I gave up on Adobe when they first started their cloud crap for a couple of reasons. Their terms of use were, at first , completely unacceptable. I knew that they would probably change them to make them more acceptable, but there is nothing to say that they won't change them again after they get a sufficient number of captive users. The second is there is nothing in the cloud that is safe. I switched to DxO and found the learning curve to not be a problem for me. The actual PP part is far simpler than with Adobe. It is simpler because there is none of the pixel-level muckiness. I have to pay attention more while shooting pictures to prevent problems that need to be cleaned up in PP, but that is a price that I am willing to pay.

suntouched, I am right with you.

I have always been the geek in my house, despite having two adult children that grew up during the “digital revolution”.

However, as I get older, have gone through cancer, hip, shoulder, neck and knee surgeries (that took years out of my life and still affect my abilities to this day) I have become less and less willing to climb those often-time steep learning curves associated with new software.

I want to travel to exotic locations...and have. I want to ride and drive my horses. I want to sail endlessly beautiful summer days or zip around in our little wooden antique powerboat on a cool, crisp fall day. I want to visit with my kids. I want to live!

I do NOT want to sit at home learning software programs for better image editing of pictues I have no desire or intention of selling.

I give my watermarked photos away because that’s what I enjoy doing, and many happy high school wrestlers, adult rugby team players, and outdoor loving horsemen sincerely apprecite my efforts despite them not being highly edited.

Good composition and knowledge of your subject matter goes far and, more importantly, works for little ol’ novice photographer me!