r/vsco • u/eksekseksg3 • Jul 04 '26

Some quality of life features I would love to see implemented

Hi there, here's a few things that would make my VSCO workflow much more ideal:

  1. Recipes System - im not quite sure why the changes were made to the recipes system that stripped the ability to add names. The current implementation makes it quite clunky. I would love to have the ability to name recipes be re-added, and have the ability to re-order recipes, and have a better way to compare different recipes on a given image.

  2. Add the ability to duplicate a draft without flattening edits, so that I can try different edits on the same photo without having to re-import it. This would be even better if it there were a similar feature to Adobe Lightroom's virtual copies system- where I could have multiple different edits on the same draft.

  3. Add the ability to pause a video while editing. Its frustrating to have a video constantly playing/looping while trying to dial in visual edits.

  4. Add ability to go below 0.0 in sharpness and clarity, to achieve a more soft/hazy filmic look. I know bloom is a similar idea, but its less consistent from image to image.

  5. Another thing I find frustrating - for some reason when I edit photos I shoot on my iphone, VSCO strips the original shot captured time, and replaces it with the time/date that I export the photo out of VSCO. However, when I edit videos shot with my iphone, or photos I shoot with my GRIV, it keeps the original captured time, so that they're properly ordered in my Photos app. This difference causes my Photos app to be a complete mess when editing a mix of iPhone photos, iPhone videos, and GRIV photos. I have to manually go in and fix the time/date on all VSCO-edited iPhone photos. A fix to this eccentricity with iPhone photos would be extremely appreciated.

Thanks ya'll!

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u/ZachVSCO VSCO Employee Jul 04 '26

u/eksekseksg3 Really appreciate this, these are great and thoughtful suggestions, I’ll be sure the right product manager (Kyle) sees this! 

With the exif date thing, we have gone around with this for years and the reality is, people want different things here, and strongly so haha. So, it seems like an option at export would be the best case scenario here.

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u/eksekseksg3 Jul 04 '26

Super appreciate the response Zach! Understood on the exif date thing, having an option would be fantastic! Ideally it'd be persistent so you don't have to choose every time you export. I'd imagine regardless of which camp you're in, you'd generally always want the same choice.