I've already got LR1, so the upgrade to LR2 is only $95 from Amazon On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 08:08:07AM -0500, Bob Sullivan wrote: > John, > I got a great discount on Lightroom 2.4 thru one of the 'educator' vendors. > You need a student or teacher ID, but my daughter-in-law teaches special ed. > It's not as cheap as your PS Elements upgrade, but barely $100. > Regards, Bob S. > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:46 AM, John Francis<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:46:20PM -0400, Adam Maas wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 9:28 PM, John Francis<[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> > I'm in the process of switching over to a new machine. ?I was > >> > planning to upgrade both Lightroom and Photoshop Elements to > >> > the latest version, but Adobe just made the decision a little > >> > trickier - I can upgrade from Elements to CS4 for only $299. > >> > > >> > Assuming I stick with Lightroom (so the organizer part of CS4 > >> > isn't going to offer me a great deal, and I won't have any use > >> > for Camera Ra)) what are the additional features of CS4 that I > >> > might find useful? ?Or should I just stick with Elements V7? > >> > > >> > >> The biggest advantages are full implementations of curves, layers and > >> colour management along with the full ACR implementation. > >> > >> -Adam > > > > Well, it turned out to be moot - my version of elements was just too > > old to be eligible for the upgrade (I was still using V3), so I took > > the cheap way out, and upgraded to Elements V7 for a mere $42! > > > > So far I've only played with it a little bit, but the first thing to > > strike me was just how much more control there was in ACR compared to > > the rudimentary implementations in PSE3 or Lightroom V1. ?It's going > > to take me a little while to learn how to use all the new features. > > Then I'm going to have to go back and reconvert some old images ... > > > > I assume that I'll get at least as much control in Lightroom V2; > > that's going to get installed on the new machine, too. ?But that > > will almost certainly have to wait until I get back from the UK. > > > > There are a lot of other new-to-me things in PSE7, so I've got more > > than enough learning to do before I even think about Lightroom. But > > at least I've got Scott Kelby's book to help me educate myself. > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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