Lightroom is an amazing tool. From time to time I may post about it or other software. Today I’ll just post one thought, one thing I’d personally like to see.

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This is a quick post, but there is one thing I would love to see in Lightroom. It’s something we can sort of do already in photoshop so I think they could figure it out. Smart Plugins, In Photoshop if I place a raw file I get a smart object. I can apply filters and things to that and at anytime go in and change the original raw conversion settings. I want the same thing in Lightroom. If I add say a topaz filter in Lightroom, I don’t want to make a non raw version and then adjust it. I want it to add something to the edit stack right under the default Lightroom controls. So just save what the filter did to the image rather than baking it in right then. If I need to change exposure a touch or white balance later I still can and I can keep my plug-in edits. I realize it would have to do the processing again for the filters every time I made an adjustment, but it would be well worth it. So smart filters in Lightroom. Imagine how nice that would be.

You’re in even worse shape if that bloatware is your operating system — the software you run all day. Just ask anyone with Windows Vista.

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