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stlouiscrash09
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April 11, 2014
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Preview Button!!!!

  • April 11, 2014
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Hello, I am incredibly upset about the removal of the preview button in Camera Raw. It has completely interrupted my workflow. I don't mind the ADDITION of new features for those who make take advantage of them, but the REMOVAL of perfectly good features that many of us are used to using is asinine and if you can't tell I am rather upset about it. Please for the sake of god bring it back.

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    MChamlee
    Participant
    April 14, 2014

    Preview?!?!?!?   I can no longer see before and after preview of just my sharpness/noise reduction settings.

    I agree with stlouiscrash09. . . . "I am incredibly upset about the removal of the preview button in Camera Raw. It has completely interrupted my workflow. I don't mind the ADDITION of new features for those who make take advantage of them, but the REMOVAL of perfectly good features that many of us are used to using is asinine and if you can't tell I am rather upset about it. Please for the sake of god bring it back."

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    MChamlee
    Participant
    April 14, 2014

    Arbitrary software change like this are tough on those of us who work under deadlines.

    Noel Carboni
    Noel Carboni
    Legend
    April 11, 2014

    Can you describe the workflow you use(d) in which you employed the Preview button?

    Perhaps there's another way to "get there from here" with the new version.

    -Noel

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    stlouiscrash09Author
    Participant
    April 11, 2014

    I apologize for being so upset, but it is very frustrating to attempt to do

    something and find it's been changed. I've noticed that there is no way at

    all to see what the original photo looked like without resetting all your

    adjustments. The new "before and after" buttons only go back to your most

    recent settings. Not what the original photo was. I don't care what my last

    edit looked like, I want to know what my original looked like and what my

    current edit looks like. Again I apologize for being so upset, and I

    appreciate your time.

    Very Respectfully,

    Jules

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    Jeff Schewe
    Participating Frequently
    April 25, 2014

    Is that preferable to having a dupe raw file, unsynced available? Seems that's a bit quicker but there may be some aspect which mitigates against it.

    Thanks!


    Hudechrome wrote:

    Is that preferable to having a dupe raw file, unsynced available?

    I can't really answer that since I've not tested using a dupe raw file (although I use Virtual Copies a lot in LR which ACR doesn't have).

    I guess the main question is the task in which you used to use Preview for and the advantages of the power and flexibility os snapshots. When I am trying to make a determination of an optimal image setting, it's often based on several panels of adjustments (which Preview didn't help with). If you are looking for a binary on/off eval, I agree, the old Preview behavior was useful. But, I don't do that...I'm generally comparing more subtle adjustments from a variety of panels. For this, the new Before/After or using snapshots works better.

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