LR3 to LR4

[ryanyboy]

Just wondering - is there anything to be wary of if I upgrade from LR3 to LR4.

I've just upgraded my RAM to 16GB ahead of the upgrade because I am aware that LR4 is slower.

But other than the slower speed is there anything else?

i.e will my collections still be there and will my presets still be there?

I've been trying to avoid it but with the D600 I think it's upgrade time….

 

[garryknight]

It will give you the opportunity to convert your old catalog to LR4 format. It will keep your LR3 catalog intact and ask you where you want to save your new one. The sliders in the Develop/Basic section are different but don't take long to get used to. The Adjustment Brush has some nice new presets. There's a new map section for GPS-tagging your photos, and the photo-book creation section has been updated.

You can speed LR up by keeping your catalog on a different physical drive from your photos, and by keeping the ACR preview cache on a separate physical drive. I've got both on one partition on my 2nd drive while my photos are on a partition on my 1st drive and it's faster than LR3, partly because I also upgraded to Win7 64-bit to use all of my RAM.

I don't use collections (I know, I know...) but I do know that you'll have to export your presets from LR3 and re-import them into LR4. Doesn't take long and you can possibly do some house-cleaning in the process.

 

[spxxxx]

I'm still getting unacceptable slider delay on LR4.2 and especially the WB slider which can have a 3 second delay.

If you like LR3 sliders but want the ability to load D600 files without converting to NEF then you can run LR4 with process version 2010 which gives the best of both worlds. And you have no slider lag