4 Replies Latest reply: Feb 22, 2007 10:51 PM by (Marc_Verschueren) RSS

    Adobe Album Import (bad)

    Eric Stoffers Community Member
      I currently use Adobe Album 2 to manage my photography collection. I really like it, it's fast, easy to organize and allow sme to set up tagging so it's to find and export images. perfect. Except that Adobe has dropped the product.

      Why? If anything strip out all the features from Album except the photo management! That's all peopel really want. Stop adding features and just create an organizer.

      Is Lightroom supposed to be the professional photo management tool for Adobe? All I want is a good and fast tool to manage my library. I don't care about editing my family photos and most of the other features I see in there. That's why I have photoshop. I ONLY want good photo management with tagging ability. Speed is important.

      I guess if Lightroom is all Adobe has to offer then I'll go with it. I tried importing my Adobe Album collection into Lightroom but it only partially worked. All the keyword tags came over, but most of the tags didn't have any images under them. Only a small percentage of photos actually came over linked correctly.

      I'm certainly not going to switch programs if I can't import my Adobe Album collection. What's up??? You'd think Adobe would have an easy migration to the new software?
        • 1. Re: Adobe Album Import (bad)
          Community Member
          If Album works for you and you want to upgrade, the Album upgrade path is actually Photoshop Elements. After Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 and the Starter Album 3.0, Adobe incorporated it into the Photoshop Elements software as the Photoshop Elements Organizer. It will import your Photoshop Album 2.0 catalog with no problem and give added support for new RAW images with the updated Adobe Camera RAW. Lightroom is and never was meant to be an upgrade path for Album. It is a completely new product for a completely different type of use and user.

          (By the way, I do agree with you that Lightroom, if it was going to include an "Import from Elements" option should have made it completely compatible . . . I've spent about 5-7 hours "fixing" my imported catalog and still have some problems that I am currently living with at the moment).
          • 2. Re: Adobe Album Import (bad)
            allenlux Community Member
            "Lightroom is and never was meant to be an upgrade path for Album. It is a completely new product for a completely different type of use and user."

            I'm not sure I would agree with that. In many ways Lightroom is the natural successor to Album, which (for me at least) has provided a very clean and simple way to manage a digital photo collection with basic photo adjustment and export tools.

            John
            • 3. Re: Adobe Album Import (bad)
              Eric Stoffers Community Member
              It's too bad. I want professional photo management but don't want all the other cheesy crap that comes along with Elements. I'm a professional web developer who uses Photoshop. But I'm not a photographer. I don't want all the bells and whistles, just photo management.

              I can't believe Adobe of all companies doesn't have a product to fill this space. I know there are other companies out there and alot of good products. It just would have been nice to stick with Adobe and be able to import my Adobe Album library into a new tool. Bummer. I don't think Literoom is the tool for me.
              • 4. Re: Adobe Album Import (bad)
                Community Member
                Cheesy crap ? Doesn't sound professional to me.