Adobe announces Technology Previews for Lightroom on the Web with subject-identifying Search feature

To all the moaners: Welcome to the 21st Century. This is *exactly* the sort of thing a workflow/cataloging system like LR should be doing.

This sort of thing is where the tech world is spending billions to take computers from being basic filing cards to being able to actually help categorize and intelligently search for files.

Well done to Adobe for getting it to us early.

I'm all for a debate about the pros and cons of privacy, features vs performance etc, but c'mon guys -- you're sounding like a bunch of Luddites.

Smells of Big Brother tracking our photos to me. Stinks, actually.

Adobe PLESE quit development of these junkies applications and give us solid applications as Photoshop, Lightroom... etc without this nonsense application manager and annoying Desktop-Cloud or what ever it is.
So far you ADOBE you are going downhill. Very annoying ...

Adobe, please don't come out with anything new, NOTHING, until performance issues are addressed. This is a REAL issue for actual photographers. It's a pretty blew that needs to be addresses ASAP.

how about just working on performance rather than all the features , this thing is so slow

Lr face detection is the worse available at the moment. You need to go through each shot to verify how many faces are not tagged and proposed names are absurd. Better improve that.

Huge privacy issues in play here: this doesn't just sync your keywords, it uses "newly developed image analysis technology" to identify the objects and places in your photos.

What's worse, privacy is only briefly alluded to in their blog:

"at no time will anyone else be able to search through or find your photos."

Great. But what about the METADATA your NSA plugin just scraped from my photos? What happens to that?

I wish Adobe would quit with these bell-and-whistle features and improve functions of the program that actually matter to photographers. How about better skin tone control? or the ability to control noise in zones of brightness? i actually do like the program but their focus on gimmicks over substance is a constant irritation.

Technology Previews? Oh, you mean beta. Sorta like calling programs apps. Cool.
Freakin idiots. Grow up.

Instead of cataloging features. I'd like to see more of the Photoshop CC features added to Lightroom.

If this turns out to be good, it will help organizing images / finding the images, workflow will be smoother

Does it have a selfie feature? Can Siri search within the measly 2gb?

😁

That seems to be the road all these companies are trying to go after. Useless features for lifeless people.

This seems great, but almost completely useless unless I can store all my photos in the cloud somewhere and have Lightroom on the Web access them. It seems this requires the use of your Adobe CC storage... which as far as I can tell can't even be upgraded? So as a CC Photography subscriber I get a whopping 2GB. Completely freaking useless. If this just connected to Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive, it would be a great tool.