Gnits
Matt O’Brien
- Joined
- Mar 21, 2015
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- Dublin, Ireland.
- Lightroom Experience
- Power User
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- Classic
This is partly for fun and partly serious.
As we do not know what Lightroom enhancements are in the pipeline, I decided to post my personal top 5 feature requests and see how many are announced shortly.
As we do not know what Lightroom enhancements are in the pipeline, I decided to post my personal top 5 feature requests and see how many are announced shortly.
Feature Request | Rationale |
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1. Add Smart AI features to the import module. When importing to Lightroom Classic , analyse the media files and provide the user the ability to filter based on file type (ie raw, jpg, moves) or by capture dates found in the source media. | So many useful cases. At half time at a sporting event I only wish to import the jpgs. When I get back to base I only want to import raw. There are 1000;s of images on my card. aaagh!!! On a trip I do not have time to injest my cards. At the end of the next day I now have 1000's of images for 2 different projects. It would be so wonderful if I could select by date. Then I could import the images to the appropriate project/folder/ collection (and ultimately album). Lots of other scenarios. Especially needed when large numbers of images need to be managed (ie 10,20, 120 frames per second). |
2. Allow Printing of Our Metadata. The Slideshow module is designed to allow placement of metadata related to an image relative to the cardinal points of the screen or the image. Please allow us to do the same with the printed page. Use the image cardinal points or page cardinal points as anchor points. | A major gap in the printing module. The metadata is there. Some metadata can be placed (badly) on the page. The necessary features are already in the slide show module. I expected this enhancement in Lightroom Version 1.1 , i.e. next sub release after product initial launch. |
3. Library Module. Extra Sort Field. Provide a new metadata text field (or use an existing field), which is editable by the user, but which can be sorted (and perhaps filtered or available to smart collections). | There are some many scenarios where images need to be presented in a sort sequence other than date or capture time. A good example is presentation of images at a competition. If the scores were placed in this field, then these images could be selected and sorted in ascending or descending order as required. The images may be of objects with specific reference numbers. The reference numbers could be entered in this sort field and appropriate images selected and presented in the correct sequence. |
4. Library / Export Module. Allow the user export a tabbed delimited (or spreadsheet, or Adobe custom format ) file of selected metadata fields in any filtered file or collection. This can be strategic in the sense that these metadata files can be used to provide efficient interfaces to the DataMerge feature for both Photoshop and Indesign and the vacant gap which is lack of integration between Lightroom and other Adobe products. | It is very sad that Adobe have not provided integration paths to Photoshop and InDesign. A very simple and cost effect means to do this is to allow the metadata for selected images to be exported to a tabbed delimited file or spreadsheet, which Photoshop and InDesign will recognised and can be used to place metadata as required relative to the Image. |
5. Slide Show Module. Allow a specific font size to be specified for the Text Overlay and allow font point sizes down to font size 6. | This is a nice to have, I will survive with out. But if Adobe do not proceed with item 4 then this little tweak might get the nod. On the other hand, if no.4 proceeds it would be opportune to do this at the same time. |
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