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luxBorealis
luxBorealisInspiring

Integrate Cloud access into Lr ClassicOpen for Voting

While I am drawn to many aspects of LrCC on my laptop and iPad, including the the UI design aspects of font and spacing (and Generative Upscale), LrC is more powerful and feature-rich, so I use it when I need things like plugins, virtual copies, the Export module, and Print module. While I can access cloud files through the Collections panel, it is a bit of a headache with its long list of small, difficult-to-read album names. At least they are alpha-numeric, but without the folder names, it becomes a nightmare.Lr Mobile for iPad has a great feature to allow the user to switch between “Cloud” and “Device”. Recommendation: Design the left panel of Lr Classic to allow users to easily switch between Local files (as we currently have in LrC) and Cloud files as they are structured in LrCC.Even Import can be designed with a simple question: Do you want to import files Locally or to the Cloud? The first option is business as usual with LrC; the second opens a LrCC style folder/album structure on the right, but still allows import presets as set up in LrC; only the end location is different.If it were up to me, I would also transition the old-looking LrC UI to the more modern, cleaner-looking LrCC UI. And, while you’re at it, provide a “Light” option for those of us who prefer working with the lights on rather than in a cave.Leave LrCC as it is, for those who want to work solely in the Cloud and for use with iPad, but I think it’s well past time for pros to be able to switch seamlessly between Local and Cloud.

giovanni_1902Participant

Add a “Lock Brush Order” option to prevent accidental brush rearrangement.Open for Voting

Feature Request: Add a “Lock Brush Order” option to the Brushes PanelFor many years, Photoshop brushes remained in their assigned position unless the user deliberately changed their order through the appropriate editing functions.More recently, Photoshop introduced the possibility of rearranging brushes directly in the Brushes Panel using drag and drop. While this is convenient when intentionally reorganizing brushes, it also creates a significant problem: brushes can be moved accidentally simply by dragging them unintentionally.This happens quite easily during normal work, especially when the Brushes Panel contains many brushes. An accidental drag can completely change the carefully organized order of a brush collection, and restoring the previous arrangement can take a considerable amount of time.Suggested solutionPlease add a simple “Lock Brush Order” option to the Brushes Panel, for example as a checkbox or a small lock icon.When the option is enabled: Brushes cannot be moved by drag and drop. The existing order of the brushes is preserved. Clicking and dragging a brush would simply select it, without changing its position. When the user wants to reorganize the brushes, they could simply: Disable “Lock Brush Order”. Rearrange the brushes using drag and drop. Enable “Lock Brush Order” again. This would preserve the convenience of drag and drop while eliminating accidental changes to carefully organized brush libraries.In short: please give users the choice between an editable brush order and a locked brush order.This would be a very small interface addition, but it would prevent a surprisingly frustrating problem for users who have spent years building and organizing their Photoshop brush libraries.

luxBorealis
luxBorealisInspiring

Integrate cloud into Lightroom ClassicOpen for Voting

While I am drawn to many aspects of LrCC on my laptop and iPad, including the the UI design aspects of font and spacing (and Generative Upscale), LrC is more powerful and feature-rich, so I use it when I need things like plugins, virtual copies, the Export module, and Print module. While I can access cloud files through the Collections panel, it is a bit of a headache with its long list of small, difficult-to-read album names. At least they are alpha-numeric, but without the folder names, it becomes a nightmare.Lr Mobile for iPad has a great feature to allow the user to switch between “Cloud” and “Device”. Recommendation: Design the left panel of Lr Classic to allow users to easily switch between Local files (as we currently have in LrC) and Cloud files as they are structured in LrCC.Even Import can be designed with a simple question: Do you want to import files Locally or to the Cloud? The first option is business as usual with LrC; the second opens a LrCC style folder/album structure on the right, but still allows import presets as set up in LrC; only the end location is different.If it were up to me, I would also transition the old-looking LrC UI to the more modern, cleaner-looking LrCC UI. And, while you’re at it, provide a “Light” option for those of us who prefer working with the lights on rather than in a cave.Leave LrCC as it is, for those who want to work solely in the Cloud and for use with iPad, but I think it’s well past time for pros to be able to switch seamlessly between Local and Cloud.

jeffk5545Participant

P: Ability to invert negative scans to positives (color and black-and-white)Open for Voting

I would dearly like to see the Lightroom 4 Beta team implement an additional feature in the final release. That feature would be the ability to take a camera+macro lens image of a B&W negative -- essentially a camera-based scan of a negative -- and invert the negative image to a positive image at the beginning of the development process in such a way that the resulting sliders in the LR4 Develop Module would not operate in reverse. As I understand it, this capability exists in Photoshop, but I don't own Photoshop. I do own Photoshop Elements 9, but that program only supports an 8-bit workflow, not 16-bits per channel, and round-tripping between LR & PSE9 requires the reimportation of a TIFF file that is more than twice the size of my NEF RAW files. Since this programming wizardry already exists in Photoshop, I would think that it would be a relatively simple matter to transfer and adapt that code for LR4 -- but then, I'm not a programmer, so what do I know...I've been digitizing 40-year-old Kodachrome slides from my Peace Corps days in Africa, using a 55mm Micro-Nikkor (macro) lens, coupled to a Nikon ES-1 Slide Copy Attachment, and even on a D300s body, I can get truly excellent results. I can't wait to continue that work using the pending 36 megapixel Nikon D800 body with an upgraded f/2.8 macro lens (mine is the old 55mm f/3.5 design). I really, REALLY want to be able to camera-scan my many B&W negatives without having to generate huge intermediate TIFF files. You can respond to this request by emailing me, Jeff Kennedy Thanks, in advance, for taking the time to review and consider my request. I LOVE Lightroom 3, and from what I've seen, I'm going to love LR4 even more. I REALLY appreciate the effort that Adobe takes to solicit input from the photographic user community.BTW, if the feature I request *can't* be implemented right away, could the LR support team provide detailed, interim instructions as to how to use the "backwards" sliders, and in what sequence? That would be very much appreciated. I'm sure many older LR users have considerable analog image collections that they would like to digitize, and doing so in-camera is both 1) of surprisingly high quality, 2) MUCH faster than using flatbed scanners and 3) of much higher quality and resolution than flatbed scan and MUCH cheaper than professional drum scans.

Generous_view0D45Known Participant

P: Revert 'T' keyboard shortcut to pre-9.4 behaviorOpen for Voting

Prior to version 9.4, if you pressed T while selecting an image that was already in the target album, a warning prompt would appear to confirm you want to remove the image from the target album if you hadn't previously marked the "Remove photo from album" prompt as "Don't show again". As of version 9.4, removing a photo from an album via T is treated differently from other methods of removing photos, and this prompt isn't shown. This is a very negative change. On slower systems (or whenever Lightroom is mysteriously performing worse than it should on all my very diverse systems despite Adobe not being able to identify any issues) the toast notification that pops up when pressing T, as well as the count of photos on the album list were both so laggy that this warning prompt was the only safety net I could rely on when quickly adding photos to a target album if I had to press T multiple times because I wasn't sure if it registered the first time. Furthermore, as you can't quickly see if a photo is already in the target album (unless you have the Info pane open and you manually search the list of albums the photo is in each time to check if the target album is listed), the warning prompt was an easy way to avoid accidentally removing photos from the target album when you're quickly culling a selection of photos from one album to another. If you're moving multiple photos at a time, this was the only safety net, as the info pane doesn't show album info for multiple selections, even if all the selected photos are in the exact same albums. Please revert this change or make it optional ASAP. What's the point of having a warning when removing photos from an album if it's not going to warn you when removing photos from an album?