P: Add the possibility to disable full image preset preview

The new feature where Lightroom previews presets on your photo when you hover over them is driving me crazy! Its extremely annoying and slows down the app and my editing workflow when this happens as I'm trying to scroll to the preset I want. Please add an option to disable this for people who don't want it!

In this thread, someone posted a fix in post #27:

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2473568?start=27&tstart=27

I tried it on my Late 2016 loaded 15" MacBook Pro Touch Bar and it did stop the preset preview on the main window.  However scrolling through presets is almost just as bad, very sluggish and jerky as the small upper left window renders the preset preview.

This never occurred on 7.2, but I think the older version allowed you to scroll fast and it would not render until you slowed down.  The fix above seemed to force it to render every preset no matter how fast you scrolled through the list.

So the problem is more than just rendering the preview in the main window.

I've again reverted back to 7.2

I also saw a big general slowdown after this update, not so one thing is due. But now it is really unmanageable even just to apply a preset.

OK. I will open a new thread.

It's hard for users to provide their opinions about the expected behavior without a separate topic.  It is certainly "unusual" that the preview resulting from hovering would be significantly different from the result of actually applying the preset.

It hasn't been posted as a bug, John - rather I have asked the team to provide feedback on expected behavior to determine if this falls into the realm of bug or behavior change. 

Rikk Flohr, official rep, apparently reported this issue to the development team.

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lr-7-3-1-often-not-updating-rendering-in-full...

"if the settings modified by the preset are located in a development panel that is disabled (switch button set to Off), the live preview doesn't take these settings into account."

Have you posted this as a separate bug report?  Adobe almost certainly won't see or act on it unless it's a separate bug report.

>> Please make some checkbox in settings to turn it off.

Not in settings, Stanislav. The ON/OFF button must be directly accessible during the browsing operations. For example, as you described, one may want to do a quick browsing through a lot of preset folders (groups ?) with full live preview disabled and then activate it when selecting a preset in a specific group.

I think the best place for this button is in the toolbar under the viewing area, along with the other tools.

NB : There's another related problem with preset previewing that I commented elsewhere. I just noticed something that I consider as a bug : when hovering the presets, I observed that some of them had absolutely no effect. Very strange. Until I understood that if the settings modified by the preset are located in a development panel that is disabled (switch button set to Off), the live preview doesn't take these settings into account.

This is questionable. The live preview should show the full effect of the preset by temporarily re-enabling the setting panels that are switched off. Otherwise, this doesn't make much sense.

In other words, new feature not tested by someone using LR for real work.

Short description: before and after. Before latest LR update presets previews was only in small navigator window. After latest update presets previews are also showing in big main develop window and this making one problem.


In general I like new update of
Lightroom Classic. Idea that when I put mouse over preset name I see not
only small but also big preview is good.

But generating big
preview for my big monitor takes too much time. I want to scroll mouse
over lots of presets and see fast previews. But right now I put mouse
and wait, then move and wait, and again. Finally I want to turn off this
big previews, I'm happy enough with fast previews in navigator, but I
can't do this.


Please make some checkbox in settings to turn it off. Or
make big previews faster generation. For example with some increasing
resolution algorithm. Like low details and very fast at first time, but
if mouse is staying at this preset then more resolution and more
detailed preview generation.



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And one special creative idea for presets. 🙂

I know that many photographers has lots of presets like several hundred. Sorting and previewing is still a problem. I want to ask Adobe to make some algorithm and tool finding similar presets. Like author entering some delta value and algorithm trying to find similar presets. Then delete or put in one group of similar presets.