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Mon, Oct 5, 2015 2:38 PM
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Lightroom: Restore features removed from Import in LR 6.2 / CC 2015.2
LIGHTROOM...PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE. I use each and every item most every day in my work flow.To be able to see how file name looks before it is brought in to LR. Is very important.As well as To see the destination Folders , how big a file is......Move is gone. You can only Add the photos at their existing location or Copy the photos to a new location.
Eject After Import is gone. You must now remember to eject memory cards using the operating system
Duplicate photos can’t be imported
Zoom is gone from the Import Loupe view.
Filename is now hidden under a tooltip.
Destination panel folders preview is gone, including the italic preview showing your chosen folder structure, the checkmarks to their right, and the volume information showing how much space was available on each drive.
Thumbnail filtering by Destination folder is gone.
Total file size is gone from the bottom left corner.
The filename preview (when renaming) is gone. THANKS!!!
Eject After Import is gone. You must now remember to eject memory cards using the operating system
Duplicate photos can’t be imported
Zoom is gone from the Import Loupe view.
Filename is now hidden under a tooltip.
Destination panel folders preview is gone, including the italic preview showing your chosen folder structure, the checkmarks to their right, and the volume information showing how much space was available on each drive.
Thumbnail filtering by Destination folder is gone.
Total file size is gone from the bottom left corner.
The filename preview (when renaming) is gone. THANKS!!!
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h_michael_roberts
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178 Points
5 years ago
If I can figure out how to revert to 6.1, I will be doing it ASAP!
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samantha_polito
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120 Points
5 years ago
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evan_kok
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80 Points
5 years ago
PLEASE ADOBE UNDO THIS MESS!!!
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yarrago
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482 Points
5 years ago
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alan_holman
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250 Points
5 years ago
It breaks the common look and feel across every module in Lightroom.
It's harder to use.
The import settings; keywording options, adding metadata and applying presets are all much less easy to read and small on my screen. Plus seeing where the destination to import to is far less clear.
The patronising use of someone else's photograph as a compulsory background is insulting. I only want my choice of photos on my screen.
I've used Lightroom since the first beta and this is the first bad change in design.
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colin_williams_4167600
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760 Points
5 years ago
Colin
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keith_reeder
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1.2K Points
5 years ago
You can lose the infantile "splash screen" approach by unticking the 'Add "Show Photos" Screen' tickbox in Edit > Preferences > General.
What's left isn't bad to look at, the functional changes notwithstanding.
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Victoria_Bampton_Lightroom_Queen
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106.4K Points
5 years ago
It would really help to understand which specific import features you're missing, and how it'll affect your workflow.
For example, "I miss the Destination panel preview, because it helped me understand where the photos would be stored on the hard drive. Without it, I've imported photos into the wrong location because my external drive was disconnected and I didn't notice".
Victoria Bampton a.k.a. The Lightroom Queen
www.lightroomqueen.com
Author of Adobe Lightroom Classic - The Missing FAQ and Adobe Lightroom - Edit Like a Pro books.
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mihael_tominsek
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926 Points
5 years ago
Adobe lightroom today (6th october 2015) get aukward image import dialog. It is clueless, against previous import window. Please give us back the old great (almost perfect) window wiat ALL setting visible at once, not this clueless empty screen where nothing can be seen or set or choosen without deep and time consuming digging. WHY FIX something that is not broken??
Thank you!
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denyer_ec
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1.6K Points
5 years ago
It feels like Adobe are trying to make the UI "Finger Friendly" for a fringe market of trendies that work on their tablets. Fine. But don't ruin the UI for hundreds of thousands of desktop users who have a lot of files to work with and aren't tapping on their screens with fingers. Microsoft learned this the hard way forcing Metro onto people who were quite happy with a keyboard-and-mouse friendly interface and have been working to make it function in dual mode since.
Also, 4 hours to import 1000 images with 1:1 previews on a 32gb i7@4Ghz - seems very slow to me but perhaps I'm simply being impatient and frustrated. That said I'd put up with any UI changes if the performance was up to snuff.
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david_wilson_7490589
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80 Points
5 years ago
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mihael_tominsek
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926 Points
5 years ago
"We redesigned the Import experience to make finding and importing your photos easier and more visual. The redesign was driven by our desire to make the import workflow more explicit and clear. The workflow is 1. Select a source, 2. Select images 3. Choose any import settings (optional) and 4. Import."
Nothing is easier now. Before I hit IMPORT and IMPORT again and all new images from SD card was imported. Now I must:
"importing your photos easier" now means:
1. Select a source,
2. Select images
3. Choose any import settings (optional) and
4. Import.
"and more visual" now means:
- I am under stress if I am still in Lightroom app or maybe craweled on a website
- I must seek and discover hidden settings (several clicks and treasure seeking where settings are are hidden)
- and do this EVERY TIME!
What is more visual against previous import where ALL settings were visible at once and you do not needed to set them every time?
I wish this "revamping" never happened. As you add good features to Adobe software we have fear every production mornig what new "puzzle" Adobe will set to us. We hate that and serious consider to leave this boat. Imagin you would have every morning the light switch somewhere else, the tootpaste in other drawer (and room), door handle at the ceiling, car would become left/right hand driving, wife will change hair to pink, etc !
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denyer_ec
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1.6K Points
5 years ago
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wolfgang_stoiber
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80 Points
5 years ago
So would you now please begin implementing the rest of the missing features, like:
-File rename preview
-Destination panel folders preview
Filenames and Folder-structures are essential to my workflow. As a professional I must double-check if pictures are being imported correctly before clearing the SD-Card and by seeing a preview of whats going to happen minimalizes this important task.
When importing a 64GB Card full of fresh photos, having to (check for and) correct errors ia also time-consuming.
I'm a loyal user since 2006.
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markus_brunner_7221523
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220 Points
5 years ago
With the background usability checks already in lightroom you will see how much user will use the new one and could optimize the import again.
The old import, with some presets, was a non brainier for me and every time I must do a change, like choose a new path, the clean tree view was a big help.
Also the preview of rename is essential. Now one like to change file names in the dark :(
The new import dialog may be a good idea for first time lightroom users but is a big step backwards for all the professionals and should be a optional feature!
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