Tuesday, September 28, 2010

My Lightroom 4 Wish List













Improvements I'd like to see incorporated in the next release of Adobe Lightroom:

1) Clone Stamp tool — Round-tripping to photoshop, and returning to LR is too inconvenient. Slow's workflow.


2) Better Tool Tips —
Too many commands are buried and are hard to remember. Would be nice to have tool tips that pop-up when you hover the mouse over an item.


3) Finder Integration –
I'd like to see better integration with the "Finder" (Macintosh), or the Desktop on PC, with the Import feature.

4) Improved Slide Show – There are very few options and choices for designing the look of slides. I'd like more control over type & fonts, frames, layout, and transitions.

5) Improve Stacks — The interface is awkward and it's tricky to unstack and re-stack photos.

6) Quick Collections – I just don't get this one. I occasionally create them by accident. Drives me crazy.

7) Hiding Lightroom – would be nice to have a keyboard shortcut to hide Lightroom to reveal the desktop.


8) Photographic edges or Simulated Mat –
As a preset panel, would be nice. Anyone can create the edge effects or Mat effects and save them to a file, for presetting.


That's it for now. I'm sure I'll have more as I continue to use Lightroom 3.5. It's a fantastic program that is a must for most photographers.

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