I am using Lightroom Classic 14.1.1 on MacOS 15.2.

I have tried searching high and low to figure out what I'm doing wrong with LR Mogrify, but I can't figure out why it resizes portrait photos differently than landscape photos when I use a preset I made to put photos on a fixed-size white canvas. My intention with the preset is to have a fixed dimension white canvas (e.g. 2048x1363) with a minimum border size (e.g. 48px) so the final result is photos with a white border that is at least 48px wide. Currently I am trying to achieve this by using a combination of "Mogrify Outer Border Options", "Mogrify Resize Options", and "Mogrify Canvas".

This works great for all of my landscape oriented photos, but on portrait oriented images it makes significantly smaller images on the canvas. I'm attaching an example each of a portrait and landscape photo as well as a screenshot of my Mogrify settings.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I would really like to avoid having to create different presets for portrait and landscape photos.

Thanks!

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Hi y'all.

I've been trying to export a gallery on my laptop. Everytime I export a group of photos, even if it's 10, Lightroom will export half of them and then my laptop disconnects from wifi.

I know it's not my wifi with the issue. My husband and I troubleshooted that. I just don't know what else it could be! I've been using Lightroom for years and have never had this issue.

Hi - long time Lightroom (Classic) and Photoshop user here. Processing large files (36-45MP 14 bit uncompressed RAW) at volume.

And... I also want to start using BlackMagic DaVinci Resolve to process video. Maybe 1080, maybe 4K (not gone there yet, will need to learn on this build).

I need to get a new (desktop) PC and trying to choose from these two options and requesting help -

1. AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 8700GE with integrated AMD Radeon 780 graphics

And

2. Intel i7-14700 with integrated UHD 770 graphics

I am not planning to add a dedicated graphics card. I will have 64GB RAM. I know Mac Mini M4 Pro is great... but not an option for me.

My key concerns are - speed of processing, and reasonably prepared for the next few years as software will inevitably get more resource-hungry. I know the Intel is the better CPU and the AMD has the better graphics. But for my use case - which is the better balance? Will welcome help here. Thank you.

Hey all,

I know there's been a few posts on this subreddit about laptop recommendations for Lightroom, but I was wondering if anyone had some specific opinions for laptops that are lightweight (both in weight and in thickness) that also handle Lightroom reasonably well. In my specific situation, I am planning to be working remote for a few months and won't have access to my PC, which I usually edit on. This laptop won't become my heavy-duty workstation, but it just needs to bridge my editing needs while I'm on the go. I shoot on a Canon R8 which is 24.2mp, and I'm used to working off an external hard drive in terms of storing my photo catalogue.

I've seen a lot of posts in this subreddit recommending Macbooks, which i'm not entirely opposed to but slightly hesitant about as I've been on Windows my whole life. Is there anything in the Windows laptop ecosystem which would be comparative (e.g Surface pro?).

Additionally, if Macs are the champions of ultra-lightweight laptops, does anyone know if the lightroom catalogue file can be transferred between a Windows and a Mac and still function (I have a lot of editing data I'd want to transfer across to this new laptop)

Hello, when I import photos from my camera into Lightroom Classic , I always have to change the crop settings in the Library mode back to the default settings. I don’t know why this keeps happening. The photos should be imported without any crop settings applied, any tips? Thank you!!

I'm searching for a laptop that i can use to work with LrC, ive read that LrC does not require a particularly strong graphics card but you should use one thats of medium strength.
most laptops i can find only have integrated graphics (for example the one I'm looking at has an Intel i7-1255U CPU with Inter Iris Xe integrated graphics).

Will integrated graphics work well enough to allow for a smooth workflow or should i start looking at gaming laptops that do have an actual graphics card?

Hi everyone,

I have recently taken an interest in presets (after waging a pretty long war against them). Much of my editing relies heavily on masks, so I was trying to make masks, with almost blank selections and adjustments (so I'd still adapt the selection to the photo but have adjustments built-in). When I click on the mask, I get my first preset, but as I click on the second one, the first mask seems to be overwritten. I have tried naming the masks, which did not work. Is there a workaround for this problem?

Thanks for your help:)

I have a ton of images and videos in my Lightroom Classic catalog that don’t have a “Date Created”. But they all are named with the date at the beginning of the filename (YYYY-MM-DD), Is there any way to pull the date info from the filename and apply it to “Date Created” field?

Thanks

Seems like when I edit in Lightroom Classic, the moment I leave the develop window, the edits get changed.

Something is going on and I am looking for some help!

I know we see questions about AI Denoise times and I just got my new MBP and ran several images through it, mine has the 40 core GPU with 48gb ram. It takes 7 seconds per image which is faster than I expected. My files are 24mb Canon R6ii RAWS. Also I opened both versions of LR and Photoshop, checked memory usage and it shows 32gb used with all three programs running along with Safari.

I do a lot of virtual photography on video games and used to only use Snapseed to edit photos but felt sometimes it saved my photos to a low quality.

Recently I've started using lightroom and find it much better but when I load in a picture to edit it loads with less contrast than the picture actually has and have to wait a few seconds to see what the photo actually looks like, which makes it more difficult to edit. Why does it do this and can turn it off?

I'm sure this is really obvious to many, but I'm super confused right now.

If I've cropped an originally landscape photo, to a portrait size/orientation, and I go to adjust the ratio, it resets to the landscape format and the aspect ratio applies to that - not to my altered photos.

What can I do to apply a proper ratio for multiple printing options without altering the cropped photo?

Problem: what solutions are there for someone who

1. has accumulated 200GB of raw files,
2. who has been using LR 5 application and has developments kept in LR catalogue files (.lrcat),
3. is an occasional photographer at best and wants little more than being able to go back and use/develop further past photos,
4. doesn't want to pay 10-20 per month for LR Classic that would be used only occasionally
5. who wants to keep past changes who sit within .lrcat files only LR can read

My environment is an oldie iMac, still working with MacOS Sierra 10.12.6 as operation system, concerned with a problem that might emerger if, for example, if the current iMac dies and the new one comes with the most recent MacOS, in which there is a real chance of the LR5 no longer working.

What options do I have?

Preferably under $500 if possible, like a Chromebook or something. Don't have space for a PC 😭

Is it true that Adobe is developing more on the newer cloud version than the classic? I mean, I can understand that classic carries a lot of old legacy code that Adobe wants to get rid of.

So im curious what you currently use more, the cloud version on desktop and or iPad or only classic?

https://reddit.com/link/1iecavg/video/3kzgh02f9bge1/player

It's never really been a major problem but I've never understood why sometimes Lightroom Classic will only zoom to a certain point even though I've set it to 100% and it often differs how far this zoom is. In the video I've got two identical shots, in terms of how it was shot and whether it's landscape or portrait, I've got my SSD connected that holds the original raw but it doesn't seem to zoom in as far on one of them for whatever reason. I didn't show it in the video but even if I do 50% on the one that doesn't zoom in as much, it zooms out instead? It's just very inconsistent behaviour and I'm not sure what's causing it.

Am I doing something wrong or is this just a Lightroom quirk that has been accepted to happen?

I am using lightroom classic and when I import my picture color ruins. I use tif file

LEFT BEFORE AND RIGHT AFTER IMPORT

Okay so I am having issues with images, not syncing from Lightroom to Lightroom Classic.

Most of the time images and their edits will sync to Lightroom Classic from Lightroom. (and vis versa)

But recently I have noticed Several images the just don't appear in the Classic's Synced collection, But are present in the Lightroom (NotClassic) Library.

I have tried the Delete sync information - but that has done nothing.

In my investigations, I noticed and inconstancy in the number of images.
Lightroom iPad v10.1.2 AF06C5/181 reports 9792
Lightroom Web 9777
Lightroom v8.1 (laptop) 9777
Lightroom Classic v14.1.1 All Syned photos: 9748.

This is driving me a bit mad, Anyone have any thoughts?

Has anyone updated their lightroom to the latest version? I’m sure I’m using 13.5.1. I just remember trying to update to the 14 and there was huge issue with the masking, presets and all this crap and everyone was going crazy and I had to wipe it and reinstall the older version that I’m currently on.

Hi all! I have somewhere around 80,000 photos in Lightroom, and I’ve never had this issue before, I’ve had no problems until this week. I have plenty of storage left over on my computer. I’m trying to upload images from my camera to Lightroom, and no matter how much I delete from my computer storage, it keeps saying “clear up 49000 PB” and that I’m out of space. Very confused as to how to fix this. If anyone knows, would be wonderful.

Hi, I use the regular Lightroom and have a large library in the cloud, 1.5 tB comprising about 90,000 photographs. Recently I wanted to get some Presets and read that the easiest way to do that was to import them into Lightroom Classic and sync Lightroom Classic and then they would go over to Lightroom so I could use them on my iPad etc.

It was a confusing process with warnings about only being able to sync one catalog or whatever, and I only did have one catalog, so I hit sync and it took seven days, and it looked like all the photos from my Lightroom cloud library were flowing into LrC so it seemed all well and good, but then I went back to my Lightroom library after the sync was done and the process somehow wreaked havoc on my Lightroom library. It now has randomly transposed metadata so photos I took a couple days ago on my A7Cii show up as being taken in 2014 on an iPhone, stuff like that, and it also rotated a bunch of photos and changed their aspect ratio from landscape to portrait or vice versa, and this was with photos that I never rotated to begin with so it's not like they defaulted to some earlier state. Star ratings and flags are not gone, but also randomly transposed, so crappy photos now have 5-stars and ones I gave 5-stars have none or 1 at random.

Has this happened to anyone, and does anyone know how to fix it? I spent years cleaning things up and organizing and editing, only to have it all spun in a blender. I called Adobe and I could barely hear the agent because he was in a room with what sounded like 30 other people, and he wasn't helpful anyway and then the call cut off and he didn't call back and it seems like a waste of time to try them again.

I've never understood their fractionated ecosystem, it seemed ripe for data overwrite and other issues since LrC and Lr are like 80% overlays of each other but don't use any of the same logic or language.

I didn't have any catalog in LrC, so I don't know how it could have overwritten my nice organized Lr catalog with gobbledygook. I obviously though the Lr catalog would populate LrC since LrC didn't have anything in it. It's driving me crazy and I don't know how to put it right without a time machine.

I back up my photos on hard drives, but I'm not sure I have backups of everything, and it sounds like a nightmare to start from scratch, so I'm hoping there's some solution short of that.

I currently don't have a laptop I mostly use desktops and I've been offered for nowt a Intel core i5 4210U 1.7/2.7ghz 8gb ram laptop.

This is a HP Machine and I'll be putting windows 11 if 10 isn't supported still, and it'll be whatever version of lightroom is available on my CC subscription.

I know how to upgrade the ram, and I'll add a 2.5" SSD if there isn't one already in it, so I can always fix that but..... Will the CPU be efficient enough for using lightroom not lightroom classic?

I'm looking to use it for say on field editing when I'm doing gigs/festivals would it be a shout or nah?

Again not looking for suggestions on other laptops or getting a tablet etc... as using a laptop looks more professional I believe at a festival etc..., just if this will be ok to do lightroom?

Bought the Dell Ultrasharp 32 inch monitor, but now I see a discrepancy between the library and develop modules which I never noticed on my old monitor.

I have checked the color management settings in Windows and made sure the correct color profile is connected to my new monitor, rebuilt previews in LR and tried soft proofing mode. None of that has helped. The develop module version of an image is much more vibrant and the library version is slightly more magenta (and dull). Does anyone know why?

Hi all,

I'm new to processing RAWs in LR and have been learning about what seems to be a common practice of applying a preset of changes (either Adobe created, or custom made preset) to an entire set of images, e.g from a holiday/wedding/commercial shoot etc.

My question is, why? I don't fully understand the benefits of this?

It seems like the main reasons are 1) it is fast and 2) it creates a more consistent style/look across the set.

But, what I don't get is how this can work well across a broad set of images...what if one is underexposed and the other is over? What if one was in low light at dusk and another in bright sun at noon? For example, if the preset is: Exposure +0.2, Contrast +10, Highlights -15, Shadows +5, Vibrance +10. If I apply this to all images then the ones that are overexposed might be even more so, and the ones with already high contrast might be overly contrasty.

Maybe the idea is that if all images are shot with the same camera + lens, then the same changes will need to apply to all images, but that still doesn't account for differences in light and time of day etc.

Would love to hear from people about this!

Thanks.

So, I thought I would try to move from Lightroom Classic to On1. That was a colossal failure, so I have gone back to Lightroom. When moving to On1, I used their Lightroom migration tool, which, to my understanding, would just move any LR edits to an On1 sidecar without affecting anything inside LR. But now that I'm reviewing my LR photos, the photos with masking edits all have at least the exposure jacked way up.

Does anyone know how to recover those edits?

I'm looking to move from an "all photos in one folder" structure (non-existent structure) and classify them all in a YYYY/MM structure to speed up file loading time whenever I actually access them within Windows.

Is there a way to restructure all of my imported photos like this with LrC to skip the re-linking hassle later on?

After importing some .RAW photos in Lightroom, the correct lens profile is shown under 'Lens Corrections'. If I edit the .RAW photos in Photoshop via Lightroom, the file is converted to .tif (as it's supposed to) and afterward only 1 (wrong) lens profile is shown under 'Lens Corrections' in Lightroom.

The correct profile under 'Lens Corrections' in the .RAW is Sony FE / Sony FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II / Adobe (Sony FE 24-70mm GM II). After the Photoshop edits, I can only select Sony / Sony DT 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 / Adobe (Sony DT 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3) in Lightroom.

The EXIF of the .tif (and .RAW) correctly shows the FE 24-70mm GM II. Photoshop also indicates the correct lens data under 'File info'

Does anyone have any thoughts?

I just noticed my adobe subscription did not terminate for nearly 2 years. Yes I'm dumb and should have checked my payment better.

I had a separate email from "adobe creative cloud" and a separate email from "adobe". I was under the impression that I just signed up for a month of adobe lightroom and terminated it. I do have the proof of termination. Instead they put me under another subscription for adobe, not just creative cloud. I really don't know how to make sense of all this.

**Result**

Entire thread showing people getting scammed: Adobe still charging me after I cancelled my subscription and deleting all of my accounts? : r/creativecloud

> I checked all my accounts and there’s no active plans on any of them, yet my credit card has been charged for the past few months. The worst part is that transaction doesn’t even say what plan just “Adobe” so I am so confused as to what I am being charged for(it’s like $65 a month)!! I tried calling them and they keep transferring me and putting me on hold. Any chance you remember what number or email you contacted and what you said to get the refund?

> same thing happeend to me - i swear i cancelled my subscription and 6 months later, im looking at my CC history and see i've been charged over $150 over the past months. i contacted them today and got a full refund after 25 minutes or going back and forth with customer service.

> We've had this happen to us multiple times over several years. We even got on the phone with an employee from adobe and we requested to cancel, then they gave us a free trial until "march" we didn't ask for it but they just added it. After that the account was still on a monthly plan and was active. We had cancelled 3 times, they charged us an extra two months before we noticed. Then we cancelled again and it says your account will cancel in a month...why do they do this? It's also illegal to keep your info and not let you remove it. You'll have to keep an expired card on file with them or use pay pal to prevent them from automatically charging.

> You pay monthly, but its still an "annual" plan and calling it that allows them to pull shit like this for ending it early. Plus, they no longer have a true "month to month" subscription plan on a lot of products anymore. As a developer of subscription based products, I know why they do this - its to prevent people from continually signing up for a month to month and then cancelling it halfway through the month. By having essentially a 1 month cancellation penalty, noone can get away with that.

I got a full refund but only after extensive discussion with their support. For starters, I did in fact cancel my 1 month plan properly and got a cancellation notice two years ago. I did everything right, including checking every available plan. I had not noticed that on this spare credit card, they put me on an annual subscription plan a month after my cancellation. I buy a lot of things and can't keep track of everything.

They first insisted on a 3 month refund, then a 6 month refund, etc. Eventually they admitted I was in the right. Many others fell victim to Adobe's malicious subscription plan which disguises itself as a "pay per month however you like". Hope others don't make the same mistake buying from this scummy company. If you're going to risk doing Adobe's "free monthly plan that you can cancel anytime" double check with their assistant that it's cancelled for good after cancelling on their website. But honestly stay away from this company.

I was editing a photo in lightroom and I clicked on one of my presets, then it glitched, and half of my presets (the one I clicked on included) were gone.

HELP WHAT DO I DO

Curious what folks thought of this laptop for LR. It's an older model (probably backstock) but has the larger SSD and also descent RAM for the price. The monitor can be a bit small however.

https://computers.woot.com/offers/apple-macbook-pro-13-3-laptop-m2-2022z?cjdata=MXxOfDB8WXww&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=CJ&cjevent=b6bc4d5ade5311ef8214e0af0a1cb827&utm_source=Slickdeals+LLC

Or is something like this better. Newer processor but smaller RAM and SSD. Larger screen.

https://slickdeals.net/f/18077338-apple-macbook-pro-14-laptop-m4-16gb-512gb-1-349-99-at-microcenter-price-match-at-best-buy-ymmv?src=SDSearchv3&attrsrc=Thread%3AExpired%3AFalse

Ideally I'd like to stick at the $1500 price point.