Comments on: My Take on Lightroom 3 Beta

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:19:11 +0000

Actually, all you need is the latest version of Lightroom 2, which is now 2.6:

http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates/

Lightroom 2.6 supports the G11, but the LR3 Beta does not.

By: MB

MB — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:04:18 +0000

Question: I have LR2. I would prefer not to lod the whole LR3Beta, but rather prefer to wait until the actual version comes out. In the meantime I’m shooting RAW files with my Canon G11 that LR can’t read. Is here a way to take/load a piece of LR3Beta so that LR2 recognizes them? Help! Thanks!

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:00:42 +0000

i want tethered shooting

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:32:47 +0000

I would choose to buy Lightroom 2 now (then free upgrade to 2.5). We don’t know when the full version of Lightroom 3 will be released. Lightroom 3 Beta is not feature complete and while it has some improvements over 2.5 I find 2.5 to be a more reliable tool for the job for now. In the past, the catalog from the current version will be upgradable to the next, so everything you do in Lightroom 2 will transfer to Lightroom 3.

By: Cornelia

Cornelia — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:33:20 +0000

I want to become a new Lightroom customer. So what is better to do: buy LR2.5 now and later upgrade to LR3?
Or better start with LR3-beta and buy LR3 from scratch? In the meantime I would miss luminance-functionality. Any more of core-2.5-functionality that is missing in LR3-beta? Or is just the delta of future LR3 vs. 2.5 not yet available in 3-beta?

By: Dianne

Dianne — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:46:02 +0000

I see this sentence in the promo “The catalog selection dialog has been expanded and improved” but I can’t seem to find out just what that means. One refinement I’d like to see is the ability to create a new catalog without starting totally from scratch with settings/options/keywords/identity plate. Will we have that flexibility in LR3?

By: John Geyer

John Geyer — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:56:09 +0000

I would buy LR3 if had a find similar images so I could weed out dupes. I had this in a Cerious Software program called Thumbs Plus and that was like 7 years ago. It worked great!

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:35:54 +0000

re #5: What type of new feature/functionality would you consider wallet prying?

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:33:40 +0000

re #4: Noise reduction is applied to the entire image, just like it is in LR2, but the rendering is greatly improved. Noise reduction control via the Adjustment Brush would indeed be a great feature!

What application do you use that applies noise reduction selectively to only parts of an image?

Would you be supportive of improvements to the noise reduction functionality if it did a better job of protecting the “good” areas while correcting the “bad”?

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:15:09 +0000

re #3: Yes, you are correct. Matt did a nice job of highlighting that kludgy-hack back in Feb:

http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2009/video-multi-photo-picture-packages/

But there is a world of difference between native functionality and kludgy-hacks. The implementation in LR3 Beta is exactly what people have been wanting (without having to dive under the hood).