Lr3 release date

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The release of CS5 tomorrow before Lightroom 3, which has been grinding away in beta for who knows how long, MIGHT be a heads up on the competitiveness of CS5 in many critical editing functions that people are testing for in Lr3. We'll see after the live demonstration from Adobe tomorrow at 8AM PST. No negative criticism meant here but I, like many other users, want and/or need Lr3 yesterday especially since re-editing Lr2 "finished" files in Lr3 has some limitations and I've got a ton of work waiting for Lr3. I want to say, parenthetically, that I've been in and out of the country [US] for the past several months with little of the 21st [correction courtesy of Mr johnbeardy below] century nearby more technical than a plastic coke bottle. As a result, I haven't done more than look Lr3 over in the usual places.
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Adobe's rollout was impressive. Still waiting on Lr3's official launch though. My feeling is that with Ps Elements, Bridge, CS5's own image management features and a very aggressive photo editing suite, that Lr has serious competition within the non professional cohort. As Juliann Kost says, however, most users will want to use both Lightroom AND CS5.
 
it may be the case that Adobe want to maximise the sale of PS5 before releasing (an eagerly awaited) LR3. Some of the new technical inovations in PS5 will be good for photographers, but Lightroom will be totally devoted to them!
 
[quote author=Boris G link=topic=9546.msg64333#msg64333 date=1271''9261]
...with little of the 2'th century nearby more technical than a plastic coke bottle. As a result, I haven't done more than look Lr3 over in the usual places. [/quote]

I thought this was the 21st?

John
 
And so you are correct. Silly me. In any event, CS5 is an impressive bit of work and will muscle into the business of many a plug-in such as the NIK software suite and Corel's Painter 11. "Content Aware Fill"alone is a blockbuster. Lr3 is still the best catalogue app but CS5 is really going to compete well against it's editing features. If you look at the stock market reports from investors, you can see why this had to be. CS4 it ain't.
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I particularly recommend taking a close look at Content Aware Healing - it's pretty special too.

John
 
After all is said and done, Lightroom 3 is what it is and I anxiously await it's post beta launch so I can start using it.
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