Sorry about the spelling and other things just got real upset with Adobe I have been with them for years and now I really can not stand them, they know they are the only game in town, and they are forcing your hand to take or leave it they do not care, point is they are to Dam big. Yes these moves are for greed and the Adobe is forcing you on their plan, if you have Lightroom not on the plan they monitor your backend of the machine every time you load up My machine stays off the internet at all times only briefly on startup to satisfy Adobe then I turn the machine right off, if you turn off your internet you are force to reboot the program, a lot of this is to force you on the on the plan in my option the people that subscribe to this are stupid, simple if you add up the fees in the long term you are really getting screwed and for what, Really think about what your getting big deal the cloud so anyone can break in from the back door if they know what they are doing with reverse engineering if you write it they can break it nothing safe on the web. Have dealth with Adobe a few months ago write the top no reply from the CEO, got the impression he is to good for us.
Now, if this all ends with the Import dialog, maybe that’s an overstatement, but if Adobe has plans to “revamp” the other modules and neuter powerful editing tools, then I hope that Lightroom Elements could be on the table…Īdobe can package a dumbed-down version of Lightroom along with Photoshop Elements until new users are ready to put on their big boy pants and step up to professional applications. Why can’t Adobe do the same for Lightroom? Photoshop Elements introduces people to image editing and really holds their hands through the entire process. Isn’t that why we have the professional Photoshop application and the Photoshop Elements application? If Adobe wants to dumb things down for new users, then I have a better suggestion… Make a Lightroom Elements Product Lightroom needs to keep its power user experience in place because, at its core, Lightroom is a professional tool. If this trend is going to continue, that’s not cool. That’s not cool.Īnd this comes at a time when Adobe is adding more and more features to its apps but requiring you to subscribe through a monthly payment process in order to get them. Ok, but it’s not that extreme, I know.īut Adobe has dumbed the experience down and taken away features from power users. (I’ve been a Lightroom user since the pre-version 1 beta) On a smaller scale, I feel the same kind of reaction as when Apple introduced FCP X.
It looks and feels like an iPad app window and is completely foreign to the well-established Lightroom user experience. It doesn’t look like a Lightroom panel or window.
My first revulsion to the update was simply the appearance. Anytime you take away tools that users rely on every day, you are going to make people unhappy. Personally, I’m not a fan of the update either.
Lightroom was a Professional ProductĮmotions among established users are running high. The filename preview (when renaming) is gone. Total file size is gone from the bottom left corner. Thumbnail filtering by Destination folder is gone. I can’t count the number of times, this preview helped save me from making mistakes of importing photos into the wrong location. Previously, this showed you where your images were going and if the system was creating new folders for you. Now, there is no indication that you are outside of your photo library and will be adding a new location.Īdditionally, the entire file tree for the destination panel is gone. Trying to organize on import using the into one folder setting instead of by date requires you to navigate to the designated folder via a system file menu (Finder on Mac) instead of using the simple file tree on the previous version of Lightroom, which clearly contained locations that were part of your existing catalog. You can no longer allow Lightroom to eject your card after import.
Many of these users are (somewhat justifiably) flipping out.Īdobe took away the Move feature during import. Unfortunately, in dumbing down the import dialog, Adobe has taken away some features that some users have relied on for years.