Lightroom 3 opposed to lightroom 4

Lightroom 3 has glow and sketch options that I am not seeing in lightroom 4, is anyonr else having this problem is so please tell me and if not tell me what I need to do to find these things.

Are you possibly referring to the names of presets that you downloaded from somewhere? Or are you calling some plugin from Lightroom that has effects called by those names?

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    Hello,
    I've been trying to print something on a color laser printer with Lightroom. Unfortunately, Lightroom doesn't seem to support the profile of the printer, maybe it's a CMYK profile, and so I had to use the option "Profile: managed by printer" in Lightrooms print module.
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    Jeff Schewe - 12:08am Jan 1, 08 PST (#2 of 8)
    Version 1.0 sent sRGB
    Uh, no...since the beta process, when not using draft mode, Lightroom ALWAYS sent ProProto RGB. Draft mode will send either sRGB or Adobe RGB depending on the settings for the previews.
    Since the OP is printing to a laser printer as opposed to a photo printer, the best bet would be to print using draft mode anyway.
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    You may be right and I am sure you know more about this than I do, but in 1.0 I could print contact sheets to my laser printer with no problems with "managed by printer" selected and draft mode off. Since 1.1 I have not been able to get acceptable results regardless of whether I choose draft mode or not and regardless of the settings in the export module. I would love to solve this as it is the number 1 issue I have with Lightroom.
    Gordon

  • Lightroom 5.2 will no longer open

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      Application Name:    lightroom.exe
      Application Version:    5.2.0.10
      Application Timestamp:    52288c50
      Hang Signature:    40d8
      Hang Type:    64
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      OS Version:    6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.4
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      Additional Hang Signature 2:    24c3
      Additional Hang Signature 3:    24c31c456d2f01870917c262f758c8d7
      Additional Hang Signature 4:    40d8
      Additional Hang Signature 5:    40d821ead8b199cd18adda85e0bea8cd
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      Additional Hang Signature 7:    24c31c456d2f01870917c262f758c8d7
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  • Lightroom Mobile Sync - Extremely High CPU Usage/Sync Process Causes LR To Lag

    Since my other thread doesn't seem to be getting any responses, I'm pasting what I've found here. Please keep in mind I am not a beginner with Lightroom and consider myself very familiar with Lightroom's features excluding the new mobile sync.
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    I'm on Lr 5.5 and using the 30 day trial of Adobe CC to try syncing one collection of slight more than 1000 images. Despite already having generated the Smart Previews, I can see my CPU crunching through image after image (the rolling hills pattern in the task manager) while doing the sync. I was assuming, since I already created the Smart Previews, that the sync of this collection would begin immediately and be done by simply uploading all of the existing Smart Previews. The Smart Previews folder of the catalog is 871MB and has stayed the same despite the CPU obviously doing *something*. As it is now, the sync progress is incredibly slow, almost at a pace like it's actually exporting full-res JPGs from the RAW images (as a comparison only, I know this should not be what it's actually doing).
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    Thanks for reporting. Just passed  along your info to some of our devs. One of the things that needs to be created (beside smart previews) during an initial sync are thumbnails + previews for the LrM app - Guido
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    greule wrote:
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    Guido
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  • Lightroom 3: file changes not propagating into Finder even after saving metadata?

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  • Re-organization of images Lightroom 2.7

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  • For Lightroom 4...

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    Gaspyy wrote:
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    +1
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    Gaspyy wrote:
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  • Aperture Phase Out, Lightroom Migration?

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