Henk, I was forced by OS incompatibilities to switch from LR6, and have to admit that there are some very nice features in the latest versions. The masking tools took a bit to learn, but are a lot more powerful, the spot removal is also a lot more powerful.
On April 23, 2023 1:06:42 AM PDT, Henk Terhell <henk.terh...@gmail.com> wrote: >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. > -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- %(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.
