Conflict of lightroom 2 and cs3?

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Bob_Q._Smith
Mar 22, 2009
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Please bear with me.

My situation is that I’m purchasing a new camera that’s only supported with raw5 and I’d prefer to stay with cs3. I also have lightroom 1.3.

As I see it, my choices are to go to cs4 (rather not) or use dng converter and use cs3 or go to lightroom 2.

My question is that since lightroom 2 uses raw 5x and cs3 4x, will I cause a mess in my computer? I did install the trial cs4 and found that it altered cs3 on me. I was told this wouldn’t happen but there are some common files (the raw being one of them) and I actually had to wipe my system and reinstall everything.

So I’d appreciate any input as to whether anyone out there knows that these two can play nice together. Are their raws shared or in separate locations where they’ll never fight?

Thanks in advance.

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Wolf_Eilers
Mar 23, 2009
I also have lightroom 1.3.

Upgrade immediately to Lr 1.4.1. It’s a free upgrade.

Are their raws shared or in separate locations where they’ll never fight?

By "raws" I assume you mean the Camera Raw plugin. The plugins for CS4 install separate from those for CS3. The CS4 location is:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\CS4\File Formats

It’s easy to deduce where the CS3 location would be.
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Bob_Q._Smith
Mar 23, 2009
Thanks for the reply.

I don’t know why I had a problem with the CS4 trial. The install must not have been smooth as the colour pallet and raw interface window in CS3 changed. I’ve never had one Adobe product "interfere" with another. It was odd.

Anyway, my main problem here is that my new Canon 5dII needs raw 5x. Obviously this means updating to Lightroom 2x, Photoshop CS4 or converting my cr2 files to DNG.

So I’m assuming you’re telling me that if I were to install Lightroom 2x, that the raw plugin will not worm it’s way into CS3 and the other way around? My experience with CS3,CS4 was an anomaly?
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Wolf_Eilers
Mar 24, 2009
Lightroom does not use the Camera Raw plugin. (The Camera Raw engine is embedded directly into Lr code.)

The Lr install will not affect your Ps install.
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Bob_Q._Smith
Mar 24, 2009
Thank you Wolf!

This is what I was mostly sure of and it’s great to get confirmation that this is the case indeed.
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Luc_Boileau
Mar 25, 2009
Hi Wolf,

I will installing RAW 5 of CS4 in my CS3 work to read my CANON EOS1000D?

Luc Boileau
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John Joslin
Mar 25, 2009
installing RAW 5 of CS4 in my CS3

This cannot be done. ACR 5.x requires CS4.
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Luc_Boileau
Mar 25, 2009
Can anything else be used to read my RAW?
I tried DNG although it has an error converting.
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John Joslin
Mar 25, 2009
I would ask again in the ACR forum:

<http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?13@@.3bb6a85c>

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