Adobe's CC Photographer's Plan?

[LikeLinus]

I use the full Creative Cloud Suite and I was initially hacked off when they made the change. My company pays for it, but it still irked me. That said, It's actually been a nice move. I get updates all the time and new features added as they come. So not having to wait a year or so for a bunch of things to come at once, you get them spread out. It is what it is, but I can't see ever moving from CC. The workflow is too great and I use the video, photography and illustration tool. No other company comes close to their integration or complete line of tools.

 

[Exterous]

I use the full Creative Cloud Suite and I was initially hacked off when they made the change. My company pays for it, but it still irked me. That said, It's actually been a nice move. I get updates all the time and new features added as they come. So not having to wait a year or so for a bunch of things to come at once, you get them spread out. It is what it is, but I can't see ever moving from CC. The workflow is too great and I use the video, photography and illustration tool. No other company comes close to their integration or complete line of tools.

Not only that but if you go to another company and have to collaborate with people who are using CC good luck explaining your workflow or getting everything to work exactly right.*

*For basic stuff it would probably be fine

 

[Staples]

I still use LR6. They have stopped updating the software two years ago but it still works fine. I;ve tried the demo of Classic CC and amazingly the only real plus I see is that it can now import HEIF files. The bad is that it can not write metadata to them or export in that format. Also, I shoot all video on iPhone in HEVC format which even LR Classic CC today can't import. LR is great an all but they have no really done development on it in many many years. I'd switch the the subscription if it could read/write HEIF files, import HEIC video or I buy some new gear and I need the new lens profiles for RAW.

 

[AntonioHG]

If you're new, or not tied down to Adobe, consider trying Capture One and Affinity. I do think Photoshop is better than Affinity, but Capture One is just way smoother, faster, better than LR.

 

[jhansman]

I'm using Luminar 4 right now, and honestly it does everything I need with a fairly elegant interface. Gone are the days when I just had to do all the local adjustments to an image that LR does so well. When my subscription with Adobe is up, I'm out. If they let you go month-to-month, I might consider staying with them, but having to commit to a full year doesn't work for me. I know that the big boys are all going to the cloud subscription model, but I'd rather support a company that makes good software and will sell you a one-time license for a stand-alone application. I'm not certain, but I'm guessing that Skylum can use my $$ more readily than Adobe.

EDIT: It turns out that Luminar will only activate if you disable your AV software, in my case Malwarebytes and Windows Defender. I went back and forth with tech support, to the point where they gave me a link to a copy that would install with my guard still up. Never got it to run beyond the splash screen, which would insist I needed to be connected to the internet. I even put the executable in my permitted list in both AV programs, and it still wouldn't connect for activation. So, the trial version runs but cannot be activated, and the "full" version will not run so you can activate it without first disabling the only thing between you and ransomeware (don't ask me how I know this; it's a very sad tale). So I'm still looking for a suitable substitute. Should I find one, I'll post it here.

 

[dlerious]

Does anyone use davinci resolve?

 

[Staples]

Does anyone use davinci resolve?

I've used it for a few dozen hours last Summer. Lots of fandom around it but I came to the conclusion that while great for free, the fact that you have to make everything (like transitions and animated titles) makes it far more time consuming than others.

 

[dlerious]

I've used it for a few dozen hours last Summer. Lots of fandom around it but I came to the conclusion that while great for free, the fact that you have to make everything (like transitions and animated titles) makes it far more time consuming than others.

Thanks. It was one of the few I found that runs on Linux. I checked Lr and Ps, but it looks like they're Win 10 only - my copy hasn't booted in 2 years. I see a few others that were mentioned do run on Win7 or 8.1. I'm looking to move all my machines from 7 to Linux, but it looks like I'm going to have to keep a dual-boot machine with 10 or run in a vm.

 

[repoman0]

If you're new, or not tied down to Adobe, consider trying Capture One and Affinity. I do think Photoshop is better than Affinity, but Capture One is just way smoother, faster, better than LR.

I downloaded the trial of Capture One last night .. going to try to make it work. I've been using Lightroom for years and am pretty used to it, but the subscription model irritates me. If I actually used Photoshop it'd be more valuable, but I really don't so it's wasted. The $130 pricing of Capture One for Fuji cameras is really appealing since that's all I shoot. So far I'm impressed with the raw conversion quality and Lightroom catalog import, but really have only given a handful of photos a quick glance. I'm going to spend some time comparing actual edit results with each program. I'm particularly curious about the results of the LR edit conversion process .. that's pretty valuable to me and did not expect it. I spent a solid four hours just a few weeks ago figuring out how to use sql to manually recover a corrupt LR database so I could get the last 10 years of edits back.