Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bob only you can do the sums of course. I did the upgrade and like the improvements. I only just got LR2 later to improve my cataloguing and ingestion especially. I partly got the upgrade to be able to keep getting the latest Camera Raw upgrades. As you have LR2 that may not matter so much for you. The ACR improvements were really the driver for me. There are some great new tools. There are a lot of Ps interface improvements though. I especially like : The tabbed windows when you have multiple pics open. Plus the quick window arrangements options and workspaces The smooth zooming and rotating (as long as you have a recent video card) You might have to budget for a new card. The adjustment panels layouts and options especially the adjustment layer presets. There are a lot of others for example for people doing panoramas and image blending etc that I don't use. I know that Howard in Hong Kong is very pleased with the panorama possibilities. Bridge is much improved as well, although you'll weigh that against how you use LR too. Its also completely stable now in my case, but I can't document causes for previous problems I had there. Although the Raw engine is the same in ACR and LR for detail edits and especially bw conversions you get more options by still having Ps available as well as LR. Why don't you try the 30 day free trial? It won't delete your CS3 install (although I'd make sure I had a backup naturally). 2009/5/20 Robert D. Baron <rbaron at concentric.net> > I'd appreciate your thoughts. > > I find I am using LightRoom v2.3 for approximately 90% of my > processing and am not sure there is a $200 benefit in the Photoshop CS > 3 to CS 4 upgrade. > > --Bob > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Cheers Geoff 'Life's not B&W, except at both ends' http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman