gvarner wrote:
My understanding is that Lightroom's marketing target is for pros who process large batches of photos at a time and need 16 bit processing to produce high quality edits for their prints. It doesn’t have an easy learning curve.
Yes, Lightroom Classic was designed for working pros. It's the hub of a professional grade workflow.
HOWEVER, it is NOT difficult to learn to use. As with any other tool, you just need to USE it. Practice is the key.
keywest305 wrote:
I'm looking for a new photo edit tool. I had Corel but with new laptop now looking for something good but not a big learning curve. If anyone can give their 2 cents on something decent but simplistic
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Affinity Photo, ON1 Photo RAW or Photoshop Elements
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That's new to me. Thanks. For a very long time it has been a 10 day trial with a 30 day refund. I wonder when they changed it.
The 30 day refund still exists. So one can use Photoshop and Premiere Elements for 60 days without risk.
It has been that during the 10 day trial, output from Premiere Elements had a watermark that only went away when you paid. If you were devious you could work on projects now for a month, pay, remove the watermark and still get a refund.
The refund page:
https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/return-cancel-or-change-order.html
gvarner wrote:
My understanding is that Lightroom's marketing target is for pros who process large batches of photos at a time and need 16 bit processing to produce high quality edits for their prints. It doesn’t have an easy learning curve.
I respectively disagree. The Lightroom system is not marketed at pros. It is intended for anyone that cares about digital photography. The learning curve is not at all bad. I can get someone going in the right direction in a few minutes. The learning curve only get hard when one jumps in with no planning and screws it all up!
If you're looking for simplistic trial Luminar Neo.
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The nice thing about Photoshop Elements is that it's a one-time purchase. You're not locked into a monthly subscription.
I compared ACDSee with Lightroom a while back and found ACDSee definitely superior. For instance, it has layers. I have been able to use ACDSee Ultimate to do anything that I have seen anyone actually do in Photoshop. (This is not to say that it has as many features, but I suspect that most Photoshop users make use of only a subset of its features.)
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keywest305 wrote:
I'm looking for a new photo edit tool. I had Corel but with new laptop now looking for something good but not a big learning curve. If anyone can give their 2 cents on something decent but simplistic
Stay with Corel. Every year they upgrade the product and your learning curve will be much less with a product you already use. I find their PP products are very good in almost all situations. The noise reduction tools are limited but I use Topaz for that. I didn't like their new format but there is a switch you can flip to make it operate like the traditional versions.
Yes, but that covers a lot of users.
GIMP is Windows/Mac/Linux and also free.
Thanks!
Bridges wrote:
Stay with Corel. Every year they upgrade the product and your learning curve will be much less with a product you already use. I find their PP products are very good in almost all situations. The noise reduction tools are limited but I use Topaz for that. I didn't like their new format but there is a switch you can flip to make it operate like the traditional versions.
I agree with your "stay with" philosophy - but it does not have to be Corel - if an app does all that is required, go with any upgrades when available for free and continue to use what is familiar. Familiarity breeds good results and less frustration.
TucsonDave wrote:
Affinity Photo. No subscription. Less than $50 to purchase one time. Automatic updates. Very comprehensive. Steep learning curve, like Photoshop.
Affinity Photo took over 1000’s of photos I had on my computer! Could not open Any photo without their logo Converting all my Lightroom photos and everything else to Affinity Photo. I had to delete Affinity Photo to recover my photos. NOT RECOMMENDED
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