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lukasziegler
lukasziegler
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May 20, 2012
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P: Add editing notes to to images

  • May 20, 2012
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It would be great to have a field for "personal notes" during the Lightroom Develop step. During my import workflow I walk through all of my picture the first time, delete bad ones and rate better ones with stars. Sometimes a good idea comes to my mind (how I could edit the picture), which I would like to fix to the photo. It would be perfect to have a comment field for personal usage, which gets saved in the Lightroom Catalogue, but not in the Metadata of the file. I thought of the implementation similar to the PDF comment feature in Mendeley. Each picture can get a note, at the end I can get an overview of all my notes, which are still to do. It would also be smart to implement the ability, to filter for photos with/without notes.A simple workaround, which is currently doable, to mark a picture with a certain color (which I associate with something), isn't enough. Similar to Mendeley.[Currently using Lightroom 3.6 / Win7 64bit]

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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    July 12, 2018
    I too, would like a notes section. I like to keep notes attached to the images, things like landowner contact info, times of year that I would like to go back to a landscape, etc. I have to keep those notes separately and they often get separated from the image. A calendar or reminders would be great too, so I don't miss something I want to go back for. 🙂
    Frank_Hirschhausen
    Frank_Hirschhausen
    Participant
    January 13, 2018


    Competition already has it: a Markup Layer to make Notes about necessary changes. Before i start to retouch a Photo, i create a Layer in Photoshop circling Areas that need my Attention. so i can later on check if everything is done.
    When working with external Retouchers it could become helpful to add a Layer already to the XMS/DNG. Could be a Markup Cloud with a floating Note like seen in Acrobat. 
    Important to offer the same from Bridge as sometimes Lightroom is diverted via Bridge to gain some Speed.
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      rafaeld40018520
      Participant
      January 10, 2018
      More than a month ago, after that move from Adobe pushing every Lightroom user to the cloud-based services, I dropped my stand-alone Lightroom 6 (now it is just for DAM) and started learning CaptureOne Pro 11. It is another game altogether, much more control over colors, adjustments and it has actual layers - and the notes we asked for in this topic more than a year ago.

      I'm now a happy camper with C1 Pro, my photos now get the look I want more easily. Looks like I'm out of Lightroom's bandwagon for good as I also won't fit to Adobe's policies.
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        John Eastcott
        Participant
        January 9, 2018


        There is a large blank area under the tools in ACR.  Can we please add a note area here so we can leave ourselves notes on how and WHY we choose to process an image a certain way, or for any other need for a note. Then in the synchronize command add a note check box.
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          Boptissa
          Participating Frequently
          December 1, 2017
          Awesome!!  Come on Adobe!
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          Stephen Newport
          Known Participant
          November 30, 2017


          Capture One just changed the game when it comes to post-processing in studio or between in-house and freelance post production teams:

          I've been wanting something like this for years to streamline multiple client intake of retouching requests!
          PLEASE implement something like this.
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            FeedbackCommunityMember
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            July 25, 2017

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            Boptissa
            Participating Frequently
            July 25, 2017


            For next LR update, I would suggest IMHO a very cool feature for photographers who usually work on team with retouchers. As a photographer, while on the shooting set, we mostly want to show retouchers areas of the picture we would like to be cleaned up or reworked. What about a function in LR where we could use for ie a tool like a pen or brush to mark out specific areas of the pictures for retouchers? It could be saved as a layer (TIFF or PSD) during final export and easily discarded once retouch done? Many thanks!
              John_jcb
              John_jcb
              Participating Frequently
              July 25, 2017


              LR Mobile
              Add ability to add notes to a picture file.
              I would like to add notes from a client review in LR Mobile and have them available when I return to LR. Now I need to carry a notebook or constantly switch between apps.
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              FeedbackCommunityMember
              Inspiring
              July 25, 2017


              LR: In Library module, please allow randon notes to be typed in "Comments" area in right panel. This is very important to make notes about "external" processing done in other Plug-Ins and brought back to LR for final processing. "History" only shows image as exported and then re-imported. I have to be able to note which external editor I used and that's a perfect place. Thank you in advance.
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