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Mike--Palmer
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May 24, 2011
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P: support for un-maximized PSDs

  • May 24, 2011
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I saw a post in 2009 about this, but nothing since. Lightroom NEEDS to support Unmaximized PSDs in some form or another. Right now they are invisible to Lightroom!

A multilayered photo file can be 200MB Un-Maximized, yet it's only 89 MB Maximized.

I'd even settle for saving a small composite image in the PSD that Lightroom can use.

As the guy said in 2009 - It's PHOTOSHOP LIGHTROOM, how can Lightroom completely ignore files native to Photoshop?

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    Lee Jay
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    May 24, 2011
    In order to support them, LR would have to have PS's full ability to process all layers and such. I could imagine this capability could easily triple Lightroom's size.

    Maximize forces PS to render an image using its resources, and Lightroom can then read that image from the file and thus avoid having to render it itself.

    I would be very annoyed if LR increased in size by a huge factor just to support this one feature.
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