I’ve been using subscription photoshop for several years now and live it. I have the ten bucks a month on autopay and don’t really notice it. And rhe software is great. No problems, no upgrade worries. And it runs flawlessly in my 2015 4//cot, 4-gig I-7 32 gig iMac 27. I would nevertheless want to go back to software in a box.
Paul > On Jan 24, 2022, at 3:17 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > A bunch of stuff has been happening in my life lately, not all bad, I found a > 2TB SSD which I had thought I had lost. I ravaged a credit card, pretending > I had money and put it in a maxed out 2015 15” I purchased from a local shop. > I now have a working, nominally reliable laptop. > > It was already running Catalina, LR6 no longer ran on it. Before I invest > time and energy I don’t have into learning a new editor I decided to at least > try out the ransomware Lightroom. Amusingly their little logo is LRC. > > I’ve processed a couple of small sets lately. Long story short it seems to > be working better and faster than LR6. And as one might expect, everything > that their neglect caused to die in LR6 seems to be working. > > I haven’t tried reprocessing panoramas or HDRs, or looked for any new > features. But after a couple days of the free trial it does seem to be > running noticeably smoother and faster on a 4 core laptop with 16G than on an > 8 core Classic Mac Pro with 64G. > > Using the CMP as a NAS seems to work OK. > > My next step is to have another go at shoehorning Catalina onto the CMP, I > already have open core on it. > > I really *hate* ransomware, I just don’t have the energy to fight it, or try > to find an alternative right now. > > But, as I said, it seems to be working slightly better than it had. They did > add the “rescan faces” feature which is nice, much nicer than the way facial > recognition broke to the point of crashing everything when you tried to run > it. > > > -- > Larry Colen > [email protected]. sent from ret4est > > > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

