5 Things I Wish Adobe Would ADD to LIGHTROOM

In this tutorial, I talk about five things I'd like Adobe to change about Lightroom Classic or add to Lightroom Classic.

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[AnthonyMorganti]

In this tutorial, I talk about five things I'd like Adobe to change about Lightroom Classic or add to Lightroom Classic.

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[WillemTel]

I agree with suggestions 1 through 4. For the 5th suggestion I would say that you can import the photos, work on them and delete them from LR after you're done. One feature I would like to see is that the mouse wheel can be used to zoom in and out of the photo. They implemented this for PS but not for LR (as far as I can tell). Another feature is that I would be nice to be able to refine the selections of Objects selections; again as in PS.

[freekvanbuul]

Noise reduction and sharpening are my favorite suggestions

[MarkNF]

I've long wished that all of LR's global adjustments would also be available locally. My second wish is to have LR's healing tools be made as competent as PS's. Finally, I'd like LR to incorporate PS's blur tools on both the global and local level.
Thank you for your videos, and here is an unasked for video wish list :)) I struggle with knowing at what point in post processing it makes sense to look at different profiles and a video on this would be appreciated. And a second video on when or even if, trying a different LUT is worthwhile.

[frstesiste]

Focus stacking support would be nice. I'd also like to see the ability to stack images for noise reduction and the ability to stack images for long exposure simulation.

[Thrumyvision]

I fully agree with the point 5 as uploading catalogue everytime is really tedious job and I do agree with healing point you mentioned and adding curve and other adjustments in masking

[albertr]

One feature I love for Adobe to add to Lightroom Classic is a Levels Adjustment feature like the Levels Adjustment feature in Capture One. A couple of years ago I downloaded a 30 day free trial of Capture One, and the one feature that stood out to me was that Levels Adjustment feature. I would really love if Adobe added that Levels Adjustment feature to Lightroom Classic.

[Room]

I'd like a search bar for presets! It would help those of us that use a lot of them!

[GrasshopperNotes]

AMEN to adding CALIBRATION to the masking options.

[preafos]

#3
The feature for correcting the horizont is already working quite well, but it would be a great addition to apply it to bunch of photos at the same time.

[markcasebeer]

Adding noise reduction and sharpening like the results from some companies would make life a lot easier. No more jumping to pluggins. Add that with the abilities to use it with the masking tools, a winner!

[pederkristensen]

I agree with your suggestion and think some these are long overdue.

[walkwithvictor]

Nice video, I really wish they add a modern noise reduction tool, the one they have now is embarrassing frankly.

[keithpinn]

Hi Anthony: Another very thought provoking video. Personally, I would like to see Adobe allow a person to open multiple LR Catalogues at the same time and display these as TABS and then allow the user to import images into a particular LR Catalogue without having to close and open a different Catalogue. This would allow the segmentation of Personal Images vs. Commercial Images at one time. A key to this would be the ability to keyword & search across multiple LR Catalogues at the same time. I am getting nervous about having all of my images in one LR Catalogue where as having different Catalogues for different user requirements would be very helpful. Currently Capture One allows this to take place so LR should have this functionality as well. Keep well. . . Keith

[stevejarvis]

I like the idea of sharpening. One thing Mr Morganti, can I suggest something on your YT videos? When you do something like this on multiple subjects, could you put the time stamp for each section in the notes, so we can jump to am item, or if going back to look at a video again sometime later, jump straight to the part that you're interested in.? Thanks and great video as usual

[HansvanMeteren]

Thank you Anthony! Fully agree with those 5 additions. I'd aldo like so see a possibility to search in presets.

[patrickshepherd]

#1 should be masking that can be used in all adjustment panels. I use Luminar Neo for my content aware erasing. Your wishlist is right on!

[gharawala]

I do agree with all of your suggestion.

[MEttestad]

For years I've been wishing adobe would add focus stacking to Lightroom classic

[arrowsmith]

I totally agree with your "five" items for improvement or introduction. I totally get the idea of working with a "session" for images you don't want to keep as part of your collection but which you are editing for a specific purpose or person. Others here have suggested creating a separate temporary "Catalogue" and then deleting it afterwards but I just feel that is messy and I'm always nervous about working with multiple Catalogues. I'm sure Adobe will be working on improving their sharpening and noise reduction facilities as we speak. I love Topaz and the recent introduction of Topaz Photo AI is great but frankly I would be much happier to make such good adjustments within Lightroom itself without sending out and bringing back another full version of my image to be stored as extra "bloat" on my main hard drive and my backupo drives. And yes, although I don't do many sky replacements, it would nevertheless be good to be able to do them within LR, without again popping out to Luminar etc.