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daniell11223644
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October 9, 2023
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P: Restore the (previous) Edit UI as an option on Lightroom Mobile

  • October 9, 2023
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Lightroom has switched itself to the "streamlined"ui, mentioned here: https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2023/07/26/adobe-photoshop-lightroom-has-new-mobile-interface-make-editing-even-easier-on-go and the option to turn it off no longer appears, the option previously appeared. I don't want to be forced into this interface change, it is honestly worse as a ui and I can't even change my images to the correct profile with it (the default Adobe Color profile is way off and is inaccurate).

 

Galaxy S9 Ultra

Lightroom 9.0.0

Android 13

38 replies

Participating Frequently
October 24, 2023

Since the last update there is a lot less real estate for editing portrait shots. Whenever I try to make an edit I can't see about 1/3 of the photo because of the overlay, which is just stupidly annoying.

 

I know that as I press a button the interface fades out, but I really want to be able to see the whole photo while the menu is opened.

 

It would be really helpful to be able to zoom out or position the photo so it's always fully visible

 

Also, the undo icon is now slightly on top of the photo, which is visually not very pleasant

Rampilot
Participating Frequently
October 22, 2023

Thé éliminai nation of the on photo menu makes the program much slower and inefficient in daily use.  Is there a way to get the old on image menus back? 

Participant
October 22, 2023

It's so annoying that i have to go into info and rating to be able to pick or unpick the photos. Not user friendly at all. 

LR Version 9.0 iOS

Wurstkrapfen
Inspiring
October 22, 2023

The combined rating and info screen is also annoying me: If I go there for the Exif data I immediately scroll up intuitively to get to that data, but doing that on the image of course changes the rating, leaving me with the question "Did I just change the rating of this photo? What was it before? Did it have a rating before".

 

Of course rating photos with up and down gestures isn't so bad (although people I hand my tablet and telling them "here you can rate you photos" tend to rate by accident when they want to scroll through, and the issue that if you scroll to fast after rating, the rating gets applied to the next photo and not the one it was meant to).

 

But for the info screen where I just want to view the data or exposure settings it's disctracting if I just want to get that info card fully visible. Maybe not the smartest move to combine those two. If I want to rate I don't need the data, if I need the data I don't really want to rate. Not much sense to put these two together, especially when the control of the two interferes with each other.

PVBdawg
Participating Frequently
October 22, 2023

I truly can't imagine actual users wanting this removed. 

Participant
October 21, 2023

The new interface is cluttering the screen too much  that you can't even see the whole picture anymore because the whole ui is cover almost half the screen. IT IS IRRITATING!

Participant
October 20, 2023

The new editing layout takes way too much screen space imo, because there are now two, sometimes three menu bars stacked vertically instead of one. I get that it might make stuff "cleaner", but I still highly prefer the previous single menu bar over three that eat into my screen. It is also now more taps to navigate through effect controls. 

 

And the whole UI is gone if the phone is in landscape now? I edited 50/50 in portrait and landscape, so I do genuinely not understand where this idea even came from. You could already remove the UI yourself by a single tap! Now you can't even click the back button in landscape, and you gotta turn your phone to portrait to exit to the gallery.

 

Please make an option to get the old editing layout back!!! "Legacy editing layout" 🥺

Participant
October 17, 2023

Da quando è stata introdotta l'interffaccia degli strumenti semplificata il mio workflow è peggiorato, c'è modo di tornare alla vecchia interfaccia di lavoro che mostrava tutti gli strumenti?

Participant
October 15, 2023

So the question stands @18969250.....

 

we are paying customers some of whom may rely on the stability of the adobe products that they pay a monthly subscription to.... will this UI be reversed? Or an option provided to rollback to a stable, landscape friendly, feature available version of Lightroom mobile? 

and then also given credit toward two weeks of adobe use because the product was altered in a way that broke the legitimate use of this product, and then no quick work was done to rectify serious issues that users faced when interacting with the application. 

Participant
October 14, 2023

One cannot scroll through the list of "edit tools when the edit tab is selected. 

also, this "new" theme of the app is not efficient, or intuitive, nor is it what a photographer wants to wrestle with.

Participant
October 14, 2023

Also, why was the ability to edit in landscape removed? Did this "refresh" receive any testing or feedback from actual Lightroom users?