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Lightroom 3 release date

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March 11, 2010
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Well are we getting close to the actual release date.

Anyone heard anything

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ProDesignTools

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Wanted to follow up - just completed a full and fresh analysis on this question (details here if you're interested)... Our best estimate on the release date for Lightroom version 3.0 is shipping in June.

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Bill in Anacortes

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It does get frustrating... Adobe handles release dates and proposed program contents like they were the nation's nuclear strike "football". For those of us who are deeply into photography, want to use Adobe (or already do) , but are without unlimited funds it would be nice to be able to compare the new PS CS5 with LR 3.0. As CS5 is coming out in a week and all good "guesses" are that LR will be out in June or so it would seem reasonable that Adobe knows exactly what the capabilities of both programs are going to be. From reading about the Beta of LR (sans the full Developing Tools) the "word" is that it will be able to handle about 98% of the normal photographers needs for manipulation and enhancement and will be a greatly improved program.

Adobe's hope is, no doubt, that PS CS5 will be regarded by the consumer as a "must have" with all its new bells and whistles... and, without anything to go on as to the the final contents of LR3, or a release date, that the consumer may "leap" to PS CS5... only to find out in a few months or so that the new LR would have totally met his/her needs... There is also no doubt, from "tidbits of released information" that both programs are going to be vastly improved and will include some great new innovations... If CS5 is meant to "celebrate" Adobe's 20th anniversary it would have been nice to throw LR3 into the mix as well.

Hopefully, Adobe has listened to the users regarding suggestions for LR3 (Soft Proofing for one) and that the program will finally evolve to what it should be... a strictly photographic database and developing system... and leave PS (which, ironically, should really have another name) for the artists, graphics, 3-D, designers, and layout artists.

So what happens... for me I will wait until both programs are out and then decide if I want either of them... Will they probably be able to assist my buisniess needs and processing better than CS4 and LR2... yes, probably... would I like to have them both... yes, probably... I just don't care for the "planned" timing and "the customer can wait until we're ready to tell them" feeling I get from Adobe .

At some point I hope that Adobe will realize that "customer service" should receive as much attention as "marketing". In the long run it would probably sell a lot more products.... Just my humble observation.

ProDesignTools

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I hear you Bill, and although I don't know for sure, I don't think it was deliberate on Adobe's part... I just think it was the crush of CS5. After CS4 got released into the teeth of an economic maelstrom in 2008, Adobe probably wanted to marshal all available resources and bandwidth to help ensure CS5 was a smashing success...

For the last major product cycle, it was Lightroom 2 that got released just ahead of CS4, so there it happened to work out the other way around.

The good news here is we have two betas now for LR3 so a pretty good idea of what will be coming down the pike in (hopefully) another couple months.

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Greg Priestley

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I know nothing official, but I'll make an educated guess.

Beta times out 30 April - 6 weeks - so something will happen before then (given that the wording was "The Lightroom 3 beta will expire after Lightroom 3.0 is available")

And Photoshop World is on next week, so I'm putting my money on an announcement then.

But I could be completely wrong ... I've been waiting expectantly every Tuesday since December for the announcement of the new MacBook Pro's - but these are yet to materialise.

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Anonymous

Now that new Aperture is out, hopefully Adobe will release soon.

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Payetdds

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Given how much I like the improvements they made just in the beta version, I sure hope we don't have to wait a whole lot longer. I'm really looking forward to seeing how much more they've added in terms of social media uploading/sharing and the ability to create multiple output formats, 'cause having 1 program able to handle almost all of my output needs instead of 2-3 would be incredibly helpful to speed up workflow.

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Chris_Tribble

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Simply having the improvements associated with noise handling that I've seen when processing Leica M9 files would be enough for me. Please Adobe - LR3 as soon as possible?

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Hopsternew

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I'm with you Chris and for the same reason. I look forward to upgrading. It is a nuisance to have two LR versions concurrently (2.6.1 & 3 beta). I imagine that the new edge detail function in noise reduction may be beneficial to the particular species of DNG that the M9 produces? I have no idea what's changed in the engine of course.

What is causing me consternation is where I need to switch back and forth amongst 2x LR versions and Camera Raw. File versions and catalogs get very muddled for me. Then you have the gotcha of opening an M9 file in ACR without thinking, followed by a crash. I know that the Adobe folks have said that fix is in progrees. I can stand to wait for LR3 but that particular glitch is hurting me. I would speculate that we won't see any more point upgrades past LR2.6 and ACR5.6 before the 3 series starts. Let's see what that means for upgrade prices too.

The big unknown for Leica M9, S2, X1 owners of course is whether we will be able to use our LR licence from Leica to get LR3, where we've already paid for LR before buying cameras with the new licence.

By the way I recently shot the S2 and X1 and was interested to see that the X1 already has an Adobe Standard profile. Still on the Embedded only with the S2. There will need to be S2 specific support, not just the native DNG functionality in the LR that S2 buyers receive a licence for. That may be an area for Leica Camera AG and their agreements with Adobe rather than anything just Adobe specific though.

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davidshq

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JimHess-8IPblY

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Unfortunately, anyone who really knows is obligated NOT to disclose that information. If you follow the forums on a regular basis, and are aware of news releases, you will know as soon as anyone else does. None of us know anymore. Except, of course, for those who know but cannot say.

ProDesignTools

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JimHess is right - anybody who definitively knows is likely under nondisclosure obligation...

One anecdotal approach would be to go based on release history. Lightroom 1 and Lightroom 2 came about a year and a half apart... Also the releases of the first two versions of Apple Aperture were similarly timed, and close to the windows when Lightroom came out. And now we have recent availability of Aperture 3 - so if that is any indication, we might look for a launch of Lightroom 3 sometime later this year... My guess is Adobe would want to stay in close version lockstep with Aperture.

And in such event, hopefully Adobe would keep the Lightroom version upgrade price at $99 or less, so that recent buyers could move from 2.x to 3.0 without too much additional outlay.

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