Oh yes: On my mobile devices (iPhone and iPad), I use Snapseed, Affinity Photo, and Photos supplemented by RAW Power for image management and rendering.
- Snapseed is great because it's very easy to learn and use. - Affinity Photo is a Photoshop replacement. It has versions to run on macOS, iOS, and iPadOS, and it handles things that Snapseed cannot. I use it primarily to handle edge cases that Snapseed cannot (like Leica M10 Monochrom and Hasselblad raw files). - Photos is pervasive throughout Apple's OS ecology, provides excellent image management capabilities, and RAW Power is a companion app that gives much greater access to user control of Apple's image management underlying frameworks. It's also available on all Apple OS platforms. I'm most impressed with RAW Power used in conjunction with Photos … I could actually make that my only image management system for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS, and dispense with the Adobe, Affinity, and Snapseed software entirely. There's no real issue with doing that, just a bit of work to re-organize my photographic storage and learn fully the use of Photos and RAW Power, but the cost of the Adobe and other software is low enough that I've been too lazy to be bothered doing that thus far. :) … It is, however, a good alternative app suite for my needs, should I decide to go that way. G > On Jun 10, 2023, at 7:21 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godfreydigio...@me.com> wrote: > > If you've been using an older version of Lightroom for your rendering work, > the current offering is Lightroom Classic for the same workflow and image > storage (local storage centric) features. Lightroom and Lightroom Mobile use > a cloud-based storage mechanism as primary. I don't use Adobe's cloud at all, > so I've never used them. > > Before Lightroom, I used Photoshop for all my rendering work. Since LR came > out, I've used it less and less to the point where I have not even installed > it on my system for at least eight or nine years. > > Photoshop Elements is a simplified, reduced feature version of Photoshop. > I've never used it; I tried it once and found the 'simplified' user interface > very off-putting. It is a standalone app and, for me, irrelevant. > > The photographer's bundle of Lightoom and Photoshop for $10 per month (with > NO cloud storage addendum) includes access to both LR and LR Classic, > Photoshop, Bridge, Premiere Rush, Character Animator, UXP Developer Tools, > and a beta Aero apps. I pay for this subscription but only install Lightroom > Classic. Given how much I use it, $10/month is a reasonable deal for that. I > guess I could install Photoshop if I felt I really needed it, but that hasn't > happened. > > I've been on this subscription since the beginning of 2019 and it has worked > well and consistently, overall, and it keeps up to date with new features and > developments at no additional charge. > > G > >> On Jun 10, 2023, at 5:58 AM, Eric Weir <eew...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> >> I’m going to be upgrading to a new Mac, silicon not Intel. I own a copy of >> Lightroom.I will need to upgrade. Sticking to Adobe there are three options: >> Elements, Lightroom, and Lightroom Classic. I have never used Photoshop. >> Don’t see myself using it down the road. Would Lightroom, i.e., without with >> Photoshop be equivalent to the copy of Lightroom that I own and itself >> probably has more power features that I need/will use? What about Elements? >> >> My photography for some time now has been iPhone photography. I’ve >> considered just relying on Apple’s Photos app for editing. But with ought >> Lightroom I assume I’d lose access to the catalogue of photos that have been >> edited and managed with Lightroom. >> >> Interested in experience and thoughts of others that would help me decide. -- %(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.
