The key phrase in your post is "I've used PS since PS3," which means that you've used it a lot.
And I mentioned that, only to illustrate how much easier it has become,
by adding new features and making it less complex to use.
Especially for a beginner to PS.PS is a brilliant program if you're a photo-compositor, but the fact of the matter is, there are entire books on the use of layers...or the use of camera raw...Martin Evening's CS2 book is 675 pages long. *That's* what I don't want, and it's not necessary for a straight photo-processing program. As I said in my post, if you want to do photo-compositing, go to Photoshop, but there's little point in making Lightroom into Photoshop; we already *have* a Photoshop. It's called *Photoshop*.
To repeat myself - I was not talking about LR Vs PS, I was illustrating a point that adding new features does not necessarily makes a programme more difficult. LR has had numerous features added since the first version I tried and is waaaay better aas a result. Still a fair way to go though.
Besides if you think of PS as a compositing programme, you're missing most of what PS can do. Oh BTW, Martin Evening's book on LR is 352 pages and with supplements for .1 upgrades too. And that's for simply for version one, not Version 10!
And I think this an important point, because in the rush to compete, the *easiest* way to show apparent progress is to kludge on a few new features. It's like putting another two megapixels into a P&S and advertising a "better camera." If you do that every time, in a few iterations you've got a monster.
Bad analogy as more MP is a quality attribute and does not affect usuability of camera, which is what most feature requests are.
I thought -- and I thought Adobe's concept was -- that Lightroom would combine the features you need to make a really good professional-level "straight" photo, and to print it at exhibit quality, and to provide a DAM. One solid program for straight photographers, that will take you from capture to print, and provide for data management.
And to do that it needs a whole lot more features! So
To get there, there's still a lot of work to do, but it's not the glamorous, "We've added a lot of features" stuff. It's making the DAM better, it's making the current controls more sensitive, it's providing (one way or another - I suggest a hand-off program) for soft-proofing. Schewe and another guy have been going back and forth about tethered shooting, and Jeff's suggestion that a watched-file be used seems straight-forward enough. Perhaps there would be a way to make this solution more apparent; perhaps even with a "Helpful hint" for tethered shooters. But we don't need a tethered shooting module that has 180 cameras and climbing, and takes up another 2 gigs of memory and climbing...
Also I have very little time for those who moan about other people's new ideas for features, that they don't need. Don't be so damn selfish. If you don't want it, ignore it. Others may think the feature you have no need for is brilliant. Tethered shooting is not a pressing need for me, but I appreciate it is very useful for others, so let people request it.
I read a review of a product recently and it was slagged off for having a pointless feature. That feature was the specific reason I chose that product above all others in market place. People should be more open minded and less self centred.
Apart from anything else, the improvements you want are also new features.
Straight photographers don't need two clicks to drop shadows, because the shadows are already in the photo. The key to Lightroom, IMHO, is to keep it relatively simple. *It's not Photoshop.*[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=188996\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
To repeat myself again, creating DropShadoes in PS used to be a laborious process, now it's easy. This does not follow that I want LR to have Drop Shadows, it was simply an example of more features making life easier.
Not sure why you are raging about LR becoming PS. If you read my post properly, you'd notice I didn't suggest such a thing.
Amongst other things, drop shadows are very useful for say framing an image, they are not just to add shadows to the contents of image
