More than 2 photos in Lightroom Survey View

No way that I know of besides compare. You can use Survey mode, but you can only view one of them at a time (but it's easy to switch back and forth) at 100%.

I miss this capability as well.

 

I just got my copy of lightroom today to compare to Aperture. In Aperture I can veiw as many images in the viewer at one time as I can fit to the size I want to see. I will look at this program and see. They both seemed to be very similar programs.

 

The purpose of the compare function (the X|Y symbol) is to evaluate which of 2 images is the "better" one. Then you can move the better one to the left side (select) and continue your comparison with a different right side (candidate), all with a single click. I find this much more effective than trying to compare say 4 at a time, at 100%.

The thing is, if you are only going to keep one out of a batch of say 10, you only need to move the better one at that time to the select position, until you find a better one still. There is no need to compare the previously rated worse with the latter ones, as the notion of "better" is undoubtedly transitive: is A is better than B and B is better than C, than A is also better than C, as long as you keep using the same criteria for "better"! :wink:

The survey mode can accommodate a larger number of images, but does not offer 100% view. However, if you zoom to 100%, then it's a very quick matter of using the right/left arrows to cycle between the selected group (the survey candidates).

I am starting to really like Lightroom for its Library (and cataloguing) module, a bit less so for the image quality in Develop, compared to NC or NX.

 

That is correct, GIF is not a supported file type. Perhaps you could convert to JPEG in PS?

 

Lightroom comes with a list of supported file types in the read me, I think!! There ought to be no surprises at what and what it won't support.

 

I'll play the devil's advocate here when saying that Lightroom's main targets are photographers and most of their files are RAW formats, jpg and tiff. So obviously all are compatible. As for the other formats , why would you need Lightroom to read them ?  

I don't mean to be condescending at all btw just curious.

 

Hi Phillippe

You are the first person I have heard say they like the library better than develop in Lightroom :biggrin: I understand you are comparing LR to NC/NX. Both modules still need some work, but I think the library needs a lot more. Glad you are enjoying it.

 

Rory,

I find that the image quality coming out of NC/NX is superior to that of ACR or Lightroom. Perhaps that will change or at least be challenged with ACR4 in CS3... For a quick conversions and adjustments though, I find Lightroom quite capable and certainly enjoy the new curve dialog and the localized color changes. The Library module is quite capable already, IMHO. I am sure it will be improved still, but things like the keyword stamp are really useful...

Btw, have you looked at the Michael Tapes tutorials? http://www.whibalhost.com/_Tutorials/Photoshop_LR/01/index.html

 

I think the point is Ray that I have yet to hear of a .png or .gif coming from a camera. Also in my years of doing photos on a Mac (no web) I haven't had any reason to use them at all.
And all I can say is there will be some good stuff coming up, we are at work again. But ask no questions!!! LOL

 

they specifically stated, they are not trying to recreate photoshop in any way, png also has layers which are not in normal files. This is meant to use with photoshop not as a supplement. They used to have as many photos as you can fit in compare. wonder why they axed it for compare on release.

 

I can't answer that I'm sorry!!