{"id":107,"date":"2010-08-09T21:05:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T21:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/lightroomjournal\/?p=107"},"modified":"2020-04-23T13:40:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T20:40:33","slug":"a-sticky-topic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/09\/a-sticky-topic\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sticky Topic"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re constantly trying to improve the usability of Lightroom not just in the creation of new features but also refining existing behaviors. \u00a0One troubling Lightroom behavior that we evaluated during the Lightroom 2 cycle is the “stickiness” of the filters applied at the top of the grid view in the Library module. \u00a0These filters are often used to show only the 3 star or above images or maybe just the flagged images in a folder or collection. \u00a0In Lightroom 2, if you applied a filter and visited another folder or collection and returned to the previous folder, the filter would still be applied. \u00a0This can be useful if you only want to see flagged images in a folder but don’t necessarily want to delete the unflagged images or create another collection or smart collection to cull only the flagged images. \u00a0Unfortunately, a large percentage of Lightroom customers were returning to a folder days, weeks or even months after applying a filter and experiencing a great deal of panic or confusion because the folder did not show all of the images they believed to be in that folder.(We call this the “What happened to my images?!” scenario) \u00a0In the end, the value of a sticky or persistent filter was outweighed by the ensuing confusion. \u00a0In Lightroom 3 we changed the behavior so that upon return to a folder or collection after visiting another folder or collection, the filter is cleared. \u00a0We also offered a global filter lock so that if you wanted a filter to stick, it would stick for any folder or collection visited. \u00a0For instance, a global filter could be locked to show only five star images regardless of the folder or collection visited.<\/p>\n

While we don’t want the application to be shackled to the past, there were enough complaints about the removal of “sticky” or persistent filters that the behavior has been reinstated.<\/div>\n
[Update August 10th. \u00a0I was not clear in that it has been\u00a0reinstated\u00a0in Lightroom 3.2, release candidate is here: <\/em>http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/wiki\/index.php\/Lightroom_3.2<\/em><\/a>] <\/em><\/div>\n
<\/em> Choose the File -> Library Filters -> Lock Filters, menu item then choose File -> Library Filters -> Remember Each Source’s Filters Separately. \u00a0Lightroom will now emulate the behavior offered in Lightroom 2. The behavior of clearing the filters upon return to a folder or collection will remain the default.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re constantly trying to improve the usability of Lightroom not just in the creation of new features but also refining existing behaviors. \u00a0One troubling Lightroom behavior that we evaluated during the Lightroom 2 cycle is the “stickiness” of the filters applied at the top of the grid view in the Library module. \u00a0These filters are … Continue reading “A Sticky Topic”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-autoimim"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3275,"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/3275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}