P: Floating panels/toolbars

What do you mean by "much bigger keyword sets?" I've hundreds and not run into a limit.

Hi

Is it possible to combine panels from the develop module AND the keywording panel side by side so I can edit, adjust metadata and keyword without changing layouts. Also is it possible to create much bigger custom keyword sets AND also make them floating windows so I can edite faster and do a lot of repetitive keywording. A bit like customising Photoshops layout.

My ideal scenario is to have the develop panels on the left and the metadata on the right and then to be able to drag a panel closer to my image area so I can crop, adjust and keyword without sweeping around the big monitor so much or having to change module.

After 10 years of waiting, still nothing has happened. I'm disappointed. It is too cumbersome to open and close the panels or scroll up and down. Even on a 4K screen. It's time for something new!

Many of us use two monitors and floating side bars would be really helpful

Victoria, thanks for the response. I'd read this thread through and couldn't see any acknowledgement of the desire so it's good to know from one that knows these things that it is the case. I agree performance improvements are needed (they always seem to be needed on Lightroom).

There has been some acknowledgment of the desire to rearrange panels in the Develop panel order adjustment that was added a while back. Real tear off panels clearly won't be possible with the current architecture, but that doesn't mean it won't ever happen... just that it's not a small undertaking and there are other priorities (like performance!) at the moment.

Wow, my request for floating panels gets merged with another master post about it where many many people have asked for this over ten years. Ten years. And still nothing. I doubt it will ever happen then which is a huge shame.

I find the present structure infuriatingly limiting. It feels like we are using a program from the 90s not 2021.

I've been a Lightroom user since v1.0 and Photoshop user some time before that. In Photoshop there's a lot of flexibility of how you set up your computer screens. I can group, for example the tools and put them on one of my screens and have the main image I'm working on on another screen.

In Lightroom my two screens are much more limited. So I tend to have grid view on my secondary monitor to allow me to choose images and on my primary monitor I have the develop view.

But that's only part of the issue.

Every year I take images that I've done during the year and archive them. I drag one folder down, and down, and down, and wait until I get to my external drive. Then I can let go and the images get moved.

If I were to do this in Windows Explorer I'd simply open two Explorer windows side by side, one for the source and one for the target and drag folders over. I can't achieve anything that simple in Lightroom.

The result is that I put off archiving as it is a right pain to do.

I'm currently in the middle of a re-organisation of my drive structure, re-categorising images and where I physically want them stored and it is painful.


For so many reasons it would be prefereable not to have the panels visible/hidden in their strict positions but to be able to move them around. I migth like my keywording and metadata above my folders in a panel on one screen and my histogram and navigator in another panel.

Arbitrarily being assigned positions of the panels makes little sense when Photoshop has the flexibility to put the items wherever one wants them.

So my suggstion is that Lightroom allows one to put panels where one wants them (on the second, third or even fourth screen!) and that it also allows multiple instances of items such as folders to allow for easier re-organisation when that is called for.