When you opened Lightroom the very first time, Lightroom created a catalog to store the information about your photos. Whether you're tidying up, moving to a new hard drive, or even just checking your backups, you'll need to know where to find … Click to continue
Why is my Lightroom catalog empty?
What do you do if you open Lightroom Classic and all of your photos seem to have disappeared? Your first reaction can be to panic! Next, many people try to import all their photos again. Don't do that! You'll likely lose your precious metadata and … Click to continue
How do I send a bug report or feature request to Adobe?
If you've found a bug, or got a great idea for a new feature, what's the best way to let Adobe know? Read on! Why so many bugs? As carefully as Adobe and prerelease testers check each release, the Lightroom cloud ecosystem and Lightroom … Click to continue
Why doesn’t Denoise work properly for me?
There's been a lot of excitement generated over the latest big feature added to Lightroom - Denoise. It's also raised a lot of questions.In this blog post, we'll take a look at answering some of the most frequently asked questions, and where to … Click to continue
What’s new in Lightroom Classic since Lightroom 6?
Whether you’re considering upgrading from Lightroom 6 (or earlier) to Lightroom Classic because you have a new camera, you’re planning to upgrade to macOS Ventura, or you’re just tempted by the new features, you may wonder what’s changed since … Click to continue
Disaster strikes – a corrupted catalog!
"The Lightroom catalog is corrupt and cannot be repaired." Words that strike fear into Lightroom users worldwide.Catalog corruption is very rare, but if you're the unsuspecting victim, that's no consolation. But don't worry, it's very easy to … Click to continue
Lightroom Performance – What’s Slow?
Over the past 7 weeks, we've learned the pros and cons of non-destructive editing, how different computer components affect different areas of the program, and the ways you can adjust your Lightroom workflow to get the best performance.In the … Click to continue
Lightroom Performance – Workflow Tweaks
Besides optimizing your computer and Lightroom settings, you can also save yourself a lot of frustration by thinking ahead and allowing your computer to do many of its processor-intensive activities at a time when you're not using the computer. Let's … Click to continue
Lightroom Performance – Previews & Caches
Lightroom uses numerous kinds of previews and caches for different purposes. Having a basic idea of their usage can help you pick the right ones for your needs. The main ones you need to know about are rendered previews and smart previews. To fully … Click to continue
Lightroom Performance – Preferences & Catalog Settings
In addition to optimizing the computer, you can optimize your Lightroom preferences and catalog settings for best performance. Lightroom Updates Lightroom is usually updated every 2-4 months, and these updates frequently include … Click to continue
Lightroom Performance – General System Maintenance
Lightroom can't perform well if the operating system is struggling. While not specific to Lightroom, it's worth running regular computer maintenance and optimizing other software running on your computer. This includes operating system and driver … Click to continue
Lightroom Performance – What Computer Hardware Do I Need?
Every single day, we see posts asking how to choose a new computer for Lightroom. We're not going to go into specific hardware recommendations, because they'd be out of date almost immediately. (If you want specifics, Puget Systems are doing regular … Click to continue
Which Lightroom version am I using?
Since Adobe rebranded Lightroom, many photographers are confused about which version they're using. So how do you check which Lightroom version you're using?The easiest way to figure out which Lightroom version you're currently using is to open … Click to continue
Lightroom Performance – Debunking Myths
In prepping this series of articles, we read much of the information already published elsewhere. Some of the suggestions work. Others are complete myths. Some of the advice (including in our old blog post!) is simply outdated. Some suggestions can … Click to continue
Lightroom Performance – The Complete Series on Optimizing Lightroom’s Speed
The speed of Lightroom - or the lack thereof - is one of the most popular topics among photographers. You may have asked questions such as "why is Lightroom so painfully slow?". "How do I speed up Lightroom?". "How do I make Lightroom run faster?". … Click to continue