For what it's worth...

[Terence]

Despite just finding out that ASP is essential "end of life"ed

I am going to play the role of eternal optimist and list some issues that AFAIK aren't already listed. So the main ones (like RAW support) are elsewhere in this forum.

I'll list them in separate messages under this thread...

[Terence]

This seems to happen frequently. I return from image view, and ASP loses my location in the thumbnail grid. When you have over 1000 images in the grid, this is a royal pain in the but and because having to re-locate your position happens so frequently, it is like being stung by a thousand bees by the completion of the project. Really very painful, probably trivial to fix - even if it's as crude as checking a box in preferences which says "always return (scroll) to selected items in the grid".

I know I can sometimes achieve that by using the navigation keys on the keyboard, but this is counter-intuitive still not the best way to do it, especially if multiple images are select, or you really don't want to change which one is highlighted.

thanks.

[Terence]

When I do my initial culling of images, I set the filter so that it disappears images from the visible set when I mark them as unwanted. The problem is, if I am in image view, and I make an image as unwanted, the image view area goes blank and I have to return to grid view - which of course loses my location and I have to scroll up and down to find which image I was up to. Very very painful indeed.

The expected behavior is that it will proceed to the next image in the filtered set.

I understand that I can use STANDARD view (which I have resorted to), but it's not my preferred method. Even so, when the image disapears from the filtered set, I have reach over and click the next one. This is NOT fast or streamlined.

* The MAIN REASON I got ASP - even though I use, and am an expert on LR - is that ASP is fast, and therefore I thought it would be great for sorting and culling - but this problem (and the previous one) DESTROY it's speed benefits.

I hope you take this input as thoughtful because that is the way it is intended. I wouldn't make the effort to write this up if I didn't care about the software or think that it wasn't great.

[Terence]

When entering the crop tool, I expect to see the crop grid immediately, I don't expect to have to go and click on a checkbox to ENABLE it when it's obvious that I want to enable it because why the heck else would I bring it up 99% of the time?

The program can detect if I leave the crop tool and nothing is cropped then it can disable it automatically. Not that hard.

Also, when I am finished setting my crop and I want to accept the changes and exit the tool, a double click inside the cropped area should suffice. This is the norm in all imaging software. I should have to go click the DONE button.

These things slow me down.

[Terence]

What.is.going.on..... with the HIGHLIGHTS!

Why do they have to fall off a cliff???

Sometimes I like to shoot high-key, but I don't want such a sharp transition to solid white...

Lightroom doesn't do this (or any other raw converter for that matter). I don't seem to be able to fix it with the curves.

Sometimes the Highlights slider helps but it always goes pink... oh no!

This issue is killing ASP stone dead for it's ability to my exclusive RAW editor. Ya bringing tears to my eyes man...



(I'm currently editing 5DII full-size CR2s plus 7D full size CR2s)...

[KeithR]

What.is.going.on..... with the HIGHLIGHTS!

See my signature...

ASP has far and away the worst - by an order of magnitude - highlight handling of any commercial converter: and again, it has been like this for bloody years.

And here's something else to consider, Terence - ASP is worse than useless on Canon files (thanks to the first issue in my sig) without all the help you can get from Noise Ninja...