Digital BW, The Print

Thanks, all.  That’s exactly what I was wondering.  I must not have made my concerns clear to the Adobe chatter, or else they just don’t want to spread that word.

My currently licensed version of LR is 5.2.  As long as I can preserve an exit strategy from renting PS without having to give up my LR catalog and all its image adjustments, I think the $9.99 program will be more than worth trying.  Thanks for clarifying.

As for Bridge, jimbo, I’ve never used it.  I think I saw it as part of an early CS trial version I looked at, but my impression was that it was just an image organizer, which I didn’t want to use.  I think it’s also available as part of the latest Elements I have installed, but again I've never known what good it would do me, and seem to get along OK without it, so never bothered to look further.

Cheers,
Kip


On Nov 22, 2013, at 13:18, jimbo <mrjimbo@...> wrote:

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> Tina,
> The LR version that was / is offered with CC is specifically vers 5.2 or later..  They added some trickery to that version to accommodate the cloud.. an dalso honor existing licenses. If you install that version on your rig it will install over your existing version.. so you'll loose vers 5 .. No biggy .. You can reinstall it.. If you already have  vers 5 the new software honors your old license.. So downloading your update off the cloud is the same as just doing an update .. If you quite cloud PS will fizzle out but in your case not LR.. as you already have a valid license.. As a note on this did you download the CC version of Bridge?  If you didn't you may want to do that it's free. It is backwards compatible with all CS6 software.
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> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Photoshop Create Cloud program for photographers
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> I have been using PSCC for PS only and my original version of LR5 since CC first came out with no problems.  Today I'm downloading the CC version of LR, too, just to keep up with the upgrades all at one time.  There should be no differences in LR5 and the CC version of LR.  I'm backing mine original version up now before I try installing the CC version.
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> Tina
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> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Kip Babington <cbabing3@...> wrote:
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> I stopped using PS when they went to the CS - I have no use for any of the other pieces, and couldn’t justify the cost of keeping up the whole suite just to get the PS bit.  So I generally managed to get along with PS7, and have switched much of my basic editing now to Lightroom, which gets more capable with each iteration.  I picked up Elements recently, which has been getting some of the “magic” capabilities of PS, and now use it on the occasions when I need more pixel-level power than LR offers.  
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> But I am seriously considering the $10/month plan for PS only.  Even more magic than Elements, plus the ability to save custom crops and other tools like I used to be able to do in PS7.  
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> Does anybody know if you can choose NOT to implement the rental version of LR if you buy into this program?  I own LR5 now, and am (only sightly, but still . . . ) concerned that if I switch to the rental version and down the road decide to discontinue the subscription to PS, I would not be able to buy a standalone version of LR whatever they’re up to at that point.  I know they’re selling LR separately at this point, but if in the future they roll it into the rental-only model I’d have to give it all up if I decided to drop renting PS.  (I’ve never read a how-to on managing the catalog if you want to go back to an earlier version of LR.)
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> Any thoughts, or better yet, actual experience, on keeping on with a purchased copy of LR if you join the rental program?
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> On Nov 22, 2013, at 6:41, Ernst Dinkla <e.dinkla@...> wrote:
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>> Now everybody can join the scheme:
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>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57613183-92/adobes-photoshop-lightroom-deal-open-to-all-comers/
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>> Looks like subscriber numbers were too low so far.
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