Personally, I do like the LrWeb app and use it quite a lot. It serves a few useful purposes, not least being the only app which gives the user a direct view into the their cloud server (very handy for sorting out sync issues between ecosystem clients). There are other functions, such as creating a LrWeb Gallery and the ability to "tell a story" by segmenting shared albums into sections with added user text (often requiring a custom order), these make it a logical place to be the best place to manage and control the shared album experience. Putting all that functionality into LrD instead would then mean having to do the same in LrClassic and many LrC users do not want or need to use the LrD app. So having that LrWeb app does make some sense to me.   However, for the LrD and LrC user there is a simple unofficial way to revert a current Custom Order to be the same as one of the standard display orders. Select the Album/Collection in LrD/LrC then in Grid view choose the display order that you want your shared album to be viewed in. Then just drag the first image in the grid behind the second image.....that single change creates a new Custom Order which matches the display order, then swap the first and second images back to the original positions and you now have the Custom Order matching your preference. It's a 10-second fix.   Unfortunately, this workaround isn't available in LrMobile. ... View more

What I need: A clear step-by-step method to set the album order (either by Capture Date or manually) and have that order stick when I share the link. A fix for why shared albums always default to “Custom Order”, even when I have the album set to Capture Date. A way to reorder or correct the “Custom Order” if Lightroom is going to force it into every shared link. I’m traveling for two months and will not have access to my computer. I’m relying entirely on my iPad to finalize albums, organize photos, and share with clients. The fact that the iPad shows the correct order, but Lightroom Web won’t respect it, and I can’t reorder it on iPad or Web, is not only frustrating — it’s making my work impossible.   By @nancycoste   Dealing with point 2 first, whilst the owner of shared albums can display them in numerous different ways, by design the shared albums are displayed using the set Custom Order when viewed using the shared album link. If no Custom Order has been set, it defaults to Capture Date order I believe. Nothing to "fix" here, but if you want the current method to be changed you need to submit a feature request ("idea") to have that change considered.   Regarding point 1, the user can set a custom order using "drag and drop" in the grid view, though there are some differences depending upon which app is being used to process the album: LrDesktop and LrClassic - using grid view with the album displayed in any of the optional sort orders, simply use the drag and drop method to reorder the images into the preferred order. As soon as the first change is made, the display order automatically changes to "Custom Order". Any changes made will sync across the ecosystem so the user can view the same order when selecting the Custom Order view option. LrMobile - in grid view the user needs to first select the Custom Order view option, then tap the "Edit" button to enable the drag and drop option. LrWeb (using a desktop browser) - select the album, and in the grid view select the Share Layout Grid from the icons top right. That enables the ability to drag and drop the images into the required order.   Regarding point 3 - to reorder the Custom Order to match one of the standard display orders (e.g. Capture Date), again using LrWeb in a desktop browser, grid view, use the Share Layout Grid then click on the up arrow at the right hand end of the floating panel which appears bottom centre of the grid:     That will expand the panel as follows:     Note the Reorder option at the bottom. Click on the down arrow to expose the various reorder options and select your preference:     Once you have selected the new order, that should sync the newly set Custom Order across the ecosystem, and should be the new order which is displayed by any user of the shared album link.   The problem that you have is that it doesn't appear that the Share Layout Grid is available in mobile browser versions of LrWeb, so to change the order while travelling with only an iPad you would need to get access to a desktop-based browser. That's a limitation that Adobe should perhaps be considering to see if they can find an alternative "easy reorder" option on mobile devices. Yes, you can use the manual drag and drop option in LrM on the iPad but that might not be a trivial task to reorder manually. ... View more

@Rikk Flohr: Photography I'm curious about this too.  Is there a way to change the order of photos in the shared album link?  I've been struggling with this myself lately.  It only ever shows capture date (oldest to newest) in the shared link, no matter what I try to do. By @matthew_5332   As you probably know, each album (shared or not) can be displayed in a variety of different ways, e.g. capture date, modified date, file name, etc., and the user can also create their own custom order by dragging and dropping images into their preferred order. If no custom order has yet been set, using the Custom Order display option will show the images in the default Capture Date order. Once a custom order has been set by the user, it is synced to all the other apps in the ecosystem and can thus be displayed in that order by selecting the Custom Order display option in the other apps.   The thing to understand about a shared album is that by default it will be displayed to any user using the shared link in the current Custom Order. That cannot be changed by any user of the shared link, but the owner of the shared album can easily change the custom order back to any of the other display orders by using the tools in the LrWeb application. Once changed there, the end users should see the changed order when refreshing or opening the link.   So in your situation, you need to first set your custom order for the shared album using one of the ecosystem apps (LrD, LrM, LrWeb, or even LrC), and once that's done that will be how the album should be displayed when using the shared album link. ... View more

LrMobile still allows you to export with a custom file name, using either "Save Copy to Device" (tap the gear icon to make the settings changes that you want), or using the "Export As" option which allows you to make your settings changes each time it's used. ... View more

Raw support for the iPhone 17 isn't yet available. I'd expect to see it in the next update, which is likely to be during the Adobe MAX conference at the end of this month. But no guarantees, that's just my speculation based on previous update history. ... View more

The way I deal with that issue, i.e. working for a long time editing a single image, is to periodically switch to another image then switch back to the original image. That's because Lightroom does not sync the current edits until that image is no longer active, so switching away from it lets Lightroom sync the stored edits to the cloud.    Perhaps a bigger issue would be to find the cause of your frequent crashes, as I never encounter those and I have Lightroom active almost every day. ... View more

Make sure that you are working with a Raw image. The Adobe camera profiles (Adobe Color, Adobe Landscape, Adobe Standard etc.) are only available for raw images, so do not appear in the profile list when an RGB image (Jpeg, Tiff, etc.) is selected.   ... View more

Please go to the Help Menu>System Info and tell us the version number that is listed there. We still don't know the actual version that you are using, as the term "Lightroom CC" no longer exists and in the past it was used (at different times) for both types of "Lightroom". So the version number will clear this up. ... View more

I'm wondering, is it possible to switch an image from camera matching to adobe default?  If I change my settings, will it only affect images imported going forward or would it change everything I've already imported?  If I go to develop an image and change the profile from the camera matching to something like Adobe Standard, it still has things like the added grain, clarity, etc.   By @Nadeem28230335k4xr   If you change the Raw default import settings, it will only affect images imported going forward, it will not affect images already imported with the previous settings.   If you want to reset an existing image from the original camera settings back to the Adobe default settings, both LrC and Lightroom have an existing "Adobe Default" preset which can be used for that purpose. In LrC it can be found in Presets>Defaults, and in Lightroom it can be found in Presets>Yours>Basics>Defaults. ... View more

  With the latest Lightroom classic updates there wasn't a catalog update necessary.  The latest catalog update was done with the change to version 13.3.     No, the LrC version 14.0 release required a catalog update. Which in fact was the update which introdued the new catalog naming scheme, and why the OP has a catalog name including v13.3 while running v14.5.1. ... View more

Yes, but that is why LrC now has a "Rename Catalog" option in the File Menu, which makes it very easy to do. When using that function it will change all the associated catalog files/folders at the same time, and it also includes an option to rename the catalog folder name as well. ... View more

Yes I am syncing to iCloud. Optimisation is enabled. Device is online and LR Sync was enaled (help told me to turn it off pending a resolution. I have not heard anytjing from them and they have closed my case saying the behaviour is 'expected' and nothing is wrong and it happends to every one who buys a new phone.     No, it doesn't happen to everyone who buys a new phone, it only happens with those who have iCloud for Photos enabled and with optimize Storage also enabled, AND have auto-import enabled in LrM.    The way it works in that scenario:   Take a picture using the phone's camera app. That is auto-added to LrM. But it is also uploaded to iCloud, and eventually iCloud will remove the original image from the camera roll and replace it with a down-sized version with a different filename. Because it's smaller and with a different name, LrM sees that down-sized version as a new file - which it is - and so auto-imports it. With a new phone, assuming the user has restored data from a backup of the previous phone. iCloud will populate the camera roll with a copy of the entire library which LrM will see as new photos and start to import them.   Personally, I keep iCloud for Photos disabled and I also advise other users to do the same (or keep LrM's auto-import turned off and do manual selective imports from the device). ... View more

No, it's not a bug. I believe that the retention period has been reduced from 60 days to 30 days with the latest update. So images deleted prior to the update will still be operating under the previous 60 days period, images deleted since the update will now only be kept for 30 days. ... View more

Can we please get this to be able to filter liked photos in lightroom albums, there is the heart icon there in filters but it does not work. By @naeimeh_2549   It's working correctly for me in Lightroom Desktop. What happens when you try to use it in an album which defintely has likes on some of the images. ... View more

That's fine. Except that takes extra steps to achieve. It would be wonderful if in a future release the Default level could be set by the user. So for me, everytime I clicked the Denoise option it set to 30 as my default.  Thank you By @Paul Tansley   The easy solution is to create a preset that applies Denoise at value 30, then apply that preset.  ... View more

When someone contributes images into a shared album (owned by you) they are tagged with the icon representing the avatar of the contributer. IIRC, there is no way to hide that icon, but the fact that you are seeing it does mean that you do have a copy of the original in your library, it's not a link to the original in the other account. ... View more

@Surfdeprived    Nope. That feature is still not available. ... View more

Please past a screenshot of the Lightroom Preferences>Cache tab. It's entirely possible that your local cache didn't contain many copies of the originals that are stored in the cloud, but that screenshot should help us figure out what's happening, ... View more

If you're not using Lightroom Classic, then you must be using the Lightroom Desktop app. The local catalog for Lightroom Desktop is by default stored within the user's Pictures library on the main system drive, and that cannot be changed. However, any locally stored originals CAN be moved to an external drive, simply by changing the "Storage location for original files" at the bottom of the Preferences>Cache tab....use the "Browse" button to select a storage location on the external drive and Lightroom will automatically move any stored originals to the new location. ... View more

I assume you're using the Local mode, yes?   In which case, I have tested it on my MBP M2 (i.e. applied edits and metadata to selected images, then renamed both the images and the associated XMP sidecars) and after restarting LrD in Local mode the edits and metadata were still there. The only failure was when I deliberately renamed one of the XMP sidecars incorrectly, after which that image reverted to the original unedited state. Correcting the XMP sidecar name then restores the edits and metadata back to the raw file.   Have you checked and re-checked that you have renamed the XMP sidecar files correctly?  ... View more

AFAICT, the compare mode IS showing the correct state of the edited image. The confusion is the presence of the "Embedded Preview" bezel, but that to me is a simple bug and nothing to be overly concerned about. ... View more

ARC supports Snapshots but  LrD doens't.   By @C.Cella   LrD's Versions feature is pretty similar to LrC's Snapshots feature. Certainly in the context of "saving" mutiple sets of variations, Versions can be used to do that. ... View more

@szymon_5776    Have you considered using the Collaborative Proofing tool, which is available as a Technology Preview option in the LrWeb browser app? It would allow you to send a special link for the album to your director, who would then be able to select their preferred images (you can also optionally set a maximum number of selections that the end user can make). Once the selections are made, they appear back in the album's Collaborative Proofing view in your LrWeb app, where you can filter the selections by user and then you can make an album (for each user) of just their selections, which makes it easier to subsequently focus your work on just the selections.   Yes, you still can't apply ratings.....but in the specific use case that you outlined you might find the Collaborative Proofing option is even easier to use once you have familiarised yourself with the way it works. ... View more