I know this is going to be a bit touchy who is a die-hard workflow fan, but here goes...

Every time I have to fire up Lightroom for whatever reason, I have to do a double-take at how horrible the interface is. How can anybody stand this? It is abysmal. Thumbnails don't display filenames beneath them. The labeling interface is so annoying to manipulate. The filtering system is a joke. What if I want to instantly edit all the photos taken with one of my cameras but not the other? What if I want to instantly edit all the photos taken at ISO 1600 separately? Can you even filter by keywords at all? I really hope so, but even then, nothing beats a dedicated filters panel.

And all this extraneous stuff is so annoying. Why does there have to be an "add photo to quick collection" button on top of every photo? And all that other info that is displayed over images, yuck. I love how in BR I can just hit command-T and flip-flop between viewing the image alone, and viewing info / ratings etc. Heck, I can set it to display my exposure info beneath EVERY photo!

Ugh. I'm just so spoiled by the Bridge CS3 interface, that whenever I need one of the minor feature LR has that BR doesn't, I am appalled at the lack of fluidity in the interface. Bridge is just so customizable. I can put my panels anywhere I want. I have my entire hard drive and any external hard drive / CD / DVD etc. at my fingertips in the folders panel, without importing anything. How does a Lightroom user peruse an archived DVD to find one photo they're looking for? How do you export original photos to a print file and still view them in LR?

As you can tell, part of my frustration may come from simply not understanding LR. But I do pride myself in picking things up quickly; I adapted to Bridge effortlessly, it is just so intuitive. And I have never seen an interface more confusing than Lightroom's. (Other than some of those made by MS, *ahem*...)

The only saving grace LR has is instant (roll-over) preset preview, which I don't really miss that much.

Whatever... I managed to wrangle it into doing what I needed. (Offsetting time-stamp again. Ugh, I can't wait till I have both of my own cameras back. The clocks on those bad boys are never more than a second or two apart...) Alas, the D300 is still in for service. But that's a big 'ol snafu that I don't have the time to talk about right now...

Peace out everybody. If you're using LR, GET OFF THE BANDWAGON! SERIOUSLY TRY BRIDGE CS3! My workflow could not be as fast as it is without it!

=Matt=