Lr4 is a huge improvement over 3. They updated their raw conversion process (hence all the new sliders) so that's why lr3 cannot render lr4 files and why the catalogs are only compatible one way. I personally applaud adobe for introducing dng and have been a big fan of ACR since day one of using it. If you are still running a desktop with an over 10 year old operating system it is beyond time to upgrade. XP is no longer supported and is full of security holes with new exploits being discovered daily. Seriously do yourself a favor and upgrade. A cheap 300 pc is likely better than anything that had xp installed on it originally. As far as your wifes laptop not running windows 7...if you put at least a gig or two of ram in the machine (rather cheap upgrade I might add....) you could easily run windows 7 on even an old pentium. No need to be stuck in the past forever. Your workflow would be a lot less complicated too if you ran the same lightroom everywhere. Just a thought.....
Godfrey DiGiorgi <gdigio...@gmail.com> wrote: >I needed to update to an Intel-based system to run LR3. I did ... I'm >glad I did, and a bottom end new system was much much faster than my >old PowerPC top of the line system. I don't blame Adobe for making >their business decisions. Although I wasn't pleased to buy a new >system at that time, I do what I need to in the context of the tools I >want to use. I didn't need to update to LR3 at the time, but it was >worth doing it for other reasons. > >Sitting around being "angry at Adobe" is just a waste of time and >energy. You don't want to use their software? Go use something else. >There are plenty of options. > >G > >On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Igor Roshchin <s...@komkon.org> wrote: >> >> Unfortunately, that is of little help to me. >> Despite owning LR4, I don't use it. >> >> I am angry at Adobe with respect to how the handled LR. >> >> First, they dropped supporting Win XP in their LR-4. [*] >> And you do not have an option in LR-4 to keep the database format >> backward compatible to that of LR-3. So, since I need to multiplex >> my photographs and LR databases between my Win7 laptop and Win XP >> desktop, and my wife needs to multiplex those between her Win7 laptop >> and WinXP Netbook (not supported by Win7), I have not installed the >> LR-4 that I purchased last year. >> >> Second, they do not put the lens profiles in the open, you are forced >to >> use Adobe's software - for what? for downloading profiles? >> At least I cannot find a website listing the existing profiles >> (I don't even mention capability of downloading them). Why such >> a secrecy? I understand the convenience of the tool, but please >> give me an option of just downloading the profile from the website. >> >> The problem for me is that they dropped their support for LR-3.* in >> the tools that they create, including the lens profile downloader: >that >> one supports LR4 only. >> >> ---- >> [*] Before you intend to jump in explaining why XP is and old >technology >> that should not be supported, read two responses to His Arrogancy >> Mr. Scott Kelby (of Adobe) - by Steve and StR (both close to the >top): >> >http://scottkelby.com/2012/lightroom-4-and-leaving-the-past-behind/#comments >> (Note that some browsers, e.g. Opera, do not display comments on >> Mr. Kelby's blog. I don't know why, but Mr. Kelby must have decided >that >> Opera is too old to support, since it exists since 1995.) >> >> >> Igor >> >> >> >> >> Tue Jan 29 14:09:26 EST 2013 >> Matthew Hunt wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.walker at >gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> One of the tips in a Lightroom tutorial, "Five handy tips for >working >>> with photos in Lightroom 4", contains a link to a free Adobe app >that >>> I bet a few of us can use: Adobe Lens Profile Creator 1.0.4. >>> >>> All you need to do is shoot a checkerboard pattern with the >"unknown" >>> lens and inspect it in the utility, creating an installable profile >in >>> the process. >>> >>> http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5489 >> >> Before going to the effort of creating a profile, it's worth trying >> the Lens Profile Downloader to see if someone else has already done >> it: >> >> Mac: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5491 >> Windows: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5492 >> >> I got a profile for the A28/2.8 that way. I don't think the camera >> body for the profile has to match yours (although maybe there's >slight >> variation in "vignetting" corrections, due to sensor microlens >> differences and such). >> >> >> -- >> 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.
