John, I got a great discount on Lightroom 2.4 thru one of the 'educator' vendors. You need a student or teacher ID, but my daughter-in-law teaches special ed. It's not as cheap as your PS Elements upgrade, but barely $100. Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:46 AM, John Francis<jo...@panix.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:46:20PM -0400, Adam Maas wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 9:28 PM, John Francis<jo...@panix.com> wrote: >> > >> > I'm in the process of switching over to a new machine. ?I was >> > planning to upgrade both Lightroom and Photoshop Elements to >> > the latest version, but Adobe just made the decision a little >> > trickier - I can upgrade from Elements to CS4 for only $299. >> > >> > Assuming I stick with Lightroom (so the organizer part of CS4 >> > isn't going to offer me a great deal, and I won't have any use >> > for Camera Ra)) what are the additional features of CS4 that I >> > might find useful? ?Or should I just stick with Elements V7? >> > >> >> The biggest advantages are full implementations of curves, layers and >> colour management along with the full ACR implementation. >> >> -Adam > > Well, it turned out to be moot - my version of elements was just too > old to be eligible for the upgrade (I was still using V3), so I took > the cheap way out, and upgraded to Elements V7 for a mere $42! > > So far I've only played with it a little bit, but the first thing to > strike me was just how much more control there was in ACR compared to > the rudimentary implementations in PSE3 or Lightroom V1. It's going > to take me a little while to learn how to use all the new features. > Then I'm going to have to go back and reconvert some old images ... > > I assume that I'll get at least as much control in Lightroom V2; > that's going to get installed on the new machine, too. But that > will almost certainly have to wait until I get back from the UK. > > There are a lot of other new-to-me things in PSE7, so I've got more > than enough learning to do before I even think about Lightroom. But > at least I've got Scott Kelby's book to help me educate myself. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
