Lightroom - Feature Requests

I just wanted to encourage all Lightroom users to formally submit feature requests for features you want added.

Here is a Link to Adobe's form: http://www.adobe.com …m/index.cfm?nam​e=wishform

I know I should have done better at submitting during the beta myself, but have decided that instead of complaining about what is missing, the best action would be to let Adobe know what we want and why it is important to us. If enough requests are made for certain features, perhaps they will include them in a future update.

Also, probably best to keep comments brief when submitting request... they get so many that they may skip very long-winded descriptions.

My feature requests so far:

1) Keyword tag - check boxes:
To allow us to easily mark multiple keywords, and display only images containing all those keywords.

2) Timeline - Bar option
To easily go to a particular year or month in our libraries without scrolling through a massive panel in the metadata tab. (Basically there's alot of Elements functionality that they could have easily adopted to increase Library functionality... even if they turned it off by default - it would be nice to be able to turn it on when desired.)

3) Convert to printer profile on export
For printing to labs which offer color profiles for their printers.

4) Change default ACR conversion based on camera model.
Don't know about you, but it makes my Rebel Xt's images look like crap. Washed-out and cherry-reds appear distinctly orange. (Never had that problem with Raw-shooter... there they at least looked comparable to camera jpeg or DPP process.)
Apparently Nikon shooters don't have that much problem.

well you can already do a few of them

take number 4 - take an image, edit it, save it as a preset, apply the rpeset upon importing. I have no issues iwth how it reads my files so I'm not sure what its doing to yours.

3 - if you have PS, make an action to convert to profile - create a droplet, upon exporting have it run the droplet, problem solved, but no soft proofing (you should be sharpening in PS before this anyways)

2 - I'm not sure what you're envisioning, its already seperated by year, months, day, how else would this look?

Cool. I sent some recommendations in.

coreypolis wrote in post #2848892
well you can already do a few of them

take number 4 - take an image, edit it, save it as a preset, apply the rpeset upon importing. I have no issues iwth how it reads my files so I'm not sure what its doing to yours.

- Davidcrebelxt: Alot of people have noticed that reds become orange (at least certain canon cameras). My point is, Rawshooter seemed to read camera and apply default settings at least somewhere close to good, at least a good starting point... ACR/LR isn't doing that for me currently. And since they own the code to Rawshooter, why not implement that? But point taken with presets (I just haven't been able to come up with one myself that is consistently as good as what Rawshooter or DPP did by default.)

3 - if you have PS, make an action to convert to profile - create a droplet, upon exporting have it run the droplet, problem solved, but no soft proofing (you should be sharpening in PS before this anyways)

- Davidcrebelxt: I have Elements, and unfortuantely, don't think I can do that... But I did find that DryCreekphoto has a tool to take any .tiff and convert it to another color profile. But if Lightroom is supposed to be a 'from shoot to print' tool, shouldn't softproofing and color profiles be a given? (From podcasts, I think Adobe already knows sharpening needs improving )

2 - I'm not sure what you're envisioning, its already seperated by year, months, day, how else would this look?

- Davidcrebelxt: This was a minor point, I know. And I don't use it on even a weekly basis. But I envision a Timeline bar, not bigger than the start bar across bottom of the Windows screen, with a bar graph for each month... taller the bar, the more pictures taken that month. As you hover over the bars, it displays what month you are looking at, and clicking on that bar will take you to that month in your Library. The way it is now, you may have to click open several tabs and clutter up that sidebar just to get to a certain year/month.

As I said, some of these are minor annoyances, and there are workarounds... I just thought that instead of pouting, and complaining about missing features, I would enjoy what is... and in the mean-time be proactive, and possibly influence future updates. I don't usually buy into things as early as I have with Lr... but it is really good for a 1.0, and I really see that it has alot of potential to grow.

Thanks for your tips, too Corey... we tend to follow alot of the same threads it seems. You give alot of great advice, and I always consider well what you have to say.

How about an Import function for the snapshot .RWS settings from my RSP files to LR History ? This is the main reason I've decided to ignore LR until I upgrade to a unsupported cam.

I really miss the option to make books. I love the option in iphoto and aperture, but I think Lightroom should have one as well.

Grimnar wrote in post #2853557
I really miss the option to make books. I love the option in iphoto and aperture, but I think Lightroom should have one as well.

who says you can't? make your layout in the print module, print to pdf, upload to Lulu.com or other places and get your book

coreypolis wrote in post #2853708
who says you can't? make your layout in the print module, print to pdf, upload to Lulu.com or other places and get your book

Yeah, that will work. Printing 'em and sending them off to a book printer also works. BUT, that will not make the process as easy as iphoto does.

I like hearing what others are requesting for Lightroom as well, as many times I hadn't touched on those aspects of the program yet myself...

I'm finding myself a little disappointed, presently with it... seems it could have gone through another beta version first. Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing it at all, I'm enjoying using it, just feel at times it almost gets to the point of greatness then leaves me wanting, know what I mean? Also, I appreciate the discount given for early adopters, too.

My latest feature request:
Improve the Slideshow module.
WAY too basic for a program like this. Only outputs to .pdf... may as well just view images in Windows explorer, and press arrow keys to go to the next one! No music unless playing it through Lightroom? No Pan/zoom/Ken Burn's effect? No DVD output? (Unless I've missed this stuff, somehow.)

I was't expecting a full-blown PhotoStory3 (though that would be nice to have it all right there)... but something more than what's there.

It's fine for quick viewing of images, IMO, but needs more. I'm hoping Adobe has plans to improve it. I'm also hoping they aren't leaving it up to 3rd party developers to give us more functionality... as I said, perhaps another beta version would have been a good idea, but I'm sure they were hoping to see some monetary returns for their efforts as well.

PhotosGuy wrote in post #2853001
How about an Import function for the snapshot .RWS settings from my RSP files to LR History ? This is the main reason I've decided to ignore LR until I upgrade to a unsupported cam.

They are about to launch a RSP migration tool to do exactly that!

Thanks. It should be interesting to see how that works!

Unless I'm mistaken there's no shortcut-key that lets you hide all panels, turn the lights out and view image in full screen. To me that seems like something you would wanna do often - at least speaking for myself I have to do this at least once for every image in the workflow.

As is now I have to press [F],[F], [L], [L], [TAB], [F5], [F6] in order to accomplish this (maybe [T] also, I forgot).

Am I wrong? Just started out with the program and I love it so far but unless I'm mistaken this is sorely missing.

Good thinking lowcrust.

Once you've all got your hands on 1.1, we'll start a new thread of Feature Requests and Bug Reports of anything which hasn't already been dealt with.

lowcrust wrote in post #3424215
Unless I'm mistaken there's no shortcut-key that lets you hide all panels, turn the lights out and view image in full screen. To me that seems like something you would wanna do often - at least speaking for myself I have to do this at least once for every image in the workflow.

As is now I have to press [F],[F], [L], [L], [TAB], [F5], [F6] in order to accomplish this (maybe [T] also, I forgot).

Am I wrong? Just started out with the program and I love it so far but unless I'm mistaken this is sorely missing.

Try this:

CTRL + SHIFT + F, then T, L, L.

How about one of these http://www.xkeys.com/x​keys.php, with one of the keys programmed to that series of key strokes.