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November 11, 2019
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Compare View Lingering Bug

  • November 11, 2019
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What I regard as a bug in Lightroom's Compare function has driven me crazy for years. Every time there is a new release, I hope that they'll fix it and they never do.
 
Let's say you select 20 images to compare side-by-side in order to pick your winner from among them. You go through them all and maybe mark a dozen of them with an X for future deletion. When you finish and go back to Grid view, you would expect to find ONLY YOUR WINNER selected. But no! Lightroom selects YOUR WINNER AND the image next to it, even if that is one you've marked with an X for deletion.
 
I cannot tell you how many times I have exported, color-labeled, star labeled, or made virtual copies to two images when I only wanted to do it to MY WINNER.
 
Every time I get a user-survey from Adobe, I describe this bug. But they never change it. Does anyone know why Adobe thinks this would be a positive feature? What possible benefit would it be to users, to not only highlight/select the image the user designated as HIS WINNER, but another image as well?
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johnrellis
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November 11, 2019

For reference by others, KKramer49 posted this bug report in the official Adobe feedback forum 6 years ago:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/compare_should_select_only_one_winner_not_a_winner_and_image_that_happens_to_be_next_in_line

 

(Note that Adobe product developers do read everything posted in that forum but rarely participate here.)

 

Unfortunately, only 8 people have voted for it (I just voted for it). In general, Adobe is more likely to prioritize a bug the more votes it has.  (But the number of votes is only one of many factors they consider.)

 

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Bob Somrak
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November 11, 2019

I was involved in the original discussion on the change several years ago and thought it was a change for the worse. I just mark the best one as a pick and have ignored the issue.

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KKramer49Author
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November 11, 2019

Do you have any idea why Adobe or anyone would want to have the next image arbitrarily highlighted/selected in addition to the WINNER that the user has selected?  I am trying to figure out how that is in any way beneficial.

Bob Somrak
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November 11, 2019

It used to be the way you would like it a long time ago (Lightroom 2 or 3) and when it was changed to the present behavior there were a LOT of complaints.  I don't expect it to change back to the old behavior.

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