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hamish niven
Inspiring
November 8, 2012
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Wishlist and speculating on Lightroom 5

  • November 8, 2012
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Any news, ideas thoughts of the next iteration of Lightroom?

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Correct answer Lee Jay

When i HAVEN'T adjusted a particular slider at all, it's default value is displayed (normally a zero). In the Lightroom options I would like to be able to toggle the display of these default values on and off, i.e display nothing there instead of the default value.

I like to check all my sliders for each picture after i have finished editing them, and find all those zeros a big distraction. Far better to have nothing displayed there if i haven't touched that slider.

An option to turn this on and off in the Lightroom options would be great (for me at least).

I'd be interested if anybody else agreed?


Pbeck1 wrote:

I'd be interested if anybody else agreed?

I disagree.  The numbers should show the current setting, whatever that might be, even if the default is there and the default is still set at zero.

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hamish niven
Inspiring
November 8, 2012

Was thinking more on the lines of

  • will it be more efficient
  • will there be less issues with bottlenecking, hyperthreading, waiting waiting
  • will it work better
  • will it be more streamlined
  • will the keywording be better
  • will the book option be tied into a company that does not exist in many countries in the world making shipping very expensive
John Waller
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 8, 2012
howmanypigginnamesdoitry
Inspiring
November 8, 2012

Yeah - I know the NDA stuff,

here's hoping they listened to

  • the speed issues
  • the clone / heal issues
  • the book issues
  • the speed issues
  • mark as final version issues
  • the streamlining issues
  • the speed issues
  • relative presets
  • More Photoshop like clone/healing/content aware brushes in Lightroom!
  • Multi-User / Multi Computer (Shared catalog on a network)
  • Photoshop/Lightroom: Provide preference and preset syncing via the cloud! (Brushes, Actions, Tools, Workspaces, etc)
  • Better keyword management
  • Display camera focus information
  • Lightroom: Allow for keyboard shortcut customization
  • Lightroom: A real plugin architecture to make TIFF files unnecessary
  • Better Preset Organization (sub-folders, tag, search)
  • Lightroom: Colour coding folders and collections to simplify navigation & cataloging
  • Lightroom: Support Common Image Formats (EPS, GIF, PNG, PDF, etc.)
  • Lightroom: Add Retina Display support (new Macbook Pro)
  • Lightroom: Ability to create custom book templates/sizes from scratch
  • Lightroom: Better Library Module performance
  • Lightroom: Ability to lock photos. Please protect me from myself!
  • Lightroom: Gradient Eraser Request

and that is just page 1


What they will actually do I believe is fix one or two things, then add

1 or 2 new features that will make people want to buy the new version,

whether it works well or not. That's how companies work now, and V4 of

LR is testament to that.

Mine is virtually unusable but I can't get it fixed and can't get a

refund....

V5 is so far off my radar I can tell you.

Victoria Bampton LR Queen
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 8, 2012

Standard response - "those who know can't say, and those who do say don't know".

But feel free to chat about what you'd like to see!

Victoria - The Lightroom Queen