Lightroom 3: Adobe is coming out with Lightroom 4. I understand it is nearly $300.00. I can get Lightroom 3 on Amazon.com for $129/00. It seems to me

olderguy Loc: South Dakota

Adobe is coming out with Lightroom 4. I understand it is nearly $300.00. I can get Lightroom 3 on Amazon.com for $129/00. It seems to me - not being that familiar with the differences, that Lightroom 3 seems like a bargain for the money difference. Lightroom 4 would have to have a "lot" of major improvements to justify spending the extra bucks. I am asking those that are knowledgeable to give me soon advice.

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

i downloaded the trial #4 pretty awsome has lens correction

olderguy Loc: South Dakota

dirtpusher wrote:

i downloaded the trial #4 pretty awsome has lens correction

Maybe I will have to spent the extra bucks. I am pretty much a novice with Lightroom -very much in the learning stages.

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

olderguy wrote:

dirtpusher wrote:

i downloaded the trial #4 pretty awsome has lens correction

Maybe I will have to spent the extra bucks. I am pretty much a novice with Lightroom -very much in the learning stages.

liked what i have played with so far
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lightroom+camera+calibration+tutorials&oq=lightroom+camera+calibration+tutorials&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=766986l792916l0l796335l30l30l1l1l0l0l287l5256l1.14.13l28l0

olderguy Loc: South Dakota

I appreciate your input. I will study it more and maybe download the trial version. I was attempting to email with Lightroom 2, it hung up on me and I have yet to get it in the operation mode.

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

the trial will be fully operational till sometime in april till they relese 4

ianhargraves1066 Loc: NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Florida

olderguy wrote:

Adobe is coming out with Lightroom 4. I understand it is nearly $300.00. I can get Lightroom 3 on Amazon.com for $129/00. It seems to me - not being that familiar with the differences, that Lightroom 3 seems like a bargain for the money difference. Lightroom 4 would have to have a "lot" of major improvements to justify spending the extra bucks. I am asking those that are knowledgeable to give me soon advice.

I understand that the free trail offer is almost impossible to get to load, buggy maybe!

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

loaded right up for me on win.7

olderguy Loc: South Dakota

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olderguy wrote:

Adobe is coming out with Lightroom 4. I understand it is nearly $300.00. I can get Lightroom 3 on Amazon.com for $129/00. It seems to me - not being that familiar with the differences, that Lightroom 3 seems like a bargain for the money difference. Lightroom 4 would have to have a "lot" of major improvements to justify spending the extra bucks. I am asking those that are knowledgeable to give me soon advice.

I understand that the free trail offer is almost impossible to get to load, buggy maybe![/quote

I just purchased Photoshop elements 8 and I have a trial disk for Lightroom "3". I just opened my Photoshop 8 and the disk was inside. I am not sure if "4" is in the stores.

birdpix Loc: South East Pennsylvania

It seems to me that there are a number of incrementsl improvements coming out in LR4 particularly in noise reduction and recovery tools that I will look into when the time comes and if there is a discount to upgrade as I have LR3. There will also be the abilty to email directly from LR, ability to do some video editing which LR never had and a completely new module for making books, interfaces for geo locating your photo and a few other new features. Go to:
http://tv.adobe.com/show/whats-new-in-lightroom-4-beta/#/show/whats-new-in-lightroom-4-beta
to see more

olderguy Loc: South Dakota

birdpix wrote:

It seems to me that there are a number of incremen... (show quote)

I appreciate the information on the internet address. I will watch each of the listed improvements.

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

If you buy LR 3 for 129 when LR 4 released upgrades are cheaper.
I have been using LR 3 now for 3-4 years and love it but LR 4 is awesome

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

dirtpusher wrote:

i downloaded the trial #4 pretty awsome has lens correction

For $300, I'd want it to correct the lens itself, and not just the photo. I'll stick with version 3.

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

BTW on the LR page on Adobe there is a button for 50% of LR 3 http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/

olderguy Loc: South Dakota

mborn wrote:

BTW on the LR page on Adobe there is a button for 50% of LR 3 http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/

A lot of good suggestions. I did not realize that the upgrade was so reasonable. It looks like an individual could buy LR 3 and upgrade to LR4 for less than LR 4 will cost.