I've been using quite some years now LR version 6 (the last non subscription version) in combination with Affinity Photo version 1. Working in DNG RAW and converting to JPEG and TIF. This gives me at very low cost a lot of flexibility. Affinity Photo has all the extra features I need such as focus stacking, panorama, HDR and has excellent tools for sharpening and noise reduction. However, many of my lenses are not in the LR database. It appears that Adobe is making these days a lot of progress steps compared to competition with subject recognition, improved noise reduction and now Firefly AI. My conclusion is that it is time for me to switch to the Adobe subscription model that will cost here 144 euro/year.
Henk Op zo 23 apr 2023 om 01:12 schreef Godfrey DiGiorgi <godfreydigio...@me.com >: > > On Apr 22, 2023, at 3:12 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > > > ... > > For people who use photoshop $10/month is a great deal. For people who > only use lightroom, it’s not such a good deal, as much or more as we were > paying for annual upgrades, and we simply lose the ability to continue > using an older version without paying. > > I disagree. I use LR almost exclusively, but if at any time I > needed/wanted to use Photoshop, I can download it, use it for what I > need/want, and delete it to save disk space. LR with a perpetual license > was about $129 retail list, often discounted to $90, and was updated about > every 18 months with the update costing $25-50. Photoshop was about $400 > and updated on a similar schedule for about $200. > > So call it six years I'd been using LR perpetual license. That's one > purchase and three upgrades or about $190 or so. If Photoshop, it was about > $900-1000. If both, add them together. > > Now you get both for $120/year, regardless of which you want to use or how > much, and you get updates about every two months. > > So one or both now price out to the same $720 over six years, which is a > bit of a cost increase for the only LR user and a significant reduction for > the PS or PS+LR user. > > Nothing forces you to do an update … you can continue to use an older > version as long as you want as long as you keep paying the monthly. You do > have to keep paying the monthly, however. This is probably a good thing > even for you, not only for Adobe, since it implies that Adobe might remain > in business and have software that works and that you're accustomed to > available for your use when the Pentax K XXXVI ships. ;) > > G > -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
