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Well, I just purchased my upgrade to LR4 from the email from adobe for £59. Weird that the physical disk version is cheaper than the download by £1 but I guess this is because they are doing an offer on free shipping.

So I figured I would get the disc :shrug:

Just FYI for those who have LR3, might be a good time to upgrade for a cheap price....

https://store2.adobe.com/cfusion/st...m&distributionMethod=UPGRADE&trackingid=JQDFJ
 
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just bought LR3 for £60...when is LR4 to be released???
Its still not to late for me to cancel my order...
 
bastic said:
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just bought LR3 for £60...when is LR4 to be released???
Its still not to late for me to cancel my order...
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It's released now, but check the system requirements. It won't work on Win XP.
 
Thanks for the heads up, i was looking the other day and saw the beta was out and thought there would be a longer wait until i could get the full version.

cheers.
 
order cancelled :)

BTW : £100 is not much and I thought that Lighroom in general is more expensive...
 
jamesoliverstone said:
Weird that the physical disk version is cheaper than the download by £1 but I guess this is because they are doing an offer on free shipping.
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the hosts for the download are in ireland so different rate of tax if i remember rightly.

just buy the boxed copy then download the 30 day trial, then enter they key from the box when it arrives.
 
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Cheers for the direct ordering link :thumbs:
Upgrade ordered for delivery, will install the trial version as recommended.

I read the DPReview LR4 feature
Soooooo many good reasons for upgrading.
 
jamesoliverstone said:
Well, I just purchased my upgrade to LR4 from the email from adobe for £59. Weird that the physical disk version is cheaper than the download by £1 but I guess this is because they are doing an offer on free shipping.
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It's because the Adobe online store is based in the Republic of Ireland, where they have to charge 23% VAT.

Physical disk is shipped by Adobe UK and they charge UK VAT at 20%.
 
Is there a Student and Teacher upgrade?

I'd buy the full S & T product but I'm only allowed to buy one in every 12 mths and I bought LR3 in October
 
neil_g said:
the hosts for the download are in ireland so different rate of tax if i remember rightly.

just buy the boxed copy then download the 30 day trial, then enter they key from the box when it arrives.
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This!
Craig1912 said:
Is there a Student and Teacher upgrade?

I'd buy the full S & T product but I'm only allowed to buy one in every 12 mths and I bought LR3 in October
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My understanding was that you couldn't upgrade, one of the reasons it is cheaper, however your best be is to check the EULA and the "Do I qualify for an upgrade stuff".
 
Will LR 3 support the latest new Nikon d4 and d800 with update or will I have to buy lr4
 
Thanks James, I hadn't seen it was available. Downloading now.
 
Craig1912 said:
Is there a Student and Teacher upgrade?

I'd buy the full S & T product but I'm only allowed to buy one in every 12 mths and I bought LR3 in October
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I ordered the upgrade and installed it on a student and teacher version of lightroom 3 with no problems.

You should be able to upgrade or even order the normal version of lightroom 4 as they consider a major upgrade to be a new product and so not limited by the 1 every 12 months rule. But, it's possible you'l get a numpty customer support person who will reject your purchase - this happened to me when I bought the newly released version 2 shortly after purchasing version 1. I phoned them, pointed out that it was essentially a new product, the (new) person I was dealing with agreed and authorised the purchase. So it shouldn't be a problem, but if you're unlucky like I was (once, in 4 versions of the software!) you might need to contact them directly!
 
I've had a good look and think I'm going to stick to LR3. For me at least, the extra features just don't warranty the upgrade.
 
If I have a full version of LR3 but chose "try" option of LR4 will it work ok?
 
ryanyboy said:
If I have a full version of LR3 but chose "try" option of LR4 will it work ok?
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yes - you can install alongside and upgrade your LR 3 catalogues to a different location. Just remember any LR4 updates you make won't be available in LR3

I think theres some seriously useful features in the new release
 
boyfalldown said:
yes - you can install alongside and upgrade your LR 3 catalogues to a different location. Just remember any LR4 updates you make won't be available in LR3

I think theres some seriously useful features in the new release
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Cheers Hugh. I might as well just buy it then :)
 
Might be worth waiting a couple of days, It's sometimes cheaper on Amazon by a few pounds, plus you usually get free shipping
 
Chappers said:
Might be worth waiting a couple of days, It's sometimes cheaper on Amazon by a few pounds, plus you usually get free shipping
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It's free shipping from adobe
 
boliston said:
I would have thought that RAW support would be decided by the version of camera raw that you are running rather than the version of Lightroom.
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Lightroom is essentially camera RAW. It's not like Photoshop where you update camera RAW - you update Lightroom.
 
If you have loads of presets will they still work - bearing in mind the new sliders....?

I suspect they won't but can't find a definitive answer....
 
ryanyboy said:
If you have loads of presets will they still work - bearing in mind the new sliders....?

I suspect they won't but can't find a definitive answer....
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it depends on what they do and how they do it. Some will, some won't. Not much help
 
cherryrig said:
Doesn't work on XP :(

Oh that's a bit rubbish for me
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Also I'd recommend a 64 bit so with lots of memory. I went windows 7 64 bit with 16gb memory for Lightroom 3 and photoshop cs 5 and both now fly where they were struggling under xp
 
Byker28i said:
Also I'd recommend a 64 bit so with lots of memory. I went windows 7 64 bit with 16gb memory for Lightroom 3 and photoshop cs 5 and both now fly where they were struggling under xp
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My next upgrade will be something like that, but I've never had a problem on XP with LR3 or CS5, and there's nothing I've seen in the newer versions to make me want to jump just yet.
 
one thing I have noticed when importing the catalog from lr3 to 4, the GPS support for LR3 was via plugin , but the metadata used in LR3 is marked as "GPS shadow" or "shadow GPS" can't remember which, but anyway the data isn't imported with the catalog:'(, so all my tediously marked GPS photos are now no longer marked.:(

Also as I cant afford the silly price for a nikon GPS unit [spent it on LR4;)], I was using a tracker app on my phone to record where I was. The LR3 plugin then looked at timestamps and marked your pictures with the gps coords: Now has anyone tried to do the same with LR4? , ie record a track, export the data and correllate the data in LR4.
I only tried importing last night, no time to create new pictures and data until weekend.
 
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