9 Messages
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610 Points
Lightroom: Floating panels/toolbars...like other Adobe products
I love Lightroom. I use it every single day as I am a professional photographer. However, I can't understand for the life of me why Adobe has chosen to have no ability to float Lightrooms toolbars as is possible with the other Adobe products. I have two monitors and would love to actually make the best possible use of them. Adobe, please add this feature as I'm sure it will be welcomed by all users.
Thanks, Freddy
Thanks, Freddy
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jon_cracroft
6 Messages
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236 Points
3 years ago
I would like to see Lightroom support a modular window design similar to Premiere. For example, I'd like to be able to drag the folders section to a second screen, and then also resize it. And maybe do the same for the metadata section of the Library tab and move it to a different screen and size it. Thanks!
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nigel_ford_5nl7g9p2q0wt2
3 Messages
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94 Points
2 years ago
It's a start, but could we have the panels in detachable windows so we can move them off to a second monitor?
Note: This conversation was created from a reply on: Lightroom: Ability to move/reorder panels in Lightroom in the order I use most.
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melissapiccone
12 Messages
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334 Points
a year ago
I want to see my folders and collections at the same time. I want to have multiple windows open like I can in Bridge. Or at least let me pull the panels out, rearrange them and have them float. Just make the interface like Bridge... I hate scrolling forever in the folders panel, and then I can't see my collections. Going back and forth is very time consuming. LR is streamlined to edit, not to organize. I use it primarily to organize and it's faster for me to organize in Bridge and then Synchronize my folders in LR classic. This request has been around for years. LR (not classic) is way faster for editing, please optimize LR classic for organizing.
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jeff_shewmon_hrqxoh7lg2d0d
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60 Points
a year ago
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ruggero_lauria
6 Messages
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134 Points
a year ago
it would be nice if you could separate the panels. the most precise example I can make is for example the history panel, from the presets panel. it is not possible that I have to scroll through all my 350 presets in order to see the story of a photo
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mark_cornwell
18 Messages
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406 Points
23 days ago
I've been a Lightroom user since v1.0 and Photoshop user some time before that. In Photoshop there's a lot of flexibility of how you set up your computer screens. I can group, for example the tools and put them on one of my screens and have the main image I'm working on on another screen.
In Lightroom my two screens are much more limited. So I tend to have grid view on my secondary monitor to allow me to choose images and on my primary monitor I have the develop view.
But that's only part of the issue.
Every year I take images that I've done during the year and archive them. I drag one folder down, and down, and down, and wait until I get to my external drive. Then I can let go and the images get moved.
If I were to do this in Windows Explorer I'd simply open two Explorer windows side by side, one for the source and one for the target and drag folders over. I can't achieve anything that simple in Lightroom.
The result is that I put off archiving as it is a right pain to do.
I'm currently in the middle of a re-organisation of my drive structure, re-categorising images and where I physically want them stored and it is painful.
For so many reasons it would be prefereable not to have the panels visible/hidden in their strict positions but to be able to move them around. I migth like my keywording and metadata above my folders in a panel on one screen and my histogram and navigator in another panel.
Arbitrarily being assigned positions of the panels makes little sense when Photoshop has the flexibility to put the items wherever one wants them.
So my suggstion is that Lightroom allows one to put panels where one wants them (on the second, third or even fourth screen!) and that it also allows multiple instances of items such as folders to allow for easier re-organisation when that is called for.
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