Fix the cropping tool! It is currently very hard to make fine adjustments with the crop tool since both the border and the image moves. Keep the image still and make the border a 1 px dashed line, please!

I'd oppose that one, and replace it with crop while zoomed.

Fixed auto sync behaviour. If I select a number of photos in the film strip, activate auto sync and hit + + + + to increase the exposure by 0,4 stops I want the exposure for each photo to be increased relative to whatever it was before, not relative to 0.

I'd oppose that one too, and replace it with relative adjustments available in Develop as well as they already are in Quick Develop.

I agree with your desire for Panorama Stitching and HDR within Lightroom rather than having to send it to Photoshop and back.  I'd prefer to stick with the original DNGs through the whole workflow and not have to convert it to TIFF to achieve these effects.

I would also add a couple of features that most other photo managers have: Geotagging and face recognition.  I have been collecting track logs with a GPS logger since 2007, with the hopes of one day geotagging all my travel images.  While there is good software out there that does this (Geosetter), it seems like a task Lightroom should handle.  Geotagging and face recognition are already features built into Aperture, Picasa, and even Adobe Photoshop Elements.  There is no reason Lightroom couldn't integrate them as well.

And I would also like to see Picasa Web added as a publishable site (like Flickr).  Or better yet, a public API so that any web developers can integrate with Lightroom, rather than a set number being chosen by Adobe.

I think Panoramic Stitching and HDR would be possible in the same way that other advanced features of Lightroom are performed: using RAW files and instructions.  I have been impressed that Lightroom is able to perform incredible noise-reduction, lens corrections, and use adjustment brushes without needing to convert the file to a TIFF (as Photoshop would).  Ultimately, I don't have the technical background to know if a single DNG file can store the information of multiple RAW files, but I bet it is.  The real question may be whether Adobe is willing to move these advanced feature to Lightroom, which would decrease the needs of some to also buy Photoshop.  I hope that Adobe recognizes the great potential of Lightroom to expand in the growing photography enthusiast market, who want these features but can't afford another $700 for PS.

Highlight recovery is 5 (single-arrow) in both quick-develop and develop via keyboard. I'd like this to be 1 in both cases (maybe have keyboard modifier for turbo recovery to satisfy those who like it more heavy handed..., or vice versa: keyboard modifier for the lighter touch)

Temperature is 310 (single-arrow) in quick-develop and 50 in develop via keyboard. I'd like them to be 50 in both cases. Again, keyboard modifier would be ok for those who want hypercooling or incendiaries... or vice versa...

My wishlist:

1. I'm surprised no one mentioned layer adjustments. I was pretty impressed with the way Bibble 5 makes adjustments. You draw a selection, set feathering (already more precise than the adjustment brushes) and within that selection/layer you can alter anything. You can even have different WB or NR settings in the same picture. I find that insanely powerful. On the other hand, Bibble will never have me as a customer since they keep refusing adding DNG support.

2. Better perspective adjustment tools. Having to "guess" horizontal/vertical/rotation is not fun. Have a look at DXO and its keystoning tool. It's relatively simple to implement and a huge timesaver.

3. Focus check, Capture One style. That should be simple too. Bonus points for the ability to filter images by focus (rejecting out-of-focus images would become a snap)

About face recognition, I tried it in both Aperture and Picasa and I wasn't impressed. When you have a really big collection of photos, it's quite a pain. I guess it can be made to work by setting tresholds - tag only faces that take more than 20% of the screen and are in focus for example.

Gaspyy wrote:

 

1. I'm surprised no one mentioned layer adjustments. I was pretty impressed with the way Bibble 5 makes adjustments. You draw a selection, set feathering (already more precise than the adjustment brushes) and within that selection/layer you can alter anything. You can even have different WB or NR settings in the same picture. I find that insanely powerful.

 

+1: stackable locals, or layers...

Gaspyy wrote:

 

Bibble will never have me as a customer since they keep refusing adding DNG support.

Didn't save your original raws? - Oops... Bet you dont make that mistake anymore (or do you....?). For those of you who don't know, Bibble does support camera-generated DNGs, just not Adobe-converted DNGs.

Gaspyy wrote:

 

2. Better perspective adjustment tools. Having to "guess" horizontal/vertical/rotation is not fun. Have a look at DXO and its keystoning tool. It's relatively simple to implement and a huge timesaver.

 

DxO is nice in that regard, but its not a big deal to me.

Gaspyy wrote:

 

3. Focus check, Capture One style. That should be simple too. Bonus points for the ability to filter images by focus (rejecting out-of-focus images would become a snap)

That would be a very useful feature, although I'm not sure I'd trade better control over color, and better locals with better masking... to get it.

Gaspyy wrote:

 

About face recognition, I tried it in both Aperture and Picasa and I wasn't impressed. When you have a really big collection of photos, it's quite a pain. I guess it can be made to work by setting tresholds - tag only faces that take more than 20% of the screen and are in focus for example.

These sort of convenience features are not where I hope Adobe spends their effort. Not that convenience isn't important, but just not as high a priority for me as what seem to me to be the more "meat & taters" features...

R

I'll add my support for a Panorama tool and RGB Curves.  The rest sound like they would be useful too, but these are the two I keep looking for solutions to immediately.

Aperture has a nice feature wherein you can view multiple images at different zoom ratios at the same time. Makes the survey or compare mode seem primative.

Me want.

I'd also like the ability to view images smaller than 1/4 size.

Everything mentioned would be nice. But I think the point is not to overload LR with (undoubtly) useful features, but to provide flexible platform for others who wish to add features. Like Photoshop.

I'm extensively using HDRs, panoramas and focus blending, but I have special and very good software for them, and it's a waste of LR Team time to try to match with specialized programs. Palliatives are not the solution.

So my wishlist is:

1. Real and flexible plugins API. Not restricted, as in current state.
2. Any kind of actions, macros.
3. Scripting.
4. Ability to remap hotkeys.
5. More local adjustment brushes.
6. Arbitrary shaped masks for adjustment brushes and clone (kind of lasso tool).
7. Speed! LR 3 is pretty fast, but you should always try to make it faster.
8. My special whish: PSB files. I have lots of panos in this format, today they are off the lr workflow.
9. Not sure about layers. The main thing is nondestructive editing, but we already have it in LR. Combining two or more sources into one? We're stepping to close into Photoshop therritory with lots of programming but not so obvious benefits.
10. Ok, RGB curves. But why not Lab curves also?

The most important things imho are the first three.

Yeah, I know I'm asking a lot of coding, but we're in «Features Requests», isn't we? Trust me, building above-listed core features will empower LR workflow much better than yet another ugly implementation of HDR.

I'm not trying to turn LR into Photoshop Lite, but surely there are couple of useful PS things LR could implement not loosing it identity.

How about being able to re-arrange slides in slideshow mode in smart collections without lots of extra work relabeling.

"I'm not trying to turn LR into Photoshop Lite, but surely there are  couple of useful PS things LR could implement not loosing it identity."

LR may not want to do this but we can bet it's competitors do. If LR isn't carefull it'll turn into Aperture or Capture One lite.

Speaking of Aperture, I'm starting to hink it's basic framework makes more sense long term. For instance:

Being able to group folders and collections together. In LR it's redundant to have to look in two separate locations to find photos, and it frustrating that there are things that only work in folders and not collections. It's also annoying having collections only arrangable alphabetically. Please allow us group and order our "projects" as we see fit.

I don't hate LR's modular approach, but really, keystrokes and shortcuts should be consistent across the program. Having to note what module one is in before being able to do a module-specific key command is maddening.

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I'd also like someone to figure out a good way of coding/grouping images that belong together, ie, panos, HDR, focus stacks, etc. And please make it work acorss folders/collections/modules, etc.

s.mahn wrote:

 

I'd also like someone to figure out a good way of coding/grouping images that belong together, ie, panos, HDR, focus stacks, etc. And please make it work acorss folders/collections/modules, etc.

I use stacks for this kind of thing, but not attending to stacks in collections is a huge glaring omission. Lucky for me, folders are my primary basis for organization - I mostly use collections for to-do lists and export lists..., and since all my export plugins are "stack position aware" its not such a big problem, but its still a problem, or at least it was:

DevMeta supports stack position as metadata, so you can always use it to limit collections to top-of-stack. This is a very handy workaround.

Rob

I would add.
Lab colour curves as well
Better keyboard shortcuts and customising options.

Cheers Daryl

Yes the export into CS5 and loosing LR adjustments is a pain you have to create a new Tiff each time.

You can open image as smart object in PS and then add layers. LR ajustments will be preserved. But there are limitations: if you have to make heavy retouch like cloning or morphing, you have to rasterize smart object. Personally I can't imaging completely seamless and reversible LR-PS workflow.

I want soft proofing so bad, I didn't even upgrade to lr3, because the changes they did make meant so little in comparison to it.

Please Adobe, if you're reading this...SOFT PROOFING PUH-LEEZ!

Additionally, it would be very useful to be able to embed watermarks that are visible to printing services, but not visible when viewing files on screen.  I don't know if that's even possible, but it would help photographers who want to provide the files to our clients, but don't want them to have unlimited usage.  They can enjoy the photos on their computers, they could print too, but the printing services would be limited by whatever copyright limitations the photographer places on the invisible watermark.  For example, I might put something like:

copyright 2011 Iconic Photography, Vancouver, Canada

This image may be reproduced to a maximum print size of 8" x 12"

Contact Iconic Photography at iconicphotography@emailservice.com for more information.

This would prevent clients from making their own albums or wall prints.  Whaddaya say Adobe?

I think Alex nailed the essence, I'd like to see this as no 1 priority:

"But I think the point is not to overload LR with (undoubtly) useful features, but to provide flexible platform for others who wish to add features. Like Photoshop.

So my wishlist is:

* Real and flexible plugins API. Not restricted, as in current state."