I really miss the ability to pick 1-2-3 similar photos from a shoot and compare them during my editing process to pick the beset one of the three.
Please bring that back to this version.
Please bring that back to this version.
Posted 2 years ago
Yeah, this can't be an overly complicated feature to put in... how long has Lightroom CC been out?
It'd be nice to have it on both iPad and desktop.
It'd be nice to have it on both iPad and desktop.
I think the question is how to implement it well on mobile, especially on smaller screens. I believe the product is designed with a mobile-first mindset (as in "a feature has to work on mobile").
You could limit it to 2-3 photos on phone and more on tablet. There’s already a multi-select tool, just have a ‘compare’ action along the bottom.
I don't know how the product team's thinking, do you use your product daily? Even if you can't make the "compare" feature, then at least allow custom ordering so you can compare two photos by hit/swipe left/right.
You can do this on the desktop version, but not mobile, which gets around their "feature parity" excuse as well.
Victoria Bampton - Lightroom Queen, Champion
What are you saying you can do on the desktop but not mobile Carl? They are aiming for feature parity but they're not there yet.
The idea that they won't introduce features (like comparing photos) on tablet or desktop because they won't work well on a phone.
It's been out for over a year now, being able to slide between selected photos on phone shouldn't be a massive deal.
It's been out for over a year now, being able to slide between selected photos on phone shouldn't be a massive deal.
Victoria Bampton - Lightroom Queen, Champion
You should be able to swipe between photos on a phone right now.
Original comment: "Even if you can't make the "compare" feature, then at least allow custom
ordering so you can compare two photos by hit/swipe left/right."
You can't swipe between photos selected using the select tool. I guess you could save a certain star rating to only use for photos you want to compare and then filter and then remove it once done... but that's a PITA for a pretty simple feature. Just add a compare button along with add / move / share / delete at the bottom.
You can't swipe between photos selected using the select tool. I guess you could save a certain star rating to only use for photos you want to compare and then filter and then remove it once done... but that's a PITA for a pretty simple feature. Just add a compare button along with add / move / share / delete at the bottom.
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Victoria Bampton - Lightroom Queen, Champion
Gotcha. Abc Dfg asked for custom ordering to swipe back and forth. That's not available on the desktop yet, but is available on mobile already.
Some kind of compare view certainly gets my support though, as I agree it's a pain to compare photos that aren't next to each other.
Some kind of compare view certainly gets my support though, as I agree it's a pain to compare photos that aren't next to each other.
You can change sort order, but you can't really customize it one off. On the desktop you can select multiple photos from the thumbnail row on the bottom and then move between them.
It's frustrating how I feel like I need to switch between devices - it's a lot faster to edit on my iPad Pro vs 2016 MBP, but the iPad exports photos in a random order which makes file names / time stamp useless for sorting, and I can't select arbitrary photos to compare. It'd be nice if I could either choose the laptop or tablet as ideal editing device vs switching between them.
It's frustrating how I feel like I need to switch between devices - it's a lot faster to edit on my iPad Pro vs 2016 MBP, but the iPad exports photos in a random order which makes file names / time stamp useless for sorting, and I can't select arbitrary photos to compare. It'd be nice if I could either choose the laptop or tablet as ideal editing device vs switching between them.
AFAIK, Lightroom CC has no compare/survey view. Only before/after edit toggle. And swiping left/right between two photos is not a true compare/survey mode.
Just upgraded to latest Lightroom CC. Still no compare/survey view. Still no smart albums. Well, I guess that means I won't open up the app again until the next update to see if these NECESSARY features have been added. Until then the app is a waste of hard drive space. It's unfathomable to me that Adobe expects people to use this app without these basic features. Crazy pills!
yes, and it's not the only thing. See my recent post...
I agree, how else can you go through hundreds or thousands of photos? Sensei should group similar photos and autosuggest the best one, user selects which one they want, then auto advance. Point it at an album or an import date, also let the user select a series of images on the fly, not just what sensei thinks belongs together.
I am no longer seeing the option to compare a RAW to the finished photo in the newest update. Anyone have any idea where this moved to?
Victoria Bampton - Lightroom Queen, Champion
It's still exactly where it was, in the ... menu when you're in an edit view.
