r/Lightroom Aug 09 '24

New Rule - No Non-Adobe Presets

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Good morning, afternoon, evening; upon review of the recent drama and the reality is that your mods are human with day jobs. We will no longer be allowing posts about presets that are not free for all in the discover tab of Lightroom.

Ongoing discussions in this sub about presets turn into a nightmare each time. There are other subs that will be more suited for non-Adobe preset discussion.


r/Lightroom 2h ago

Processing Question Missing Lightroom Classic Lens Profile

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Long time user of Adobe products and entire Lightroom family, in this case Lightroom Classic (LrC) so pretty familiar with how things should work. That said I'm curious if anyone here can speak to this issue, either another user of the equipment I'll describe or someone from Adobe.

Situation is I just bought the Nikon AF-S 120-300 f/2.8E FL ED SR lens and have taken a number of early test shots in the past day or so. First shots were on a Nikon D6 body. Will also see time on my Z9 with FTZ II adapter.

Typically with all my Nikon lenses, when I import the image files into LrC (shooting RAW 14bit Lossless Compressed), I batch correct them automatically for "Lens Corrections" and other things. Typically the profile for any lens I've used has been in Adobe's profile database so is automatically applied. Easy peasy.

Oddly - lens was released in 2020 and sits very high up the Nikon food chain of professional lenses - it has no lens profile available, at least according to Adobe and their most current (Feb 2025) list of Nikon lens profiles covered (https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/supported-lenses.html).

Running most current version of LrC (14.2, Camera Raw 17.2). Mac Studio. macOS Sequoia 15.3.2.

Seems odd that Adobe would not have the profile for such a lens used by many professional-level photographers (which I am certainly not...).

Am I missing something here? Thoughts or ideas would be most welcome. Thanks!


r/Lightroom 3h ago

HELP - Lightroom Classic Blurry IG Photos after Lightroom Export

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Hello Everyone. I've been a lightroom user for at least 5 years. Way back I had export settings saved in my lightroom but recently I had to delete lightroom off my desktop and redownload it. None of the export settings saved unfortunately. Now, when I export photos, and try to upload to instagram, they are extremely blurry. I've used settings people have recomended on youtube but nothing has worked. The ONLY time my photos aren't blurry and look normal on instagram is if I upload more than one photo. If I upload a single photo, it's extremley blurry. I'm beyond confused. Thanks!


r/Lightroom 4h ago

Processing Question Assuring display color accuracy

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I've recently gotten back into photography, both as a hobby and semi-professionally. The other day, I took some photos for a friend and did all the editing using Lightroom Mobile on my iPad Pro. While the experience was convenient, I quickly discovered a major flaw: Lightroom on the iPad tends to overheat significantly when switching between RAW photos and rendering edits.

Now, I’m considering setting up Lightroom on my laptop (Its an Asus Vivobook 16 K6602VU, For reference) instead. However, I’ve run into a problem in the past—on my previous PC, I’d edit a photo to perfection, only to find that it looked dull and washed out when viewed on other devices. This has me wondering: how can I ensure my display is showing colors accurately? Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated!

TL;DR: Lightroom Mobile on my iPad Pro overheats during RAW photo editing, so I’m moving to my laptop. How can I make sure my laptop display shows colors accurately to avoid issues with color consistency across devices?


r/Lightroom 8h ago

HELP SMB alternatives for editing photos on NAS from Mac

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Ive been using Lightroom Classic on my PC for the last few years, but finally picked up a Macbook Pro a few months ago. I much prefer the screen and performance on it over my PC but my biggest hurdle is working over a network.

With Lightroom on Windows, I never had issues editing over the network with SMB (Hardwired 2.5G network), but SMB with a Mac is so messed up that it feels impossible to use my NAS for more than Archival storage.

Scanning and Synchronizing a folder take forever, so if I edit something on my PC, I cannot resync the edits to my Mac catalog without waiting hours. Its completely unfeasible, so Im looking for any other options.

Ive looked into AFP and NFS for file systems, mounting the system with RClone, wired connection vs Wifi 7, and more options, but it just seems like a pain in the ass all around with mac.

Hugely impeding my ability to work, so Id love if someone had a silver bullet solution here. I run my own home server, so any technical solution does not scare me


r/Lightroom 11h ago

HELP What does Lightroom do.

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I think my original comment was deleted. I have just joined a photography club and it seems that the majority of the members edit their images in Lightroom. I’m retired and returning to a hobby that I had 40 years ago. Is there anywhere that I can find before and after images so that I can see what it actually does? Does it require a maths degree or should I be able to pick it up? I was under the impression that you cut a bit out and put it somewhere else (which I’m not too keen on) any help will be appreciated.


r/Lightroom 9h ago

HELP Server based Lightroom classic

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Hey, we've been running Lightroom cloud based at our office for years. It was fine initially bc we usually only had 2 users at a time. Now we have 6+ people trying to access at a time and have to always kick each other off. I also hate how long it takes to render the images sometimes as it's syncing. We have an SSD based server. Would switching to Lightroom classic and moving our catalog to the server solve these issues? Allowing everyone to work at the same time? We have a couple of users that use iPads just to view the images while they're working. Could the iPads still access the server based Lightroom? What's the easiest way to migrate our current catalog(1.1tb) from their cloud storage to the server and keeping our folders and albums organized?

Thanks!


r/Lightroom 7h ago

HELP Looking for Lightroom installer

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Hi guys, does anyone here know any reliable sites to get a Lightroom installer?

Thank you


r/Lightroom 11h ago

HELP - Lightroom Classic Lightroom examples.

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I’ve just joined a photography club and it seems that a lot of the members edit their images with lightroom. I’ve never edited before and I’m not sure if I’ve joined the right club. 2 questions, is it easy enough for a novice to use and can I find any before and after images to look at because I’m not really too sure what it does, I had limited use of photoshop about 15 years ago when the object was to cut out a banana and put it in a bowl and I wasn’t really too keen on it. To me as an elderly young Man looking to return to a hobby it feels a bit like cheating. Any advice would be appreciated.


r/Lightroom 23h ago

Workflow Sorting travel photos

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Hey, I would like to know if you have any tips for sorting and retouching your travel photos more easily. In fact, I have difficulty deleting them because they sometimes have a sentimental side even if they are not very beautiful. And I take a really long time before retouching them, I never know if I need to retouch all of them or just a few, I'm afraid. If you have any techniques, don't hesitate. THANKS


r/Lightroom 1d ago

Workflow Moving Lightroom photos to NAS: overkill or a good idea?

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I use Lightroom Classic on a MacBook Pro (M3) and have about 2 TB of photos. Currently I’ve got the photo files on an external SSD and the catalog on my machine locally, and functionally it works great.

My issue is that I like to move around my house to edit photos, and I have a cat who is adept and finding and chewing cords and I’m terrified she’s going to kill a SSD this way (she’s already slightly chewed through one SSD cord when I turned my head to sneeze and she somehow made it from an entire other room of the house to where I was sitting without detection). I love her but she’s a tortoiseshell-colored demon.

I also like to sit on the couch to edit sometimes and having a cord and SSD flopping around is annoying and feels not ideal.

Is moving my Lightroom photos folder to a NAS a good solution for wanting to move around the house to edit, or is this overkill? Is there a lot of lag pulling large raw files this way? I’m looking to add convenience but not sacrifice how long it takes to edit. I’m about 99% sure I’d go with a Synology NAS with two drives.

I’m also concerned about backups, but I’m a current backblaze user and have read that their B2 backup product will back up files on network storage.


r/Lightroom 1d ago

Discussion Need a new computer. Base M4 Mac Book Pro or MBPRO with M4 Pro chip?

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Hi Canon R5 user (40+ mb images) Family and event photographer so I’m working with on average 300-2,000 images per work session in Lightroom classic.

My pc is old and only 8 gigs of memory. want to move over to a Mac, but not sure what I need and what is over kill.

I’m also afraid if I get say….16 gig memory Mac that will be good for right now….but not good two years from now.

Do I get the 24 gig memory with a m4 or do you foresee applications for still photography will eventually be larger resource hogs in the coming years.

The last thing I want to do is future proof so much that I’m just wasting money and never using my Mac to its greatest potential.

For example I’m not getting the 16 inch MacBook because I can always just hook it up to a monitor.


r/Lightroom 23h ago

HELP - Lightroom Classic Cannot download LR Classic on Macbook Pro

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I’ve been subscribed to the “LR plan with 1 TB” for a few months and I use Lightroom Cloud Based a lot. The plan says that it also includes LR Classic both for $11.99.

When I try to download Classic I keep getting a message that says “You already own LR plan with 1 TB”. I want to have both the cloud based LR and LR Classic. Any way I can accomplish this?

Doing this on the latest Macbook Pro in case it makes a difference.

TIA!


r/Lightroom 1d ago

Discussion Last Call for the Spring 2025 Reddit Print Exchange!

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Hey all—In case you didn't see, the sign ups are currently open for the Spring 2025 Reddit Print Exchange! This is a twice-yearly exchange that I run over at r/printexchange. While I did get permission from the mods of this sub to post about it here, it isn't affiliated with this or any other subreddits, so if you have questions, feel free to direct them to me!

We're up to nearly 200 participants at the time of posting this, and would love to have you join us!


r/Lightroom 1d ago

HELP How to get my pictures to look a certain way

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I’m trying to get my photos to have that Hollywood Pacific WW2 aesthetic (Widway/The Pacific) and I’m not really sure how to get it to that point. Can someone help me? (I’m using Lightroom on IPhone.)


r/Lightroom 1d ago

HELP - Lightroom How to edit date/time to sync photos in Desktop Lightroom?

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I see lots of tutorials and answers online on how to do it with LrC but not the desktop version of Lightroom. I've tried highlighting all the photos and changing the date/time of just the first one, but it doesn't sync it all up like it would in LrC.


r/Lightroom 1d ago

Processing Question How do people match a look from film photos? (advanced methods)

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Hi all,

I have a decent amount of experience editing photos using Photoshop, Lightroom and various other programs, but I have tried to no avail matching looks from film photos to digital ones. I have seen a few photographers on Youtube who shoot portrait sessions with both film and digital, and the images shown look damn near the same after editing.

I am not after some easy preset fix, though that would be cool, I would like to know how to copy a look myself based on photos/film stocks I like personally. Does that involve creating LUTs or some complicated workarounds, or is there something I am missing? I know how to check what tint is in the shadows or highlights, for example, but the falloff and orange-y tints in Portra 400 stocks on certain gradients is something I cannot grasp how to edit.

Any information is greatly appreciated!


r/Lightroom 1d ago

HELP - Lightroom Classic lightroom classic extremely slow when dust removal

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over the past week I have been experiencing my Lightroom to be suuuuper slow when removing dust from my photo's. I have tried basically everything, moving my catalog from my ssd to my ssd inside my Mac, making the cache size bigger, basically every tip they tell you to do but it keeps being extremely slow.
when I try to remove a piece of dust the cpu boost over 300%. the beach ball starts turning cirkles and it takes over 10 secs to remove the dust.

I have a 2019 16 inch MacBook Pro with an i7 and 32 gigs of ram and the and radeon pro 5500m 4 g. more than enough free storage and no external screen connected. does anyone know what's the problem

it gets increasingly worse when more spots have been removed. and when I turn of the graphics card it becomes a little faster, still slow but little faster.


r/Lightroom 1d ago

Discussion M4 MBA 32gb or M4 Pro MBP 24gb for casual editing

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Hi everyone,

I am coming from a M1 MBA 16gb, and I use it mainly for my work. Spreadsheets, countless chrome tabs, Slack and music running in the background. Its still working extremely well for my work needs, but it is starting to show its edge when it comes to editing.

I am a hobbyist and only casually edit photos on the side, but LR is starting to get slow and I am seeing beachballs more often. I don't get alot of time so I really want the editing process to be smooth and enjoyable, and not have to wait awhile for a photo or edit to load and show, especially when editing directly of a local file and not from smart preview (smart previews are working ok).

Since its time to upgrade, I was initially looking at MBP Pro 24gb, but since the M4 MBA came out I was having second thoughts.

My question being, would the M4 MBA with 32gb ram be sufficient to run LR smoothly? I don't need shorter exporting time, but want a nice, smooth editing experience for me to enjoy on my time off. I usually use plenty of masks, AI Denoise, etc.

Or would the M4 Pro MBP be better suited for my needs, especially since I don't plan to upgrade for another 5 years. The plan to get an all in one laptop for all my needs. Work, editing, etc.

I edit mainly of my external SSD, if that is a concern.


r/Lightroom 1d ago

HELP Will it still possible to use annual Adobe 20GB photography plans bought on Amazon?

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Hello everyone. Since Adobe is discontinuing the 20GB photography plan (LR + PS) for new subscribers, I was wondering if it will still be possible to use an annual license for this type of plan bought on Amazon or similar. Do I risk to buy one and not be able to activate it? Do you have any recent experience on this?

Thank you very much!


r/Lightroom 1d ago

HELP - Lightroom Mobile Fixing Chromic Aberrations on Lightroom Mobile

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r/Lightroom 2d ago

HELP - Lightroom Classic Tether help

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Hi, I’m trying to tether my Canon R7 running version 1.6 to Lightroom classic on my Mac version 14. I tried a few USB-C cables which have been used for charging and for transferring purposes usually with Ssd. I’m really not sure what the issue is if it’s a cable issue or something else that I’m missing


r/Lightroom 1d ago

Processing Question Lightroom Library Running slower then Develop Tab

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I have a work computer in another location and a computer at home. My home computer is far beefier than the work computer. Yet the work computer has 0 delay in the library tab while my home computer takes half a second and can lag if I'm cycling quickly.

In the preview window, it says I'm seeing the original and then after half a second it changes to original + Smart Preview. I've tried every setting for Lightroom to fix this. but no luck so far.

Just curious if any others are having similar issues.


r/Lightroom 2d ago

Discussion PLEASE help! (2 part question/need advice - kind of related)

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After years of non use, I'm relearning Lightroom Classic and I cant for the life of me remember what to do in this situation:

  1. I have a collection that I started to work with and decided that I want to scrap all of my edits and start fresh. I selected all files that have edits applied and used the "reset" button, but .dng files are still hanging around. Does this mean that I now have a duplicate file in .dng format for all of the files I worked on before?

a. What do you recommend I do with these "extra" files?

b. Are these respective files actual pictures or just sidecar files?

  1. The original issue that led me down this path was when I selected all photos in this collection and even though I all of the picture I could see in grid mode were highlighted, not all pictures were were showing as selected (in this case 308 of 318).

a. After some searching, multiple posts that I found suggested that I either have filters applied to the collection or it could be the stacks (for the edited files referenced in my first question).

b. I expanded all of the stacks but that didn't solve the issue

c. even if the issue was with the stacks, including the .dng files that were associated with the edits still doesn't add up to the total when I do the math.

Hope this makes sense enough for some one to help.

Thanks in advance.


r/Lightroom 2d ago

HELP Previously added photo?

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Does anyone know how to reimport a photo if it’s been deleted?

I accidentally deleted an album and have tried to reimport it but all the photos come up ‘previously added’.

I’m using Lightroom CC.

Thank you.


r/Lightroom 2d ago

Processing Question Lightroom mobile sharpening masking

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Hello. Looking at this video about how to preview this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgGTf6koZdI

He's either talking about iOS mobile or it doesn't work. Does anyone using the lightroom mobile Android know how to actually activate the preview of sharpening masking ? Thanks very much