Comments on: Lightroom 3 “like switching to a new camera,” says DPReview

By: Bill Dodwell

Bill Dodwell — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:54:09 +0000

John – the Windows Explorer dialog pops up when a CompactFlash card is put into a Windows machine. The box pops up to offer the option to load the photos via Lightroom, Bridge (I have Photoshop as well) or the standard Microsoft options. My point was that the option to use Lightroom 3 didn’t work, until I’d removed and reinstalled Lightroom 3.

By: Becky

Becky — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:24:29 +0000

To Bill,

It’s intentional that Lightroom 3 doesn’t remove previous versions. Many of our customers prefer to have both installed side-by-side, until they’re familiar with the new version. As you noted, you can remove previous versions easily through Programs and Features.

I’m really not clear what you mean by the Windows Explorer dialogs opening photos in Lightroom 3. Do you mean you want to drag photos from Windows into Lightroom 3?

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:04:05 +0000

I find it very strange that dpreview raves about LR3, while on the LR forum many many people complain about performance issues. LR3 being slower than 2.7

By: Rick Burress

Rick Burress — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:56:10 +0000

If the rave reviews are for the Noise reduction in Lightroom, then those same RAVES would apply to the “Free” Adobe Bridge (with ACR 6.1) as well, would it not?

I like free.

:-)

By: Trent Anderson

Trent Anderson — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:12:56 +0000

I’ve been using Bridge through CS3-5 and I wonder if it is worth aquiring Lightroom 3. Is it so unique a product that I would not find some of it’s
offerings in CS5?

By: Bill Dodwell

Bill Dodwell — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:42:15 +0000

John – upgrading from 2.7 to 3 on Windows 7 didn’t go quite as smoothly as I’d hoped. The program doesn’t offer to remove 2.7 (or even mention it) – although it did pick up automatically the serial number. When I then removed 2.7 through the Programs and Features function, the Windows Explorer dialog to open photos in Lightroom 3 no longer worked. Repair had no effect either, so I had to remove Lightroom 3 completely and then reinstall.
Hope this is useful feedback.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:23:38 +0000

I hope Adobe manages to recover some database performance with upcoming bugfix updates – keywording and rating photos took a serious performance hit for me (CPU maxing out repeatedly for several seconds).

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Lighting - Ellen — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:02:57 +0000

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By: ricardo galvão

ricardo galvão — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:49:36 +0000

It’s true…
see below:
Camera: Canon Sx20iS (compacta tiny sensor)
Zoom optical + digital

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/323/noisereductioncs5.jpg