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Lightroom 3 release date

Forum|Forum|16 years ago
March 11, 2010
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Well are we getting close to the actual release date.

Anyone heard anything

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dpick2

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I can't wait for the release. The noise reduction is so much more superior it's difficult to use 2 knowing 3 is around the corner.

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karl_F3

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Lightroom 3 is going to be annouced this monday or tuesday (6th or 7th of June). heard it from the adobe spokesman from pma australia 2010. he confirmed it when demonstrating Lightroom 3 Public Beta 2

DJ-G

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That would be 7th or 8th?

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sizzlingbadger

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Photoshop Lightroom 3 can be purchased direct from Adobe. Choose the store for your country here then navigate to the Photoshop Lightroom 3 purchase page.

Official Link is now active http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/

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Anonymous

good news lightroom 3 top 5 features here watch and enjoy

http://photorumors.com/2010/06/05/terry-whites-top-5-favorite-new-features-in-lightroom-3/

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Skyisthelimit147

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I called Adobe Sales recently to enquire about the likely relase date for LR3. Told them I do not have LR yet, trialed the 2.x version and currently use the v3beta2. I plan to buy LR and asked the Sales rep if I should buy now (v2.7), what the upgrade policy would be or if it is worth the wait (how long.....).

The response was: if I buy now (v2) I would have to buy the upgrade once v3 is released. Free updates are only available once the official release has been announced and you buy the "old" version then. There is typically a 4 week period between the announcement and the roll-out (i.e. being able to purchase.

His recommendation was to wait a "few more weeks" unless it is really urgent to get LR now and buy v3 right away, He also mentioned somthing about "early summer"...

So, I'll give it some time still and carry on with the beta.

Hope this helps.

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cfransw

Inspiring

Look here :

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/654450?tstart=0

If Mr.Chan takes the time to answer: "The wait will not be long. Thanks for your patience"

final release must be very close.

I think they've "warmed up the audience" enough now.

Frans

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Bob Rickert

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I will throw one more issue into the discussion of the LR V3 release date --

I want to upgrade to Photoshop CS 5 and to LR V3 and I will do so when LR V3 is available.

In prior releases Adobe provided a discount (see below) for the upgrade of both Photoshop and LR if done together.

If Adobe prices a bundle together again, I would be foolish to upgrade Photoshop prior to knowing what the bundle discount might be.

Now that my free trial to CS5 is past the 30 days, I want to upgrade but won't because the upgrade may be less expensive if I wait for LR V3 and upgrade as a bundle.

Adobe, I hope is aware of the issue that many customers are both Photoshop and Lightroom users and will want to upgrade at the same time.

Bob Rickert

Current Adobe bundle pricing (from Adobe web site) --

Get 30% off Lightroom 2 when purchased with Photoshop CS5 software.

Purchase a full or upgrade version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 along with a full or upgrade version of Photoshop CS5 ...

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JimHess-8IPblY

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Are you really so naïve to think that what you, as an individual, will or will not do as far as purchasing Adobe products will affect Adobe's marketing strategy? They know what works. And when they are ready to offer Lightroom they will do so. And all your cajoling isn't going to "force their hand". So just sit back and wait and see. In reality, it's your only choice anyway. I hope someone freezes this thread.

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Bob Rickert

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Thanks for your constructive input!

ProDesignTools

Community Expert

genphotosaz wrote:
Well are we getting close to the actual release date.
Anyone heard anything

Might be a good time for an update on this, as it could be just around the corner now...

http://prodesigntools.com/adobe-lightroom-3-release-date-looking-soon.html

Possibly within a matter of weeks.

john beardsworth

Community Expert

Hey, "ProDesignTools", here's an idea for you - why not make posts that don't plug your web site?

Of 100+ posts you've made in various Adobe forums since registering 2 months ago, I can't find a single one that fails to plug your site. Wow, it must be a great site! OK, working out LR's release date from the beta expiry date may not qualify as "hold the front page!!!" material, and then it's a bit tough to fight past all those ways to buy Adobe products via you of course, all those exe and dmg files of all Adobe's products that you're hosting, or past all those pages of content built by parsing RSS feeds or movies from Adobe. Maybe I missed something though and there is something original there. But you know, if it's that great a site, don't you think people would find it without your needing to plug it so relentlessly?

Cordially

John

ProDesignTools

Community Expert

Hi John, I'm sorry you feel that way. In fact, there are two posts above in this very thread that don't "plug" anything, if you just scroll up a little... We're trying to fill a need here with the site and if you don't agree that's certainly your prerogative. But I can assure you there are many, many, many other folks who have been grateful for the help, downloads, answers, videos, savings, insights, and other assistance that we've been providing, and their comments on the blog speak for themselves.

Further, if you ask longtime Forum leaders like Bill Hunt and others about how helpful we've been here over the past three months, you'll get a very different and much more positive reaction... (e.g., here and here and here) And last week Adobe's VP of Engineering for the Creative Suite sent a surprise personal note, "I appreciate all you are doing to improve the experience for CS5 customers." Adobe is a big company and sometimes they cannot easily move with the speed and nimbleness of a smaller site to address and answer emerging customer service needs and questions.

If there's one issue, it's that it takes a lot of time and research to put together our content and it's far easier to refer interested readers to our site, than to carefully recreate a new and complete article local to Adobe Forums that duplicates the content. I can understand how that might seem like an issue - so once again, my apologies if you're unhappy. Fortunately, it seems there are many others who have benefited.

Be well and have a good weekend.

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KKuja

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Hmm... Release date must be coming closer because Jeff Schewe is again hangin in here.

I have learned two things about Adobe:

1) It's useless to criticize Adobe announcement policy and communication, because it won't change. And it actually is not that bad (maybe not good either). And as said, Adobe isn't the worse in that situation. If Adobe is like "nation's nuclear strike "football"", then Apple definedly is like KGB.

2) It's better to hope that Adobe postpones their internally decided release date by atleast a month and consentrates on bug fixes. Lightroom 2.0 was IMO bad release. And there was too much bad bugs in 2.* releases. Was it one or even two point releases that were pulled back because bugs? And keyword corruption in conversion from 1.* to 2.0. I'd rather take better 3.0 later than rushed realease as fast as possible.

Anyway LR team: Take your time and good summer.

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...I agree, take your time & get it right...if anyone needs it so badly they must not be doing something right...go out and take photographs for a change...when you are Ansel Adams come back & bitch...and NAPP is going to take your money as quickly as you want to give it to them...

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Anonymous

lightroom 3 beta 2

expire on 30 june i think lightroom 3 full release befor the 30 june

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jsrockit

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Wow, so we may not even be close...like weeks close... it could be months?

That sucks.

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loonsailor

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I don't know anything secret, didn't sign anything, and am not an Adobe insider. But, having run a software company for >20 years, I'd guess that it'll be several more months at least. The most recent public beta was released in late March. Figure at least 1-2 months to gather user input (otherwise, why do the public beta?) another 1-2 months to make final changes based on that input, then release to QA and packaging who will need it for 2-6 weeks (not sure about Adobe's processes). Add it all up, I wouldn't expect a final release before July, and September wouldn't shock me. I'd love to have them beat that prediction, but I'd rather have the production release be solid than have it be sooner.

Of course, if they release another public beta, push all that back a few months.

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Rockshead

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Couple more clues by Adobe as posted today on DPR website. CS5 will ship within 30 days of today; and according to product manager, O'Neil Hughes, the ACR v.6.0 uses same processing engine as the latest Lr 3 Beta. As an aside, seems will also have a lens correction feature using lens profiles.

DdeGannes

Community Expert

From the info I read in the anouncement the lens correction function is within PS CS5 not a new function of ACR 6.0. So I am not sure you will see it in LR 3.

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.

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