixed exposure compensation on shoots and wanting to select and increase exposure in sets. The list goes on. As this is a Metadata field, and can be displayed in cells, please allow filtering by it too. Thank you.

7 replies

Known Participant
October 29, 2025

While Lightroom classic is just upgraded to v15.0 with some few filters in smart collection, but Exposure Bias is still missing. I hope it will be added in near upgrade.

johnrellis
Legend
March 19, 2024

Over many years of close observation of how LR handles metadata, I get the feeling the engineers are reluctant to go near that part of the code.

Participant
March 19, 2024

So the latest update to Lightroom Classic added a bunch of criteria one can use to filter, but still no Exposure Bias filter. While AnyFilter is an extremely useful tool, it would help my workflow if the Exposure Bias was a "native" filter. It really is a head-scratcher since one can put Exposure Bias in the Expanded Cells Extras in the Grid View, as well as the Loupe View, so how difficult can it be to add it to the filters?

johnrellis
Legend
February 5, 2024

@CS Chua, please contact me at my support email address, and send along a full resolution screenshot (not a phone pic) of the Search filter or the Filter window.

Inspiring
February 5, 2024

I install the Any Filter plug-in. 
It doesn't seem to have a criteria for source ie selecting which disk/folder to scan. I have photos spanned over 4 different disks. The plugin takes too long to scan through all my disks. All my smart-collections are limited to scan specific disk or set of disks based on my categorisations of images.

If there's a selection to specify disk and/or folder (all my lightroom folders are uniquely named) appreciate a pointer to check out further the plugin. 

 

Thanks in advance.

Inspiring
February 1, 2024

Propose to add a few more selections for Camera Info in the smart query filter.
Specifically add Exposure Bias and Exposure program if possible. 

johnrellis
Legend
February 1, 2024

I agree with this. Meanwhile, while waiting for Adobe to implement it (if ever), you could use the Any Filter plugin:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-allow-searching-by-quot-exposure-bias-quot-in-the-lightroom-classic-metadata-library-filter/idc-p/13281136#M16619

johnrellis
Legend
October 20, 2022

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Agreed, it should be searchable.  Meanwhile, you could use the Any Filter plugin: