If you are referring to the latest version of Lightroom, you may not be aware of current views. Below is a portion of a note written by Dan Margulis to members of his newsgrouip: It concludes it some sage advice:
Lightroom: Fools rush in ...
The events of this past week serve as an even more emphatic reminder than Photoshop CC2015 of the dangers of mindlessly updating software as soon as it becomes available.
The news is all over cyberspace but to recap:
*On Monday, Adobe released Lightroom 6.2, with a very different UI.
*Multiple reports of frequent crashing started immediately.
*Advanced users screamed that critical features had been deleted.
*On Wednesday a Lightroom product manager acknowledged the crashing problem and said that an update would be out quickly, but he added that „keeping the existing [interface] isn‚t an option.‰
*On Friday Adobe released an update that is supposed to correct the constant crashes, but whether it is successful in all cases is unclear.
*Also on Friday another product manager for Lightroom issued an unqualified apology for the release and took personal responsibility for some of it.
http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2015/10/lightroom-6-2-release-update-and-apology.h tml
There are currently over 300 responses, all completely negative except for the acknowledgement that getting an apology is better than not getting one. Even such a normal Adobe cheerleader as Jeff Schewe announces that the update „sucks‰ and that he is not using it and is not going to until certain features are restored.
Several hundred further rants and screams with nary a positive comment
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/new-update-6-2
The apology divides things into two equally unpalatable sectors:
* The development team was aware of many reports of crashing during beta testing, but was not able to replicate the crashes themselves, and thus could not correct the situation.
*The decision to „simplify‰ the product by eliminating certain features was made mostly by surveying people who complained that the interface was annoyingly complex, plus the results of „analytics‰ showing that not many people used the deleted features. (These „analytics‰, as I understand them, are the result of data collection of which the user is often unaware; Adobe products constantly „call home‰ to tell Adobe what you are doing with them).
Just as unpalatable, IMHO, is the large number of otherwise intelligent users who immediately downloaded and installed this basket of snakes without waiting a couple of weeks to find out if there was any major issue˜exactly as happened with Photoshop CC2015, and for the same stupid reason.
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