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May 3, 2014
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P: Visual indicators for adjustment tools

  • May 3, 2014
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Is it possible to add indicators to the Tools section of the develop panel to indicate that spot healing, red eye tool, gradient, radial and adjustment brush etc have been applied to a photo? (Did not include crop tool because you can show that information via the info overlay but would be nice for this tool too)When going through multiple photos and using the PREVIOUS button it can get to point where you forget that for example a spot healing adjustment was made several photos back. This adjustment may not be applicable to the 7th photo in sequence that you are editing but was ok for previous ones.It is time consuming to remember to have to click on each individual tool then look for adjustment pins or click tool reset to be sure that adjustment has not be inadvertently been copied from a previous photo. (Especially if the photo editing sessions are done days apart) This is not too much of a problem if you use SYNC on multiple photos as you deselect unwanted items but when using PREVIOUS button it is copying everything and you can lose track of adjustments that may not apply to the next use of the PREVIOUS button.If there was a bright line around the tool icon or a checkmark on each individual tool in the panel then you would know that photos have those adjustments applied somewhere. Another option is to add the choice to have this info be displayed in the Loupe overlay info options. For other panels like the BASIC panel it is very quick to see that either no changes have been made as sliders are at their zero position or you see them change as you move from photo to photo. To check if a tool adjustment was made you need to click each tool to look for pins/use reset/ or search history panel and if the photo was cropped you may need to uncrop first to expose hidden pins.Bruce

25 replies

Jerry Syder
Inspiring
December 26, 2020
Pepbiker
Known Participant
December 26, 2020

Hi, if there is no way to know it, I wonder if it could be possible to add:

  1. ... to each targeted adjustment tool, for example, a little number at its side to let us know if this tool has been implemented to the image.

  2. ... also a  list of them for each tool as per let us choose one directly, solving the problem of select a pin below a group of them, as normally happens when working with spots cleaning tool or in case there are duplicate pins in the same place.

Thanks in advance. 

alex.furer
Known Participant
October 4, 2020

+100 on this!

 

(let me add some text so I can post because it needs more than 20 letters...)

Jerry Syder
Inspiring
September 24, 2020

I remember seeing that - great suggestion, too. I can't tell you the number of times I looked at an image and had no clue whether there were any local adjustments. Then went through the fun process of clicking each, then waiting for the pins to appear. 

Inspiring
September 24, 2020

I agree.  It's kind of related to or an extension of what I threw out here - 
Ability to view all local adjustment pins at once

Jerry Syder
Inspiring
September 24, 2020

Lightroom desktop and the new ACR have these little markers next to the local adjustment if it's been used on an image. It would be great to have the same in Lightroom Classic:

 

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Sean H [Seattle branch]
Known Participant
November 22, 2018


I'd like to see indicators in the Develop right panel showing me if a crop is applied, clone/heals are in use, grad filter, redeye and/or adjustment brushes. The indicators would prevent errors when copying settings from a previous image - clone/heals are the big offenders and I sometimes don't catch that I'm applying settings across images that have a clone applied. Then, I get the email from the client asking WTF. I find it time-consuming to have to enable the features to see if there's clones or adjustments applied. The indicators would be immediate!

Easy add? Please add!


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Participating Frequently
April 28, 2018
After brainstorming a little bit I can now imagine that implementing this functionality of signaling the previous usage of brush or gradient and so on tools would make open up a picture within the development module even slower. A feature like this is so obvious helpful that I cannot imagine that Adobe wasn't aware of the benefit. I bet they prevent working on such a feature because opening up pictures is even too slow in every Lightroom version until the present one. Every further slowing down is not helpful. Adobe therefore must alter the handling of files and their adjustments and this huge task will be very expensive I guess.

I'm new to this community since yesterday. As I read the numerous problem reports with version 7.3.x Adobe has extrem problems maintaining a minimum of quality in Lightroom so that they must concentrate on core functionalities to work. The Adobe ship is a really big tanker today, software is very complex, operating systems (especially Windows 10) are more and more complex and even quicker in development that now holding pace _and_ maintaining quality is no more Adobe's strong point I fear. They have to change processes while developing software to prevent to be overtaking by others. If they hadn't Photoshop with it's non existent competition, it would be very dark at Adobe's headquarters I fear. Lightroom e.g. is very easy to replace with some other very interesting RAW converters new to the market within the last two years.
Bob Somrak
Legend
April 27, 2018
I would find this useful too!!
M4 Pro Mac Mini. 48GB
bhousto90Author
Legend
April 27, 2018
Nice to see some renewed interest in this after so many years...

Hopefully, more people will indicate they would like to see this feature added and bump it up on the Adobe feature consideration list.