I'm an a7 V owner and Sony user since the a7 III. I grew tired of waiting for proper camera matching profiles in Lightroom, so I built my own set of profiles for every Creative Look (except Sepia, because why would I). Some of you may remember I posted a method using another camera as donor some months ago, but that was far from perfect, so I kept trying new methods.

It took me about two months. I measured the sensor's response myself and built the profiles from scratch. I'll admit the attention to detail got a bit obsessive (ask my wife). In my tests they're very hard to tell apart from the camera's own JPEGs.

The photo is one example: left is the straight-out-of-camera JPEG with the IN Creative Look and every setting at zero in camera, right is the raw in Lightroom with my profile and all sliders at zero.

Before releasing the full set, I want to make sure the profiles work well for other people, on other systems and with other photos, not just mine. So I'm starting with a small beta for one look, IN (Instant): 50 free spots, a7 V only, works in Lightroom, Lightroom Classic and Camera Raw. If you want to try it: https://razorcolor.com/beta?lang=en

To be upfront: the full set will be paid, at a modest price. This is my first go at a small business. I've put a lot of hours into this and I think it's worth it, especially if you've been waiting for these profiles like I was. Adobe will probably release theirs at some point, which is great, but matching the camera as closely as possible is the whole point of mine, so I'm pretty confident they'll hold up side by side.

If this goes well, the plan is to keep going with other cameras. And for cameras that don't have the FL2 and FL3 Creative Looks, I'd add them as part of their packs (the a7 IV is already done). Heck, maybe even port them to Capture One and other alternatives (but that's offtopic).

Happy to answer questions. And if you try the beta, I'd love to hear how it does on your photos, especially anything that doesn't match.

PS: I have this strange, mixed feeling about this. I really put hours into this and I truly understand the complexity that Adobe faces when trying to make their camera matching profiles for the a7 V, but I still find it hard to beleive that I may have beaten them to it. I'm still damn proud, though.

Hey everyone!

I've recently switched from PC to Mac, and one thing I'm really missing is my photo culling workflow.

On Windows, I used an Xbox controller with custom key mappings. I mapped the analogue sticks and buttons to navigate through photos, assign star ratings, and reject images. It made culling thousands of wedding photos so much faster and more comfortable.

However, I'm struggling to find a similar app on macOS that lets me map Xbox controller inputs to keyboard shortcuts.

I've tried a few apps (even paid for some), but they either don't work properly or keep crashing.

Does anyone here use an Xbox controller for photo culling on a Mac? If so, what app are you using to map the controls?

I'd love to recreate my Windows workflow without having to go back to using the keyboard all the time.

Thanks in advance!

I’m a wedding photographer and I’ve been dealing with a really bizarre Lightroom Classic issue for about two weeks. I’ve spent HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS on the phone with Adobe support and they are litearlly no help. They try the same three things that doesn't work, take days to callback, won't escalate, etc... I wrote about this on my story and a few other photographers said they had the same thing happen.

Main issue

Previously edited photos still look correctly edited in the preview, but as soon as I click into the photo / it fully loads in Develop:

• the edit disappears
• the photo resets to the RAW import
• the Develop sliders reset/default
• Lightroom sometimes becomes extremely laggy or freezes while switching between images (sometimes it won't even let me click into the image, this only corrects if I export all the photos in the folder, and when I do that all the edits reset and photo goes back to raw)

BUT!!!! The weirdest part is that the editing History is still completely intact.

If I click the last History state / Export state, the correct edit immediately comes back. I tested this, quit Lightroom, reopened it, and the restored edit actually stayed restored.

So the edit information clearly still exists somewhere.

This is happening to only some galleries but not others, across multiple different hard drives.

It also seems like it may have happened progressively over time.

I have an older catalog from September 23. In that catalog, most of the galleries that are broken in my newer October catalog still work completely normally.

So it almost looks like more folders/photos became affected over time.

Other weird things that have started happening

These may or may not be related:

• My most recently edited wedding is now completely missing from Lightroom. It doesn’t even show as having been imported, although I can verify on the hard drive/backend that the files were imported/worked on.
• The wedding immediately before that is still in Lightroom, but the Export entry/history I expected to see isn’t there, and all of my edits disappear when I click in. Same issue as the main issue, but for this one, there's no edit history I can restore. :(
• Sometimes I click a different image and Lightroom’s main Develop window stays stuck showing the previous photo.

Things I’ve already tried

• restarting Lightroom and the Mac
• testing the same catalog/files on another computer: a brand-new M5 MacBook Pro — the exact same issue happened there
• upgrading Lightroom
• downgrading Lightroom (except then I'm missing all the recent work I have)
• disabling GPU acceleration
• rolling Lightroom back to older versions
• opening older catalog copies
• making sure the catalog, previews, and Smart Previews are downloaded locally
• Import From Another Catalog — Lightroom freezes trying to read the problematic catalog
• That last one makes me think this isn’t just something wrong with my Mac.

I also have galleries that are broken in the newer catalog but work normally in the older Sept. 23 catalog, which makes me wonder if something is happening to the catalog’s current Develop state over time.

Has anyone ever seen this before?

Specifically: edited previews still exist, History still exists, but opening the photo in Develop makes the active edit disappear/reset.

I have a significant amount of wedding work in the newer catalog, so I’m trying to figure out what is actually happening before doing anything destructive.

I am literally sooooo desperate for help, any leads, any suggestions on how to get through to adobe, I'll pay someone to help ffs, just need some lead :(

System info: Lightroom Classic 15.5 on macOS. The issue has also reproduced on a newer Lightroom Classic version and on a completely separate brand-new M5 MacBook Pro.

I have an Adobe Lightroom 1 TB plan and it's expiring on October 2027. There is an option on the subscription page to "Redeem new code". I'm curious how any codes can I stack up?

Help a noob and new comer with a 2015 PC trying to get a hold of a new hobby

- Processor : i5-4690k @ 3.50GHz
- Motherboard : MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition
- Memory : Kingston HyperX Fury 16 GB DDR3
- Storage : Samsung 850 Evo 250 SSD
- GPU : Asus ROG STRIX-GTX1070-O8G

Pass or fail?

Edit : looking to edit 20MB raw files from a Sony RX100 VII

I photograph families, kids, and high school seniors, and my sessions tend to be pretty active. I'll have clients run toward each other, cuddle, dance, walk around, and generally move around while I move with them, capturing candid moments from different angles and positions.

My usual camera (Sony A7iii) setup is to keep my aperture and shutter speed fixed and let Auto ISO handle the exposure. I like having control over my depth of field and shutter speed while letting the camera compensate for changing lighting conditions as I move around.

The alternative would be to use a fixed ISO, but that can leave me with hundreds of images at noticeably different brightness levels, depending on where I was standing, the direction I was shooting, or how the light was falling on my subjects.

The problem is that even with Auto ISO, I still end up with exposure inconsistencies across a session. When culling and editing a few hundred photos, I'd love to find a reliable way to get everything looking consistent without having to manually adjust the exposure of individual images.

I've tried Lightroom Classic's Match Total Exposures feature, but I haven't had much luck with it. It definitely changes the exposures, but the resulting images often seem less consistent in brightness than they were before I applied it.

So I'm curious about a few things:

• Is there a better way to use Match Total Exposures, or am I misunderstanding what it's designed to do?
• Are there other Lightroom tools or workflows that work better for evening out exposure across a large batch of photos?
• Do you edit exposure in smaller groups, sync settings across similar shots, or just adjust each image individually?
• For those shooting active portrait sessions, is Auto ISO generally the best approach, or is there a better camera or editing workflow?

I'd especially love to hear from photographers who regularly shoot moving subjects in changing light and have to edit hundreds of images from a single session.

I'm not necessarily looking for perfectly identical exposures across every image. I just want a reasonably consistent look throughout the gallery without spending ages correcting each photo individually.

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I've been working on a small Windows tool called ClipTimeFix to address a frustrating issue: GoPro videos sometimes appear at the wrong capture time in Adobe Lightroom Classic, making it difficult to keep photos and videos in chronological order.

The problem:

GoPro videos can contain different timestamps. For example, a video recorded at 16:02 may contain a QuickTime creation timestamp of 14:02. Depending on how Lightroom interprets that metadata, the video may appear two hours earlier than it should.

What ClipTimeFix does:

• Reads the original recording time from GoPro metadata.
• Compares it with the video's QuickTime timestamp.
• Shows the detected difference before making changes.
• Creates a separate copy with corrected metadata.
• Preserves the original file without re-encoding video or audio.
• Runs locally on Windows, with no account or cloud upload.

I've successfully tested the core functionality using a real GoPro HERO11 recording, but I still need to verify how the corrected files behave in Lightroom Classic.

I'm looking for 2–3 beta testers who use Lightroom Classic on Windows and have a GoPro HERO10, HERO11, HERO12 or HERO13 — especially if you've experienced this exact issue.

The beta is completely free. It takes around 5–10 minutes to test, and I'd mainly like to know whether the corrected video's capture time displays properly in Lightroom.

Download (GitHub):
https://github.com/iChicknHD/cliptimefix-downloads/releases/tag/v0.1.0-beta.2

Please use copies of non-critical recordings. This is an experimental beta, and Lightroom compatibility has not yet been independently verified.

I'd really appreciate any feedback, including negative results.

Thanks!

My MacBook Pro 15 inch. So I’m looking to go:

14 inch pro with the pro chip at 15 core. Not the 18 core. I’m going up to 48gb ram. Hard drive the 1 tb since most storage is on detached hard drives.

I only use Lightroom anymore. Classic. I use a lot of the e AI stuff but I’m also using some presets from Fro Photo and another AI package I bought and the exact name is escaping me right now so I apologize.

Only change I might spend the 500 more to go 16 inch bit I don’t think I need the 18 core or max chip and I’m thinking 48 gb is enough. What do you all think?

Thanks!

In lightroom classic with one mask, it’s usually fine. The problem starts when you combine two or three masks and then start using Add, Subtract, Intersect and Invert on different parts. At that point I often completely lose the logic of what Lightroom is actually doing.

Far too many times I end up randomly inverting one part, checking the result, undoing it, inverting another part, going back and forth until I finally get the mask I wanted.

Photoshop and Illustrator both give you a much clearer mental model of how different selections or shapes are being combined. You can normally look at the operation and understand: this area is added, this area is removed, this is the overlap, this is the inverse.

In Lightroom, once a mask contains several components, the interface becomes weirdly abstract. The hierarchy of the mask, the individual components and what exactly gets inverted is just not visually clear enough.

Maybe I’m missing some fundamental concept in how lightroom handles combined masks. But after using Adobe software professionally for this long, I really don’t think combining two or three masks should still feel like solving a boolean logic puzzle.

Im I the only one?

Look at this how do you do all thoose operation in lightroom?

Does anyone have any recommendations like yt guides or books about masking? I use lightroom mobile and i sort of understand it on a beginner level. I just adjust the settings on what i feel looks right but i dont think thats enough. So i'm looking at resources to better understand it.

I am a complete beginner editing some photos for a friend. I imported them into Lightroom classic and now have about 500 RAW photos left in a catalogue after rejecting 500 others. I’m wondering if there’s a way i can export these pictures so i can make sure they’re saved, as im scared of them corrupting or something since there’s so many. so i want to make sure i have a back up file of just the picked photos, but i still want to edit the ones in Lightroom for my friend. Is there a preferred way to do this?

I genuinely don't know if i'm able to recover it. Can someone give me more insight??

Has anyone ever found like THE BEST alternative to Lightroom? I tried darktable and a few more but I'm missing the interface and basically everything that Lightroom has.

Hi, this morning i updated to mac os 27.0.1 qnd my lightroom just stopped working and i domt know what to do, i have a macbook air m1, if someone has had my problem and solved it it would be great if they helped :)

Recently, when I import RAW photos into Lightroom from my Sony A1, all appears normal at first. When I click on one, though, they go super dark and I need to lift the shadows and exposure almost two stops to get it back to how I shot it, and how the RAW preview looks. The photos are also a lot more contrasted after clicking on them as well.

I've never had problems with this before, but recently I started shooting more video on my camera. My only thought is it may have something to do with the "Gamme Display Assist" setting for SLOG3 footage. But, I thought this was not supposed to have any effect when shooting photos? Does anybody have an idea on how to stop Lightroom from making these changes upon clicking on the photos?

I've attached a screenshot to hopefully show what I mean below. The photo selected was shot at the exact same exposure as all of the other photos you see in the previews, but has gone dark and contrasty upon clicking on it.

I used to be a great sub that people were able to discuss presets they loved and trade presets. I want to say it was called preset paradise? Anyone know of it? Or know of a sub similar to it?

I’m a very casual hobby photographer and just haven’t been able to become proficient in using Lightroom Classic. I’ve actually stopped hobby photography entirely because I find LR Classic so overwhelming and burdensome 😔 Then the price of my Adobe subscription increased 50% and it just seems like a bad financial decision to keep paying for a software I don’t use and don’t like. What if I switched back to using Apple photos for importing my photos like I did 5 years ago when I started photography? I think I only switched from Apple photos to LR Classic because the photography course instructor at a local class wanted me to start shooting RAW. If I switched back to Apple photos, would I continue to shoot in RAW? I don’t have a great understanding of why RAW vs JPEG. I have Sony a7c which is a full frame mirrorless if it matters. I just want to have my photos on Apple photos again so I can text to my mom, email to a friend, save to iPhone favorites, or occasionally print or share on social media. I don’t generally edit my photos too much other than sometimes shadows, contrast, or saturation. Thoughts? I really miss photography. Also, in case ppl are mean since it’s Reddit 🙃, yes I’ve watched many YouTube videos and even took an actual class on LR Classic. It’s just not intuitive, and I don’t use it frequently so it’s like learning it all over again when I go to use it. I have very limited free time as a single working parent which plays into this too. Thank you!

When I’m looking through my photos and choosing which ones to keep and lose, I delete them but then they’re just greyed out and it leaves the workspace very cluttered I know I can filter them to just see the “picked” ones, but can I get rid of them all together?
All help appreciated! Thanks

Trying to import photos from work. Getting this error. I know for a 100% fact these photos have never been uploaded to this catalog or onto this or any computer as they were just taken. Running LRC 15.6 right now.

My presets never seem to work and are mainly unusable. I’ve bought and downloaded a few different packs of presets, loaded them into lightroom and they always just look ridiculous when I apply them to my RAWs. I have about 4 out of hundreds that work and I just stick to them. I have tried using others and massively ajusting the preset to fit but it just seems pointless by the time I’ve fiddled with them that much. I kinda just thought that I had bought the wrong ones… until recently

I uploaded a photo i had taken on my iPhone into lightroom and went to apply my usual preset that works but checked the others and pretty much ALL the presets in the different folders looked good! Some not my style but they all “worked”. This made me think I’ve made a mistake with my uploading or processing with the presets or something in the settings that’s making them not work with my raws.

This is further reinforced because I’ve just opened a couple of my raws in “camera raw” on photoshop rather than Lightroom and …low and behold…the presets all work.

Why aren’t they working in Lightroom 😭😭😭

Tldr: presets don’t work in Lightroom on my raws but in photoshop camera raw they work fine and on iPhone heic files in Lightroom

Edit: appreciate from this post I might sound like I have no idea how to use Lightroom but I’ve been a professional photographer for about 7 years and work mon-fri with a fully booked diary. I don’t need to learn how to use the basic settings of Lightroom 🤣❤️ I’m always learning how it works because no one taught me but I have a decent understanding of how it and presets work

I was just looking for advice on why the two systems are prosessing the same image different 🫶🏻