Lightroom 3 anytime soon?

I have Lightroom 1.4.1 and I would like to jump to Lightroom 2. But I don't want to make the jump if Lightroom 3 is just around the corner.

Any clues out there?

Lightroom 2 was a very worthwhile upgrade to 1.4
If you haven't yet tried the 30 day trial of Version 2, I'd recommend that you do.
At the time Lightroom 3 is released....to me, it'll be well worth another 99 dollars.

Lightroom 2.3 is a well developed program. It's definitely worth the upgrade.

I don't question if the upgrade is worth it or not. I know it is and want to upgrade. I just don't want to pay $99 for the upgrade and then find out that LR3 is right around the corner and I find myself paying another $99.

The first commercial version of Lightroom shipped in February 2007 and Lightroom 2 shipped in July 2008. Do the math.

Those who know can't say so anything you hear will be mostly speculation.

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Also bear in mind that the early Beta and RC versions are typically being debugged. In fact, Lightroom one was pretty rough until about 1.2. Those minor releases can do a lot. They are typically about 3 months apart, so you may not want to jump on LR3 until 3-6 months after 3.0.

tonylong wrote in post #7995236
Also bear in mind that the early Beta and RC versions are typically being debugged. In fact, Lightroom one was pretty rough until about 1.2. Those minor releases can do a lot. They are typically about 3 months apart, so you may not want to jump on LR3 until 3-6 months after 3.0.

+1...

LR 1 was just about 'ok' by version 1.3 - They then released v2, this is just about 'ok' now at version 2.3, so I'd not bother with version 3 till about 3.3 if I were you

NinetyEight wrote in post #7999613
+1...
I'd not bother with version 3 till about 3.3 if I were you

At which point you might as well wait for version 4 .

For the record, the latest release of Lightroom is 2.5

EtienneB wrote in post #8725491
At which point you might as well wait for version 4 .

I hear 5 will be a killer.

nphsbuckeye wrote in post #8727981
I hear 5 will be a killer.

Now yer gettin' all our hopes up...

tonylong wrote in post #8727994
Now yer gettin' all our hopes up...

Think it'll have layers?

nphsbuckeye wrote in post #8728061
Think it'll have layers?

At a bare minimum!

It's funny, but I hung out at the Lightroom Users forum for quite a while during the days when LR1 was released and being regularly upgraded. It was cool whenever they put out something that actually improved things, but we were always working on our "wish list", even though some things obviously would take some programming effort and wouldn't show up in version one. I mean, the idea of "describing" local adjustment brushes was a glimmer in our eyes, as were gradients -- we knew that the cloning stamp/healing brush showed that they were possible, though, and we thought "my wouldn't that be nice?". When LR2 came out with those thing it was a Raw developers dream come true!

"Our rock stars are not like your rock stars" applies here!

Yeah, there's a lot of improvement for LR, except I'm sure Adobe won't do too much to keep LR and PS separate.