Questions tagged [lightroom]
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (often referred to as LR) is one of several professional level photo editing and management tools. While previous versions were available for purchase, the latest versions are available by subscription to Adobe's Create Cloud suite of tools. The open source software package darktable is often suggested as a free alternative to Lightroom.
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Is tone mapping automatically applied to RAW images?
At first I thought tone mapping was a thing for HDR images only used to "display" the dynamic range which our monitors can't show. Turns out that RAW images tend to have a high dynamic range too. So ...
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Why is my photo partially colour imbalanced?
I have this photo where part of it is funnily colour imbalanced. I took some product shots under couple of 5500K lights. Part of the product was navy blue and it is appearing as black in the raw files....
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Strange behavior editing photos in photoshop and back in lightroom
When I want to edit in Photoshop a photo I search it in my Lightroom Library and then I make right click -> Edit in -> Photoshop
I edit the photo in Photoshop and then I save it with Command+S.
The ...
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What causes this leather-grain pattern of noise in the sky when I inspect with a sharp mask?
Noticed these strange patterns in the sky while adjusting sharp masking with "alt" key in Lightroom. In normal mode picture seems alright (and exported variant looks normal too), but I can't be sure ...
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Creating this shallow DoF, high contrast imagery
Hey guys, so the image above is an example of the type of shot I was hoping to replicate. I shoot with a 16mm 1.4 lens, so opening that all the way seems to give the desired depth of field and enough ...
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Why does Lightroom show the focal length of the Sony RX10 IV as 220mm, when it's marketed as 600mm?
I have a Sony RX 10 IV. I used maximum zoom, 600mm, but when editing in Lightroom in the details it gives the focal length of 220mm.
Can anyone explain, please?
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Lightroom Library Metadata filter does not show result count
I have Lightroom installed on 2 devices. When I use the Metadata library filter (e.g. on keywords etc) it would should me the number of results on one device (see lower image) but not on the other (...
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Does an eGPU increase performance of Lightroom Classic on 2018 13" rMBP?
Using a the 2018 13" Retina MacBook Pro for Lightroom Classic.
Would adding an external GPU increase performance of the Lightroom Classic application? And if so, which modules/parts get increased ...
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Automatically merge all HDR sequences in folder in Lightroom CC Classic
I've been shooting a lot of raw 3-exposure bracketed shots recently which I've been merging into HDR images in Lightroom Classic CC (Mac).
I find the process of selecting 3 images, going into the ...
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How to Content Aware Fill with Lightroom / Photoshop without converting from raw to tiff
I have a panorama that has some white space I can't really crop out. I tried merging in Photoshop and it had an option to content aware fill empty spots. This worked out almost perfectly. The issue is ...
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How clipping is shown in Lightroom?
I don't understand clipping in Lightroom.
From my understanding, shadow clipping is displayed as a white triangle on the left of the histogram and as blue zones on the photo. Similarly, highlight ...
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Why do colors in Photoshop look different from Lightroom?
I know there's plenty of questions like this and I've tried all the provided solutions, but I think my issue is slightly deeper than that.
I have noticed that when I do an external edit from ...
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Queuing panorama rendering on Lightroom
I have a whole bunch of panoramas to render on Lightroom. The problem is that when I render one, my PC is dying and I can't really do much with it, much less continue using Lightroom to develop other ...
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Export from Lightroom cc15 without original files
Hi I’m new to this community and I was hoping someone could help me.
I have Lightroom on an old computer I’d love to export some of the pictures but I have no idea where the originals are. I’m fine ...
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How ignore video when import media to Lightroom (not uncheck every time, full ignored)
When I import photos Lightroom import videos too, but how ignore video files or files by extension without press every time "Uncheck videos" at import dialog?
Uncheck videos button shown if press alt ...
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View at given print size
What is a good way of viewing an image at the same physical scale as a
given print size?
E.g. say I want to print an image at 40x60cm. How do I (most easily) display the image so that 1cm on my ...
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Lightroom 6: How do I add a lens profile (lcp file)?
I have Lightroom 6 and recently bought a new Tamron 17-35mm f/2.4 OSD lens for a Nikon full frame. I downloaded a recent version of Adobe Camera Raw to get the LCP file for the Tamron lens and I have ...
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How to set adjusted white balance as start position for lightroom presets
As example, after import i have image with temp=3400, then i have decreased temp to 3000, but when i'm trying apply some preset, preset increases not adjusted value(3000), but value(3400).
So, ...
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Is there a way to mass export photos stored in Lightroom/Creative Cloud when quitting CC?
After unsuccessfully trying out several self-hosted asset management solutions, I'm tempted to outsource all my photo storage to Adobe Lightroom / Creative Cloud, which I have as part of an ongoing CC ...
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What is a good alternative to Adobe Lightroom on macOS?
I'm looking for a possible alternative to Lightroom for the Mac platform.
I already know of Photoshop alternatives such as Affinity Photo, but I haven't been able to find a serious offering close to ...
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My pirated copy of Photoshop isn't rendering RAW files correctly. What should I do? [closed]
i am using photoshop 2017. i thought of updating the camera raw using this link https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/camera-raw-plug-in-installer.html i installed Camera Raw 11.2.
and after ...
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How can I manually set EV in Lightroom to take a neutral density filter into account when merging photos?
I shoot a couple of Images and try to merge them with Lightroom.
Since a few (but not all) of the shoots were taken with an ND-Filter. I need to somehow tweak the EV value of the Photos I took with ...
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Lightroom CC sync issues
I have 2 SSDs in my mac and have kept my photo library on my 2nd drive with the library index/catalog file on the 1st drive with no problems. I had to replace my 1st drive with a new one and ended up ...
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Is there a way to visualize the flag on a second monitor while in loupe view on Adobe Lightroom?
When I'm culling my pictures I like to put my laptop on grid view and put the images on display on a 50" inches TV on my wall. One problem I have when doing this is that when I go back and forth while ...
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Is there a way to get smaller TIFF files?
I'm working with canon CR2 RAW files. My images usually have 30MB when I import into Lightroom, but when I bring into Photoshop for an adjustment and get back to Lightroom the TIFF file generated is ...
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Lightroom preview before and after last adjustment applied
When I was using only Camera Raw within Photoshop CS6 there was a hotkey available (Ctrl+Z) which allowed to cycle between current version of the settings and the previous one. It was a quick and easy ...
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HDRI with ND Filter
When I take images for composing a HDR image later how can I use an ND-Filter.
For example I capture 5 images whitout an Filter and then add for the 6 and 7 shot a 10 Stop ND-Filter how can I tell the ...
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Is there any way to produce animation from the history steps in Lightroom?
I need a way to produce an animated GIF of what I did while developing/editing a certain photo in Lightroom. In another word, if there is any tool/workflow/plugin that record every step in my photo ...
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How to edit photos to correct for monitor calibration?
Is there a way to shift all the adjustments made (color, tint, contrast...) during post-processing of photos in Lightroom with an uncalibrated monitor by some offset value after calibrating the ...
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Where does lightroom save flags?
I got a full list of photo names to edit and I am too lazy to flag every photo so I want to write a program that automatically flags the photos so the only thing I have to do is to check the "show ...
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Create a canvas-like style (a blurred effect)
Hi I would like to have a fluffy effect for the details of my image, and I have tried tools such as Sharpen, Blur in Fliter, and Clarity in RAW manipulation, but in vain.
The left hand side is the ...
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Opening NEF files on windows initially open fine but then change contrast
I have a strange issue with Windows 10
When I open .nef files they load fine. However after a second or two the contrast changes noticeably. I tried ...
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How to do this bleach bypass (if so) effect?
I'm an amateur photographer who loves to take landscapes shots, preferring dark colors. Recently, I saw with this series of pictures on the Another Escape Instagram page:
I don't know if the images ...
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How can I create a copy of a image that carries my edits within Lightroom Classic CC?
I'm using a workflow within Lightroom Classic CC that I don't believe to be optimal. What I do sometimes to achieve the results that I want is to make some ajustments within Lightroom, fixing exposure,...
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Lightroom tip to show something nearly b/w on a b/w background better
I've took the following picture today:
On the pole sits a bird, I would like to make the bird a bit more obvious.
Normaly I can do this with boosting color or contrast. But it doesn't really work ...
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Lightroom to Photoshop to Pixiset
There must be a more efficient process than what I am doing. I import all my RAW images to Lightroom. I then open them in Photoshop to make some additional tweaks. From here I save them as JPEGS. ...
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How to handle the tone curve (linear/medium/high contrast) and the other development settings?
I use Lightroom 6.x and I usually start with a linear curve, adjusting the sliders in the "Basic" section accordingly. The Tone curve section usually does not even get opened.
This because I'm not a ...
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Auto mass transform in Lightroom
I have been using Lightroom to mass develop my photos recently and all the tools work as expected when using automatic functions (e.g. auto WB, auto tone), that is setting an auto value will set it on ...
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Why is Lightroom squishing my rotated photos?
A photo I took in portrait mode looks like it should in the library tab. Right when I move over to the develop tab, it looks like it's been rotated and squished to fit in the aspect ratio. What do I ...
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Lightroom 8.1 catalog backup includes lrcat-wal and unzipped lrcat
I'm using Lightroom 8.1 on Windows 10 1809. I've chosen to always get prompted about backing up the catalog when exiting, but after I upgraded to 8.1 (from Lr 8.0 on Windows 8.1), it seems that ...
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How do I make Lightroom's "Done" Button show up?
something not so funny,for me,happened yesterday.
My cat went on my desk and she pressed with her paws different keys,as i was in ligtroom and my 'DONE' button is gone,it's not so big deal but i'm ...
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How can I share and edit images in my library across multiple devices with Lightroom Classic CC 2019?
I'm pretty new to Lightroom Classic CC. I've used Lightroom CC for some time and this wasn't an issue, because the images were stored in the Creative Cloud. However for some reasons I've decided to ...
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Turn off syncing in Lightroom CC
I want to turn off the automatic sync to the Creative Cloud of photos.
I do not want to upload a single photo to the cloud.
I tried turning it off by following the answer in this question but it didn'...
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Software for batch-watermarking photos?
I've been moving toward publishing my photos online and due to copyright concerns I want to put watermarks with my logo on my photos (mainly I just don't want people stealing my photos and claiming ...
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Canon Rebel T7 and LR6
I shot .CR2 files on my Canon Rebel T7. Now I can't open the files in Lightroom 6. How can I convert the .CR2 files into a .RAW format?
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Lightroom Classic CC crashes when using another disk as home folder
The Issue
I'm running Lightroom Classic CC on my iMac, and have recently split the Fusion drive into its SSD and HDD components so that system files and applications sit isolated on the SSD for speed ...
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Very strange rectangles in some of my photos. Canon 5D Mark IV. Just started yesterday. What is it?
Only 5 of 180 photos did this kind of display.
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How were these photos edited like these?
I'm pretty new here and I asked this earlier but I realized I wasn't any help on what I was trying to ask. So anyways.
I'm trying to figure out how to edit like these photos, they're pretty different ...
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How to get lens serial number from Exif?
I want to write down model name and serial number of my camera body and camera lens, in case they are lost or stolen.
Where can I find those data? Lightroom provides all data but serial name of lens. ...
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How to improve my milky way shot?
After following some tutorials and some posts here, I ended up finding a camera setting where I could indeed capture the milky way. The setting I used is:
ISO 6400
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