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.
Lightroom 6.2 import professional#
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.
Lightroom 6.2 import update#
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.