Support for dual monitors

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Clicio Barroso

Clicio Barroso

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This is an old request, I know...
But for many people, working with two monitors is fundamental.
I have two different systems, one iMac 24 and one MacBookPro+Eizo 19' monitor. Lightroom is great in the 24' , but would be greater if I could split panels/image (panels in the MacBook screen and Image on the Eizo).:mrgreen:

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Clicio Barroso
 
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Hm... dual monitors. I have only one at the moment, but a second ACD would be nice. Lightroom on two monitors would be great, though.
 
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Agreed. I'd find it really useful to have Grid mode on one screen and Develop module on the other. That would give access to Quick Develop and normal Develop controls at the same time.
 
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The Adobe LR Team has always said they want to do Dual Monitors. It is just with so much else to straighten out they seemed to have kept it on the back burners. Maybe for V2.'.

A wait
and see situation.
 
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I'll second the dual-monitor support.

Bill
 
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Dual Monitors, urgent.

For sure, a feature for pros that I miss on LR.
My PS config. is a totally clean image on the right monitor and the tools and windows (even the options bar) on the left.
 
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The only people who would put dual-monitor support on the back-burner would be those who've never used it. A MUST-HAVE feature! :-) AND - it shouldn't even be an issue with the application. LR shouldn't even be (specifically) aware of where its screens and pallets are. It is an OS thing. Normally.
 
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dual monitors

You know, part of me likes the idea of moving the controls to my right hand screen and having the entire 22" wide-screen monitor to deal with the photo, but then, I don't mind so much having to use all those shortcuts to get rid of the panels when I want to do so. Possibly what we really need is 3'" wide-screen monitors. That would rock, no?

I like to have other things hanging around on the extra monitor - such as my email, itunes for podcasts and such so I can listen to what I missed on national radio while I work.

Lr is very elegantly designed. The panels are nicely done.
 
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Well, even if it would be nice to have the thumbnails on one side and the Develop module on a second display, I prefer to see improvements in DAM functions.
This is priority # 1, beside release of SDK.
 
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I'm about to purchase a second monitor for Final Cut Pro, and likely will get a third (television) monitor for FCP as well. I intend on doing something similar to what you describe but with FCP, and can see myself splitting up PSCS3 onto two monitors also. Lightroom on two monitors could really come in handy!
 
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Are we going to see a FCProForums.net soon as well? :-)

If you have any questions in FCP, drop me a line. I know it a lot better than I know LR. :)
 
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Excellent! I just might!
 
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You could have a whole range of forums at this rate Ian! You may just have found a new job. Forum-master extraordinaire! ;)
 
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I'm just a trial user of LR at this point, but I certainly don't mind bumping this feature request back to the top of its forum thread. For those of us who've been using dual monitors since it was first supported by Photoshop, this comes as a REAL surprise from Adobe. It's so fundamental to an efficient workflow it's difficult to even consider purchasing softare without DM support. Adobe ... if you're listening ... please add DM support!!
 
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What in LR would you rather have go so you could have DM? LR is new and ADobe has been busy adding features and fixing bugs. Dual Monitor support was an area they felt could be held off in favor of more critical work needed doing.

That is not to say DM wont come, just that for many, especially with modern widescreen displays Dual Monitor support is not top of the list.

We'll just have to see about the future.

:)

Don
 
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It isn't as good as dual monitors,but, since no one has mentioned it, I will. I drag the width of the program out so that just the right panel (in develop) is on my second monitor.When I close all the other panels it's like having a 3' inch or more monitor to work with.
 
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This is something I really would like myself. It has been somewhat of a hot topic over at the Adobe user to user forums for a while.

*waves to DonRicklin*

I think it would be a huge boost to my personal productivity LightRoom but then I was used to having it in that "other" application.

I have been thinking recently that since Cintiq prices are more within reach on the new models I might pick up the small one... If LR supports multiple monitors, I could think of many ways to make this little guy earn his keep.

It's not a feature thats important to everyone and I understand the argument that the world is moving to wider monitors and "all in one" interfaces, but I can tell you that personally I don't forever see a time that I won't buy monitors in matching pairs. Even if they are huge... its the way I work, I have been doing it a long long time.

Just found this place tonight so, good to meet everyone btw. : )
 
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Welcome to the forum Murdock.

So while we're on the subject of Dual Monitors, how can you see yourself using them best, if they are implemented at some point in the future?
 
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To have different modes of LR (Lib, Develop, etc.) on different screens simultaneously (someone mentioned that) is asking much more than asking for tear-off panels. These would allow flexible positioning all over the screens. How'd this be? That way screens with different heights could be used easily.

edg5: do I understand you correctly in that you have two screens with identical height and you have the whole LR window span (at least part of) both windows and have the border between two LR panels coincide with the border between the screens? This is how I am doing it with another app I am using (non photo related). Only works properly with same height screens, though.
 
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HerrB said:
edg5: do I understand you correctly in that you have two screens with identical height and you have the whole LR window span (at least part of) both windows and have the border between two LR panels coincide with the border between the screens? This is how I am doing it with another app I am using (non photo related). Only works properly with same height screens, though.
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Not to answer for edg5, but this is my solution also.
Dual monitors has been essensial for comfortable working in PS, Indesign, Illustrator, Quark and even audio software like Pro Tools for many years for me. It is for me LRs biggest lacking.
Like edg5, I get the develop panel over on the right monitor so a landscape image is using much of the left monitor. It's irritating though, that the filmstrip runs across, and if I hide all panels grid and lupe will cross over the screens.
To me it would be ideal to have two windows, one with grid and lupe, and the other with panels, filmstrip and everything else.
 
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Multi-monitor support is highly requested. Clearly, the Adobe folks have some degree of sophistication when it comes to 'work-space' arrangement. What remains to be seen, is how the request is prioritized against the overall wish list.

I personally get quite frustrated in changing between modes. I mean, how hard can it be to add a key-word in Develop? But, I try to remember that there are vastly different image rendering pipelines between the modes, and that the current schema is a trade-off between accuracy, performance and convenience/usability.

That being said ..."I STILL WANT IT NOW!" :D
 
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Victoria Bampton;91'1 said:
So while we're on the subject of Dual Monitors, how can you see yourself using them best, if they are implemented at some point in the future?
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For my part, I'd love to use one screen for the image(s) and everything else on the other screen. My old, tired eyes really appreciate looking at a full-screen image on one of my two 21" monitors while running large sliders on the other. As it is currently, it's too much hassle, w/ slide out panels coming from both sides, to spread LR across both screens.
 
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