Lightroom alternative (Page 3): Affinity Photo is available :sm24:...

Woodworm65 Loc: Lombard, IL

Affinity Photo is available

ejrmaine Loc: South Carolina

LarryFB wrote:

I have used Lightroom CC for about 4 years and have over 30,000 photos in the catalog. I have never had a problem with the import function.

In my opinion, everything I've used in Lightroom works well!

Just a second opinion.

I've used Lightroom for over 10 years and have had no issues, most Lightroom problems are "Pilot Error".

jccash Loc: Longwood, Florida

blue-ultra wrote:

In my opinion, everything I've used in Lightroom works well!

Just a third opinion.

I do not understand why people are so opposed to the PS/LR model. its 9.95 a month. You get updates on a regular basis and to buy them as a stand alone is well over 900 bucks. and then you would have to pay for the updates every year. I you run into $$ problems you can cancel and the programs will continue to work you just would not have the updates. For my money these two programs are the best in the business for post processing our work.

Some folks smoke at the cost of close to 9 bucks a pack, other drink beer at the cost of around 10 buck a six pack. Heck just filling the gas tank on my truck cost me 30 to 40 bucks a week.

I don't dare talk about the cost of our equipment...

Gee, what is all the complaining about[/quote]

You can pay one annual fee a year for light room Photoshop CC if you prefer and pay $119.98.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

jccash wrote:

You can pay one annual fee a year for light room Photoshop CC if you prefer and pay $119.98.

Plus 8% tax if I were to get it.

johneccles Loc: Leyland UK

I have used Zoner Photo Studio for years now, the latest version is ZPS "X.
You can try it free for 30 days to see if you like it, it works on you own libraries so you don't to create catalogues.
This new version is subscription based but if you like it you can use the earlier version ZPS 18 which is very similar and has a very low one of payment so you can use it forever.

https://www.zoner.com/

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Take a look at ACDSee Ultimate10. You can buy it for $69. Free 30 day trial.
https://www.acdsee.com/en/index
Mark

bullethole wrote:

While I love lightroom adobe's subscription model ticks me off. Any suggestions for alternatives which include the catalog and organization capabilities as well as the develop functions. I have no need for photoshop at this time as I can handle all my PP activities from LR develop moduoe

cthahn

You will switch to something else and find something else to complain about.

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

I have never had one problem that wasn't my fault. Have had Lightroom for over 5 years and love CC. The subscription included Photoshop, a program that I have always wanted but was way out of my price range.

A push mower always worked for me, never needed anything more...until I discovered a riding mower.

Kuzano wrote:

I dumped LR CC very soon. In my estimation the real problem with the Adobe products is the Catalog system. It does not work well. The import function breaks far too easily.

mikeroetex Loc: Lafayette, LA

sodapop wrote:

I have never had one problem that wasn't my fault. Have had Lightroom for over 5 years and love CC. The subscription included Photoshop, a program that I have always wanted but was way out of my price range.

A push mower always worked for me, never needed anything more...until I discovered a riding mower.

Amen! Now where is my old rotary phone, I know it's around here somewhere!

bullethole

Yes. I know I can buy light room, in fact I have. Being in the software business and seeing a lot of products switching to subscriptions, it is ,IMO, only a matter of time before adobe switches to subscriptions only. I am well aware of Linux options, I have worked with Linux for well over 20 years and currently work on a product that uses Linux. Yes I can catalog on my own using the file system, but that looses me the keyword searching of the Lightroom catalog. I pulled affinity and Corel down last night and played around with them. Corel seems to be more comparable to lr in its management of content than affinity. It will take some getting used to and I still need to try out the printing component, but it looks like a reasonable alternative

blackest Loc: Ireland

rayr wrote:

Lightzone for windows or mac, or as G Brown stated, I use Linux and Darktable is a fantastic program or take a look at Raw Therapee.

Darktable is available for OSX

https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/download/release-2.2.5/darktable-2.2.5.dmg

John Howard Loc: SW Florida and Blue Ridge Mountains of NC.

Might want to consider two packages to replace the one and separate file management and storage from post processing. photo mechanic is a good and fast file management system for sorting and evaluating originals. Then something like others have suggested for processing and there are new ones alike ON1.

FYI, my auto correct keeps changing Photomechanix I was taught it by a NG pro who says they all use it because it is fast. When they go on a shoot they turn in their all of their original files.

blackest Loc: Ireland

John Howard wrote:

Might want to consider two packages to replace the... (show quote)

It is fast but $150 is a bit steep for essentially a file preview tool
https://store.camerabits.com/products/photo-mechanic-version-5

I'm not sold at all and while lightroom can take a while to import as soon as the first photo is in you can be editing it in the develop module and if your photo's are consistent you can be copy pasting or syncing the other images as you go. Once imported lightroom is pretty fast especially if you are looking at photo's in the library module and not the develop module.

papakatz45 Loc: South Florida-West Palm Beach

bullethole wrote:

While I love lightroom adobe's subscription model ticks me off. Any suggestions for alternatives which include the catalog and organization capabilities as well as the develop functions. I have no need for photoshop at this time as I can handle all my PP activities from LR develop moduoe

Photoshop Elements

a1demo Loc: San Diego CA.