LR 6.3/2015.3

http://blogs.adobe.com …-3-6-3-now-available.html

Prepare for the sh*tstorm if this does not please all of the fickle LR users.

kirk

They got rid of the new import screen, why ever for?

Because they received numerous complaints about it and they removed most of the functionality (eject card after import, move images, etc).

I imagine it will be back someday, but as an option, not the only interface.

DGStinner wrote in post #17788405
Because they received numerous complaints about it and they removed most of the functionality (eject card after import, move images, etc).

Did it remove the functionality of the eject card after import?? I swear I had it

Lr 6.2/2015.2 did not have the ability to eject the card after import. Is it possible you were still on 6.1/2015.1 and didn't update because you had read all the backlash?

DGStinner wrote in post #17788559
Lr 6.2/2015.2 did not have the ability to eject the card after import. Is it possible you were still on 6.1/2015.1 and didn't update because you had read all the backlash?

Read some, but it seems to work fine with me (still have 6.2 on my desktop)

Thank goodness for the old import screen. Absolutely hate the new one.

6.2 import process was one of those "HUH??" changes. Why did they feel that they had to "fix" something that wasn't broken? Was that designed to work better with mobile devices or something? I don't do mobile so I really don't know, but it certainly made import on a PC a pain. Good riddance as afar as I'm concerned.

Preeb wrote in post #17789622
6.2 import process was one of those "HUH??" changes. Why did they feel that they had to "fix" something that wasn't broken? Was that designed to work better with mobile devices or something? I don't do mobile so I really don't know, but it certainly made import on a PC a pain. Good riddance as afar as I'm concerned.

Who said about fixing it? It was a new import screen, not a "fix"

RichSoansPhotos wrote in post #17790513
Who said about fixing it? It was a new import screen, not a "fix"

Well, Adobe spokesman Sharad Mangalick and product manager Tom Hogarty certainly considered it as fixing an undesirable marketing situation. At the time, Oct. 7, Sharad wrote:

"....(new) customers were universally unable to decipher the Import dialog without getting frustrated. Some people pushed forward, bolstered by spending time searching the web for help. They might have been successful in importing files, but they didn’t feel successful. Others gave up, deciding that Lightroom might not be the right product for them.

The previous Import experience literally made people push back from their computers in frustration. Keeping the existing Import experience isn’t an option, and we needed to evolve the Import experience."

http://blogs.adobe.com​/lightroomjournal/

RichSoansPhotos wrote in post #17790513
Who said about fixing it? It was a new import screen, not a "fix"

They obviously thought something was wrong with it or they would have left it as it was.

tzalman wrote in post #17790583
Well, Adobe spokesman Sharad Mangalick and product manager Tom Hogarty certainly considered it as fixing an undesirable marketing situation. At the time, Oct. 7, Sharad wrote:

"....(new) customers were universally unable to decipher the Import dialog without getting frustrated. Some people pushed forward, bolstered by spending time searching the web for help. They might have been successful in importing files, but they didn’t feel successful. Others gave up, deciding that Lightroom might not be the right product for them.

The previous Import experience literally made people push back from their computers in frustration. Keeping the existing Import experience isn’t an option, and we needed to evolve the Import experience."

http://blogs.adobe.com​/lightroomjournal/

Do you mean the 6.2 version or the original. The original was easy to work with. Everything is right there in front of you. The 6.2 version hid things like destination away behind an undeciphered button and made you search for it. That's how so many of the free "management" programs that come with cameras work, causing average users to have no clue where their photos are stored on the hard drive. With LR, once you really look at the import screen, it makes perfect sense.

In all seriousness what was so difficult about using the original LR import dialogue. You selected the source from the left of the screen and the destination from the right. Simple.

Yet it seems that this was far too complicated for the iPhone brigade.

john crossley wrote in post #17790685
In all seriousness what was so difficult about using the original LR import dialogue. You selected the source from the left of the screen and the destination from the right. Simple.

Yet it seems that this was far too complicated for the iPhone brigade.

Unfortunately, that's where the money is.
Adobe decided they were losing sales and panicked.