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Jul 31, 2024
11:44 AM
2 Upvotes
Another easier trick is to create a regular collection with nothing in it. Then with whatever folder or folders you have selected <ctrl>+click (win) or <Cmd>+click (mac) this empty collection so that it is also selected. This will then ignore stacking for images in the grid and filmstrip so your filter will then find those images buried in stacks. De-select the empty collection to go back to what you had before (images buried in collapsed stack are not shown). You can see a full write up of this as here (solution #3). https://www.danhartfordphoto.com/blog/2022/4/lr014-lrc-tip01-all-photos-really
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Jul 24, 2024
12:12 PM
The behavior of "Sync another catalog" has dramatically changed recently (not sure when, but perhaps when the new sync architecture was introduced) and the new bavior has 4 major problems - I hope these are not "as designed" features. My observations and testing of this was done on July 22 and July 23, 2024 using Window/10 with LrC 13.3.1 and LR 7.4.1 This information is related to syncing a new catalog. It does not apply to changing the sync catalog to one that is a copy, backup or an upgrade of the currently synced catalog. Rather it applies to changing the sync catalog to a catalog, or copies of a catalog, that did not get its start from the currently synced catalog and this includes the scenario of creating a new catalog and then importing to it from the currently synced catalog. 1) All images from LR/Cloud are added to the LrC catalog and are placed in the Xfer Folder in the LrC Folders Panel (this the folder designated in the "Lightroom Sync" tab of the "Preferences" dialog) whether or not the image was already in the LrC catalog 2) All images in LR/Cloud that were only Smart Previews are down loaded to LrC as Smart Previews. As such they are shown in LrC with a status of "Smart Preview where the image file is missing" as there was no actaul image to be placed in the Xfer folder. This is the case even if the Xfer folder had an original full size copy of the image known to LrC prior to the sync process. In other words, the reset of the sync catlog process caused the full size physical image file on disk to be physically deleted. So, where the LrC catalog had a perfectly fine, non missing original file in the same folder where new LR/Cloud image will go which had previously been synced with LR/Cloud (placing a Smart Preview in LR/Cloud), L:rC now has only a Smart Preview with a missing image file listed in LrC and the phisical image file on disk was secretly deleted bythe process. If you have a copy of that deleted physical file saved someplace (like in a backup) and re-place it in the Xfer folder, then LrC will see it and it will no longer be considered missing. 3) Where there had been edits done in both LR and LRC, the ones from LR supersede and negate those done in LrC. The history steps for the LrC edits remain in the History Panel but nothing below the “imported from LR Mobil” entry added by syncing the new catalog is applied to the image. In other words ONLY the edits done in LR/Cloud are on the image and none of the edits done in LrC are applied to the image. In the past, a VC was created for the images from LR. 4) Where LrC already had the original image in the catalog but not in the Xfer Folder, the sync process ignores the previous image and adds a duplicate image to the catalog and to disk. So, now you have the one originally known to LrC with LrC edits in one folder and a second version from LR/Cloud with the LR/Cloud edits in another folder. These two images are not connected in LrC in any way. . PDF containing full description of testing and results can be found herehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/14UDkxnM6GNLUT7aBy-TWIYdwuCHI-E8K/view?usp=drive_link
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Jul 18, 2024
09:10 AM
Can you provide a screen shot that clearly shows the "!" icon as there are several different ones, with different meanings that may contain an "!" and it will help us address your concerns if we know specifically which one you are referring to. Also if you clcik on it you should get a pop up dialog which has additional information about the meaning of that particular icon, Include a screen shot of that as well.
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Jul 15, 2024
08:46 AM
Very Odd. Two things come to mind. 1) Once we enter the realm of "Well, that's really weird", the 'go to' suggestion is to reset your preferences file. Also see: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/how-do-i-reset-lightrooms-preferences/ To do so, hold down Alt and Shift (Windows) / Opt and Shift (Mac) while opening Lightroom and it’ll ask whether to reset the preferences. The timing is crucial—hold them down while clicking/double-clicking on the app/shortcut. Note - this will put all your preferences back to the Adobe Defualt settings so you'll have to reset them to your desired values afterward, The preferences file includes last used settings, view options, FTP settings for uploading web galleries, some plug-in settings, etc. In case it doesn't fix your problem, you may want to make a copy of your preferences file first, so you can put it back and not have to re enter your desired changes. Alternatively, you can reset the preferences manually. Moving or renaming the preferences file, rather than deleting it, means that you can put it back if it doesn’t solve the problem, to save you manually recreating your preferences again. See link provided above 2) You may have a stuck key on your keyboard. Make sure that all the key are not stuck in their pressed postion or try a different keyboard if you have one. You can also go into a text editor and verify that all the keys are working properly although verifying the Alt, Cmd, and Ctrl keys may be tricky.
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Jul 13, 2024
11:06 AM
Seeing as how you do not automatically save XMP to disk files, it is expected that the metadata in the catalog will diverge from that stored in/with the images on disk. This usually manifests itself with a slightly different icon which indicates that there is a mismatch but which gives you the same two options. In your case though the warning message indicates the some metadata was changed in the LrC catalog and some was changed on/in the disk files by something else. This is based on date/time stamps rather than an actual analysis of data values and those values indicated something like, a) the DTS (date time stamp) of the metadata last gotten from the disk file into LrC is earlier than the current DTS on disk meaning something changed the DTS on the disk file since it was last brought into LrC. b) Some metadata was also changed by LrC in the catalog. So, LrC has no idea of what specific information was changed in each place - only that somethjing was changed in both. As you indicate that you don't use any outside programs and that you are not trying to keep the data current on disk, my reccomendation is to just ignore the warning Icon and get on with your business. In other words, trust that the LrC Catalog has the most accurate metadata and don't worry about what's in the metadata on disk.
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Jul 13, 2024
09:00 AM
Frist let's get the obvious out of the way. Do you use any image management or image processing tools other than LrC such as Topaz, Photoshop, Photo Mechanic or any others? Do you sync any images with the Adobe Cloud and if so do you ever do anything in Adobe Cloud on those images? Do you have the your catalog settings set to automatically write XMP to disk files?
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Jul 10, 2024
02:01 PM
If you have a misisng folder in LrC and you relink it, it will relink that folder AS WELL AS all the subfolders and images nested under that common parent. This is contrary to your post so there must be something else at play that has yet to be divulged. A second point is to figure out why folders are going missing in the first place. LrC does not "forget" where they were. Rather in alomost every case something outside of LrC changed resulting in the pointers inside of LrC to no longer valid. So, in addition to GoudldinD's quesitons, are you on Windows or a Mac?
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Jul 05, 2024
03:56 PM
@ja6121503said - Current LRC functionality uses XMPs to capture RAW edit-settings that can be used later to reappy edits to a RAW original. That same functionality is needed for any file format LRC supports. I''m not clear on how your proposal is any different than "save metadata to files" which functions on all supported file types. The only difference is that the XMP data is saved inside non proprietry RAW files rather than being saved in a seperate XMP file. Are you wanting to create a "Point in time" file with the XMP data that would not be overwritten later on if more edits were made?
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Jul 02, 2024
01:46 PM
1 Upvote
Don't waste time on cosmetics that are not needed. The UI is just fine and seems quite adaptable to incorporating new functions and features. I would be very unhappy with a "slimmed down" "clean" UI as that usually makes it harder to find and use features and functions requiring more navigation and many more clicks to get something down. We don't need a race to to lowest common denominator.
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Jun 29, 2024
11:28 AM
Whoa! Your characterazion of "aspect ratio" is faulty. Aspect ratio's have nothing to do with measurements like inches or centimeters. It's a "ratio", not a "Measurement". I hsve no idea why you feel the need to go to photo shop to get your desired croppiong. I assume you goal is to crop so that a an image could be cropped to allow it to exactly fit on a, say, 15" x 20" piece of paper when printed. Just use the 3x4 crop ratio. But let's say you want 7.5" x 13". Juct make a crop ratio that is 75 x 130. Eventual printed inches don't matter when cropping as that is determined when exporting or printing. If you want the exact number of pixels needed to fill a print of, say 15" x 20" (the the print driver doesn't have to figure it out), once it is cropped to that aspect ratio, in the export dialog you can specify the inches along with a PPI (say 300 for a printer that prints 300 DPI) and LrC will figure out the number of pixels in each direction needed for that paper size and printer. Here's an article on this topic that I posted to my website earler this month that you may find useful. https://www.danhartfordphoto.com/blog/2024/6/lr021-image-size-aspect-ratio-resolution-and-files-for-printing
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Jun 29, 2024
09:14 AM
A long time feature request that is still waiting. It has been suggested that a preference be added to automatically autosync metadata changes to images in collapsed stack or not/ Another feature request is to all the use of a modifier key (ctrl, alt, cmd, shift, opt, etc) while making the change to apply it to the buried images. Neither of these feature requests as been adopted by Adobe. One sort of work around is to create an empty regular collection. If you then add that "empty" collecton to whatever folder(s) you have selected (ctrl/cmd click on it), the gird/filmstrip will show all images - stacked or not - and you can just select the the full stack. Not as good as those feature requests, but does skirt having to keep expanidng and collapsing stacks.
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Jun 27, 2024
12:40 PM
So, you want a personalized version containing only Lib and Dev? Then do I get one with Lib, Dev, Map, and Print? But my buddy should then have one with Lib, Dev, and Map but not print?
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Jun 17, 2024
10:32 PM
I would assume that @Claire343137048sos idea would mark all the images as "has edits" thus rendering that badge, filter and Smart Colleciton option meaningless.
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Jun 17, 2024
04:24 PM
Works as @JohanElzenga and @johnrellis described on my Windows/10 LrC/13.3.1 machine.
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Jun 17, 2024
08:58 AM
Shift+click+drag using Clone, Heal, Remove all constrain the drag to vertical or horozontal on my Windows/10, LrC/13.3.1 system
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Jun 13, 2024
10:51 PM
1 Upvote
While that and other plugins are grand, Many of those features should be built into LrC. We all have our favorite missing feature but mine is to make stacking information available in Filters and Smart Collecitons (and visible in the Metadata Panel). What I want are the following fields Stack Position (a numeric value). 0 = not in stack. 1 through n position in stack One problem though is that images in collections can be stacked differently than those same images when using a folder as a source. I'd be happy if this were just implemented for folder stacks but if the smart folkds at Adobe could devise a way to to provide this field for collections as well and in the filder or smart collection a way to specify if you are referring to the folder stack position vs a particular colleciton smart colleciton (e.g. StackPos-Folder vs StackPos-<collection name>)
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Jun 07, 2024
09:21 AM
1 Upvote
PROBLEM:
The URL for a "Make Public" synced collection is too dark to see
PROPOSAL:
Make it brighter
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May 29, 2024
03:28 PM
Of course if the images were (by default) shunted into the catalogs' folder, then when the default drive housing this folder (...Pictures ->Lightroom) gets full as it almost always does when folks store RAW images on the C (Internal), drive and the user ports the whole folder over to a new EHD - the catalog winds up on a slow drive.
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May 29, 2024
12:19 PM
In may case I can select all the images in the to be modified section and mark them as uptodate. Then whith my hands in my pockets I watch them all go to the "Published" section and then a second later some of them pop right back up to the "Modified" section. Some specific images do this every single time in every single PS collection.
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May 29, 2024
12:05 PM
1 Upvote
In regard to your comment about non technical users losing years of data - which as you say is not as uncommon as it should be - this is also referenced on the LrC Backup panel upon exit as well I can see perhaps making this sentance stand out a bit more (larger font in red) and maybe add something like "Be sure to backup your photos as well as they are not included in this backup" to the sentance. But, I might also argue that anyone using a computer should understand that it is a machine, and machines break from time to time. And that the antidote for a lost/broken/stolen machine is a backup. This is no different than assuming that anyone who owns and drives a car should understand that some day the car may be stolen or may be involved in an accident and therefore they need to have insurance. In some states you have to prove you have insurance to register the car or get a drivers license. However, the old adage "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink" holds true, as many people know that they should have backups but never bother to actually do it. They say, "Too busy, maybe next week" or "after I clean up all my folders" or "I meant to, just never got around to it". More bad them. Apple and Microsoft have tried to help with things like Time Machine being turned on by default (but only for the internal drive) and Microsoft puts all the user files on the C drive into OneDrive by default both of which save some folks from themselves. But I still make money from folks who ignore the risk either out of ignorance or arrogance and wind up regretting it.
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May 29, 2024
09:59 AM
I'm pretty happy with it the way it is. At some point (not sure with which release) they started updating the "When Startting up use this catalog....." prefernce to the new catalog name when upgrading an older catalog that name a spefic catalog. However, if folks like the idea of maintaining a consistant catalog name, I think then that the old catalog should be renamed with text that includes info about it's lineage. For example, let's say the current catalog is "Lightroom Catalog.lrcat" and the user is running LrC/12.3, If they then upgrade to LrC/13.3, that old catalog wouold be renamed "Lightroom Catalog (v12 superceded 2024-05-21).lrcat"
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May 29, 2024
09:34 AM
106 Upvotes
PROBLEM
Prior to LrC/13.3, In the Lightroom Sync tab of the Preferences dialog there was a list of images that were in the process of syncing with the Adobe Cloud. This was removed as of LrC/13.3 when the cloud sync architecture was updated to improve performance and reliability.
However, we are still seeing a large number of situations where numbers of images get stuck in the sync process and just sit there in limbo without change, Other than being able to see how many images are in process each way, there is no place in LrC to see which images are involved other than a lenghy and complicated process to generate and then decipher a diagnostic report. In addition it is not clear how to read those diagnostic reports.
PROPOSAL
Someplace in LrC itself, please provide a list of the images that are in the process of syncing in each direction. If possible, inlude which direction they are going and what is being synced (just metadata, full image, etc.)
Thanks
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May 26, 2024
10:33 AM
1 Upvote
PROBLEM: When using the LrC/13.3 Generative Remove tool, it removes the thing painted over and replaces it with something else. The problem is that in most representational photography, when you want something removed, like a tourist or trash can, you want it replaced with background similar to its surrounding rather than having it replaced with a different tourist or trash can. Heal, Clone and Content Aware remove can many times do this but without the AI component many times one just can't find a source area that works. PROPOSAL In the Remove mode of the Remove tool, add two sub obtions: Generative Replace AI - If selected this option would replace the painted object with some other AI generated object. For example a different cat or different tourist Generative Fill AI - If selected this option would remove the painted over object and fill in that area with AI generated background similar to the area surrounding the removed thing.
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May 24, 2024
06:04 PM
1 Upvote
For DNG files, XMP "data" is stored inside the DNG file itself. So, if you were looking for a sperate XMP file you won't find one. If you already knew that, how were you verifying that the XMP data was not beomg saved?
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May 24, 2024
12:44 PM
1 Upvote
At some point recently, Adobe changed their purchase pages to no longer show the $9.99/mo 20gb Photography plan on their "choose the plan that's right for you" pages. If you had clicked to see Lightroom Classic plans, the only plan they now show (other than the all applications plan) is the $19.99/mo 1TB Photography plan.
And, if you had clicked to see "Lightroom" plans it's the same thing but with the addition of the 1tb $9.99 Lighroom Cloud only plan. In the case of asking to see LrC plans, in order to see the cheaper plan you need to click the "See all Plans and Pricing" text in fine print at the way bottom of the page. In the case of asking about "Lightroom" plans, there are no links that eventually take you to the 20gb $9.99 plan,
I suspect most customers, even those who know the difference between LR and LrC, will not know to seek out the cheaper plan. I think this is a very sad thing for Adobe to do as it really seems to be deceptive marketing.
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May 22, 2024
04:34 PM
2 Upvotes
Generative AI Remove produces two distinct types of content. One type REPLACES a selected object in the photo with some other object. For example, replaces a person with some other person or replaces the person with a dog or mailbox. The other type REMOVES the selected object and fills in the vacated space with content that seems to be derived from the same image with the idea of showing what a reasonalbe person would believe would have been seen had that object not been present when the photo was originallty taken (content aware remove does similar but no where near as well). In most traditional representational photography (landscape, travel, family, portrait, nature, etc.), the later case is the desired one. What this tool needs is a selecton where the user can indicate if they want their selected object REPLACED by a different object or if they want their selected object REMOVED by having background type content inserted into the vacated space.
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Apr 16, 2024
11:53 AM
1 Upvote
After Selecting all the images, you can try menu "Library -> Previews" and select which preview level you want.
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Apr 15, 2024
11:00 PM
Not sure I understand. In screen shot below, there is a list of the names of the images I selected inthe "named pepople" segment and a count (145). The 145 count is the sum of the counts on each image displayed (selected or not). The cound of on each persons face is the number of images that person appears on. What may be tripping you up is that if you have two people selected and each person has the number 1, the total is 2 but if those two faces are from the same photo the 2 faces only relate to 1 full image. So the sum of shown can be significantly larger than the number of images in the folder if individual images have more than one known face in them.
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Apr 07, 2024
10:21 AM
9 Upvotes
PROBLEM
One very common issue users of LrC have are missing files and folders. Well over 70% of my LrC Help clients come to me with some version of this problem. The existing "Find Missing" tools in LrC work as designed, and many times re-linking one photo winds up re-linking hundreds of other nearby images at the same time.
However in many cases, depending on exactly how the images became missing, one winds up having to manually re-link images one at a time which can be an impossible task if there are hundreds or thousands of such images (a client yesterday had over 11,000).
SUGGESTIED IDEA
In the Import Dialog, add a new checkbox below the "Don't import suspected duplicates" box called "Relink Missing Photos".
If this box is checked and there is also a version of the photo in the catalog marked as missing, rather than importing the image and creating a new catalog entry for it, re-link the existing (missing) photo to the location of the one selected for import.
WHY
Will save copious amounts of time dealing with missing photos.. In most cases where there are loads of missing images, the user used Finder or File Manager to 'restructure' their image storage folder hierarchy. In thses cases, the current physical structure is probably the desired one rather than the one shown in the Folders Panel. Rather than having to re-link folders or files individually, one could go to the Import dialog, and with this checkbox checked could use the "Add" imort mode and accomplish in one step what would otherwise take many days or weeks to accomplish.
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Mar 27, 2024
07:51 PM
I agree with @dj_paige. One common cause is that at some point in the past (perhpas in 2020) you opened a backup catalog and have been using it ever since (probably without knowing you are). Then, when you upgraded to LrC/13.x it upgraded your master catalog (the one you stopped using when you opened the backup catalog) which exxplains why years were not misisng before the upgrade (i.e. in the backup catalog you'd been using) but are misisng after the upgrade (which reverted you to your original catalog which hadn't been used for years. Just a thought One important piece of information you didn't mention is if the missing years of photos still exist on the disk drive and are just missing from the catalog or are they also misisng from the disk drive?
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