Mashubi1 Loc: Salem, Oregon

I used Lightroom as my PP with Alien Skin Exposure as my plug-in for develop....works great..!!!

GENorkus Loc: Washington Twp, Michigan

I'm not familiar with Alienskin PP but they do have some great computers from what I hear!

IMO:
Most of the world uses Adobi products and tend to like them. Most of the other PP's are getting very good and can do similar work.

If it's important to you; while no one can predict the future, I think Adobi stuff will be around for a long time where most of the others will be in the shadows or fold, or be acquired by another.

I use Capture One Pro for several good reasons. It has the best RAW converter out, it's speed, and it's simple to use.

Even it may fall into the shadows in the future. Then again it's looking very good so it may be the next big-boy and end up acquiring others!

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

I use Lightroom for 95% of my postprocessing; works very well! I also use Photoshop on rare occasions where I require layers and everything Lightroom doesn't do.

Another product you might look at is DxO's OpticPro 10. Very similar to Lightroom with a few extra bells & whistles. It works standalone or as an add-in to Lightroom/Photoshop.

bwa

Lundberg02

Iridient Raw Developer fixes your lens distortion and does almost everything else you need.

Mashubi1 Loc: Salem, Oregon

GE ....Alienware makes the gaming computers and Alien Skin makes photo processing software and their Exposure software can be used as a plug-in with Adobe products including Lightroom with the "Develop" post processing...FYI

BTW ...Love TN....my Grandfather was from Liberty Hill and my Grandmother was from Knoxville.....!!!!!! Regards, Jim

GENorkus Loc: Washington Twp, Michigan

Oops!

(About an hour North of me.)

PeriFromIL Loc: Illinois

All,

Thank you all for the informative responses. I am amazed at the diversity of tools and the forum users awareness and knowledge.

After consideration and viewing few how to videos on YouTube I have decide to buy Lightroom 6 standalone version. Once familiar with it I will try the 30 day free trail of Exposure.

My main reason to choose Lightroom is the vendor viability over long term and the available of on line training. I would hate to learn some software and the find the software being abandoned by vendor or vendor going out of business.

I hope Adobe keeps the stand alone version of Lightroom going forward. I do not want to pay monthly for Creative Cloud. (I do not use it enough to justify a subscription)

Again thanks for all the responses and recommendations.

Peri