Lightroom 3 on sale for 24 hours

[Ashleyj]

Originally Posted by wavemachine

Play now only have it from sellers on the Marketplace now.

I guess Adobe will keep pushing them out whilst there is demand and I guess it depends how long the beta is going to last for LR4.

I am wondering how much the upgrade is going to cost, there are two things that interest me in LR 4 highlight/shaow recovery and better integration with blurb as I am going to do a photo book of the 366 project I am doing.

If this is a stock clear out then I would assume that LR4 won't be too long in coming, and it does not make a lot of sense for Adobe to keep feeding the market LR3 when they can hold back and push everyone to LR4.

To be honest I have never used Lightroom. I installed a trial copy when it first came out but did not really get to grips with it. Maybe if there are some cheap copies of LR3 going after LR4 is released I might give it another go.

[2Beers]

Lightroom 3 student and teacher £39.99

www.pcworld.co.uk

[wavemachine]

Originally Posted by 2Beers

Lightroom 3 student and teacher £39.99

www.pcworld.co.uk

You need to make sure you qualify though as the Adobe checking is very stringent.

[Ashleyj]

Originally Posted by wavemachine

You need to make sure you qualify though as the Adobe checking is very stringent.

True.

I was doing a one off Open University course a few years back and they would not accept that as being a 'student' when I wanted to buy Photoshop.

[GeoffWessex]

There are ways around the 'student' licence problem.... my partner is a college teacher of Early Childhood Education - sounds grand but it's actually a matter of running online courses "Teaching Nannies". She ordered LR for me through her college bookshop - no problem. Only trubble is, LR3 (and higher) needs some quite powerful hardware..... I never got to grips with it using a bog-standard WinXP machine.

Surely there's a way to get software at student rates if you're doing an OU course? There must be somebody to contact in Milton Keynes! (Oh and..... OU courses - darned expensive aren't they! I investigated a computer qualification years ago and because it needed all these different 'modules' the total cost was nearly 9,000 quid.... and that was around 1995)

[donoreo]

Since you mentioned XP I have two things: 1. LR 4 will not run on XP. 2. My brand new laptop at work, a Core i7, has XP on it. "company standard".

[Ashleyj]

Originally Posted by GeoffWessex

...Surely there's a way to get software at student rates if you're doing an OU course? There must be somebody to contact in Milton Keynes! (Oh and..... OU courses - darned expensive aren't they! I investigated a computer qualification years ago and because it needed all these different 'modules' the total cost was nearly 9,000 quid.... and that was around 1995)

I think the problem was that I was doing the course as a one off and not registered for a degree program. Maybe if I had pursued it with the OU they might have verified my 'student' status - too late now.

And yes it's was/is bl**dy expensive! Not sure if it is still the case but If you did a module as an associate it was twice the cost of the module when taken as part of a degree program.