P: Support Common Image Formats (EPS, GIF, PDF, BMP etc.)

Good on you Floris -

I could not agree more - and felt that a simple "Like" was not adequate appreciation to you - both for your initial string of of solid suggestions and for your candid response to being told to dismember your original post.

I have been and remain active on several other product communities - including the Windows Insider Program - all of whom seem to use intelligent tools to evaluate the threads within their communities.

Road maps aside - this community seems to have less respect from the developers than any of the others I belong to.  Makes me wonder whether its primary purpose was simply to allow good folk to get things off their chest [cathartic effect] but never intended to be taken too seriously by the developers.

Once upon a time - many moons ago - I recall similar criticism of a video editing suite forum that I belong to - but they have made huge leaps in actively participating in the threads with meaningful comments on issues being worked on. 

Just an after thought - surely Adobe can progress beyond this linear approach to the Community and make use of abundantly available AI algorithms [try Google] for interrogating and sorting all the "big data" housed within the community to determine the frequency with which ideas are shared and the extent to which they fit with existing development plans?

It does seem strange that in the 21st century a leading creative house like Adobe still needs to have customer ideas placed in little boxes ??

I'm sure a lot of "out the box" thinking has gone into the development of premium products like Premiere / Photoshop / Lightroom etc etc ... time to apply the same to this community.

Jira would be a great start - as suggested by Floris  😉

Oh dear ... the "official response" is governed by a "tick-the-box" mindset. An incredibly thoughtful and indeed useful post will be summarily ignored because it does not conform to the "rules" that each point must be set out in its own little box ... all 17 of them !!!

The irony is that even after taking the time to dismember the ideas - no matter how good they may be ... and judging from other threads - no matter how "popular" those threads may be ... the probability of getting any developer response is pretty much zero.  

See for e.g. this one 
https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/i-like-the-new-lightroom-cc-but-i-hate-auto-s...

Greetings,

Thank you for your enthusiasm for the Lightroom family of products. For your Ideas to gain more prominent notice and have maximum impact with the team, there are a few things you could do to help.

Ideas, or feature requests as some call them, work like this on the Feedback Forum:  Each individual Idea is single post anchoring a thread. All of the people who have a similar idea and relate their rational will be merged into a single master post that contains all the comments on a single topic.  This has a few advantages:

1. It gives Adobe a place to accumulate votes (by either creating a thread that is merged into the master thread or by hitting the [Me Too] button in the upper right corner. Adobe can see at a glance, search for, and rank the top features being requested without having to search for scattered posts. The engineering staff can read the user’s comments and divine the best ways to implement a given request.
2. By being a part of this master Idea thread, when an Idea comes to fruition and becomes an active feature in the software, Adobe updates this thread. Participants in the thread, those who’ve been merged in and those who have hit the [Me Too] button will be notified by email to updates and feature announcements related to the original request.

You can help us out by doing a few things to make your idea count. First, if you have an idea, search to see if idea is already posted as a formal Idea. If it is, hit the [Me Too] button and if you like add your individual comments to the thread. Second, if you don’t find the idea is already posted, create a new thread and post your idea for a new feature.  Please keep the Ideas as one idea per thread so that we can merge them with the correct master threads if necessary.  We don’t have a way to merge an Idea into multiple threads so if you make multiple feature requests in a single post, it is very likely to get lost in the shuffle, lessening its impact. 

That is sad Armen. I've seen some really old feature requests implemented over the last couple of years, and the number of votes does illustrate how popular a feature would be, so they are taken into account. It's true that they don't offer a roadmap in advance, because things don't always work out quite as easy as they first sound.

I'm really sad it has become the way Adobe does development.

No offence to you Victoria, personally, of course, as we can all see how you're doing your best to keep up, and doing a good job at it.

It's just it's not feasable for everyone to go through and 'fill tickets' for the team about obvious things. There are probably 2 or 3 things that got an 'under consideration' status over a year of 'great ideas'.  I gave up giving feedback long ago. You totally get the feeling that you're using a beta software while payling full price monthly without any sort of roadmap.

You've got some great ideas there Floris, but I can't vote on them because they're all in one list. If you post them separately, other people who also like the ideas can vote too, and that gives them a much better shot at being implemented.

You've got some great ideas there Floris, but I can't vote on them because they're all in one list. If you post them separately, other people who also like the ideas can vote too, and that gives them a much better shot at being implemented.

Thanks, John, for this reply. I'll look into this. Assume your suggestion worked unless you hear otherwise.

In general, LR allows you to have many files in a folder all with the same basename but different extensions, e.g. a.arw, a.dng, a.jpg, a.mov, a.nef, a.png, a.psd, a.tif:



There's a special case of JPEGs getting paired with raw files, but you can disable that behavior with the option Preferences > General > Treat JPEG Files Next To Raw Files As Separate Photos.

Have you observed otherwise?