P: Enable the use of more than 2 monitors

Indeed - having the ability to move panels around as in Dreamweaver would be a real plus. I would very much like to use 3 monitors with Lightroom and arrange my windows across them as I please.

I want to be able to move the folder list and develop sliders onto another screen to maximize the screen area.

One of my biggest complaints about LR is its unability to have real multimonitor support with floating panels. Having to scroll through panels or opening and closing them is just plain awkward.

LR4 - Request for better multiple monitor support / 4K output in Slideshow

I have three monitors on my main imaging computer, which is not that uncommon these days. It would be wonderful if the final release of LR4 would support more than two monitors, or at least let the user choose the two that they want to use. Also, a little more flexibility in configuring the monitors would be helpful...for instance, floating or draggable panels would be a great feature. In my opinion, the ability to mix and match panels from different modules and place them on the monitor of my choice would greatly improve the functionality and efficiency of LR4 while working with a multiple monitor setup.

Also, on an unrelated note, I shoot time-lapse photography and would like to use the slideshow module video export function to create my footage. As it stands, the existing codec and bitrate limitations make LR video export unusable for high quality output. 4K support and the ability to choose the codec (for example ProRes 422HQ) are sorely needed upgrades to make the video export usable for anything beyond web display. We need editing friendly codecs...H.264 in the current implementation is not up to the task.

Regards,

Josh Himes

I currently use an external monitor for my critical editing/evaluation as my iMac display doesn't reproduce reds very well. I understand newer iMacs can support 2 external displays, obviously desktop machines can support as many displays as there are open slots for video cards.

While editing a photo shot in portrait on a monitor set for landscape is not a problem, it would be cool to have two external color-accurate monitors for developing/loupe views, one oriented in portrait, one in landscape, with the third (iMac in this case) showing the develop controls. Even if the two external monitors showed the same image, one would always be fullscreen in the correct orientation.

MacOS and Windows both give the user control over all the displays connected to a given system, so driving a portrait and a landscape monitor simultaneously shouldn't be a problem from an OS/hardware standpoint.

Is this something that can be rolled into LR4?

Respectfully,

Andre