There definitely is more clutter in default, but use of preferences
gets it back to much the sames as Beta 3.
The art-deco scroll things are to address the end of a panel,
apparently some users were having difficulty working that out. It's
just an image in the package resources so it's completely modifiable :)
Adam
On 25/09/2006, at 4:46 PM, Mark Secker wrote:
Now that would be a step in the right direction! I find Bridge
rather constraining but liked the feel of Lightroom beta trial.
OK after a quick muck around with the new beta I have to say ....
hmmmmm looks like a step backwards - the interface is getting more
cluttered, less intuitive and less clean which was the nice thing
about the whole app- though apparently you can customise the
interface quite a bit so I'll look in to that later....
and who ever came up with the idea for all the bloody art deco
scroll work motif should be taken out, put up against the wall and
shot ... twice, just to make sure.
I bet it was a wedding photographer - the kind that thinks blue
lace and little teddy bears stuck to a photo album looks
"absolutely fabulous".
Seems to support multiple libraries now - which was a pain with the
old versions - you had to manually get it to "forget" on library
then locate the "new" library you wanted to work with
I don't know if they officially say that - can't see it in the
release, and the preference only shows single library location but
it certainly, without any intervention from me, picked up two old
libraries.
New curve tool is a step backwards and going more towards
Photoshop's confusing, but powerful, curve's tool - and over
featured for 95% of images - I always fount the 5% of images that
needed that extra curve tweeking were the kind of images I'd
import in to Photoshop anyway because they always seemed to need
spot and masking operations done anyway.
still can't see support for photoshop plugins that Adobe quite
explicitly said it would support so it's still a case of exporting
to photoshop for anything like a global smart blur or smart sharpen
and - no - I don't expect it will ever support masking & selections
unless it merges with photoshop as a single "pro" product.
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