LR 2 Dual screen support

[drogos]

Anyone tried that ??? Can I ...say.... have Library view on one screen and Develop module with full size picture on the other ??

[overclicker]

Have you installed it yet?

[drogos]

yeah but I don't have 2 screens to check

[René Damkot]

I tried, and it doesn't work the way I'd like it to work.
I'd like the palettes to be "user drag-able" to the 2nd screen, like in PS (or the tool palette in DPP).
Instead, you have a limited amount of options in LR, really only useful if you run two identical screens (IMO).
I'd like the image full screen on the main, and all "clutter" (palettes, Exis, IPTC, whatever depending on module) on the 2nd screen.
As it is now: Not a big deal IMO.

Also, I haven't gotten my second screen to "stick" to my 2nd display when cycling through different "lights out" settings...

[Irreverent]

I've tried it with my 23" panel alongside the screen in my 15" MacBook Pro, and I actually quite like it while I'm in library mode. It allows me to stay in grid view a lot and causes fewer trips over to loupe view, because I can have my main panel displaying in grid view, and my secondary, smaller display showing loupe, so I always get a large (ish) preview of any image that is currently selected.

While others will no doubt disagree with me, I wouldn't personally feel the need to drag away LRs palettes onto a different display, as everything is so quickly fold-away-able, and moving them all onto display 2 I feel would just make for extra mousework when I did need to access them.

However, just because I myself may not value that function too much, doesn't mean that I don't think they should maybe include it for those that would.

What I'd really like to be able to do (and I haven't found a way of making it do this yet) is when I am working on an image in the Develop module to have the "before" state of the image displayed on screen 2, so I always have a full point of reference while I'm working. Admittedly though this wouldn't be entirely accurate as my main panel is a very decent S_IPS screen and my MBP display is a TN screen that can't even display true 24 bit colours.