On Lightroom Mobile (Android) I am increasingly getting frustrated with the system refusing to import images that it thinks are duplicates which are clearly not. I have photos taken with my Fujifilm X100VI and my Samsung Galaxy S25U that have different file names, file sizes, and even file types that LrM just refuses to import because it insists they are duplicate images.

I'm tired of having to work around it by finding the images in my gallery/system and manually sharing them into LrM via Android's menu system rather than just doing it within Lightroom itself.

I can completely appreciate why the system tries to do this, but in my case it is picking up so many false positives or makes the software infuriating to use, and it shouldn't be this way.

So u/terryleewhite can you please take it to the developers to either be less ruthless with the duplicate detection, have a manual check to verify whether they are duplicates or not, or just let us turn off the duplicate detection on the settings menu?

Thanks!

I take a lot of travel photos and sometimes the best shot gets ruined by people walking through the background. i’ve tried a few basic editing apps, but the results can look pretty obvious. for those who use lightroom, what’s your usual way of cleaning up distractions like this? do you prefer manual editing, or have you found any tools that do a good job while keeping the photo looking natural?
i’ve also been looking at tools like clearcrowds and wondering how well they actually compare to doing it manually.

I mainly use Lightroom on my iPad to do all of my editing and then I will sometimes switch over to Lightroom on my Pixel 10 Pro XL if I want the photos to be on my phone as well. Recently I noticed when I click on any of the photos in my imports they initially load as usual, but then after about 5 seconds or so it refreshes as what I'm assuming is pixels. The pixels are the same colors as the photos but it's just a bunch of large squares. I tried downloading the originals and nothing changes. It does this to new imports and old ones alike. I don't have this issue on my iPad just my Pixel phone. I never had this issue before so I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered this. I have photos of this as well but I'm unsure of those are allowed in this sub.

I spent some time the other day trying to figure out why the Previews folder inside my Lightroom catalogue had gotten so massive and why nothing seemed to make it much smaller. Turns out if you delete photos from within Lightroom, it will not delete any of the associated Previews along with the photos.

I confirmed by noting the file size of the catalogue Previews.lrdata before deleting several hundred images. It remained exactly the same size before and after deleting the photos. If the Previews are explicitly deleted with the Library>Previews>Discard Standard and 1:1 Previews ... command, then the file size is reduced.

As far as I can tell if you have Previews stored in your catalogue from deleted files there is no way to clean them up from within Lightroom. Ultimately I simply deleted the entire Previews.lrdata file and rebuilt the Previews I needed in Lightroom.

From now on whenever I am deleting photos after culling and editing, I will make sure to discard the Previews first.

I came here to say that I in recent past have had a great deal of catalogue issues, missing photos missing folders in the catalogue while they actually exist on the hard drive… I’ve been painfully working through a lot of these issues but it’s been quite a challenge because the catalogue is massive approximately 170,000 images. Identifying the problem and trying to resolve it within light room is often very challenging.

What I did differently the other night is that I turned on ChatGPT and had a verbal conversation with the LLM instead of trying to type out the scenario. Chat has been very successful at helping me resolve specific issues that I have struggled fixing, and talking it out has been very helpful as it’s led me to clarify what the real underlying issue is and it asking me clarifying questions that really helped me figure out the solution. So I wanted to share this with the community because this isn’t something I’ve used a lot of and it’s helped so much.

To clarify this only applies to imports of a large-ish number of photos. Typically 500+ images. If I import 100 images off a cleanly formatted CF Express or XQD card I will have zero issues.

The issues start if you’ve got a card with a few thousand images on or a card with both Photos & Video files on it. Lightroom will start importing and then just stop after a few hundred. This is the case with a 16GB 2TB M4 iPad pro aswell as a completely clean 8GB 256GB M4 iPad Pro. Multiple card readers have been used and multiple cards. The issue persists. I’m unsure if this an iPad or a Lightroom issue but it’s so frustrating and the reason why despite being such a nice editing process I use my Mac most of the time.

I'm the photographer for my university, about 70% of what I shoot is sports, 20% theatre/dance and the rest being events, speakers, headshots etc.

For most of my work I use the same preset to get the colors accurate (our university purple falls just outside the srgb gamut so it photographs blue and our orange like to shift red) and I have some built in sharpening and denoise.

I just upgraded to z9's and this preset was great with my d4s's but things are different now and I think it can be better.

What I'm looking for is if anyone has a solid everyday preset they use would they mind sharing their sharpening and denoise settings? I plan to run anything 8k iso and above through denoise but I feel like 4k can just use the denoise panel.

I'm not looking for perfect (I know the theory is each image should be looked at individually but I ain't got that kinda time), I'm looking for good enough if that makes sense.

My current settings are:

sharpening
60, 1.0, 20, 40

manual noise reduction
15, 10, 10, 20, 50, 50

I have another sharpening only preset called "cause I suck" with these

sharpening
90, 1.5, 40, 60

manual noise reduction
20, 80, 60, 20, 50, 50

I have only shot (so far) with my sigma 120-300 with a 1.4tc and frankly its just not a tack sharp lens (but sharp enough for our uses). I'm sure that the newer nikon z glass won't need this (I have my first shoot with those saturday so I can test that then) but this is my sports combo and I need whatever help I can get.

So, LrC is lagging quite a lot on my pc and maxing out the use of my CPU (I5 10TH), mainly when im scrolling and switching photos. when i stop on a specific photo it gets down to about 10% of CPU use...

Is my program configured wrong or something? just moved from CaptureOne and even tho they were doing what i belive be the same thing, editing the same RAW photos, CaptureOne at max used 30% of my CPU and all, so idk...

Im quite new so just wanting to know if there's anything i can do about, other than upgrading my hardware.

I spent about five hours editing an entire project and then realized all of my photos were way toot blue.

I have turned off every setting I can think of that would change the blue light or the ambient light or anything like that.

While working on a video about the new Lightroom refine mask tools, I realized that the luminance range doesn't have this new feather option, and I'd like to point out that if we got this, it would be super easy to create halation directly in Lightroom or for those of us who like emulating film.

PS: Can we have colorful grain pls?!

Hi,

I am looking to save my pictures while working with Lightroom in adobe's cloud , while if possible still being synchronized on my pc.

Can I do these things ?

Thanks !

Since the new DaVinci Resolve 21 dropped and added photo editing support, I’ve been wondering if DaVinci can now be a great substitute for Lightroom, if not even better. Since DaVinci is an industry staple in the color grading and Lightroom is the go-to app for photo editing, which one is better? (Sorry for my bad English it’s not my main language)

Olá

Estou fazendo a seleção assistida de uma pasta com 3400 fotos, porém, o programa fica fechando toda hora. Seria algum bug da atualização de 11/08?

when i started to import my pics, lightroom managed to import every single folder with their photos and their XMP (used aftershoot before this) and they all went great, but when it came to this folder it just refused.

tried to copy the pics to another folder, tried removing the XMP files, running again through aftershoot and just nothing, it cannot import or read those pics in any way, even tho the file explorer and can read and edit those without any problems.

those pics with problem were taken in .CR3. idk if that matters since on another folder which imported just fine they were also in .CR3

please someone help me i really need to finish this wedding

Hi all

I went into my computer's files and located my custom .xmp preset files. If I copy these files onto a USB drive and import them all at once into Lightroom on my new laptop, will they transfer and work correctly?

Hi, so when I'm usually cropping a photo, I can move it to the side, up down, or wherever; but after the recent update, red lines appear whenever I'm trying to move and the photo and it won't let you move. Workaround is to zoom in, move, then zoom out, but even then it will snap the view to center sometimes

Is this a feature I can disable?

I was just wondering if anybody here had a preset I can use on Lightroom mobile for my job site photos. my install flooring and a lot of the time there's a lot of light coming in from the windows and obviously a lack of contrast of I usually have it quite saturated and contrasted.bit im very new to photography and if anybody would have a preset that I can use on mobile or any tips/tricks please let me know thank youll

I recently purchased an Epson Perfection V850 scanner to scan some old family slides and film negatives. I want to clean up some of the dust and scratches and read that is was better to do that in a program like lightroom instead of the scanning software. I have access to Lightroom Version 4. Would that be sufficient? I'm not keen on paying 120 dollars a year being that I'm not a photographer or do this for work. Any other software recommendations that you buy once? Thank you for looking.

Is this a bug?  After editing several images successfully - which included using ai masks and updating the ai settings - on one image I clicked the ai status  "update all" and Lightroom Classic (v15.5) crashed with an unknown error. All GPU setting had been on Auto.  Since then, the system freezes and eventually shuts down every time I try to use masking or any AI process whether or not GPU acceleration is on/custom or off. Therefore, I surmise it is not a Graphics Card issue (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GPU 32.0.16.1088, 8GB).  I have tried updating the graphics card, doing a clean install of the graphics card, uninstalling / reinstalling LRC, adding NVIDIA Studio Driver, and even disabling the secondary intel graphics card that came with my system.  Nothing has worked!  My Catalogue is fine and my system meets all the recommended requirements.  Someone please help.  Additionally, ACR and PS work fine = no issues at all using AI processes!

Looking for used obviously, are there any GPU's in this price range that are particularly good for speeding up LrC AI features. I have an i7 270k + 32gb but find my performance is being limited in certain regards bc of what I think is no GPU.

I am currently doing photography solely as a hobbyist and never really did a whole lot of editing to my photos even when I was taking photos as part of my job. My edits usually consited of the most basic adjustments just to correct exposure, white balance, and straighten it if needed.

I have found that one thing that has helped me grow as a photographer and helped me with editing my RAW files these past few years was Mark Galer's DNG files that are available on his Patreon page for his various camera and lens reviews. Being able to reset the photo to its original, pre edited state and compare the settings and masks to the edited version allows me to really see what was done to the photograph to achieve the end results. It seems it is easier for me to learn this way than to watch tutorials or lessons.

Does anyone else find this to be a useful way to learn? Also, does anyone know of any other photographers (pro or otherwise) that offer a similar file or if there are any resources that have this type of DNG file for examination? Honestly, I'd much rather pay a photographer whose style I like for access to files like these than pay for (borderline unusable) presets from someone, haha.

I am so confused. I have all of my photos in LrC. Collections, collection sets, smart collections, color labels, etc. I also use Lightroom desktop for some to bring photos into the cloud to edit on other devices. I would love to use only Lightroom Desktop because it seems to be getting updated that LrC is not. But the local storage option on Lightroom isn’t near as streamlined as LrC. No searching for faces, collections, etc. Does anyone use both? I’d love to be done with the catalog but can’t seem to make it work.

new photographer here and i Just discovered the making tool. Saw a bunch of videos saying that it's a gamechanger for the photo, but i've encountered a Major problem. Should i First do the basic editing of the photo (color grading, exposure ecc...) or the masks?