LrC 13 splash screen

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October 10, 2023
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There are millions and millions and more millions of really great, wonderful, interesting, original, and beautiful photos out there. A lot of them would deserve to be featured as the artwork of LrC's splash screen. However, in the 17 years I've been using Lightroom (called Lightroom Classic since several years now) only one or two of those chosen as "artwork" (by whom?) could be called really great, wonderful, interesting, original, and beautiful... I've put up with the other "weird" ones, but seeing the latest one, in LrC 13, almost made me vomit. I'm now forced to turn of the splash screen if I don't want to be confronted with something out of a very bad, very tasteless, very unoriginal, and utterly ugly freak show. I wouldn't even call that creation a photo. It's a snapshot (or selfie?...) of someone (or something?...) standing in the middle of a pathway.

Please, please, please, the Adobe people who have been chosen to choose the "art"work of LrC 13, please try to understand that there is already more then enough ugliness and idiocy out there in the real world. I bet I'm far from the only person who would like to see something better, something more creative and original, and especially something more beautiful on a splash screen of photo editing software that I'm using on a daily basis to manage, edit, publish, and print my own fine art photography.

PS: I'd like to encourage the photographer of the "art"work to try and make something that is not trying to copy "art" that is now in "fashion" in certain art galleries (those that care for financial investments and not for quality in art). I've seen such freak show pics all over Europe in the last ten or fifteen years.

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hamadahiro

Known Participant

Lightroom is all about your photography. Why would you even turn on the splash screen? There are gazillions of photographs in other places. Why would I look at one image that I don't even like repeatedly in my catalog? The splash screen doesn't make sense these days IMO.

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

Why turn on? I occassionally present a workshop or Club presentation with Lightroom-Classic, and my personal splash-screen gives me some boasting rights to have my name appear in the splash screen when I start LrC. A boost for my ego 🙂

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .

Keith Reeder

Participating Frequently

Yeah - but it's your splash screen, Rob: you're not wasting emotional mileage whining about a "problem" that can be addressed easily in at least two different ways with barely any effort on the part of the user...

I really don't understand why people put more effort into complaining, than into finding solutions - especially when the solutions are so simple.

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holmesidepi

Participant

Thank you! I've been disappointed that Adobe chose to use an unappealing photo of some combination of the Tin Man and Cousin It for their splash screen. It appears to have been pulled off of Snapchat or Instagram, or their teenager's cellphone, Why? Are they trying to attract 13 year-old users? I'm going to try to replace it with one of my own, as described by Per Bentsen earlier.

It appears they didn't notice your request, but I would fully support your request!

Keith Reeder

Participating Frequently

"Why?"

Because although you might not like the image, obviously somebody did - enough to choose it for the splash screen.

You (and the OP) are unlikely to win any "value judgement" arguments over something so subjective...

It's something I literally haven't wasted a moment's angst over - like Per, I've had the splash screen turned off for years, and personally I'm baffled why anyone would waste so much emotional energy on something they need never even see.

"It appears they didn't notice your request, but I would fully support your request! "

Because it's in the "Discussons", section, not in "Ideas", most likely.