Just a general comment . One of Lightrooms strengths was that it was simple. If I wanted to do something complex I would do it in Photoshop. You had general adjustments by sliders and then more specific adjustments with things like the brush tool or filters.  I can't understand why adobe interfered with this in the latest version. By expanding capability they've made it less simple and buried the functionality one layer lower than it was. It's now under "masking" which is not a term beginners can associate with. It gets very confusing if you make and adjustment with a brush and then you want to make a second adjustment with a brush. Its becomes a muddle. Very poor user interface. All Lightroom needed was proper simple content aware eraser - still not available ... View more

Hi all I've had this on numerous Windows computers and am wondering if its normal behaviour and can it be adjusted. If I am in Library Mode and I press the right arrow key briefly once it moves to the next image. If I hold down the right arrow key for a few seconds it could scroll through hundreds of images and you can't stop it until it decides to reach the end. If you hold down the left key while trying to stop what the right key did it will after stopping go forward start shooting backwards at a rate of knots.  Seems very stupid, I wouldn't mind if it jumped 10 or something but it just goes crazy fast through the images and lifting your finger doesn't stop it. ... View more

Hi I upgraded to the lastest version of Photoshop and Lightroom. There are numerous pop up messages declaring how wonderful it is. I am now getting a Welcome to Camera Raw 14.0 popup that I can't close.  I can't see the close button, I can't scroll down to it (if its at the end of the pop-up) I can't close it or move it. This is Windows 10 - latest version of Photoshop and Lightroom and Camera Raw (as of 27 Oct 2021). ... View more

Why does photoshop spend ages trying to save an image as a PSD to workout it can't be saved. Then you have to go back and saved it as a PSB.  Why does it even stll have the PSD size restriction in 2021 or automatically save as PSB when a file is too big to be a PSD. The user just wants to save the file ... View more

I am having trouble with Photoshop 2021. The screen image  is going grey. I can still see all the layers but any layer I display is just a screen of grey. I can open a second image and it looks fine. Anyone else experiencing this? ... View more

I have a small SSD drive 128GB where all the programs run off. It's not possible to increase its size.  I have a second HDD drive. The issue I face is the SSD drive filling up. Windows is bloated, Nvidia drivers another issue, Photoshop old versions and plugins like Topaz and Nik (which seem to install all over the place). Can I delete folders containing older versions of the Photoshop (or at least folders labelled as that)? I've tried uninstalling in Add / Remove programs but they don't show up. I tried Adobes uninstall old versions tool but it doesn't seem to recognise the old versions. Perhaps they are partial installations.  Can I just delete them? It's very unclear is there some data in the folders that the latest version uses.     ... View more

I was wondering if anyone else experienced this. Twice today when I imported photographs into lightroom it was in mode add as opposed to Copy. This occured on two different computers. I was surprised. I never use Add as its dangerous. You think you have the photos on your PC/Laptop but they are still only on the card. ... View more

Hi, I've lots of folders on my laptop which are old versions of Photoshop (2018, 2017, 2015.5, 2015) I've already run the Adobe Cleaner (which deleted the current version too so I have to reinstall that - what a crappy interface for 2018/2019). Add remove programs doesn't detect any versions of these. The folders are in Users / App data / Roaming / Adobe Also in Program Files / Adobe /  there are folders. Can I manually delete these folders without crashing everything? ... View more

Anyone recently created a book on the book module. I haven't for years. I found it very frustrating in the past and it was much easier to use Blurbs own upload program. Regrettably I've used it again for a very large book (240 pages). The whole design of the book module is rather on the stupid side and its surprising that its not been improved significantly Its just a poor design, there is no reason why, it should be easy to get it user friendly. It's symptomatic of Adobes reluctance to make Lightroom significantly better Once you save a book and come back to add more photographs its absolutely daft what you have to do to be able to add more photographs. It's like making it the most complicated and unintuitive way possible. Anyway in the end I did finish the book and can download as a PDF to the computer. My problem is uploading it to blurb. I can't tell if its frozen or not. It doesn't say (on a Mac) what % is loaded. It looks by the bar to be around 70% but its hard to tell if its stopped or moving. If its moving its at a snails pace. It's about 16 hours uploading now. My internet is not particularly fast but still 16 hours is a long time. Is there anything I can do to check that its not actually working and that it has stopped uploading and is just sitting there. It's not appear on the Blurb website. It did fail and give me to option to resume and it did seem to resume uploading but there has not been much movement for a few hours. Should I just give up? ... View more

I'm always curious with Lightroom when I load a raw picture that when you click it its momentarily more vibrant in colour and then colour tones dip. I'd love it to look like what it first looks like. Whats going on when it does that. It like as if Lightroom takes in the picture and automatically makes some adjustment to it but I've not setting like that on. ... View more