Wadero wrote:
Okay, guys, Thanks for the quick replies. I'm guessing when I load the upgrade LR4 will ask if I'd like to update the process on previously imported photos. I click "No", then it will only use the new process on photos imported after the upgrade? Then I can go back and change any photo's process manually, right?
Right. - and for continuity of working, when an image continues to use the LR3 process version, the Basic panel that you see will continue to look exactly like that seen in LR3 with all the same sliders etc, set to the same stored values and doing the same things with them.
When you convert an image to 2012 process version, or when you newly import an image, you will see instead the 2012 Basic panel and that is the context under which any existing settings are going to be now interpreted.
If you wish to maintain LR3 continuity even for new imports, you can change images DOWN to the earlier process version, or else (for the moment) alter your LR defaults so new images start out on that instead. This allows you to consistently share editing settings and presets etc while you complete a project of related images.
This said, it is less efficient to work on a given image first in one PV, and then in another - than it is to work straight through.
At some planned point one needs to have the import defaults apply 2012, learn the ways of the new process, review the content of user presets accordingly, and form a judgement about what older images it is, or is not, sensible to bring UP.
IMO the benefits of the new process version very soon repay this effort.
