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/r/Lightroom is a subreddit about Adobe Lightroom.

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    Welcome to /r/Lightroom. As a general rule, all threads need to be about Adobe Lightroom, the Lightroom Mobile App, and within the scope of Lightroom add-ons/plugins/presets.

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    Megathreads / Useful links

    Getting Started with Lightroom CC
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    Guidelines/Rules

    1- Tag your Posts accordingly.
    2- Posts need to be Lightroom related.
    3- Low effort post will be removed accordingly. This includes, "how to" emulation a certain look posts.
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    5- The following links will be removed, short links, affiliated links, blogspam, kickstarters/fund me, and referral links ARE NOT allowed.
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    7- Serious discussions only (comments and posts), No Trolling/Spamming. This could lead to a Banned.
    8- Report accordingly and keep this community clean.
    9- Posts will be treated on a base by base case and handled accordingly.
    10- Other Questions/Comments/Suggestion, contact the MODs.

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    Mimicking Kodak Ektar H35 film?

    Hey guys I’m new to Lightroom and I’m trying to mimic the look of the photos from my Kodak ektar h35 or hopefully something similar. Can anyone please help me or point me in the right direction?

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    2024/03/26
    11:13 UTC

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    Lightroom Lens blur - Batch export

    I've edited a large number of photos where I apply the Lens blur effect.

    However when I batch export the photos the effect is not applied in all the photos. I have to go in to each individual photo, apply and reapply the effect, some times more than once in order for the software to calculate the effect.

    When I'm no longer "looking" at the photo the effect sometimes disappears regardless and is still not applied in the batch export. Anyone have any expertise with this, is there any way to force the effect to the exports?

    1 Comment
    2024/03/26
    10:19 UTC

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    Is it possible to set an exact custom crop size/ratio in Lightroom mobile ANDROID?

    Otherwise, which alternative lightweight app (not Photoshop) is able to do it on mobile?

    0 Comments
    2024/03/26
    06:15 UTC

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    Lightroom mobile (iPad) auto sync when opened after pausing

    Hi all, I am traveling and do not sync when on the road due to data limitations. I have multiple backups. I monitor my mobile data usage and noticed 18GB used last night. From what I can see, it was Lightroom mobile. I deliberately pause sync on both ipad and iphone. I just noticed when I opened Lightroom ipad it started syncing automatically. I paused sync, closed and then opened again and it started syncing again. Only seems to be doing this on ipad version. Is there something I am missing?

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    2024/03/26
    04:33 UTC

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    Recomputing AI masks on iPad workaround

    For a while now I’ve been frustrated with having to “recompute AI masks” after doing a mass paste on Lightroom for iPad. Today, I learned that I can save a step in the recomputing by selecting the masks icon and then hitting the previous settings button. A prompt will pop up offering to apply only the mask settings from the previous image. Once applied It will recompute all the masks rather having to manually select every single mask to recompute. It‘s still a little clunky but saves a few steps.

    1 Comment
    2024/03/26
    01:37 UTC

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    How do you differentiate lightroom classic vs lightroom?

    I use lightroom classic for almost all of my work, so I've gotten used to just calling it "lightroom." Whenever I'm talking about the other "lightroom" though, I get stuck trying to think of a way to refer to it without mixing it up with the former.

    Anybody have their own way of referring to them? or are we all just reveling in the confusion?

    https://preview.redd.it/vthx03i0zkqc1.jpg?width=341&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b139254e86d92596790bde74cf79ab2afec3b2f

    10 Comments
    2024/03/26
    01:35 UTC

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    Deleting all pics that are not in any album ?

    Is there a way one can delete all pics that are not present in any album ?

    (without; flagging them as picked and then deleting all unpicked pics...)

    -I'm asking since I always import pics in some album, then select those imported pics, and delete the ones that I dont need -putting them in the 'All Photos' folder.
    is there a way to delete all the pics in there, without it effecting all pics that are in some album.

    2 Comments
    2024/03/25
    22:19 UTC

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    Having problems with Lightroom, need advice

    Hey everyone,

    I'm a graphic designer originally but always had a soft spot for photography.

    Finally got my first gear few months ago. Sony a6300 with two Sony G objectives: 50mm f/1.8, 18-105mm f/4.0 and a Samyang 14mm f/2.8 manual objective. Got these and a few extra stuff like bags and basic tripods etc. second handed for 800 euros total.

    I'm quite happy with the camera and all other gear. But now I'm having problems with editing the photos.

    I'm quite accustomed to Adobe CS apps, mostly Ps and Ai because of graphic design. Using them without any problems and very happily on my OLED panel Asus Zenbook, which has 11th gen i5 and 8gb 4200mhz on board ram. It runs some complex Ps and Ai files easily.

    But freezes with Lightroom, LrC and even on Camera Raw on Photoshop.

    Cleared cache and set performance mode on settings, no change. Before I got my camera, time to time I'd rent or borrow some cameras. Lightroom was smooth back then, before all those Ai tools came out. Now, I'm connecting my bluetooth mouse/keyboard to my phone and using Lightroom Mobile because the damn app stuttering on the laptop.

    I find it weird the pc running some quite big vector files on Illustrator just fine, but can't handle masking a god damn raw photo. Also having no problem on Photoshop either (except Camera Raw)

    Only possible reason I can think is that I've 3-4k photos on Lightroom Cloud. But if it was the reason I wouldn't have problems with Lightroom Classic and Camera Raw. Right?

    I'm thinking maybe using an older version until I upgrade my pc. Or using an alternative app, which I don't know any...

    I'm open to any suggestions regarding fixing Lightroom or alternative apps.

    ps. I'm not sure where to post this, r/photography or r/Lightroom subreddit. So I'm posting to both

    13 Comments
    2024/03/25
    18:48 UTC

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    What colour profile should I use for LR, My MacBook Pro and my Sony A7c2?

    We would like to print some photos what colour profile should I use (Srgb, Adobergb) And what setting should I use on My? One from the above or P3.

    Hope someone can help me.

    7 Comments
    2024/03/25
    18:20 UTC

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    Workflow tips for managing raw+jpeg and prioritizing jpeg?

    New to the Fuji world and trying to sort this out. On my DSLR my workflow is generally:

    • Make a collection set with 2024.03.25_Shoot Name
    • Make a "All" regular collection within that where I import all photos
    • Cull/rate/flag as needed in that collection
    • Then move selects into a "Picks" collection also within that set

    But with raw+jpeg on Fuji – where I'm personally looking to treat the jpeg as the "main" photo and the raw as the backup – this process feels messy.

    It seems like if you let LR treat them as a single image, it prioritizes the raw. And if you treat them separately, then you have to deal with having double of everything.

    So far I've found 2 plugins that slightly improve things:

    • Any Source to auto-stack each respective jpeg and raw into a stack, and place the jpeg on top of the stack
    • Syncomatic to "sync" any ratings/flags/labels I apply to the top image in the stack to the bottom image

    But there's some annoying limitations with those plugins – Any Source's auto stacking is very "manual" and can take minutes to stack a lot of images, and Syncomatic can only sync stacks in the folder view and not within a collection.

    LR itself also handles stacks in a weird way too where I can't easily move a stack around, it just moves the top image.

    Sorry for the rant but I'm curious if I'm missing something or if LR just kind of sucks when dealing with raw+jpeg. Basically I'd love for them to be treated as one image, rate/flag and move them around as one image, with a little toggle to easily "switch to raw" or "switch to jpeg" depending on which I wanted to edit.

    8 Comments
    2024/03/25
    16:58 UTC

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    Just picked up a M3 MacBook Air, Lightroom app vs browser?

    Hello, I just picked up my new MacBook. I’ve been working off of my iPad and iPhone Lightroom app for the past couple years since I edit on the run for the most part. On my old windows laptop I had the disc install version of Lightroom..

    What do you all recommend I use on the MacBook? Should I download the app or work off the browser? Pros/cons?

    5 Comments
    2024/03/25
    16:41 UTC

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    Pictures correct exposure on import and then darker on develop

    I shoot with a Nikon z6ii and according to my camera, I have the correct exposure on my photos. I've shot RAW for years instead of JPEG. In the past couple of months, when I'm importing my photos into Lightroom Classic on my MacBook Pro, they look great and with a correct exposure, but as soon as I press develop, they darken by a couple of stops. I can always adjust, but I'm not sure what's going on. Does Lightroom show a JPEG first? Is there some setting I'm missing?

    4 Comments
    2024/03/25
    13:51 UTC

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    Lightroom mobile only dark mode help.

    Hi all, as above. I love Lightroom. Edits always look amazing. What I struggle with like many is only dark mode available on mobile. Yet we publish to many white background social media. How do you work around this? It drives me mad. If I post something often I have to delete it straighaway go back to Lightroom and lighten the photo bit more.

    0 Comments
    2024/03/25
    12:58 UTC

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    Editing in Lightroom on iPad Pro from local storage

    I've been trying to optimize my workflow in Lightroom and was wondering if it is possible to edit photos in Lightroom on the iPad from local storage. As of now I do my culling in Lightroom Classic, but I much prefer using the stylus on my Ipad so I upload my selected photos into the Lightroom cloud. This, however, takes far to long for each photo to be loaded (even after everything is synced up), especially if I'm working with a lot of files (let's say more than 400). The perfect setup would be putting my selected photos on a dedicated SSD and editing it directly on my iPad, without ever needing to go through the cloud. But if I understand correctly it can only be done using the cloud. Has anyone done this directly from an SSD/USB drive?

    Thanks in advance!

    4 Comments
    2024/03/25
    12:50 UTC

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    New to LR; is there a mandatory step for everybody when they edit RAW files?

    As per questions; RAW files may not be the most crisp/clear photos so i was wondering what do you guys do to make the photo clearer? (Eg. Sharpen the image?..) Thank you

    14 Comments
    2024/03/25
    09:00 UTC

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    Thinking of Switching to LR...

    I'm a hobby photographer, and might look to eventually start doing it part time paid. For the past 3 months I've been exclusively using Darktable (note I have a fair bit of editing experience over the years so I wasn't exactly a complete novice) and I feel like Darktable is just too powerful. I'm quite busy in life and just want to take photos and edit them, not learn nifty details about such specific modules that we have in Darktable. I understand Darktable is a photo developer more than an editor, but lets be honest many people started on it just because it was the free alternative to Lightroom.

    That being said, I despise Adobe and their business practices, but I also hate how novice peers can take a photo and just make it look good within minutes (I know LR is doing a lot of processing) with minimal work, while I have to spend quite a while with details on color alone.

    I started with Darktable convinced that I'll stick to it and learn it properly because at the end you can be better off than you would using LR, but for someone that isn't so invested in this it just doesn't seem worth the extra hassle.

    Really thinking of just paying $13/month for the LR+PS pack 20 gb. Thoughts?

    14 Comments
    2024/03/25
    06:40 UTC

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    Does AI Denoise overwrite manual noise reduction?

    Simple question really, if I have an image that the preset I used includes manual noise reduction and I then use AI denoise is the manual reduction ignored?

    Secondary but related question, does it actually matter the order for denoise AI? If I have a bunch of files I need to edit and I know I will need to denoise them, can I just go ahead and batch the denoise overnight and then edit in the morning or is that counterintuitive?

    3 Comments
    2024/03/25
    02:52 UTC

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    Different outcomes computer/phone

    I just downloaded the free trail of Lightroom yesterday. I love it. However when I went to use one of my pictures on my phone I noticed it was really red. However it does not look that way on my computer.

    I know that this is a computer vs. Phone issue however I'm curious how to go about making them appealing to both formats? In order to make my pictures reasonable especially the color red, I have to heavily mute it which unfortunately doesn't really make it pop the way I want it to on the computer. What do I do?

    3 Comments
    2024/03/25
    01:42 UTC

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    Grid view maximum sized thumbnails still too small on ultrawide monitor (3440x1440).

    So this has bee posted before, but I'm hoping someone has found a suitable solution or workaround since. I've mainly used LR on my laptop for the past 10 years or so, but I recently got an ultrawide monitor for my home desktop.

    Problem is, even at the largest size allowed by the thumbnail slider in grid view, I still get rows of 5 frames across, much too small to see subtle differences between shots for culling. They're hardly much bigger than the preview in the navigator pane in the top left.

    It just seems so silly that I finally have all this screen space, but I can't even use it properly. I tried the second monitor view, but that creates its own problems. Someone suggested reducing my screen resolution, but I don't seem to have one that is smaller but still in a widescreen aspect ratio, so I'm just wasting screen space in a different way.

    1 Comment
    2024/03/24
    23:27 UTC

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    Downloader: 9,000+ failed downloads due to "User is not authenticated"—will retry only focus on those or redo everything?

    So, if I start the downloader over again, will it recognize that it already downloaded some 20,000+ photos and skip those, or will it redownload these all over again, potentially leading to another batch that fails due to a sudden "User is not authenticated" error? Thanks.

    0 Comments
    2024/03/24
    20:48 UTC

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    Changing masking settings

    Hello! I am new to masking in LRC, and I am wondering if you can change the masking settings prior to subject selection? The borders of my subjects always are super blurry, I’m assuming because of the feathering. I want to lower the feathering but I only see a feathering adjustment option when using the brush.

    3 Comments
    2024/03/24
    20:38 UTC

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    New to the lightroom

    Hi guy's, im new to the lightroom app, could u share with me some of your preset's?

    1 Comment
    2024/03/24
    20:29 UTC

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    Any external plug/in software to help with resolution of photo for cropping?

    As all birders know, more focal length is always needed. I have a nice shot of a bird but its a bit far away so when cropping in it's looking a bit crappy. Not sure if there is nowadays and software plugin for Lightroom which will let me crop more into the photo so the bird is more in the subject and not so bad quality after all the post porcessing?

    2 Comments
    2024/03/24
    20:06 UTC

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    Lightroom Cloud running very slow on new Macbook

    So just bought a new Macbook Air M3 15inch 8gb RAM 512GB with the hopes of editing with lightroom as my previous one was about 8 years older and barely alive.

    Since downloading Lightroom and trying to start editing it has been running ridiculously slow to the point of it lagging and stuttering and my mouse freezing constantly. Also, this is affecting other apps like chrome too which can't function due to Lightroom taming taking up all the laptops processing power.

    I'm not sure if it is the 8gb RAM that is causing this or if it's that it is currently syncing all my photos to the cloud. The syncing to the cloud is also incredibly slow, I've been trying to sync 1.7k photos a mix of raw and jpeg and so far it's probably syncing one file every 10-15minutes.

    I have read around and seen that 16gb RAM is the actual recommended amount for Lightroom so I'm aware this could be the issue but just not sure if the syncing to cloud is contributing further in taking up all my laptops power.

    I'm still within the 14 day returns period so could go and return and get the 16gb RAM instead if this will be an ongoing issue.

    Would appreciate some help as I've only been using Lightroom mobile previously.

    10 Comments
    2024/03/24
    19:18 UTC

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    How can I can have my LR Classic v11 again?? Updated to v13.2 and hate it!

    Hello everyone,

    I've always loved Lightroom and I was on version v11 with great success.

    Today I had the sad idea of ​​updating to v13.2 and I'm hating it, mainly because the previews of the presets take forever to show on the photo, whereas in v11 it was automatic and I could quickly scroll through the list to see which preset was best suited as a starting point.

    I really want to go back to v11, but don´t know how! Someone help me please??

    Thank you so much!

    7 Comments
    2024/03/24
    19:13 UTC

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    How can I can have my LR Classic v11 again?? Updated to v13.2 and hate it!

    Hello everyone,

    I've always loved Lightroom and I was on version v11 with great success.

    Today I had the sad idea of ​​updating to v13.2 and I'm hating it, mainly because the previews of the presets take forever to show on the photo, whereas in v11 it was automatic and I could quickly scroll through the list to see which preset was best suited as a starting point.

    I really want to go back to v11, but don´t know how! Someone help me please??

    Thank you so much!

    0 Comments
    2024/03/24
    19:13 UTC

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    Adding a White Frame for Printing?

    I feel like a total idiot, but cannot figure this out. I just started the Lightroom trial on my computer with hopes of ensuring it meets my needs before committing to the monthly fee. I take professional photos and would like to be able to add a 0.5" frame around them for print when I sell my photos and send them out to customers. I cannot figure out how to add a frame to save my life. All of the answers I'm finding online seem to suggest a 'print module' in earlier versions of Lightroom that no longer exists. Should I be using Photoshop instead, or can Lightroom set printing parameters including changing sizes of images to suit typical print formats/adding white frames?

    I am using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom version 7.2 from the app store on my mac laptop. Thanks!

    5 Comments
    2024/03/24
    18:54 UTC

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    Did I really delete all my user presets?

    I think I did something so stupid. I use the app DaisyDisk when my Mac gets full to quickly delete things that are taking up the most space. I usually never touch Adobe App Support but it was a much larger file than usual and I think I deleted it in an editing frenzy last week. I just went into Lightroom and all my user presets are gone- when I checked their location, they're deep in the Application Support folder.

    Did I really delete them all for good? Any secret way to get them back???

    2 Comments
    2024/03/24
    18:46 UTC

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    I seriously can’t figure out how to install lightroom on my lightroom app for my iPhone

    I meant to ask how to install lightroom presets on the lightroom app

    And NO none of the directions I have found online worked. And no video worked either. I have an iPhone 12. Here is a 22 second video of me showing you what I have done (the warning before the video says it contains erotic images but it doesn’t, the Lightroom preset’s name is boudoir so Imgur is stupid and flagging that as erotic). I have looked at various instructions on websites and none work. I have an unzipping file app if need be. I have all the tools needed and nothing worked. Tried clicking and holding dng file and pressing share but the Lightroom app does not show up. Clicked more and I couldn’t add Lightroom app

    4 Comments
    2024/03/24
    18:01 UTC

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    How do I crop images to achieve same object size on all of them?

    I took 100'ish pictures of people wearing sunglasses which were taken at different distances/focal lengths. How can I crop all these images in a way that the sunglasses are the same size and position in all pictures. What is the most efficient working method in Lightroom (or Photoshop if needed, never worked with it)?

    I tried working with guide lines already, but the image in crop mode is smaller than the outcome (which is normal), so that does not work well.

    Thanks in advance!

    For reference, the desired output: https://www.tiktok.com/@isaacanon/video/7273927901584706822

    4 Comments
    2024/03/24
    14:44 UTC

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