Comments on: How To Get Exactly What We Want In the Next Versions of Photoshop, and Lightroom

By: Martin Sarter

Martin Sarter — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:45:54 +0000

Hi Scott-

after tinkering for a year with Aperture and approaching a nervous breakdown watching the Apple wheel turn most of the time, I had enough and after watching your video describing the main features of Lightroom 2, I bought it together with your book. Thank Heavens (or rather those folks who created Lightroom 2). Spent the last two days learning it. Honestly, this must be one of the best pieces of software ever made. Thanks also for an incredibly well-done instruction book.

By: jared chapin

jared chapin — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:14:30 +0000

A Photoshop Module in Lightroom

By: Gary Dillard

Gary Dillard — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:58:00 +0000

I use a Cintiq monitor. I Love it!!! Only 1 problem with it that I have never heard anyone complain about. When selecting anything that has a fly out window in photoshop, the window flies out to the right. This means the dialog is directly under the hand your selecting with thus making it difficult to read. Not a problem for leftys but not practical for us right handed people.
OK, so my one wish is that photoshop would have an option in the preference panel to choose whether the dialog boxes fly out to the left or right.

By: Jane Sweeney

Jane Sweeney — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:35:16 +0000

I want to be able to RESET PATHS, to make an offline catalogue become online ie
Having just had a problem with my computer and it having to go back to have a new motherboard fitted I had to temp work on my old computer using a usb external hard drive, The computer is now back and I have transferred all files to the new computer – onto a new esata hard drive
whats the problem you may ask – well the problem is that I now have a lightroom database with 15,000 photos that I carnt access – and I have had to reimport all the photos again, all work that I did of course I now carnt go back to if needed
So could you please make lightroom able to reset the paths to make the new hard drive online – in my iview catalogue with these same photos in I can do this by highlighting the photos and doing find/reset paths so instead of D/skikkim tiff tiles it is now e/sikkim tiff files – and all photos are now online and accessable

By: John Doe

John Doe — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:00:09 +0000

I don’t want any new features. I don’t need a new version of PhotoShop. I want only one thing: Adobe to update the CameraRaw for older versions.

By: GÃ¶ran Ritterfeldt

GÃ¶ran Ritterfeldt — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:36:18 +0000

I want InDesign CS2â€™s pop-out panel design for managing my palettes in both illustrator and photoshop

By: Richard Cave

Richard Cave — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:23:58 +0000

I would like a quick mask tool where you get three primary colours, you paint in three different colours, when you do layer via cut the three coloured selection jumps onto seperate layers. That way you paint everything in one go. Without having to painstakinly repeat everything again.

A customiseable toolbar would be awesome.

Corel painter like functions

Better dual monitor support

Composition tab similar to after effects, work on a source file the composition file changes.

Automatic rasterising and derasterizing on the type tool

definable shortcuts

Bridge to function like photomechanic

Paint with flash function where you paint over the subject with a defined brush using the camera data on what type of flash fired. When you touch up with the brush it automatically matches the flash data. It should also be definable by stops.

Automatic electronic watermark definition, so if the image gets stolen and re imported into photoshop the watermark pops up requiring a password to clear it. This would be used on high profit images.

The password could be sold with the image.

The ability to put seperate stacks of images on the background and being able to put a droplet onto the top image in the stack and the action function automatically.

Press resize similar to save for web, this would be used by press photographers to send to picture desk. This could be customizable. (some picture desks can accept certain types of pixel length or file size. You put in the interface in a custom folder the dimensions acceptable for the agency)
On the bottom of the working image you will have tick boxes for all the different agencies you click which ones you want. Then press send and the program does the job for you. You could do this as a stack droplet as mentioned before.

By: Carroll Kell

Carroll Kell — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:13:51 +0000

Since I see no other place to give my Lightroom wishes, I’ll do it here:
1. Star ratings on the thumbnails are too easily changed accidentally (I’ve done it many times). There needs to be a way to “lock” them.
2. Back arrows or “Bread Crumbs” as in Bridge CS4 would be nice.
3. One of my main complaints about Lightroom has always been too much scrolling up and down in the panels. Solo Mode helps, but having tabs at the top or bottom of the panels (like ACDSee) would help this problem.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:22:54 +0000

My wish list is probably unique to the work I do but here it is:
1. The ability to save while in liquify.
2. The ability to have guide lines in liquify.
3. More grid points whlie in warp to make smaller more defined moves.
4. I miss the ability to tuck the pallete tabs up at the top of the screen like in CS2l
5. I too would like to create my own tool bar and loctions.
6. To have the ruler all all 4 sides instead of just the top and left side.
7. To be able to use the patch tool on a separate layer and be able to rotate/transform that selection to match say stripes or plaid on clothing.
8.Ability to select hair and long fur on light grey background to white.
9. A quick way to easily fix blue eye reflection in pets.
10. I’m thrilled with the new CS4 features and cant wait to use them!

By: Matthias Lemcke

Matthias Lemcke — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:29:22 +0000

I want the option to link a layer style with its layer, so that it scales and rotates along with the layer. Several times a day I have to free transform a layer set and then adjust all its numerous shadows, glows and bevels manually. Such a feature would be a real time saver and eliminate a common source of error.

And, like someone has mentioned before, it would be great if every layer style had a mask of its own.

By: Ron Plasencia

Ron Plasencia — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:17:14 +0000

OK, I’m a novice on Lightroom and Photoshop, so my “wish list” may seem elementary, but here goes:

1) I want a gradient filter that can be applied top/down; bottom/up; and even side to side.

2) I want a snap-to image sharpener. Picasa2 ( a FREE program I might add) has such a sharpener and it has been spot on for 90% of the images I have used it on.

There, I said it.

By: Rodolfo Paiz

Rodolfo Paiz — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:44:28 +0000

Not a good idea to let the public decide or commit to doing what they want… but always good to listen to them. So here are my top needs and wants, from most to least important:

1. Linux version!!! Creative Suite is the one bloody reason I can’t dump Windows.

2. Better print dialogs and interface. Go see the one-page print dialog box for the HP B9180, for example.

3. All filters should be smart filters, and all should be allowed to be applied as adjustment layers. And not necessarily at the top of the stack.

4. Bridge crashes too bloody much.

5. Better dual-monitor support. Let me specify what goes on the second monitor, what goes on the first. Help me out here…

6. Mouse wheel should act like it does in AutoCAD. Magical the way you can zoom and pan intuitively there. Really fast, too.

7. Why does Bridge’s Batch Rename have things that ACR does not? Why is “Date created” left out of the ACR save dialog? Arrrgh.

8. Better HDR functionality.

9. Before/after comparison like LR does.

10. Ability to zoom in/out to images in Bridge. Not just thumbnails with a little 100% tiny window.