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jmad70
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January 18, 2018
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P: view larger thumbnails when importing to Lightroom

  • January 18, 2018
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I've recently begun importing into Lightroom cc instead of classic so that I can take advantage of the cloud storage and have raw files everywhere. However, I can't find a way to enlarge the thumbnails in the add photos screen. With classic, you are able to select individual images before importing and view them larger which is really helpful when comparing two similar photos for which one is sharper. I really don't want to have to import every picture on my card in order to decide if its sharp enough to keep. is there a command or option in settings to allow this that I am overlooking? thanks.

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    westmeetseast
    westmeetseast
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    January 22, 2024

    Would love to if they just made the smart masks better.  That one feature literally kills my Capture One workflow... 😞

      Switch.2.Capture.One
      Switch.2.Capture.One
      Participant
      January 14, 2024

      No news, 6 years later, same old junk. Switch to Capture One, it's worth it. 

      Capture One > Lightroom
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        elianaschunkph
        Participant
        November 30, 2023

        Any news on this feature??

          westmeetseast
          westmeetseast
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          November 13, 2023

          I get angry every time I import photos because of this intentional flaw.

            @Play
            @Play
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            October 5, 2023

            Welcome to October 2023 where this feature still isn't a thing yet...... like so much else.

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              Serpao
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              February 15, 2023

              Completely agree 100%, I did a similar post few days ago.

               

              I don't understand how there aren't many more people who want this, it would save us all having to import ALL the photos and then have to delete them. It's illogical.

               

              If Adobe puts larger thumbnails (full screen), being able to zoom in with your fingers (with a decent resolution), being able to scroll through photos in full screen forwards or backwards with your finger and being able to select them with a small "checkbox"... with all this, the import process would be infinitely faster, since we could make the selection BEFORE importing, only the photos we want would be imported, and the rest would not have to travel from the SD to the iPad.

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                johnm5534704
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                February 15, 2023

                Lightroom Grid view needs larger maximum thumbnails. I use a 27 inch monitor so at max thumbnail size I get 4 x 2 view but this is still too small to be usuable for culling purposes for the kind of photography I do. Its a real issue when sifting through a catalog of 1000s of images from a job. Please Adobe fix this please, it would make my work flow so much easier and more efficient.

                  selondon
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                  selondonCommunity Expert
                  Community Expert
                  February 12, 2023

                  This is now an idea (feature request) due to the old link being outdated.

                   

                  Please click the Upvote button at the top of the thread. 

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                    mb.graphx
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                    February 12, 2023

                    WOW! I thought I was the only one finding this annoying... I want to access the photos on all my devices that's why I started using Lightroom CC.. but it is beyond annoying that there is no feature from Adobe from this.. especially since it would be so easy to implement it.. 

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                      G2G world
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                      December 22, 2022

                      This is absolutely hilarious. Why even have a review stage if you can't review your pictures lmao Adobe

                       

                        westmeetseast
                        westmeetseast
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                        August 26, 2022

                        The real reason why Adobe hasn't implemented the feature is that they don't exist for the good of consumer...they exist to milk the consumer for all they're worth...in this case selling cloud storage space that wouldn't be necessary if their tools were better designed/featured. What's the link?  By not making it easy to sort out which photos you should import with an "Enlarge" preview (which, we know, wouldn't be hard to implement), customers import more photos than they need to to avoid throwing away potentially good ones.  Thus using more storage, giving Adobe more money.  It's little things like this that have made me cancel my CC subscription..hundreds of little sleazy details that add up,

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                          Gian Marco21661469ujtq
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                          February 7, 2023

                          It is sick and infuriating. Windows .arw extension previews are absolutely broken as well. They take forever to load and turn every portrait picture landscape. My only option is importing and deleting hundreds of pictures manually. Adobe, shame on you. I am beyond words.

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