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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
Using LR Classic on a Mac. I copied my 4 TB (original RAW files) ext HD to an 8 TB SSEHD. How do I get the LR catalog to find the images on the new disc? I can move some folders individually. But others don’t seem to be successful. There must be an easier way to connect the new disc to the LR catalog.
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
Les métadonnées comme la légende, mots-clés, disparaissent et il est impossible de les compléter.
This post applies to Camera Raw and Lightroom Classic. Dust Removal is no longer in Early Access status and can be found in the Remove edit panel for Camera Raw & Lightroom Classic. Dust Removal helps remove distracting spots in an image that may be caused by dust on a camera's sensor and is also effective on dust on the rear lens element. Once enabled, your image will be scanned, and any detected dust spots will be automatically removed using Content-Aware Remove. For refinement, you can select one or multiple spots to delete or refresh. Batch removal is also supported; simply select the "Dust" checkbox under "Remove" in the copy settings dialog.Please note that scanned negatives are not in the scope of this feature at this time. Dust spots on scans tend to be located in the focal plane, with the negative and very sharp, while sensor dust is typically positioned out of the focal plane and therefore not in focus. Scanned negative dust typically appears as white spots on a darker b
Hello. I select a group of photos I've scanned - go to: Metadata / Edit capture time - I change the date ('Adjust to a specific date and time' is chosen under 'Type of adjustment') click change, but only some change to that new date. I think the ones that aren't changing are from a previous scan. I'm sure I haven't had this problem before.
i purchased LC. Ever since i started it has been a joke as to when classic wants to show up. really fed up with the situation.
so LR connects with my camera, and can trigger capture and work on live view, but when I take a photo it wont show on LR or save the photo where I designated it. Lightroom classic is at 9.5.1R5ii firmware is 1.3.1on a macbook pro m4 max, tahoe 26.6.2
Title: Lightroom Classic 15.5.1 causes complete system shutdown/restart when selecting another photo during AI DenoiseDescription of IssueLightroom Classic 15.5.1 causes my Windows PC to suddenly shut down/restart when I select another photograph while AI Denoise is processing an image.The problem is highly reproducible.AI Denoise itself works correctly. I can process several RAW files consecutively and I have successfully completed a batch of four photographs.However, while Denoise is still processing, if I click another photograph in the filmstrip to select it, the computer suddenly shuts down/restarts.Simply hovering the mouse pointer over other photographs, which displays their preview in the Navigator, does NOT cause the problem. The shutdown occurs when another photograph is actually selected during Denoise processing.System Lightroom Classic: 15.5.1 Operating system: Windows 10 64-bit CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K GPU: AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB AMD Software: Adrenalin Editio
Lightroom Classic 15.5.1 - Develop module very slow when moving between imagesLightroom Classic has become noticeably slow when moving from one image to the next in the Develop module.When I press the left/right arrow key to move to another RAW image, the new photograph appears, but the Develop controls, including the Basic panel, remain greyed out and unavailable for several seconds before becoming active.This makes editing large wedding galleries extremely slow, as the delay occurs repeatedly when moving through images.System:Windows 11NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti 8GB32GB RAMNikon D780 NEF filesLightroom Classic 15.5.1Camera Raw 18.5.1Troubleshooting already tested:Happens with a collection containing hundreds of photographs Also happens with a folder containing only 12 photographs Built Smart Previews and enabled "Use Smart Previews instead of Originals for image editing" - no improvement Disabled Smart Preview editing and used original RAW files - issue remains GPU acceleration enabled - iss
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. The new child catalog will not have any previews in it.After this glitch occurs, the parent catalog will sometimes show no p
Lightroom is failing to open and uninstall.
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.
I use an external hard drive for my photos. Lightroom won’t show me the folders in that drive anymore. It used too. I’m only seeing 1 folder now.
Auto updated to LrC 15.5 on my MacBook Pro M3 Max last night. Came home from shooting a concert and the import dialogue would appear to function normally, but after hitting the actual button to import, nothing happened. It went back to the grid view, briefly the import status bar appeared in the top left then just as quickly disappeared. I tried different ways of doing it, enabling full disk access (already was set), copy vs convert to dng, even created a whole new catalog and did a hard reset on my computer. Same issue every time. Decided to downgrade to 15.4.1 through the creative cloud as I was able to recently import and edit on that version. Opened Lightroom back up and viola, everything worked just fine. Gonna stick on this version and disable automatic updates until I hear adobe fixes this.
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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
Hoping for some help. I am running the 15.5.1 updated version of LRC. All of a sudden today I am having issues with the brush feature when using masks. Both when I try to add a mask using a brush, but also when I select (e.g. ‘Subject’) and then try to use the brush to add or remove parts of the mask. When I try to remove a portion of the mask the brush doesn’t do anything. Interestingly, when I try to use the brush only, (with the show overlay box checked), it does not highlight the selection in the normal medium red color. It looks like there is a small hint of red from the brush, but it is barely visible and adjustments don’t seem to really have much effect. If I hit ‘create new mask’, then ‘select subject’ it highlights in a medium red just like it always has. The brush feature just doesn’t seem to do anything anymore. I’ve tested this brush issue with a radial gradient and a linear gradient, and the same issue, the brush does nothing anymore. I’ve tried restarting. This
HiMap module is not showing the map. (latest version LRC 15.5.1 release, camera raw 18.5.1) and I’m on Windows 11, with a triple 2k screens set-up. Everything else is working fine execpt for the Map screen.I already tried a few trick that I found on the internet, like relaunching Lightroom while being in the Library module instead of the Map module. I also tried delogging from Creative Cloud et relloging but the map still doesn’t show. My internet is working fine. Any idea what the problem could be and what should I do ? i use to have the map but do not anymore but I don’t realy know since when. ThanksBeatrice
This is a MacBook Pro M3. I just relinked many folders and Metadata panel says “File Not Found” - folder itself shows no error icon. Mix of Raw files and Jpegs, large library,
I have been away from my computer for over 6 months, and when I returned, after my 1st shoot, I tried to import a small amount of photos (only 207), and convert to DNG. But while the files seem to be on my catalog now, the progress bar is stuck on the ‘building smart previews’ function. I left it running last night and just ejected my CF card, because I needed it for a shoot today. Today (24+hrs later) I’m doing a 2nd import, and the smart previews from yesterday still aren’t built, and now I have to do another import of today’s shoot, so there’s 3 progress bars running, with no end in sight for yesterday’s import.How do I get the imports to complete fully, and stop getting stalled or bogged down at the build smart previews stage?
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