Running on multiple platforms, even if you exclude various flavors of Linux, adds completely, if only for the UI testing. It is not much more money than I spent, on a yearly basis, for Lightroom 4, 5, 6.Īs a software developer it's tough to make money on commercial software. Compared to all that spending, $10/month to Adobe is redicuously cheap. I build my own PCs so I can "tune" my desktop to photo processing. Much more economical.Īs a consumer I have spent lots and lots of money over the years for Nikon bodies and glass, and more money to upgrade my PC every 5-6 years. While corporations once wrote all their own applications (in COBOL), they now buy commercial applications and configure/customize it to their needs. While I'm sure that there is a general market for software that is not from Adobe (or any other company with a subscription model), I feel that it is important to distinguish between an economic rationale for avoiding such products, or "hostility" to Adobe (which they richly deserve at times.) (disclosure: Most of my career I was a product manager/director for commercial software for B2B, Business2Business, products, not consumer products. Your are another poster in this forum whose posts I read carefully.Ĭan I offer a different perspective. I use Lightroom for my own Nikon NEF and iPhone/iPad photos in JPG, but also Canon CR2 RAW files that friends have sent me and JPG photos from family members from their phones.īefore I standardized on Lightroom, I cobbled together a serious of standalone applications for cataloging (Photo Supreme, awful, awful in several different ways), editing (Nikon Capture. The Classic user-interface could use some improvement. I haven't tried to use the web-based Lightroom CC nor Lightroom on my phone or tablet. I'm no Adobe fanboy (don't get me started on Acrobat and on their "support") and I think that for the most part Lightroom Desktop (or Classic) fulfills its promise of total end-to-end support for post-processing, particularly since the Adobe subscription plan also includes Photoshop. Then use all the same tools that you would for a digital-native application. However, I assumed that the very first operation in LR is to do the negative inversion. To be clear, I haven't used either NLP in trial mode nor have I purchased negmaster.
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