Old Develop Module in new upgrade LR5

I am trying out the 30 day LR 5 trial to see if I would like to upgrade. For some reason my Develop Module contains the same tools as my older version, though I know I shouldn't even see a "brightness" tool... How do I fix this and get the new tools so I can continue my 30 day trial?

You are probably viewing photos edited in Process Version 2010.
Update the photos to PV 2012 and access the new tools
http://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/help/develop-module-options.html
Be warned that there are big differences between PV2010 and PV2012 and you may not always like the changes.
http://digital-photography-school.com/understanding-lightroom-process-versions
So it's up to you whether you want to convert all existing photos to PV2012 in one step - or if you want to convert them one/several at a time.
New photos imported into LR5 will automatically be edited in PV2012 so there will be no conversion required and the tools in the Develop module will be the new ones as expected.

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Integrating old development files into LR Upgrades

Every time I upgrade lightroom I lose all or most of the development settings for my photographic image files. I back-up regularly and spend hours/days redoing say 40-60% again.
How do I upgrade and keep all of the previously developed image files as was. I am afraid to open a new catalogue in case those that I have sent days redoing are lost and others gained.
I have just successfully upgraded to LR 3.4 but the problem I have as always is as explained above. There are many saved back-up files where the information is but I do not know what to do to integrate these development files. There are LR1 and LR2 and LR3 libraries.
Thanks I am sure it is simple and something I should have learnt by now.

Sharpis wrote:
How do I put the original NEF files in touch with their setting/development file bearing in mind no one catalogue has all of the add-on (development) files. Please do not admonish me for getting in to this mess. I am not aware of being prompted at any upgrade LR2 to LR3. I am where I am and I would like some help to avoid having to redo about anothe 17k images again.
Thank you. Ask any question. I am in the throws of opening the whole lot up with a previously saved ircat but I am not sure if I am going to lose what I have just done to repair half of my D2X NEFs. That is also saved.
Hi Sharpis,
So I guess from your rephrased question that you have all settings somewhere in several lrcatalogs, so we can forget about my concerns of sidecar-xmp.
Well you cannot automatically merge different settings from different catalogs for 1 image. The best chance you have is to juxtapose all different variants that you have as "virtual copies" in your current catalog, so you can easily compare them and adapt / retain what you like best. In doing so you might want to check your Lightroom knowledge about synchronizing settings.
The first thing to do, so you will not loose anything in case you would do something wrong: search all catalogs in which you might have viable settings, and copy them (via your Operating system, so in Mac Finder) to a safe place out of reach, not to touch them. Just so you could revert to them. You will not need, but just to be sure since you are so scared to loose something.
Then take the old catalogs and make sure that you clearly know which one is about which.
Especially important is your current 3.4 catalog, which I would rename into "LR3 Master Catalog" (do the same for your previews folder, so its name needs to be identical in the string part before " Previews.lrdata").
If your other catalogs do not have clear naming, please do the same - rename each of them into something meaningful and do it accordingly for their Previews-folders.
Then you do as described in my last post:
You have your "LR3 Master Catalog" open and you import into it from each of the other viable catalogs.
Citing myself from last post:
The system will check if there are duplicate photos, which probably are all of them, so it asks just about metadata. Select from the drop-down choice "metadata and develop settings only" and tick "preserve old settings as a virtual copy".
LR will then create a virtual copy (VC) for every entry in your old catalog.
This may look cluttered.
But from there you can more easily compare what you like better and synchronize some settings specifically between virtual copies. Afterwards you will have one redundant VC which you can delete.
Doing so will ensure that your latest LR version-catalog will have the settings you like best from all LR-versions.
Your only risk is cluttering your current catalog with multiple virtual copies, but there is no risk to loose anything (as long you tick "metadata and develop settings only" !).
Still a lot of work, but on the safe side.

Using Old Memory Module For New Netbook

I just bought a Toshiba NB505 netbook. I'm wondering if I can take one of the modules out of my old compaq presario and use it in my new netbook.
(The compaq runs on XP.)
If not, can you recommend a 1gig module I can buy.
Thanks,
Randy Kadish
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No, Randy, you cannot use your old memory. RAM modules are seldom transferable.
I recommend that you obtain yours from Toshiba or buy the best that Kingston makes.
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   Kingston KTT800D2/2G 2GB 800MHz Module
See the section Adding memory (optional), which begins on p. 40 of the User's Guide.
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Develop module is disabled in LR5. How do I activate my LR5 installation. I have a physical DVD and serial number.

Hi
I have a physical copy of a LR5 update. But I am unable to use it because the trial version is expired now and I don´t know how to enter the serial number.
Any idea?

Moving this discussion to the Photoshop Lightroom forum.
Giannisolis have you utilized the option to License this Software? This will give you the opportunity to enter your Adobe ID and serial number. The License this Software option is available on the trial expiration screen.

Develop module inactive

How do i activate my develop module, uploaded and upgraded to LR5 from 3, not working!!!! Help

This if for Adobe Business Catalyst. LR5 you mean your after support for light room, correct? You would look for help in the Light room forums.

LR5 upgraded catalog is only giving LR4 Develop module options - help!

After a successful upgrade to LR5 from LR4 on an old catalog I'm encountering an unusual situation:
when I use the Develop module the palette options are not LR5.
Instead of Shadows, for example, my LR5 catalog is showing Recover and Fill Light from LR4.
I'm working on a MacPro tower and the catalog in question is on an external hard drive.
I've checked the upgrade status and it is definitely a LR5 upgraded catalog.
I've upgraded many catalogs over the years from LR1 to now and this is the first time I've
seen this issue.
Any suggestions appreciated.

You are working with images that were processed with an older version of Lightroom and process 2010. Lightroom honors those previous adjustments and retains the 2010 process. To change to the new 2012 process go to the calibration tab in the develop module and make the appropriate choice.

LR5 - Selected image does not display in the Develop Module

I recently upgraded to LR5 from LR4.1. I have seen on several occasions where the selected image in the Develop Module does not appear. I can move back to the LIbrary view and the image appears, but when I switch back to the Develop Module, the image disappears and only a black box appears (dark grey really). This seems to happen after I have deleted flagged files using the ALT-Backspace shortcut. This has happeded when I deleted while in the Library and Develop Module, but does not happen every time. I have disabled the "Show photo on Mouse Over" view option. Prior to that, the preview window shows the selected or moused over photo.
The only thing I can do to get the develop module to work again is to restart Lightroom. I've seen no other posts regarding this issue and it is very annoying when trying to go through 4000 photos! I can find no place to report bugs, so I am posting this here.

i found LR5 the most bug infested LR version ever.
i "use" it only as test setup.
real work i still do with LR 4.4.
dav_miller wrote:
How does this issue get reported to Adobe as a bug or is the fact that it is in the forum take care of that?
nope.. in this forum you will only hear that this is not such a big issue and will be fixed soon.
honestly im waiting for some bugs to be fixed since v3.6..... and i gave up on reporting new bugs to adobe.
i just hope that some day they will be fixed.
there is a text layer bug in photoshop i reported back in 2011 and that´s still in photoshop CC.....

When I change anything in Develope module LR5 will not allow me to open a .NEF file in PS6

I am using LR5, ACR 8.2 Beta and PS6 on a MAC. If I open a .NEF file in Develop Module and make any changes I cannot get LR to allow me to choose 'Edit in PS6". The option lights up but nothing happens when I click on it.
If I Choose a .NEF file that has just been imported and no changes have been made, LR will allow me to open it in PS6. Also .jpg and .psd files will open fine in PS6 from LR5.
Any help would be appreciated.

Do you happen to be using a new camera? If the camera you are using in in the latest camera raw that is available in LR5 but is not in the version of camera raw that PS6 uses, that's the behavior I've seen where Photoshop basically doesn't do anything. Remember that Adobe doesn't go back and update camera raw in the old versions of PS. I've got a post coming out on Tuesday that covers my experiences using LR4/LR5 and PS CS4. But the way that I get around the incompatibility is to have LR render the file and send it over the PS instead of having PS try to open my NEF.
I think typically what should happen if you open a NEF, make changes to it, and try to send it over to PS is that you should be prompted by Lightroom to see if you want to send over the NEF or a rendered version of the image with the Lightroom changes. Do you see that dialog at all?

LR5: Moving develop module sliders blurs the image for a moment

I'm evaluating Lightroom 5 during the 30 day trial and it's all cool except for this one big annoyance that I noticed immediately when trying to work on an image in Develop module. As stated in the title, moving any slider (exposure, highlights, noise reduction, etc.) causes the image to go very blurry for the duration of the slider movement. It goes immediately back to being sharp as soon as I stop moving the slider. This is super annoying, feels as though my eyes are going bad.
What's interesting is that the problem doesn't show up when I'm adjusting the Tone Curve directly, but it will get triggered if I'll expand and use the sliders underneath. So looks like a bug that only applies to sliders.
This doesn't happen at all in Lightroom 4.4, which I still have installed and can compare side-by-side.
As for the hardware, I'm using the 2013 Macbook Air with 1.3 GHz i5 CPU and 8 GB of RAM. The OS X version is 10.8.4 with all latest upgrades installed.
I've already tried optimizing the catalog, giving it more space (currently at 3 GB) and purging it. I'm not using Smart Previews, although I've turned them on for a moment to see if the problem persists with them on - it does. I've also re-rendered the 1:1 preview for the specific image I've been trying it on. Btw, the file is a NEF from Nikon D300 and I'm using the 2012 process (as was the case with LR4). Not sure what else might be relevant here.

If this is indeed intentional, is there any way to turn it off? I would much rather it had taken a bit longer to update the photo, than to have the image switch to this "pixel doubled" version.
Also, this doesn't happen at all in LR 4.4 on the same machine. However, if it indeed isn't a bug, this probably means LR5 requires more resources to process a photo than 4.4. This would be somewhat disappointing, given that LR5 was supposed to be faster than its predecessor.

Develop module disabled - NON creative cloud LR5

I'm having some trouble with LR5.
I purchased LR 3 in 2010 and then upgraded LR5 last year . . . I have both serial numbers. I recently upgraded to an iMac and loaded the trial version on LR5, but I'm not part of creative cloud as there isn't a reason for my to do so, since I have already purchased the items I use. Anyways, when I brought LR up today I received this message
"Develop module is disabled.
Please renew your membership to reactivate the Develop module."
In the past I know that I've been prompted for my serial numbers, but I'm not receiving that message! Please help!!!
Thanks!

You probably downloaded the LR 5 Creative Cloud trial in error. your serial numbers will not activate. Uninstall the existing version, this process will not affect your catalog, preferences or Personal files, then download the latest version of LR from the link below. Install and insert the serial numbers to activate.
Adobe - Lightroom : For Macintosh : Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7

¿Don't you think that the Development Module in LR5 it's slower?

Hi;
Before state my question; I'm running on Intel i7 QUAD CORE @ 2.80 GHz (8 logical CPUs) and 16GB of memory,
I feel that the Development Module in LR5 it is performing a lot slower that LR4. And the new CLONE TOOL sometimes freezes when you select a large area.

others noticed this too:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1230151?tstart=0
seems like the "final" LR 5 goes the same way as LR4.
wait until 5.4 and it will be usable....

I use a Mac, new to lightroom, I purchased the software, and now I cannot get into my develop module because it is telling me that I need to renew my membership ? Lost !!! lost in a dark cold cave of lightroom someone please help me !!

I cannot get into my develop module on lightroom, it is telling me to "please renew my membershipto reactivate the develop module" I do not understand. I bought the software must I pay a membership as well ? Also I do not want to use lightroom mobile and it is trying to sync my photos. I use a MAC

Did you purchased the Full Perpetual License from Adobe for $149.00?, if so then what has happened is that you probably downloaded the Creative Cloud trial version which has now expired.
The license key for the perpetual version will not be accepted to activate the CC version.
Uninstall the existing Lightroom and then download the one available from the link below. The uninstall process will not affect your Catalog, Preferences or personal files but will just remove the application. Install the new download and you license key will be accepted.
Adobe - Lightroom : For Macintosh : Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6
If this is not the situation you face then provide some more details.

HELP! My old mac was requested to upgrade Firefox to 14.0.1. After the sucessfully installation, I received a message saying my old Mac couldn't use the new Firefox and Safari crashes. I have NO browser now!!!

My old mac was requested to upgrade Firefox to 14.0.1. After the sucessfully installation, I received a message saying my old Mac couldn't use the new Firefox and Safari crashes. I have NO browser now! Any help would be appreciated.

Hmmm... So you upgraded Firefox and now neither Firefox or Safari will work? Very weird. I have no idea what might have gone wrong. That said, when things start acting wierd, I always try a bit of maintenance first. About 95% of the time, I luck out and it works.
I use the free program Onyx. I run all the clean up routines. Then I boot to the recovery partition (Lion) or the OS X Install Disc and repair permissions and verify/repair the hard disk.
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Develop Module Advancements in Lightroom 4 | What's New in Lightroom 4 | Adobe TV

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load an image and open the tone curve panel (you already did this probably). at the lower right of the canvas you'll see a button with "!" on it. click the button to convert to "2012 process". wait. when it is done if you *still* don't see the channel dropdown click the "edit tone curve" button to hide the sliders and *then* you should see the channel dropdown.
I found this totally mystifying, but once I found it (luck) I get it...new features, new entries in the database or some other magic. anyway the video sure didn't give me a hint.
this will be my 5th try posting an answer to your question, hopefully this time it will work, no thanks to support, 5 times resetting the password, etc etc.

I have a new computer running os10.9. my old computer ran cs5.5(upgrade version). I am trying to get CS5.5onto my new computer. when i load cs5.5 towards the end of the install it asks for the cs5.5 serial number. i put that in and everything is accepted

I have a new computer running os10.9. my old computer ran cs5.5(upgrade version). I am trying to get CS5.5onto my new computer. when i load cs5.5 towards the end of the install it asks for the cs5.5 serial number. i put that in and everything is accepted but then it asks for a serial number for a full version of a product which men is design premium cs3 but it doesn't give me that product as a choice from the drop down menu. it only gives me adobe master collection cs3. why when i have purchased all these different upgrades can i now not use them and how can i sort this out. i need cs5.5 on my new computer.

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