I've just bought a new iPhone and I want to transfer my Lightroom CC Mobile data from my old iPhone to my new phone. I have connected to Lightroom CC on my new phone but still nothing, I don't know what to do and I really need the images on my phone. Please suggest solutions and what to do 😊.Thank you

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I updated the LR cloud on my Mac yesterday and now the layout is fucked. The top is squished that I can't see the top row of photos anymore. The macOS window controls also lay in top of the Lightroom controls and it's hard to navigate. Also the right hand side blocks the editing icon.

Idk how to fix this and I have a shoot to edit in a few days. Thanks!

Hi all - I've had to look up the editing timestamp on a set of photos to remind myself of when I last worked on them, and I thought it'd be a useful tip to share, because it's not exactly sitting around looking visible, is it?

Using LRC 13.5.1, in the library module, select an image, scroll to the bottom of the Metadata section, and click on Customise.

In the Customise Metadata Default Panel screen, at the bottom of the Basic Info section, select Metadata Date. It will now apply to all images.

Allright Lightroom Classic (13.15.1 Camera Raw 16.5) is unbearably slow on iMach 27inch 2017 4.2 GHz Quad Core I7 Radeon Pro 580 8 GB 64 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 Ventura 13.6.9). It's really almost unusable.

I suspect it might be catalogue problems or disk problems (not the disk for the catalogue, but the disk for the photos). But, the computer is already almost 8 years old. I know the computer itself hasn't gotten slower, the CPU and memory seem to be ok. But maybe Lightroom Classic just sucks back a gazillion more resources now than it ever did??

My question is, should I buy a nice shiny new computer from Apple to see if a new CPU and OS helps noticeably? I'd copy the catalogue file over to the new computer's SSD, and open it. If it doesn't perform a lot better, my next step would be to try to create a new catalogue (from XMP's I guess?) and swap out old drives for new ones.

I have about 236000 photos from 1968 to 2024. I know it's a lot, but I also know that many of you have more, and also that SQLite (the database that Lightroom still uses, right?) should perform ok at that size with my 64GB of Ram. The catalogue file is 5.4GB, and on an SSD that seems to be performing ok.

In "Activity Monitor" the Lightroom Classic is only using about 5GB of Ram, and rarely pins even one core of the CPU. Right now I'm using 1680 pixel previews, which are stored on another SSD. It's just the original JPGs and RAWs that are on a spinning disk. So, I'm really skeptical that throwing new computational hardware at the problem will offer a solution. But, I'm willing to try it. I don't want to abandon Classic.

Hola Amigos!

Recently I discovered that there are consoles to use on Lightroom to make it easier to edit photos, such as the Logitech MX, but the reviews on Amazon say its bad and not worth it.

Do you guys know if there is another console that works better? I found the Razer Stream Controller, idk if you can edit it to use it for photo editting

Sorry for the bad english, not my native lang.

Hi Everyone! New to this community - seems like a good corner of reddit! Has anyone ever had every photo selected accidentally, and applied a preset in the develop module? Every photo gets the new preset, and when you try to undo, it views each photo as a seperate undo step - so there's no way to undo it with thousands of photos. I'm from capture one, and so I'm probably a bit green. Am I missing something here? Loving lightroom so far, but this issue is something that's happened a few times - and it's driving me a bit crazy!

I know people will say wait for bench testing but fun to speculate. SPECIFIC USE CASE SCENARIO: Large file photo enhancements with AI (Although generally server based AI SAAS). The AI augmented editing enhancements are brutally slow currently . Example: Topaz Labs AI beta function super Focus. Rendering images takes forever. Photoshop AI Denoise is not as bad but is also slow.

M4 pro mini 14/20 GPU 64Ram has new Neural engine and better CPU and $300 cheaper but memory bandwidth of 273GB/S and only 20 core GPU.

Mac Studio 12/38 64RAM has 38 core GPU and 400 GB/S memory bandwidth but older neural engine, older chip and is $300 more expensive.

For this specific use case , does anyone smart want to speculate? I cannot wait a year for M4 Mac Studio and that will likely be very expensive.

I’m looking at upgrading to the new Mac Mini or MacBook Pro and I’m trying to think about what specs will matter most when configuring the machine. What processes in Lightroom use what resources?

I noticed processing time went up while denoising images lately. Took a look in iStat and noticed zero usage of the Neural Engine. A quick google showed that they disabled it in Lightroom 14.

I also noticed... The quality is back. I was getting weird patterns and just uglier results in general whenever I used denoise lately and I was basically discarding the denoised images, dealing with the grain from my high iso shots instead.

Hopefully Apple/Adobe can sort this out at some point as it'd be nice to be using the neural engine for power savings/speed improvements, but it was not worth the sometimes drastic drop in quality I was seeing.

If you've been disappointed in the results from denoise lately on a Mac, give it a try again!

Hi,

I really screw it up. I lost my current Lightroom Classic catalog, and I have an old backup (2 months ago). I used to work on Lightroom Classic on my computer at home, and on Lightroom iPad app when I'm away. I only lost my catalog, i still have all my pictures.

I can see my work on my iPad. I would like to re-create a new catalog where I can use all information available on my iPad for my recent work (at least what i did the last two months), and use my last backup for all the other pictures.

How can i merge them without losing one of them ? Espacially the iPad work, since I still have my old backup.

Thanks in advance for your help!!

Edit: I'm using LrClassic 14.0.1, and Lightroom 10.0.1 on my iPad

I am working with images edited in Aftershoot and then opening the LrC catalog -- normally I can hit the \ to see the before & after or the Y to see the side by side... neither are working. The "before" is showing me the edited state, not the import state. It is sort of 'flashing' the actual original before for a tiny split second...but then it is showing me what AS did as the before state. I have tried restarting both LrC and my machine. I updated my OS to Sequoia yesterday, wondering if it's related. Anyone else having this issue or know how to fix it? Its driving me nuts not being able to see the before.

My Lightroom Classic keeps getting stuck syncing as well as bouncing between 10-12 thousand photos. I've tried restarting the Windows device several times and tried the rebuild sync data trick twice and it still gets stuck 11,440 photos pending even after being on for hours.

I'm on Windows 11 Microsoft Surface Pro 6

Does anyone have any other ideas? My Surface is as up to date as it can be and I have not had this issue before. I am aware I am not the only one who has experienced this issue but I would like to find a way to keep my catalogues intact without having to delete them to then reinstall.

I edit RAW images (about 85MB each) in Lightroom (Lr) and notice that each image loads slowly - they are pixelated before full quality is displayed after a while. This has not been a problem in the past. What tips do you have for speeding up Lightroom?

Hey guys, I am think about getting the new Mac Mini M4 and my most demanding tasks will likely be to edit vacation pictures (Raw files from Fuji xt20) in Lightroom. Should I just go with the base model with 16GB of ram and 256 gb ssd or should I upgrade to 24GB of ram. I will use a ssd 1 tb hard drive anyway to store my pictures. It is just important to me that editing is quick and that I can use the device for the next 5/6 years. Thanks already for your help

I swear that syncing, exporting and basic editing on Lightroom for iPad has taken a total nosedive the past few weeks.

Syncing - It takes forever and a day longer than it used to.

Exporting - For some reason exports get stuck now on a random file. It’s beyond frustrating, it just sits there with this stupid message “rendering - this may take some time”. This will be on like a random file, like say file 3 of 30. You have no way of telling what is the problem and lightroom just sits there like a moron.

So I have to now go through and export each one individually! That still works! It‘s so dumb.

General edits and the like are just so unresponsive now. Something relatively simple, like rotating the image, there’ are big old gaping pauses now and it’s death by a thousand cuts to my workflow!

IT WASNT THIS BAD BEFORE! What happened? Is It all that AI enshittification that Adobe is chasing that is distracting them from the real bread and butter? I have the latest iPad Pro with copious amounts of ram, this hsouldn’t be happening but it is! ARGH!

I just received the X-Touch Mini today and am having the hardest time setting it up for LR Classic. Every tutorial I have found is severally out dated and the files/presets/mappings they reference no longer exist. I am about ready to throw this thing out the window and I have only had it for about 4 hours. Is there anyone here that can offer REAL instructions and help, or at least direct me to some??? Please and thank you.

I recently returned from a trip with many photos. I imported and processed along the way. I save my catalogue on an external hard drive.

I've just opened LRC to export some photos and on opening it asked me to update the catalogue. I couldn't access the program without doing this.

Once it opened I could access my photos but the last 3 or 4 imports aren't there.

Is there a way to recover these?

Please help, they were some of the best photos of my trip

I was trying to export files i had edited on Lightroom, I did export jpg (large) with all those normal settings; why is the exported jpg so much larger than my cr2 files? I did the same to similar pictures from the shoot earlier this week; but only the photos i edited today have the large size discrepancy.

I am in the middle of editing a massive wedding, and I just updated LR. Any time I make edits on a photo, it dings at me and refuses to switch to the next photo. Not until I click on a new tool will it let me switch to the next photo. I can usually edit a wedding pretty fast, and this is completely destroying my flow. Does anyone know if I can fix this in my settings?

I use Lightroom Classic on my desktop combined with Lightroom CC on my laptop and phone. I use collections to be able to make edits on my laptop and phone, then exporting the full resolution image from classic.

When I make a copy of an image in classic I can export the copy at full resolution, but when I make a copy in CC it won't export at full resolution even when exporting from classic.

So far the only work around I've found is making another copy on classic and then copying the settings from the CC copy before exporting.

Is there a better way to approach this?

Thank You.

Now that Apple announced the M4 Macbook Pro and M4 Mac Mini, I'm deciding between Macbook Pro vs Mac Mini for photo editing using Lightroom.

Would Macbook Pro be much slower than Mac Mini for sustained workloads? I know the base speeds for M4 laptops and desktops are almost the same, so my main question concerns the speed that the computer can hold when all CPU cores have already been engaged for at least a few minutes. (If Macbook Pro has worse heat dissipation than Mac Mini, it's going to be slower for sustained workloads.)

When I import my photos to Lightroom the default sort order of the photos is always "Custom Order". I prefer it to be "Capture Time", but can't find anywhere in Preferences to change it. LIGHTROOM CLASSIC 14.0.1

Ive been struggling with LR performance for years now, and like so many of you its been just getting worse and worse. I had this thought to try and play with my CPUs affinity (what cpu cores a program is allowed to utilize) because like 5 years ago Puget Systems did a test where they disabled hyperthreading / SMT (this is a feature of modern CPUs that allows them to utilize a single physical CPU core to process two threads simultaneously) and found that LR was significantly faster with it disabled. Now since then Adobe and windows have both issues fixes, and we all assumed the issue was fully in the past. However, I am noticing a huge improvement on my 5950x in LR with SMT disabled. Building previews and exporting are a tad slower, but general usability and image load time is easily twice as fast.

Obviously this is a PC only solution, and shouldn't be an issue on Apple devices. To try this yourself use a program called process lasso, and you can set LR to disable SMT. There are other ways to do this, but this is by far the easiest if you want to just test it out / don't have a ton of technical knowledge.

I don't know why this issue is back for LR, and it could be a windows issue or even a AMD / Intel issue as this deals directly with the process scheduler (the way that software is told to utilize different cpu cores and virtual cores). I don't have any performance issues with other programs though so its hard to say for certain.

Either way this made a massive difference for my setup: 5950x, 3080, 64gb, Catalogs on NVME, Images on NAS with 10gbe, Windows 11 fresh install.

Hello again, I have a Windows PC and I notice that LrC is going very badly, the components are not the latest (ryzen 7 2700X, 48GB of RAM, RX 580 4GB VRAM) but it lags a lot when applying various masks.

I am considering renewing the PC with a 4060 and a Ryzen 9 5900X but I am afraid, because I have read that the fact that LrC works poorly is due to the poor optimization of its code.

Apparently it does not use the computer components well, and now is when Apple enters the equation. I have read that on Mac, it runs perfectly and that it is more optimized.

Do you think it's a good idea to spend approximately 500 on renewing my PC? or spend 600 on a mac mini with 16GB of RAM, 256SSD and M4?

If I chose Mac I would have to take external drives

Right now Lightroom can create masks selections for the eyes sclera, irises, eyebrows, etc. for all the 30 kids in the photo automatically, but for the red eye correction?
Nah!
I have to click 60 times in every and each eye?! Y__Y

To be honest, I haven't used it in like a decade as well...

Anyone found a good deal for subscription prices? Last year I got a black Friday Amazon deal for the photography bundle with 1T storage for like $120. Hoping to find another sale sometime soon. 🙏

Does anyone else upload to Dropbox after editing in Lightroom? I’m a Mac user and I find the pictures to be grainy after uploading and I’m wondering if there’s a better process to prevent that. After Lightroom I export to a folder on Mac desktop, then drag the folder into Lightroom. Is there a better way? It seems to lose resolution after this process. (I also shoot in RAW with my Canon R5) Any friendly advice is appreciated.

Anyone know of a free mosaic tool for creating a large mosaic photo? SO essentially taking a single large photo - and dividing it up into 270 separate pieces. Sort of like a backwards pano tool. I'm on Lightroom 14.0.1 - perhaps a plugin is available?

I have two separate Lightroom catalogs on two different external hard drives. Despite having a brand new, high-spec Mac Studio, imports and moving files are painfully slow. The drive is a G-Drive with Thunderbolt connection. My questions:

1. How can I speed up importing, editing, etc...? I'd prefer not to store my photos on my internal drive

2. Any risk or downsides to merging catalogs?

Any advice or recommendations for resources are greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Really, a new splash screen should headline the feature list of LRc 2024. God it was awful. I will think of it always each time LR opens.