I Wanted To Say Thanks

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Well... Despite my grumblings and concerns, Lightroom 1.1 has, for the short time that I have played with it, turned out to be a huge and very welcome improvement over 1.0, and for that I wanted to publicly say thank you. I am very impressed with what I am seeing, from the interface improvements, to the stability, and finally to the functionality. Despite my frustrations in the past (and honestly, I expect I will have some in the future), I have wanted Lightroom to be the program for me. These recent changes have renewed my faith in the program, and I look forward to diving deeper into Lightroom over the next week or so.
I have started fresh, so I have a long journey ahead, but I am giddy with excitement and expect the next week to be loads of fun. Thanks to those here that have allowed me to express my frustrations, and to those that have given me advice to get me on the right track (even if it wasn't directed at me, per se... I've been doing lots of reading here).
I already have two wishes that I will post in the feature requests area at a later time, but I wanted to share them here while I was taking a minute away from Lightroom to post this message...
1. Custom white balance presets. While I can always mimic the effects of a custom white balance preset by using develop presets, I would like to be able to add to the built-in white balance preset list with my own settings (specifically for WB), such as High Pressure Sodium Lights, and the like.
2. Saved searches. I would like to create a search, say "All black dogs outdoors" and save that as a preset in a new list titled "Search Presets." This list could reside in the Library panel, under Find (so it would read, top to bottom, Library, Find, Search Presets, Folders, Collections, Keyword Tags, Metadata Browser). These search presets should automatically update the results whenever I click on the saved search so that as I tag new images and then click on my saved search, those new images (as long as they meet the search criteria) would show up. For those that use iTunes, this is exactly like Smart Playlists.
Thanks for reading, and I hope everyone enjoys this update as much as I am. I don't expect I will be getting much sleep tonight!

Answer 1

I for one appreciate the efforts to improve the program. I believe Adobe is going in the right direction and is, in fact, listening to it's users. I use LR extensively every day (yes, 7 days a week) and the new improvements are very welcome. With all the varieties and configurations of computers out there, it's no wonder there are some problems and conflicts, but at least they're working on a solution.
Seems like there are fewer problems on the Mac, and the main reason I see for this is that Macs are more 'controlled' in their configuration. Many PC's are hacked (and I mean that without disrespect) together with various parts, plug-ins, drivers, varying components, tweaked and re-tweaked that it's difficult to establish a standard to base software on. Add to this Windows.. well... you know what I mean. (Can you guess.. I'm a Mac user).
Anyway.. thanks Tom and the rest of the Lightroom team. LR has changed my workflow for the better and with this new release, makes it even better.