But this goes completely against the core principle of keeping your negative unedited. That's the foundation of Lightroom.



Photoshop isn't needed by every photographer and has tools that principally have nothing to do with photography nor editing photos at all. I'd like to see Lightroom's feature set expanded to be able to have some additional control over the photo editing process, but I don't want to see features lifted as-is from Photoshop. They're not necessarily appropriate. Though the one previewed in that video would be AMAZING as a nondestructive meta mod.



Photoshop is somewhat of a pig and really needs a lot of re-implementation. Much of its UI is the same as it was 20 years ago. I'm looking at you, filters and other misc. dialogs. But Photoshop is not a photography tool per se. It is a designer's tool and really always has been. Photographers picked it up because there was nothing else and Adobe took that opportunity to market it in that direction as well. But Lightroom can be used for many (dare I say most?) photographers without ever touching Photoshop proper. Certainly for wedding work where a quick workflow is important.

The feature I'm really looking for in Lightroom is the zone and selection abilities of Lightzone. Much nicer than traditional selection/spot.



Good thing it was a small shoot then. Your workflow would have really killed you on a large project.