Hi Dave: I have the stand alone Lightroom 6 on my 2011 iMac desktop (21.5 inch) which has 4 gigs of RAM. Lightroom 6 is workable with 4 gigs of RAM, but not optimized; I do get pizza wheels sometimes, so I do recommend more RAM.
I have Lightroom, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and a few more Creative Cloud applications on my 13 inch MacBook Pro with Retina, which has 8 gigs of RAM and it’s snappier than my desktop version—hence the need for more RAM on the iMac. I taught myself InDesign because I’m faculty advisor to the literary magazine at school and laid out the last issue. Learning and using InDesign was an absolute blast. Next I want to improve my skills in Photoshop and Illustrator. But you do need the internet, and there is the monthly subscription, but I was able to get an education discount. I have upgraded my standalone Lightroom since Lightroom 2 and have never had any upgrade problems. The new features I have used in the standalone Lightroom 6 are wonderful—I especially like the new Lens Correction features, and the exposure settings are more nuanced, and the noise reduction has improved. I can’t remember if Lightroom 4 had the Book Module. I love the Book Module, which allows you to make a photo book, than upload from within Lightroom to blurb.com <http://blurb.com/> for printing your book. It’s all integrated—and it’s really cool that you can easily jump from Book Module to Develop Module to tweak photos as you’re laying out your book—and there’s no need converting images to jpeg when using the Book Module. LR 6 also has a Map Module, if that’s of interest to you. I haven’t used it. If you upgrade to Lightroom 6, make sure you are choosing the right upgrade options at the Adobe website. It can be damn confusing. They seem to be wanting everyone to use Creative Cloud and make it damn confusing to either a) find the stand alone option for download or B) offer you CC upgrades for your stand alone version. I really enjoy Adobe software, but I’m not a big fan of the way the company does things or it’s website, and the last time I called Adobe for some help (which was quite a while ago), I ran into rudeness and what I viewed as conveying wrong information, though I can’t remember what I was calling about, but I do remember thinking the Adobe guy on the other end was a real jerk. But I think I’ve only had to call Adobe twice in all these years, so that’s pretty good. Totally recommend upgrading to the stand alone Lightroom 6! They probably still have the 30 day trial version, and if you like it, you can buy it. Cheers, Christine > On Dec 27, 2016, at 8:01 AM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have 4.4 and am looking at getting 6.0, not the CC but the stand > alone. My version 4.4 does fine for what i want, but am looking at > upgrading my Nikon's to a D7200 or D500 so version 8 would be good for > those NEF files as well as my RAF Fuji files. Would save me a step by > converting to DNG and having extra large files on the computer > > Any one made that big of a leap from 4-6, > > OS X 10.11.6 > > Dave > > -- > Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > York Region, Ontario, Canada > > -- > 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.
