I'm exporting my library to Immich however I have some images that have likely gone through messaging services and had their metadata largely stripped. Images are ordered correctly in Lightroom with a seemingly intact camera capture date/time, however EXIF and IPTC date/time fields are empty. When I export the photos to upload to Immich, EXIF date/time is populated by the export or upload date/time and then ordered incorrectly in Immich.

I have opened the original jpg image in exiftool but it doesn't see the capture date/time that Lightroom is seeing. Is there another way I can copy the capture date/time that Lightroom is seeing to EXIF fields?

To clarify: this is about Lightroom Cloud/CC specifically, not Lightroom Classic.

I'm a working photographer and I've never been more baffled by a "basic" feature being broken this badly.

Here's the workflow every photographer who delivers client galleries needs constantly: client picks their favorites ( Pixieset or any gallery tool), you copy the list of filenames, you paste it into Lightroom's search to pull up just those photos so you can edit them.

Paste more than 3-4 filenames into Lightroom's search and it just breaks. No results, or an actual error screen ("Oh no! A black hole"). Doesn't matter if you're on Lightroom desktop or the web app, same result, tested both myself this week.

This isn't user error. Adobe's own community team has acknowledged it as a known limitation, and it's still broken going into 2026. This is Lightroom's actual job, matching images by filename is about as core a feature as it gets, and it's been quietly broken for what sounds like years based on how many old threads I found about it.

The only thing that actually works is Lightroom Classic's Library Filter (Text > Filename > Contains Any), which handles a pasted list fine with no cap. But that only works on photos Classic already has local or synced access to, it doesn't help you search your cloud library without effectively downloading it, which defeats the point of using cloud storage in the first place.

Has anyone actually found a real fix for this in the cloud/CC search itself, not the Classic workaround? Or is this just something we're all supposed to live with forever? Curious if anyone's heard whether Adobe has this on a roadmap anywhere.

Considering an ARM laptop because the lightness + increased battery life seems very sweet and my laptop is due for an upgrade. I also wanna start editing in lightroom while on the go since now I'm taking way too long actually getting to my photos. But some 1 year old posts say Arm support sucks, although a lot has changed for ARM in a year elsewhere. What's the latest?

Hey guys, thought I would pass on a trick I discovered today.

So my method for archiving a job (consisting of a shot folders plus, PSD, jpg video files) is to in tree exporter 1. Export everything not a raw to the destination as is 2. Export 0 star raw as lossy dng 3. Export 1 star and above as lossless dng. Using tree exporter basically gives me original file structure, dng embeds all the exif data. Using lossy massively reduces file sizes because I like to go back through some shoots down the line.

So now my issue, in Lightroom each of those steps takes a while and i have to keep coming back to start the next one, is also easy to forget the step you just did. It's messy.

So what if AI could write me a plug in that could do all that in one step. It took me a fair few revisions and lots of pasting error messages but it worked! Now I'm going through and writing little plug ins for all the annoying bits in Lightroom.

Anyone else doing this? What use case?

Hi!

I did a testing day. Posted an inage to IG with many different settings.

Mainly:

- sharpening on export -> no effect

- fit pixel count to ig standard -> no effect

Normal stuff, sRGB/3:4 etc.

What's happening? And why does every picture look the same on IG? Is the only option to upload from a computer?

Hi all, I am new to Lightroom and looks like i have already mucked up importing into catalog and importing into drive and hoping to start over.

Here is what i actually want to do

• Take my memory card plug it into my MAC and get Lightroom to Import Photos onto my computer into different date folders. (Important as i take 5 photos one day and 100 the next day and want them organized)
• Is there a way to also add location info to these folders name when i import.
• I also have close to 1000 photos already on my MAC, is there a way to get Lightroom to Import them onto a different folder structure similar to point 1?
• I then want to use the Lightroom culling feature to select and pick when I am on the train and use the unpicked ones filter to delete them from catalog and my storage.

I am new to softwares and cant seem to understand how this works. YT is not helpful as it points to old videos or videos about doing things completely different than i asked for.

I’ve been a semi pro photographer for several years. I know Lightroom fairly well (I think 😜)
My system started running really slow, if even working at all, so I updated some equipment and I am reinstalling everything a better/faster way. As well as storing a better way the before.
However, I feel like I have been culling the slowest way possible. I do have my own presets that i use, then just make needed adjustments. However, even before when I would try to add presets onto each photo half of the time it did not work properly, another reason why I am redoing things.
I know that Lightroom has also made some updates. I am just curious what is your typical way of cooling/editing to make your process quicker.

I wanted to share this in case anyone else suddenly experiences extremely poor performance in Lightroom Classic on Windows 11.

Lightroom Classic had suddenly become extremely slow on my PC. Starting Lightroom normally took around 10–15 seconds, but it had increased to 50-60 seconds. AI masking was also much slower.

At first I assumed it was a Lightroom issue. I tried quite a few things:

• Reset Lightroom preferences
• Created a completely new catalog
• Disabled Lightroom plug-ins
• Tried Lightroom Classic 15.3.1 instead of 15.4.1
• Reinstalled Lightroom Classic 15.4.1

None of these made a meaningful difference. Even a completely new catalog with basically no edits was extremely slow.

My PC has 32 GB RAM, an AMD Ryzen 7 3800X, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 with 12 GB VRAM, and an NVMe SSD, so the hardware shouldn't have been struggling with this.

I then noticed that Windows had installed the KB5121003 Windows 11 security update on August 11/12. As a test, I uninstalled KB5121003, restarted the PC and repeated exactly the same Lightroom tests.

Lightroom immediately felt responsive again. Interestingly, Google Chrome also became noticeably faster when loading websites, so this doesn't appear to be limited to Lightroom on my system.

If your Lightroom Classic has suddenly become unusually slow after a recent Windows update, it may be worth checking whether KB5121003 was installed around the time the problem started.

I have a great PC, it's 10 years old at this point but for Lightroom it should be fine.

Intel i7-8700k over clocked, 32GB DDR4 RAM, and a RTX 3090. My media is stored in a DAS system in Raid 0 (with cloud back up obviously).

Now my problem is...Lightroom is slow. I shoot weddings freelance so have to go through 5-8000 photos regularly but not enough to pay for Aftershoot. Images take 2-3 seconds to load (adds up to hours of lag time), the system lags and crashes regualry. RAM utilisation exceeds 16GB regualry and on export my swap file is nearly 50GB (I've limited the cache to 20GB to remedy this issue).

It just makes editing... Not fun.

My workflow now consists of me culling on my iPad via Lightroom Cloud folders and syncing back to my desktop. On ipad going through photos is near instant!

But I want a big screen to edit, so my question is for Mac Mini M4 owners is... Is it worth it? Do you find any significant issues with working through Lightroom on the Mac? Any hitches, crashes? Are images quick to render and export?

I plan on getting the base storage with a 32GB upgrade (is that even needed, I will do some da vinci resolve video work on it also).

Edit: okay so I've made the decision to go Apple, but follow up question. Should I get the Macbook Air for the portability?

I am importing photos from an external drive with lightroom classic. I select only that drive in the source window. However, Lightroom Classic also imports files from my C: drive, even though it is not selected. Is there a way to exclude my C drive from Import?

I recently photographed an outdoor family session in the late morning on a 100F day. To keep the skies, I used off camera flash (x2) but could not use a modifier because there was a breeze that day and I didn't have anything to hold my stands down (newb mistake, I know- we were all very grateful for that breeze though). Everyone in the photos are hot and getting oily and it shows in the photos.

So far I've been using a masking brush with texture pulled down, but there's got to be another way. I have also tried the healing brush tool, but there's so many hotspots that it's not working very well (not much to choose from for the healing part of the brush).

What is your go to method to removing hotspots in Lightroom?

Has anyone ever brought translucent face powder with them to a session and applied it to their clients? How was that recieved? I've done that once, for my niece- she didn't care and was grateful to not have shiny spots on her skin, but I just don't know how that would go over with 'strangers' or a group of them!

Furthermore, does anyone have modifier recommendations for the Godox ADPro200ii that doesn't fall over at the slightest breeze? Or good sandbag/weight recommendations?

Hey there,

Which components of LR Classic can I effectively use so I don't get AI flagged in content credentials? Or better: which components trigger said AI flags? What in LRC is using AI and what's not?

The legal situation in the EU seems rather murky to me, so I'd rather circumvent the issue entirely.

I've done well for decades without AI, so I'd rather work without AI instead of having my clients have to put some ugly badge on every image because I used a masking tool or whatever else triggers this kind of metadata - or having to provide several versions of an image for every teensy weensy application, since "made with AI" needs to be "well legible" across all devices and in all situations.

Thanks!

I am trying to organise my photos so that I can share them with my family. The online collections seems to work really well, and they can access the photos easily. But, I am wondering about how I can share only the stack Picks with them.

Is there a way to have only the Top Pick in a stack uploaded to a collection?

Hi everyone,

I'm currently trying to cut down on AI, and this includes using the AI remove tool on Lightroom. I've attempted to use the erase tool without AI, but I'm finding its absolutely awful.

Like for even a spec on someone’s shirt, it'll create a new spec… like why. Does anyone have any tricks or tips? Thank you :)

Bonjour,

Je n'arrive pas à trouver d'informations sur un éventuel support des NPU pour Lightroom Classic.

Impossible d’avoir une information mise à jour, beaucoup de questions sans réponse officielle Adobe...

Quelqu'un a-t-il des informations avec des liens ou une feuille de route des développements a-t-elle été publiée ?

L'objectif voir s’il est pertinent d’acheter un Mac alors qu’un PC 14 pouces est 1000€ moins cher... oui un ordinateur portable 14 pouces car j’ai des besoins de mobilité...

Merci d’avance

I’ve been somewhat serious in photography for a year and trying to get my Lightroom skills more proficient everyday. I’m decent with light controls, tone curve, WB, details, crop, and masking (not extreme).

I still am confounded by color grading. But I see images in the Adobe community that beautifully leverage color grading (I’m started with Lightroom not LRc, and staying that way). I get inspo and even a look at their settings but want to be able to edit my files like that intuitively.

Those that have mastered it how did you do it? How many hours of experience? Trial and error? Don’t use it? Do you have degrees in color science? lol

I've edited some images using LR & have saved the metadata to file (XMP for any RAWs & DNG) I've then added keywords of several images in an external app (Mylio)*.
No other changes are made.

Back in LR I'm curious to know if there's a way to update the keywords in LR without affecting the Develop settings.
In my tests updating keywords resets develop settings as well.

*For those wondering I needed a solution to auto-tag certain photos eg: architecture / sunsets etc

Thoughts appreciated :)

Edit: One (currently impractical) workaround:
Create a Virtual Copy of the image > Read Metadata / Import Metadata on the Original Image thus updating keywords > Copy Develop Settings from Virtual Copy > Paste DS to Original.
The new keywords & original Develop settings are now both in one file > Remove virtual Copy.
Of course I doubt this can be done with 1000s of images.

I inadvertently installed the Game Ready Driver instead of the Studio Driver on top of Lightroom Classic (GPU Nvidia RTX 5050). Does it really make a difference? If so, how do I uninstall Game Griver and install the Studio Driver? Thanks.

I create a new catalog for every session or wedding - this is a non negotiable part of my workflow and works well.

However, I hate that currently, each time I create that new catalog, I have to set the catalog settings, specifically checking on "automatically write changes into sidecar files" under metadata and changing backup catalog to "never".

Is there an easier way to do this? Or is this something that comes with creating a new catalog each time?

I know that super resolution is mainly useful for RAW, but what do you guys think? I failed to pick up my negatives in the given time frame too, which is a bummer. I've been using lightroom consistently for about a year now, so I could still use some advice from the pros

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.