Lightroom 2.0 Feature Reqs: Yell it from the rooftops!

Photoshop master Scott Kelby (author of several great Photography Books) has built up a great list of what he'd like to see in the next version of Photoshop Lightroom; version 2.0. Follow the link below to check out Scott's list (and while you're there, subscribe to his blog - it's a good read). Here are a few of the features that I'd like to see the most:

• Open As Smart Object - In Bridge, you can make RAW adjustments via Camera RAW and then open that image as a Smart Object in Photoshop CS3. This is great, because it means that you're able to easily make adjustments to the original RAW processing as you're working on your master layered document. Plus, you're able to stack multiple versions of that RAW processing in your Photoshop document. In today's world, you must export a TIFF and then you're locked into the settings you chose. Of course, you can always switch to Bridge and open from there, but I'd prefer to stay inside Lightroom for workflow.
• Shooting Tethered - It'd be great if Lightroom supported tethered shooting from most popular cameras natively. Using the Canon software & watched folders is kind of a hack - it's not nearly as clean as CaptureOne's implementation of tethering... I'm always envious of my uncle's setup when I see him shooting this way with Capture One (well, not to mention the fact that he's shooting a 39-megapixel digital back and has every piece of high-end gear known to man... Check out Roger Mastroianni's annual report photography in Cleveland - he also gets to tour the world with the Cleveland Orchestra.)
• Copyright Watermarking - I frequently export photos that I'd like to have watermarked. The trouble with the current functionality is that the watermarks are of a fixed point size that does not scale with the size (resolution/pixel count) of the image. In other words, export a 800-pixel wide image and the watermark is fine; export 3000-pixel wide images and the watermark is a little speck in the corner. This isn't very useful.
• Creative Vignette Adjustment - Currently the Vignette adjustment in Lightroom is a Lens Correction only - it can be used to creative effect only if you do not recrop an image and change it's center point. I'd love to see this changed so that you can move the center point of the vignette anywhere you want! It seems silly going into CS3 simply to add a vignette on a cropped photo.
• General Improvements to Slideshow and Print - They're off to a great start with these tools, but they need a lot more customizability in order to make them great. I like a lot of Scott's recos in this department.

All said, Lightroom 1.0 is a great product but future releases are sure to make the 1.x series feel like the stone age. Like Scott suggests, yell your own feature requests from the rooftops!! The Lightroom product managers are almost certainly paying attention.

Click on the image to check out Scott's list:

Scott's Lightroom 2.0 Feature Requests!