Feature Requests

It would be great if Lightroom 4 had GPU support for CUDA enabled video cards similar to the Mercury Playback Engine in CS5. That would really speed up performance! Every couple of seconds helps when you are editing 1000s of files. Saving 2 seconds between images comes out to be an hour of saved time when you are editing 2000 images. I have 12 GB of RAM, and 12 core processors at my disposal and sometimes i have 4 seconds between images. Multiprocessor support would be great as well!

Having Lightroom mobile be able to import raw files, not just jpgs, will be crucial to giving LR Mobile some in field potential! It's fine if still creates a jpg preview to work from, so long as it still syncs my raw file to my CC account!

The next step in assigning Keywords to a photo, is to be able to link a keyword to a sepcific region of the photo. This would be useful in may situations. ex: face tagging require that, but it could be used to describe different par of a photo, like peaks in a land scape photo, birds,... That would be a really useful feature. Some software already have it. RegardsNote: This topic was created from a reply on the Lightroom: add option to graphically mark images topic.

Do you plan to implement a face recognition defined by keywords in Lightroom someday ?

It is extremely difficult to correct a wide angle shot taken at an angle to straight geometric shapes, such as trees or buildings. Lens Corrections>Manual>Transform probably has all the tools, but in some photos it would take a computer to know which ones to apply and in what order. The Straighten Tool in the Crop panel is brilliant (and has been around in PS for years). Can we have something similar in Lens Corrections, where the user would draw a few straight lines in the image (essentially telling LR what's a building and what's a tree), and LR would attempt to apply the right Transforms to straighten the photo?

Mini Lightroom iPad APP! I would love to be able to export a database of images (iPad resolution thumbs) and while I'm on a plane edit keywords, change develop settings, and create slideshows, ect. When I return I could sync with my main catalogue. Tethered shooting maybe? I would pay big money for this! cheers, Rick McCawley

Wouldn't it be much more logical and convenient to have Photomerge as a kind of plugin in Lightroom to create panorama's instead of using Photoshop. At best, not the resulting TIFF is stored, but only the parameters to create one. When this panorama acts like it was a DNG itself, you can develop it any way you like and print and export it the best way.

Has anyone mentioned soft proofing yet? If not, please add it! I'm sure you will.

To "Write Metadata to files, we can just press Ctrl-S. Please add a Shortcut for "Read Metadata from Files" as well! Thank you! Background: When editing time lapse with LRTimelapse and Lightroom, the users have to go back and forth reading/writing metadata. A shortcut would speed up the process so much.

Would love to be abel to erase away gradients in Lightroom. For example the gradient is great on straightforward landscapes such as lakes with an even horizon. But if there is a mountain or a tree the gradient effect looks artificial. I need to be able to areas or conceal areas where I do not want the gradient effect would be fabulous!

Sometimes I'm working on a photo and would just like to see it now full-screen. I've tried the slideshow, but it takes about 4 seconds for photo to appear - that's too long. So instead, I do this: - To Present: Shift-Tab, 'T', 'L', 'L', then move the cursor out of the way. - To Un-present: 'L', 'T', Shift-Tab, and move the cursor back. Its more convoluted than I'd like, and I could do without the thin white frame around it surrounded by the thick black frame. A single keystroke to 'present' - full-screen / no borders (my monitors themselves have sufficient borders), and kill the cursor, then another to return to editing would be perfect. PS - If Lightroom had full-screen editing for multi-monitor mode, this would be unnecessary, but in case Lr4 doesn't have that enhancement, this would be a worthy compromise. UPDATE: I just automated the keystroke sequences using auto-hotkey, which helps a lot, but still...

Lightroom should support png and psd files - Adobe's own file type creations - I find this inexcusable. Many of us serious photographers that have lived through all the permutations and advancement of Photoshop with tens of thousands of files only to find that they are not supported by the latest otherwise beautiful Catalog program: Lightshop

I was asked to post this commentary here having first posted it in Help for Slideshow; I think they didn't want to deal with me. But, here goes. The Slideshow module is probably the most important sharing component of your program for those of us choosing not to print and file photos. Yet, and in spite of its few "canned" graphics, it seems to lack many useful edit features; at least ones equal to the quality of pictures that Lr3 can help produce. 1. Though Lr3 allows movie clips to be imported, "slideshow" will not play them as part of a combined show. 2. Although a soundtrack can be added, adjusting play time is by means of a primitive slider. 3. Sountrack only allows one track to be imported. That's probably okay if one knows how to create a track somewhere else (Garage Band, et. al.) and import it for longer shows with subtle shifts in content or, if one is willing to put up with a loop that may not match the show in length. 4. The soundtrack does not mate to the show which means t

Give us the option to consolidate/merge history steps. All the little adjustments with the crop tool (it's often impossible to reach the final crop in a single operation) could be flattened to a single step, all the little stacked basic adjustment tweaks (+5, -7, +3, yada, yada), all the individual brush strokes, etc. could be flattened to a single adjustment. This would make the history considerably cleaner and simpler - which makes much better use of the limited screen space (scrolling back down through presets and history is a pain).

Here's a proposal for making a small change to LrKeyword that could relieve pressure from users to improve LR's keywording functionality. MOTIVATION LR 3 and LR 4 have garnered a fair amount of user feedback about keywording issues. Some of the recurrent themes include: a user interface that makes it hard to rearrange large hiearchies, the inability to batch edit keyword attributes, changes in the export behavior of ancestor keywords between versions, lack of spelling correction. It's pretty clear that Adobe is limited in the resources its willing to devote to the library functionality of LR. Given that constraint, perhaps a more effective way of addressing users' needs is to make a small enhancement to the SDK, providing plugins with complete and fast access to keywords. Plugin authors could then provide the missing functionality, meeting the more specialized needs of different users (e.g. those with large controlled vocabularies). While plugins rarely work as well

I would like a Lightroom Publish Collection plug-in to publish directly to Photoshop.com from within Lightroom.

When importing DNGs with stored edits (included XMP data) then the history of the photo just shows "Imported..." instead of the list of edits. I have a corrupt catalogue. (I did nothing to cause the correction :() The catalogue contains photos which are not associated to folders in the library module. When I choose "Got to folder in Library module" from the context menu for such photos, nothing happens. I imported them just like any other photos, but somehow the corresponding library folder wasn't created or lost. I tried synchroning the parent folder but the missing subfolders are not created again. That's why I decided the only way forward is to create a new catalogue. However, the new catalogue doesn't have any of the edit history. The rendering is OK and I can reset it to see the original version of the photos but I cannot see the edit history anymore. Why is the edit history not recreated? The essence of it must be available because otherwise the correct final rendering could not

I love the new validate DNG files feature. This will be helpful in detecting corruption of images - which I certainly expect would help me recover the files from a valid backup. I've experienced some bad files over time and this is definitely not just a theoretical risk in my mind. I do have a couple of suggestions I'd like to propose for this new tool: (1) It would be preferable that offline files are reported as "missing" rather than "bad". I'd rather that "bad" is only used to report files which are actually scanned and corrupt. (2) This is the kind of feature people can forget to use for too long. It would be great to schedule a reminder that would show up at a user defined interval. Personally, I'd probably run this every 1-3 months. Perhaps this could pop up as a reminder during shutdown along with the backup reminders?

When I have a crop already selected in the crop & straighten tool, I find it unexpected that when I change the aspect ratio, the crop changes to centered but maximally-expanded. It would seem more natural to me to relate the new cropping to the existing one, eg. by keeping the same center point or the same lower-left point, etc. Of course the boundary cases where the new selection runs into the edge of the image would have to be handled, but when I eg. have original (3x2) selected but want to recrop for an 8x10 print, I want the selected region to pretty much stay the same, which is more difficult to get right when I have to start from scratch instead of making minor adjustments.

I would like to use the entire area of my monitor to see my photos. As it is, LR4 always steals some space from the four edges of the screen for the collapsed panels. On top of that, photos in "fit" mode get another margin between the panels and the photo. There should be a way to get rid of the edge bars for the collapsed panels. They are essentially very large buttons and are unnecessary. Moving the mouse to the edge of the screen could accomplish the same thing. (you could still show them in the click-to-expand mode) The "fit" mode should get rid of the extra margins. I know they look pretty, but form should follow function and not the other way around. (perhaps make it an option). If you do the math, the collapsed panel bars and the margins take up 13% of the screen PS: THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH LION'S FULL SCREEN MODE PLEASE DON'T MERGE MY TOPIC AGAIN.

Photoshop Lightroom 3: It would be great if the LR3 Slideshow module would allow you to include videos (e.g. .avi files) with the still photos. This capability is in the create slideshow module of Photoshop Elements 9. In PSE 9, it's very simple to create an album and slideshow that include both videos and still photos. In LR3, it's also easy to import videos into a collection that includes still photos. I would like to be able to export a slideshow, especially in high definition format, that I could use to burn BluRay discs, that would include the videos. Currently, I have to export the LR3 collection as a file, import the file into PSE 9, create the file as an album, create and organize a slideshow in PSE 9, then export the slideshow to Premiere Elements 9. Perhaps another option in LR3 would be to export the LR3 slideshow, including videos in a collection directly to Premiere Elements.

Presently, the R, G, & B percent values are shown in the histogram when mousing around, so it seems like a small stretch to put tone on the histogram too - that way we don't have to go to the TAT tool in the tone curve to survey tone.

The one part of Lightroom that I have never got on with is the import module. The file and directory naming options are simply not sufficient to allow for the existing directory structure that and naming conventions that I use. My style is "P:\photos\2011\2011-06\Name of Job\d5100_1234.jpg" which I cannot create with LR3. Instead I use Downloader Pro from BreezeSys which allows me to automatically create this structure, and even prompts me for the "job name" before downloading the images.

Apple release a new Macbook Pro with Retina Display (2880x1800). Applications need to be optimize to support this resolution. More Mac computers will have this type of display in future and I'm suppose Windows computer too. Please considerate to adapt Lightroom to this new display.

Lightroom preferences should contain an option to enable the user to choose between "fast (but inaccurate)" and "accurate (but slower)" renderings in the Develop module. Currently, the setting is hardwired to "fast (but inaccurate)". The user should be given the choice of trading in speed for a better rendering (the latter is available in the Library module). Some image operations (only noise reduction or more?) are not performed in the Develop module unless the magnification is 1:1. This means that at lower magnifications (such as "Fit"), one often sees grainy areas (such as grainy skies, when one has applied drastic HSL controls and/or the image has been pushed in exposure) which are shown to actually be smooth (e.g., due to activated chroma noise reduction) when one zooms in to 1:1. The graininess seems exaggerated in the sense that a normal downscaling of the noisy image to a "Fit" size should not show such course blotches of heavy grain, but something smoother. I find the resultin