P: Display Focus Points

Apple's Aperture did this for years. Hard to believe it's a technical challenge for Adobe. I recently migrated from Aperture to Lightroom, and I'm frankly stunned that Adobe doesn't get this. I love LR's merge to HDR and pano features, but there are just too many headslap moments like this. The lack of 3-up view is another major step backwards in my culling workflow. Honestly, what Adobe needs more than engineers is some real-world (not studio) photographers consulting on product design. From a UI standpoint, Aperture was brilliant. LR not so much. I mean, jeez, no customizable keyboard shortcuts? Really?!?! I better shut up now before it gets ugly.

I use Bridge to organize and review images.  It provides all the information I need, with the exception of showing the camera focus point.  When taking upwards of 1000 images per day, it would be extremely helpful in my first cull.  Nikon ViewNX2 shows the focus point, but has many disadvantages when used in that manner.  The focus point is captured in the metadata, so it should be a relatively simple addition.

Where's the best place to post a features wish list? If Lightroom could support reading the focus points from the camera metadata, it seems like it would be easy to run an action to check those focus points for sharpness and automatically reject any images that aren't sharp. What about blink detection or facial recognition and auto tag for naming? If FaceBook can do that, I don't see why Lightroom can't. How about selecting a group of photos and having Lightroom check the faces and finding the best one? I work on a lot of other photographer's photos and for us that shoot events and a lot of photos... these would be huge time savers!

Hi!

Just wanted to chip in as one of the persons really missing the possibility to natively show focus points directly in Lightroom, without having to use the available plugins, which I find rather cumbersome and slow.

I recently moved from Aperture, where this has been available for ages. That said, of course I find Lightroom much more powerful.

Hi!

Just wanted to chip in as one of the persons really missing the possibility to natively show focus points directly in Lightroom, without having to use the available plugins, which I find rather cumbersome and slow.

I recently moved from Aperture, where this has been available for ages. That said, of course I find Lightroom much more powerful.

It's a reasonable request to help in processing workflow.

This should have been added to Lightroom long long time ago.

Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Sony all of these companies store this data in the exif.

Given that LR6 can recognise faces (supposedly, haven't used it myself) the facial recognition features/points could be combined with the focus points to become a very useful tool/filter that could indicate if the face was in focus. Of course there are always times when you *don't* want a face to be in focus but most of the time this *is* what you want...

Poor old Aperture had a feature whereby the points that achieved focus could be overlain on the photo. I found this a really worthwhile feature as a means of quickly assessing whether focus had been achieved where it was intended, e.g. on the eyes or the bridge of the nose in portraits, or to give an idea of depth of field across the subject. Has anybody heard any rumours/rumblings about the possibility of this being added to Lightroom?