Unbelievably in this world we have few options in software to compete against Adobe certainly Photos from Apple is a disaster and a product they should be ashamed of and runs counter to most other things they do. Ive not had any issues importing with Lightroom of the two products I far prefer Lightroom to Photoshop CC so do as much as possible within it and as little as possible in Photoshop CC that maybe my fault but I dont have the time or the inclination to spend hours learning how you use it at least Aperture in that respect beat Adobe hands down. Aperture for all its faults was intuitive, Lightroom and Photoshop in my experiance are not at least not outside the basic controls and particularly Photoshop CC left side bar tools. Keeping the existing Import experience isn’t an option, and we needed to evolve the Import experience.We’ve heard great feedback on the changes, and we’ve always evolved the Lightroom product with feedback from photographers and look forward to continue to evolve the experience going forward with your feedback in mind.Please keep the feedback coming!Previous ImportCurrent ImportĪ some point everyone is a new user of Adobe products I certainly was one of them in 2014 when Apple decided Photographers didnt matter and ditched Aperture.
Others gave up, deciding that Lightroom might not be the right product for them.The previous Import experience literally made people push back from their computers in frustration. They might have been successful in importing files, but they didn’t feel successful. Some people pushed forward, bolstered by spending time searching the web for help. Since this was their first interaction with Lightroom, we were interested in observing specifically where they encountered obstacles, and therefore where we needed to focus our attention.Customers were universally unable to decipher the Import dialog without getting frustrated.
In short, their motivations share the same motivations as people who already love Lightroom.We visited them in their homes, and asked them to install, launch and use Lightroom. The studies have been comprised of people passionate about photography and who use their cameras as a creative outlet. Over the years we’ve done extensive studies of customers interested in Lightroom. The Lightroom team wanted to let the community know that we’re investigating some critical performance and crasher bugs, and will be issuing an update shortly to address them.If you are experiencing crashing or slowdowns, please try the following:Go to Lightroom > Preferences.Click on the General tabUncheck “Show ‘Add Photos’ Screen”Restart LightroomI think it’s important to provide some context to why we made changes to Import.