P: missing batch editing tools: update AI masks, rotation, auto settings, download multiple albums

Report · Aug 06, 2023

Please add the option to selected multiple albums and have them "store locally" more easy. Or allow it for the whole folder they are in "store everything in this folder locally".

I'm going to updrade my tablet soon and am already dreading that I have to do 2 taps on over a hundred albums to get them stored locally again. Nevermind keeping the tablet active with "display on" for multiple hours afterwards to let it download the files.

Usability is really poor:

no copy and paste on multiple files of photo orientation (not cropping but 90° turns of the whole image)
no option to apply or copy "auto settings" onto multiple photos
no "store locally" for multiple albums (select and hit "store locally" instead of picking each singel one)
no copy and paste on multiple photos for generating "AI masks" (works for a single photo if you paste it, but not with "use last development settings")
no copy and paste on multiple photos of "locked aspect ratio" state
no "jump to album" (or even info what albums this photo is part of) feature when looking at photo via search or even any info where this photo is located, or being able to click on a taged person and view all photos of this person from search
crop tool is "unlocked" in most situations, used to be always "locked" (which I found more useful), but locked by default in some cases (no consistency here)
no option to convert "likes" into "picks" or anything that can be filtered (no filter for likes)
Uploads/Downloads only happening when the screen is on, so annyoing, I created a 6h lowres black video I can play to keep the device running
when naming people, don't jump to the just names person when going back, I wanted to continue with the unamed, now I have to scroll back down and find where I was
no checking of likes or granting access to shared albums with the "use mobile data" switched off, it's about huge amounts of data, downloading / uploading original files, granting access to a shared album is not going to waste lot of mobile data
refusing to edit a photo because it can't download the smart preview with "mobile data: off" while it says at the same time the original full file is available on the phone (as it was just imported and uploaded a few minutes ago on this device)

And this many years old thing where locally stored tiff file smartpreviews are not updated on the phone is still not fixed:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-tif-smart-previews-not-updated-in-develop-mo...

Report · Aug 15, 2023

I'm thinking about creating a touch script for rotation and creating the auto mask. If I copy and paste settings with an auto mask to a single image, the mask is generated. If I use "use settings from last photo" it is not.

Only problem with the script ist the timing, as Adobe takes a while until the photo is ready to edit. And I would have to get the numbers of edits correct as the touch script could only swipe to the next photo, I wouldn't be able to select multiple ones, only work on consequentioal photos.

Report · Sep 05, 2023

The whole people/face section needs a lot of improvements:

- it should not restart on top of the list when done editing-naming-merging another person, it should go back to the point you just have been, yes if you name a previously unnamed person that gets a new position, you should still continue at the point where it was before, to work on the next one (I can easily search the one I just named, but finding the unnamed one that was next is time consuming and annoying)

- "is this person the same as this one (shows one micro thumbnail)?", just show me more photos of what you think is the same person in standard gallery thumbnail size so I can really answer that question

- let us tag photos of people without a face (when turning their back), it's still the same person and...

- since there is no info about the album the photos are located in after a people search, there is no way to find the other photos of that person that has no face detected in the same album

- let us permanently remove bushes and other false recognized patterns that are not a face

- show us what is marked as a face by a rectangle around it, often it's some pattern on the shirt and not a face that got detected (or the face is already linked to another person, but the shirt is showing up in another section, since it's not marked and showing the whole photo I think the real face is not linked yet)

- in the photo info you show us the detected person, but not showing the name or allowing a tab on it to view more photos of this person, why show it at all if it serves no purpose

Report · Jan 20, 2024

New phone, same problem. Going to have to hit that "store locally" button more than a 1oo times, and babysit the phone for more that 12 hours to mange the download.