Lightroom Desktop Loupe and Window issues

Dearest Lightroom Team,

Hope you all are doing great :)

It’s been a while since I have had any interaction with you all, I kind of miss it. 

Just dropping by to provide some of the feedback around my experience with Lightroom Desktop and listing down the issues I have been facing over the past few months.

1. Changing amount slider for adaptive profile in profile panel doesn’t update the slider
2. In curves, anchor points shift after releasing mouse button as if they are snapping to some nearby point. This has been a real bummer and very annoying. Please fix with the next release. Also, changing the curves doesn’t update the histogram shown within the curves UI panel.
3. Double clicking on toolbar/top bar doesn’t reset the window size to fit to screen. It should ideally do that, all other desktop apps function like this.
4. Entering full screen view continues to show clipped and mask overlays (in masking). Full screen view should hide the overlay. Also, the masking tool stays active in full screen mode, ideally it should allow double click and drag to scroll in full screen mode. My expectation is to review the edits in full screen without other distractions.
5. While previewing the images in a group stack, hovering over the filmstrip and scrolling doesn’t do anything. If I hover over the scrollbar and then scroll, it works. It work fine when working with the general grid.
6. Crop module doesn’t work after working with guided upright, there is no way to exit the guided upright mode and go back to the crop workflow, except exiting and re entering the crop module. Pressing Esc button does deactivate guided mode but doesn’t reactivate crop. Also, I have recently been facing other zoom related issues while working in crop panel (I have working with geometry and crop) where the image gets zoomed in with top left corner on the screen and there is no way to reset the zoom level. Existing and  re-entering the crop module also didn’t resolve it. Unfortunately this has been intermittent and I haven’t been able to consistently repro it. I have been facing this more frequently since the latest release.
7. Duplicating the mask also copies the edit settings of the mask. Isn’t it supposed to just duplicate the mask with default edit values like invert and duplicate?

Apologies if this feels like too much for a single post. It’s just a bit easier for me to do this way.

I have to say that recent updates around the capability to refine edges and feather in (AI) masks is the best feature update so far this year, I have been wanting this for SOOOOOOOOOOOOO long. Great work.

There are also some feature requests:

1. Refining masks requires to select each individual mask to change the edge and feather values. I feel this could be ironed out a bit by allowing the capability to select and merge different sub-masks. I also feel this feel help clear out the clutter.
2. Export doesn’t allow to set DPI/PPI. With professional submissions often having the requirements of specific image specifications, this lack of functionality hurts. Having a global setting in preferences under export would be great if not in the main export dialog. I guess a professional post processing solution should have this support.
3. I dearly miss the print and soft proofing workflows in Lightroom Desktop. Having to switch across different apps often breaks the flow or forces me to work entirely within that specific application. I am way to invested in Lightroom Desktop and don’t really want to migrate to Classic or Photoshop’s way of working. Definitely don’t want to seek out alternatives yet. Again, I guess a professional post processing solution should have this support.

Please find the appropriate screen recordings numbered and named accordingly. I have also attached screenshots for About Lr Dialog and System details. Please feel free to reach out for any follow up that might be needed on these topics. 

Looking forward to an improved user experience in the coming releases.

Cheers!!
Shantanu Agarwal