SALE IS OVER (Half-Priced Lightroom 3 - Tuesday Only)
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Posted by Paul DeCesare on October 10, 2011 at 12:52 PM
UPDATE 10/12: If/when Adobe does this again I'll post an announcement. Also. look for Amazon to drop the price to $149 also between now and Christmas, they did that last November. I'll be watchin'!
UPDATE on 10/11/2011, 12:45am PDT
The sale is real, just add LR to your cart at Adobe.com and it will be $149.50 plus tax if your state collects that(like mine). I just bought it, download was quick and they give you the key instantly. Done!
Again, it's only for today, ends at 11:59pm PDT tonight.
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Hey Gang, according to PhotoshopSupport.com, Adobe will be offering Lightroom for $149 on Tuesday 10/11/2011 ONLY (tomorrow as I write this). No coupon needed supposedly, just head to the Adobe website waving your Visa card all about.
NOW, if tomorrow shows up and there's no sale, please don't shoot the messenger, lol. I'll actually be disappointed too, while I'm a big PS user and I already have my Prod Premium suite installed on two PCs (Adobe allows two installs in case you may not have known that), I'd like some sort of good editor on my laptop in a pinch. Half-price Lightroom is a no-brainer I think.
Posted by Bruce King on October 10, 2011 at 1:04 PM
It's a nice deal. I just got my on Saturday. I need a good organizer as I find Bridge in CS5 to be deficient in that regard. I haven't installed LR3 yet.....maybe tonight. Will the install automatically copy my files from Bridge or will I need to create albums/catagories first?
Posted by Paul DeCesare on October 10, 2011 at 1:31 PM
I'm not totally up to speed on LR yet, I'm mainly a PS guy, but I'll be watching some Lynda.com vids about it, especially the catalog thing. However, I will say that Bridge is a browser on steroids, not a database, and while it caches high quality versions of your images for perusing, it's just revealing what's on your hard drive like Windows Explorer (and then adds a huge array of utilities to go with it like Batch Rename). So I'm sure Lightroom will want you to create catalogs/libraries/tool sheds/whatever it needs to do its job as a flagship asset management tool.
SO! There's a clear entry point for one of our beloved Lightroom users to hop in and give us all the scoop, hint hint!
Yep, it is real. I just did it. Downloaded it, installed it, opened it, added the serial number shown on the downloads page, and then LR was loaded and running. Now what do I do with it?
Posted by Paul DeCesare on October 11, 2011 at 4:52 PM
I dunno, I'm trying to figure that out too! Catalogs and imports and all this other nifty stuff that's confusing me, lol! I keep telling myself "you don't need layers, you don't need layers", eventually I'll listen to me.
Later tonight I'l hop back into PS CS5 and feel all warm and fuzzy back in a comfortable environment, lol!
Haha Paul! I had been thinking a long time about LR (for years). At that price, they got me. I loaded a 6 image set and thought "great! Here I go!" And then I was stopped cold! I saw where I could make adjustments - but with just an arrow key? Where does it show how much I did, etc. No nice numbers that gives me a clue. Made keywords and comments but where they they go? Nothing intuitive to say I had applied them to the set. Ah well. I see I have a learning curve to go through. Decided I didn't want to do anything to this set of images. So tried to figure how to remove the little set of 6 images from the library. Could not even find that. Starts making me feel dumb. Anyway, I KNOW there is a great package here...time to get a book and read all about it - that's a concept I didn't think I would need for just rummaging around in the software!
To all, not dissing the package...I WILL learn how to use it. Cataloging will be the feature most important to me. Next I went back to CS5 and completed processing a 30 and 60 image shoots in the time I fuddled around with the 6 images.
Troup, Paul, others, right-click is definitely your friend in LR3. I'm less uncomfortable with it now than I was when I made my post about it a couple of weeks ago or whenever it was. I do not find it intuitive, though. But to remove images from the catalog one way is to highlight the images and right-click on any one of them and click Delete and then click Remove. (You can also delete files from your hard disk that way by choosing the option to do that.)
Posted by David Chauvin on October 12, 2011 at 2:15 PM
Troup,,,,,,,,to get up to speed on the basics google Julieanne Kost. She has an excellent series of free video tutorials on LR.
Posted by Paul DeCesare on October 12, 2011 at 2:21 PM
Thanks Barbara, there's our first set of tips!
Troup, we're just not used to the UI, same way if a LR-only user opened Photoshop for the first time. "Whatya mean that saturation adjustment permanently etched into my image?? What's an Adjustment Layer??".
The adjustments in LR are fine, they're designed to be fluid and easy and make you concentrate on the image and not the software, I get that. The part that will take getting used to (and this is only when I travel, I'm 100% PS CS5 at home and work) is the catalog/import thing. I am completely used to Bridge which is just a hard drive navigator with some amazing bells & whistles, but in the end you have to control your files yourself, which I totally prefer, but I can see the advantage of giving that over to a cataloging system, it'd be much more robust, I just have to want to do it. Then when a catalog goes corrupt, I can hop onto forums and complain like I see so many others do.
(WHOA, that should generate some colorful replies, eh??? ) LOL!
For us PS users, I think LR is a great on-the-run editor for a laptop, it runs way faster and does no destruction of pixels. And when at an event, I saw that in LR I can assemble a slide-show in minutes for attendees to have instant feedback. That's great. Then when I need to print, into PS I go, for that I need layer support and definitely soft-proofing. I feel like my editing tool shed is complete now with LR doing what I need it to do when I need it. I might understand that last statement if I re-read it 2 or 3 times.
Seriously, now that I have it I can see that LR is a very important addition to post-production. The forum arguments about which is better, LR or PS, is pointless because the one does NOT replace the others, not even close. They have their place, and for many, LR is their tool of choice, PS isn't needed. For me, LR is a great additional tool, certainly one I could live without, but now that I have it I won't want to. NO WAY did I want to fork out $650 for an additional copy of PS for my laptop... yet for $149, look at the amazing editing package you get with LR! No-Brainer, especially since I do a LOT in ACR first which LR incorporates.
WELL, that reply was way longer than necessary! Guess I'd better shaddup and get back to work...
Thanks for all the advice! I will check out the sites listed. Guess I was talking tongue in cheek. Certainly there will be a learning curve - right click is a great one! AHH kind of thing. I understand that neither LR or PS replaces the other. Again, cataloging will probably be the most useful use of LR for me at this point in time. I have over 13,000 images on my storage hard drive. Each image has an original, and tiff, and a jpg. So, that's actually at least 39,000 files! I have them "cataloged" by a folder type system. The 13,000 jpg's are on my website, too. When I want a copy of an image to do something with, I check the website and get the filename there. Then I search the hard drive for the image and then copy it to my working drive. Hoping that I can make this easier in the long run with LR.
My plan is to actually figure out how to use LR with test galleries until I really understand the program. Once there, I will tackle my "real" set of 13,000 images. Hoping to not run into gotcha's or "didn't know I could do that this way and have to restart the cataloging. In other words, learn it and THEN use it. Seems like a smart plan to me!
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9 repliesUPDATE on 10/11/2011, 12:45am PDT
The sale is real, just add LR to your cart at Adobe.com and it will be $149.50 plus tax if your state collects that(like mine). I just bought it, download was quick and they give you the key instantly. Done!
Again, it's only for today, ends at 11:59pm PDT tonight.
============================================================
Hey Gang, according to PhotoshopSupport.com, Adobe will be offering Lightroom for $149 on Tuesday 10/11/2011 ONLY (tomorrow as I write this). No coupon needed supposedly, just head to the Adobe website waving your Visa card all about.
NOW, if tomorrow shows up and there's no sale, please don't shoot the messenger, lol.
SO! There's a clear entry point for one of our beloved Lightroom users to hop in and give us all the scoop, hint hint!
Troup Nightingale
Southeastern Photography
http://www.southeasternphotography.com
Later tonight I'l hop back into PS CS5 and feel all warm and fuzzy back in a comfortable environment, lol!
To all, not dissing the package...I WILL learn how to use it. Cataloging will be the feature most important to me. Next I went back to CS5 and completed processing a 30 and 60 image shoots in the time I fuddled around with the 6 images.
Troup, we're just not used to the UI, same way if a LR-only user opened Photoshop for the first time. "Whatya mean that saturation adjustment permanently etched into my image?? What's an Adjustment Layer??".
The adjustments in LR are fine, they're designed to be fluid and easy and make you concentrate on the image and not the software, I get that. The part that will take getting used to (and this is only when I travel, I'm 100% PS CS5 at home and work) is the catalog/import thing. I am completely used to Bridge which is just a hard drive navigator with some amazing bells & whistles, but in the end you have to control your files yourself, which I totally prefer, but I can see the advantage of giving that over to a cataloging system, it'd be much more robust, I just have to want to do it. Then when a catalog goes corrupt, I can hop onto forums and complain like I see so many others do.
(WHOA, that should generate some colorful replies, eh???
For us PS users, I think LR is a great on-the-run editor for a laptop, it runs way faster and does no destruction of pixels. And when at an event, I saw that in LR I can assemble a slide-show in minutes for attendees to have instant feedback. That's great. Then when I need to print, into PS I go, for that I need layer support and definitely soft-proofing. I feel like my editing tool shed is complete now with LR doing what I need it to do when I need it. I might understand that last statement if I re-read it 2 or 3 times.
Seriously, now that I have it I can see that LR is a very important addition to post-production. The forum arguments about which is better, LR or PS, is pointless because the one does NOT replace the others, not even close. They have their place, and for many, LR is their tool of choice, PS isn't needed. For me, LR is a great additional tool, certainly one I could live without, but now that I have it I won't want to. NO WAY did I want to fork out $650 for an additional copy of PS for my laptop... yet for $149, look at the amazing editing package you get with LR! No-Brainer, especially since I do a LOT in ACR first which LR incorporates.
WELL, that reply was way longer than necessary! Guess I'd better shaddup and get back to work...
My plan is to actually figure out how to use LR with test galleries until I really understand the program. Once there, I will tackle my "real" set of 13,000 images. Hoping to not run into gotcha's or "didn't know I could do that this way and have to restart the cataloging. In other words, learn it and THEN use it. Seems like a smart plan to me!
Troup