Latest Lightroom news from Adobe
I’ve been teaching the latest version of Lightroom for the majority of this past week; mostly without a hitch. All-in-all, I’ve seen Lightroom 6/CC 2015 v2.1 working without any problems on 7 different machines; though these were all Macs running OSX 10.10 Yosemite so I can’t comment on PC or the dreaded El Capitan 10.11 OSX version.
I know lot’s of folk are still having problems with the existing release, and that a roll-back to v1.1.1 is still proving their option; but seeing as I manage to get v2.1 working without a hitch I suspect folk are not tidying up their systems before installation as much as they could – remove all traces of Lightroom and do a fresh install.
BUT…………yep, there is always one isn’t there!
Thousands have been moaning about the new, very different, and I have to say rather annoying Import Dialogue..
So the Latest Lightroom news from Adobe is that we can expect another update sometime very soon that will give us the old style import options back – WooHoo!
Tom Hogarty of Adobe made the announcement about 9 hours ago – you can read it here
Tom has been doing a lot of ‘back-pedalling’ and apologising to users on mass this week for the lack of beta-testing of the v2 release, and the new import dialogue options, or rather the lack of them.
He’s obviously never heard the old adage “if it ain’t broke DON’T fix it” !
Personally, I think Eric Chan should be put in the overall “Lightroom Head-Honcho” position over at Adobe – I doubt very much if this shit would have been allowed to happen if it had been so.
Adobe roughly means “house of mud” – mmmm………let’s hope it stops raining soon ehh boys!
For Mac users – I’ve still not upgraded to El Capitan 10.11 OSX. If anyone has, and has managed to keep Lightroom CC 2015 v2.1 running, please can they let me know in the comments below.
HI Andy
I always enjoy reading your blog posts, so thought I would comment, with my recent upgrade experiences, as you asked for feedback.
Earlier in the week, I upgraded several programmes on my ageing MAC, including both LightRoom and Photoshop, Microsoft Office Professional for MAC, and El Capitan.
So far I have had no problems with any of them. (I did have an issue previously with M/S mail that seemed to be playing up with the older version that so far appears to be fixed).
The only very minor niggle was that 2 out of the 5 Topaz Labs plugins did not work. I visited the TP Labs website and it said this might be an issue and could be cured by downloading and running their latest installers which as designed to work with El Cap. I did this which took less than five minutes (they only needed to be run, they took all the registration details from my system) and now they also work as expected.
So far so good, fingers remain crossed.
Keep the blog posts coming.
Cheers
Nigel
No problems here Andy, once I found how to disable the splash screen to the import dialogue, good that they are bringing back the old style though
Hi Andy,
I’ve not had any problems with LR (or none that I’ve noticed anyway!), but I’d hold off upgrading to El Capitan – to me there is very little difference (so what’s the point) other than it’s ballsed up Mail, so I had to set up my mail accounts again, it’s deleted all my old archive folders and it’s buggy – doesn’t show new e-mails as unread on start up for example. Not a huge problem, but not what you usually expect from Apple. From the sounds of it, I’ve been lucky to escape LR problems…