Upgrading PSE 8 to PSE 10 and adding Lightroom 3

Good Afternoon:
Presently I have PSE 8, with the software and photographs - about 4,500 - stored on a 1.0 tB external harddrive that I disconnect from the desk top when not in use. I did it this way because the desk top on has a 0.5 tB drive. I have purchased the boxed versions of PSE 10 and LR 3. LR 3 will be used for the initial intake of photos and processing and PSE 10 will be used for the harder edits. My questions are:
First, should the PSE 10 and LR 3 software be placed on the desk top or on the external drive with the photo files only stored on the external drive. The desk top drive is about 50% full. I have not looked into adding a second drive to the desk top.
Second, all present photos have been processed using using PSE 8, such as review and deleting the ones that weren't any good. Do I have to, as has been suggested on another web site, keep PSE 8 so that I can open the files with PSE 10 and LR3? After I upgrade to the new software, I'm intending to delete PSE 8.
Third, I've heard some horror stories and experieneced one myself when upgrading Adobe software or changing computers; Adobe can be pretty intolerant of the slightest change in the path of a file. Is there anything that I need to do/not do to make these upgardes as seemless as possible.
Fourth, is there any way to save multiple files to PSD files using the edit screen without having to open them in the organizer. My books indicate that it can be done, but I have had no luck at this.
Fifth, Photoshop has been a steep learning curve for me. I have not completed after two years final editing of any photograph because I'm still discovering and learning new techniques, and the obsession of the perfect edit, if such a thing even exists.
Any advice is appreciated.
Marion

MarionPavan wrote:
I have purchased the boxed versions of PSE 10 and LR 3.
LR4 has been released, check to see if you can upgrade at a reasonable cost.
MarionPavan wrote:
First, should the PSE 10 and LR 3 software be placed on the desk top or on the external drive with the photo files only stored on the external drive. The desk top drive is about 50% full. I have not looked into adding a second drive to the desk top.
PSE10 and LR should always be installed on an internal drive for performance reasons. In LR, you can set its catalog to use the external drive for its catalog only if you're running in to a free space crunch on your internal drive, but with 50% free that shouldn't be an issue. Using the external drive for the LR catalog is not a good idea, because of performance issues.
MarionPavan wrote:
Second, all present photos have been processed using using PSE 8, such as review and deleting the ones that weren't any good. Do I have to, as has been suggested on another web site, keep PSE 8 so that I can open the files with PSE 10 and LR3? After I upgrade to the new software, I'm intending to delete PSE 8.
If you have not used the PSE8 Organizer to tag your photos, etc., then there is no reason to keep PSE8 on your computer. If you've added tags to the photos in the PSE8 Organizer, then use PSE8 to write the keyword tags to the images and import them into LR.
MarionPavan wrote:
Third, I've heard some horror stories and experieneced one myself when upgrading Adobe software or changing computers; Adobe can be pretty intolerant of the slightest change in the path of a file. Is there anything that I need to do/not do to make these upgardes as seemless as possible.
The only problem with disconnected files would be within the PSE8 Organizer if you moved the photos outside of PSE. If you import the photos from their new, permanent locations into LR (starting fresh), you'll be OK.
MarionPavan wrote:
Fourth, is there any way to save multiple files to PSD files using the edit screen without having to open them in the organizer. My books indicate that it can be done, but I have had no luck at this.
I don't understand what you're trying to do.
MarionPavan wrote:
Fifth, Photoshop has been a steep learning curve for me. I have not completed after two years final editing of any photograph because I'm still discovering and learning new techniques, and the obsession of the perfect edit, if such a thing even exists.
Yeah, that's the fun of photo editing software -- there's usually more than one way to achieve an effect, and always something more to learn.
The bottom line is that you've purchased two excellent products in PSE10 and LR. Using LR to organize your photos and PSE's Editor for editing is a fine method. The only difficulty would be in the transition from the PSE8 Organizer to LR, and only if you have tags, etc., defined in PSE8.
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--- Start of copy of information in the PSE 4.0 User Guide ----
1 What's new in PSE 4.0
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--- Continuation in next Post of this Thread ----

--- Continuation from previous Post -----
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