More lightroom gripes
Here’s another couple things I find irritating as I get more and more into using Lightroom:
The film strip.
It’s great for navigating in the various modules, but why the hell does it not understand selections properly? Try to select a couple photos and hit delete, it will only ask if you want to delete the first selected photo, not all the selected photos. Same with just about anything else you’d do to some selected images in the filmstrip.
Why can’t I set delete to not nag me if I’m realy realy sure every damn time? And why is “remove from catalog” the default? When I delete something I want to delete it, not just make it invisible so it still rapes my harddrive space.
Collections.
Collections would be super, but since I allways select my keepers first, then move them into a collection to work on developing them to my liking collections are pretty useless. Why? Because they follow you in all modules EXCEPT develop. WTF?
Viewing Folders
Why does Lightroom show me all photos in subfolders below the currently selected folder?
You import a bunch of images into Lightroom, say in a folder named “Product Photos” Now you create some subfolders to put various categories of images into. For this example, say I have some perfume bottles I shot and some Deoderant cans. I grab the perfume bottle images and drag them into the subfolder named “Perfume”. Now I go back to the top folder and the perfume bottles are still there because Lightroom shows me everything in subfolders below. How do I know if I Missed dragging a couple perfume bottle shots into the correct subfolder?
Also, can we PLEASE have filters be sticky to the folder they were applied to?
All these folder viewing problems is because Lightroom tries to hard to cater to unorganized people that just wants to have everything in the original underlying folder stucture be a mess they don’t worry about, and then “tag” photos and put them into collections.
Mouse hovering
Please don’t change the displayed path of the currently selected image when I hover over another thumbnail, causing me to think I selected the wrong image. Example: I have selected photo1-edit.psd which is the one displayed, but I accidentally move my mouse over the image next to it in the filmstrip, causing the mouseover to show the current photos path as photo1.cr2 so I think I’m working on the wrong one, it’s bloody annoying.
Keywords, collections and filters.
Why can’t I use these things all together, but only one or the other? Many times I want to show for example all images in the currently selected folder with the keyword “skies”, but not the rejected ones, and only the one in the currently selected folder or collection, but Lightroom insists on just showing me everything with that keyword since you can’t drill down with keywords, folders and filters all at once. I don’t need to see all the images with the keyword “skies”, only the keepers and not the rejected ones.
