P: Ability to lock photos to prevent further editing

Report · Apr 03, 2011

I'm a relatively newbie to Lightroom and I think it is fantastic.

It does occur to me that pros who have been using Lightroom for a while understand all the issues about selections, settings, copying, pasting, synchronising etc etc.

Like many things in life the people who do things almost as second nature forget what it was like to be a beginner.

The one thing that has surprised me about lightroom is that I cannot find a way of indicating "I am happy with this - I just want to lock it to ensure I don't damage, amend or delete it" through my own incompetence.

Report · Apr 27, 2015

You asked how I did it...

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

Report · Apr 27, 2015

The important point for many of us is lockability of develop settings, to prevent accidental edits to finished photos.

Being able to filter out finished images would be a useful added bonus.

Report · Apr 28, 2015

I think we might all at times have accidentally edited or deleted a photo and not realised until days, weeks or years later....so this simple lock could be very easily implemented.....

And to be able to search for such images surely is just a few lines of code? that would help so many people?

Report · Apr 28, 2015

Now that Adobe have spent 2 years working on improving what is under the bonnet, they need to seriously work on Usability. This is a simple example of a small feature having major usability benefits.

I have a whole bunch of good suggestions to make, but I am not going to put the energy or effort into documenting or describing them, if I like this one it takes 4 years and still no progress.

If Adobe are serious about usability then I am happy to share my ideas. The usability of the entire Creative Suite is seriously below par.

Report · Jul 21, 2015

+1 for locking images from sync in develop module!!

Report · Aug 01, 2015

I would like to be able to lock files to prevent any changes, including changes to metadata and develop settings. I sometimes accidentally press a key that makes a change to a file (such as changing the rating) and don't realize until later when it's too late to undo the change/ I also find that Lightroom is sometimes slow to respond to a keyboard shortcut, and I start typing thinking I'm in a text box, and I'm not, and all sorts of damage is being done. Being able to lock files would avoid these unintended changes. An easy-to-use lock/unlock icon and/or command would be great!

Report · Aug 16, 2015

What issue are you seeing with the spelling checker?

Report · Aug 17, 2015

Hi Blaine,

Could you tell us about the problem that you're having? The only current issue for the spell-checker that I'm aware of is that there's a problem with characters in a certain Unicode range. Otherwise, this is news to us and all the other threads with spell-check issues turned out to be user error.

Thanks,
David

Report · Aug 27, 2015

.... another idea adobe ignores for years.

Report · Oct 12, 2015

In Photoshop CC 2015, you can no longer highlight text and right click (or control click) to spell check. Worked fine in older versions of PS. This seems to be a bug in Photoshop CC 2015 that’s at least 3-4 months old.

Report · Oct 14, 2015

Howdy Steven,

We've actually been working on providing this fix for our users in the next release. Look for it soon as well as other enhancements to the spell checker.

Thanks,
David

Report · Oct 14, 2015

Thanks for that. All I got from support was something about nobody else having the issue.

I'm seeing this on both computers I use.

Report · Nov 16, 2015

Great idea to have another tag that says FINAL. This indicates a version given to a customer.

Report · Dec 04, 2015

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Report · Dec 04, 2015

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Report · Dec 04, 2015

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Report · Dec 04, 2015

This was fixed in the latest release of Photoshop, 15.1, for both Mac and Windows.

Thanks,
David

Report · Dec 04, 2015

Thank you. I'll check for that.

Report · Mar 28, 2016

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Report · Apr 13, 2016

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Report · Apr 13, 2016

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Report · Nov 17, 2016

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