P: Better support for comments and likes, in ALL publish services

[johnrellis]

Now that Adobe is committing to LR Mobile, it would be great if LR had better support for comments and likes:

- Ability to filter and search in smart collections for comments and likes. The Sort: Last Comment Time is helpful but not sufficient -- it only works with collections synced with LR Cloud, and you can only sort one collection at time (huh??).

- The same support for other publish services like Flickr that also sync user comments. Why did Adobe implement Last Comment Time and comment notifications just for LR Mobile? The underlying structure is already there to implement it for the other services as well. These other services have a diversity of features that many users find valuable and that are unlikely to ever appear in LR Mobile, so asking them to switch to LR Mobile just to get the trivial ability to sort by comment time is frustrating.

- SDK access to the comments and likes, so that plugins can manipulate that metadata just like they have the ability to manipulate other metadata. Just providing SDK access would let plugin developers provide the other functionality.

[Jared Platt]

It can't be an "as designed" feature to have finding a client or friends likes on your photos to be a different process for each version of LR. On iPad you can toggle on an overlay of badges with hearts and comments. In IPhone there is no such overlay. In LR Classic you can only sort by last comment and the badges don't even show up anymore. And in LR Desktop it is different still. Just make it consistent and make them filtarable so we can find them. Please. The current randomness makes no sense. 

[Jim Wilde]

The overlay should also exist in the iPhone app, but only if the album is still shared. If an album received comments/likes, and it was subsequently unshared, the view overlay is no longer available (and indeed the dedicated Activity tab cannot be used to view any historical comments/likes). That is consistent between iPad and iPhone, and that is exactly what I'm seeing on my devices. However, that is different to Classic, Lightroom desktop and Lightroom Web which all retain the comments/likes no matter if the album is shared or not. I'd like to be able to see comments/likes across the whole ecosystem, irrespective of the share status of an album. 

The issue of the badges no longer showing in Classic is a bug, which I reported some months ago, and which I believe is being worked on.

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

Note: This feature request applies to Lightroom Classic and the Lightroom Ecosystem

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[simonbergman]

This is incredible that such simple functionalities are not working. 

My clients are also marking with a heart and a comment eventually and I can't filter according to that criteria. You have to go through the photos one by one. 

BUT MAIN CONCERN IS THAT FILTERING FOR STAR RATING AND GREEN FLAG ARE NOT WORKING ATT ALL. 

I mean we are paying customers. Make it work. 

Updated version of the app. OSX Big Sur. This is a web applicaton. Checking in SAFARI.

[rolfedg]

Hope there will be a future enhancemnet to filter based on the photos liked in Lightroom CC / Mobile.

This will help faster workflow because you'll know what clients like.

[Leonardo Kleemann]

There is a HUGE mistake with lightroom, mobile and Web!

There is no way to:

- Share in collaboration tab and my client want to see and like the photos, than i come back to lightroom and there is no way to filter the likes! What??? i should see 1 by 1 to see what my cleint sellected??? i have 2900 photos to check now!

- the same stuff happen to RATE, there is no button to my client or people i share to rate!! there is a hiper sync between exposure, shadows bla bla bla, and why there is no way to rate the photo?

PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN ❤️ 

THIS IS A HUGE UPGRADE TO PEOPLE APROVE THERE PHOTOS WITH CLIENTS and this is not happening because a LITTLE BUT OR WRONG PROGRAM.

[Pipparazzi]

A Filter for "Likes" would be nice for better interactions with clients

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[carlosg12686647]

When I share Lightroom albums with family and clients they are able to hit heart/like. I wish there were a way to filter for these images. Adobe Lightroom does not filter for comments or heart/like so it takes me a long time to figure out which images need further attention. Thanks!

[KarelU]

After a shoot I share an Collection with a client. The client can then click on "like" (heart icon).
Afterwards I need to go and check in the Collection which shots the client has liked.

It would be a good idea if there was a possibility to sort on the "liked" shots; or only display liked pictures.

Karel.

[Jim Wilde]

Yes, there's an ongoing feature request asking for improved client-focused filtering/sorting tools in Lightroom. While waiting for that to be introduced (if ever), you could have a look at the Collaborative Proofing tool which is currently available only as a Technology Preview in the Lightroom Web interface. 

What that allows you to do is to share an album by invitation as you do now, but with Collaborative Proofing enabled.....that allows you to set a limit (if you wish) on the number of "selections" that your client can choose, and once the selections have been made you are able to filter (by client) and see only the selections that have been made. There's also an option to create a specific album and have the client's selections added to that album.

It's not ideal, but it's a lot better than the nothing that we currently have!

You enable Collaborative Proofing by clicking on your Avatar top right in the Lr Web interface, select Technology Previews, enable Collaborative Proofing. Once that's done, the Proofing tab will appear at the bottom left of the album display, next to the Grid and Display icons.

[Matthew Range]

Wow almost 10 years and still no fix???  Why go through all the trouble of offering a heart button and not follow through with the rest of it?  Pixieset lets me move all likes from someone into a new folder.  You would think Adobe had the wherewithal to do the same....

[AllWhiteCameraMan]

I think it would help my work flow if my customers/clients had a notification icon to get notified when I leave a comment. It is kinda difficult explaing which pic I am refering to! 

[Matthieu-]

Comment and like support is really wierd actually... Almost useless (or very ineffective) in real life with custommers. 
Beyond everyone's justified comments, in the client perspective, when viewing galery online, there is no way to have an overview of liked images... Is it possible to have that little heart on liked images in galery view?

And is it possible to consider that reported malfunction...??? 9 years, is it serious ?

[SeanMcCormack]

@Matthieu- I'm using this feature for client selections. What I do is click on the collection, Review Comments, wait for the badges to load and then immediately apply a red color label to the liked and commented photos. Do I want this feature to be better. Yes. Do I want access to Last Comment time search without needing to click Review Comments? Yes. Is it useless? No, but it's frustrating. 

[Matthieu-]

Thank you @SeanMcCormack  for your help. That's what I'm doing 🙂
But honestly why Adobe is providing that function ("like" and "comment") and such a poor integration... In LRC you can't even distinguish "likes" and "comments", it's the same icon (better on LR). It would be so simple and logical to have that litte heart on the filter line to show only liked images.

For shure it's not "useless" but, man, why did they do it half the way...!?

[andremercharles]

When you've Shared a light room link for clients to pick/like photos from, it only shows in activity instead of a section of its own. Light room should update this so when clients or anyone like/hearts photos it should be in a album of its on or section. How it's set up now you have to keep clicking back to the go back to the activity tab which is not productive or helpful at all. Maybe have the activity app still accessible when you click on photos so you can just click at the top to access photos. My work around now is to take every liked photo and create an album or flag it but this process is still annoying because I have to keep clicking on the activity because there is no indicator that photos are liked from the  library unless you're  on a cpu using light room mobile photos that are hearted should show that it's hearted or something in library and not just activity tab.

[Nidhal Marzouk]

Hi,
I use Lightroom CC to send to my clients a full photo album from their photo sessions.
This way they could "like" and comment their photos, and I finally chose the photos which were liked by everyone (model / production).

It could be a super-useful function to add a "like" filter. This away we could see all the photos which were liked by the guests..

Thanks in advance

[SeanMcCormack]

@Rikk Flohr: Photography Any ideas how many upvotes it take to get the right eyes on something like this? I know I've commented and upvoted, but of all the improvements that could be done for Lightroom, I'd skip them all to have this. Doesn't need to be 'Liked by Random User', just any like at all. 

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

@SeanMcCormack The 'right eyes' have already seen this request and it is a desired outcome. More votes are always better but vote count isn't the sole criteria for consideration and implementation of a feature. Resources, previous priorities, ease or difficulty of implementation, and other factors are also at play. There is no magic number.

[SeanMcCormack]

Thanks @Rikk Flohr: Photography. I know it's always a juggling act. And I'm definitely not complaing about the new Masking features we just got!