Important features missing from your roadmap

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Tony Collins

• March 07, 2019 20:35

I've been forced back into lightroom by L3 instability and image edits. I miss the easy of editing of L3, but the DAM features in lightroom are light years ahead, and a breath of fresh air. And there are some absolute musts that need to be implemented in L3 before I'll be able to abandon LR. I'm only mentioning those not on the roadmap - take it as a given that everything there is also needed.

Most important is a decent print module. It should be possible to create profiles of different paper sizes, and different layouts of multiple images per page. The current approach of export and print elsewhere is laughable. Elsewhere for me is lightroom - so why would I use L3 as a DAM, export from there, and then import into LR for printing?

After that - keywording, colour flags, and star ratings. All needing keyboard shortcuts, so they can be applied easily while scrolling around the gallery with the keyboard. Generally keyboard shortcuts for everything.

Facility for easily flagging images for deletion (reject in LR). Very important for the initial culling after an import from camera.

Filtering on everything - filename, keywords, colour flags, star ratings, image Exif data - especially camera/lens/

There's loads of other stuff in LR, but the list above are must haves (at least for me) before migration.

That's all for now. I'm sure I'll think of more later.

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  Angela Andrieux

  • March 08, 2019 00:20

  Hi Tony,

  Thanks for your feedback. I'll be sure to share your suggestions with our developers.

  Please note that Luminar 3 does have the ability to rate, color coding, and flags along with corresponding keyboard shortcuts (https://skylum.com/luminar/user-guides/chapter-20-keyboard-shortcuts-for-macos)

  While the filtering capabilities aren't as robust as Lightroom (yet) you can filter and sort by many parameters: https://skylum.com/luminar/user-guides/chapter-12-filtering-images and https://skylum.com/luminar/user-guides/chapter-12-sorting-images

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  Tony Collins

  • March 08, 2019 07:11

  Thanks - were those rating/colour flags etc introduced in 3.0.2? Or have I just had a massive RTFM fail? :-)

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  Angela Andrieux

  • March 08, 2019 16:12

  Hi Tony,

  They have been available since the launch of Luminar 3. The Mac version has always had keyboard shortcuts for these and the keyboard shortcuts were added to the Windows version in the 3.0.2 update. :-)

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  Tony Collins

  • March 08, 2019 22:33
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  So: RTFM Fail then :-) Mea culpa!

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  Angela Andrieux

  • March 09, 2019 00:34

  :-) LOL Had to look up the acronym. Thanks for the giggle.

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