I canceled my Adobe photographers bundle subscription, found something I like better (Page 2): I don't think so. It doesn't use a catalog, but I'd suggest asking Alien skin to make...

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

DWU2 wrote:

Does it have the ability to import your LR catalog, including edits,keywords, captions, etc.?

I don't think so. It doesn't use a catalog, but I'd suggest asking Alien skin to make sure.

OldNotMold Loc: Just North of

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St3v3M wrote:

Exposure X Sneak Peek
http://www.alienskin.com/blog/2015/exposure-x-sneak-peek

Exposure X Introduction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3XKFkL7iIk

Alien Skin Software
- Exposure X
http://www.youtube.com/user/AlienSkinSoftware01/search?query=Exposure+X

Here you can download the latest version of our products.
http://app.alienskin.com/downloads

"...download the latest version of OUR products." I'm just wondering for clarification purposes, are you an owner or employee of this company, or was this statement meant to say "...THEIR products." I am honestly not trying to start a rant or cause a problem, just trying to understand where 35,000 feet is. Thank you for the clarification...and if you are an employee or owner, do you five forum members a discount? 😀 I will take a look at this...always looking for alternatives.

Rongnongno Loc: FL

rpavich wrote:

You cannot cancel online. When you choose the "cancel my subscription" option online, it tells you that you MUST call customer service as that isn't available online.

Sorry, been there done that.
The only problem you can run into is when you cancel before the one year contract ends which is a contractual obligation.

DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area

rpavich wrote:

I don't think so. It doesn't use a catalog, but I'd suggest asking Alien skin to make sure.

I'm not familiar with the product, but it sounds like it uses sidecar files for storing edits. So, if you had, say, 50,000 RAW files you had edited with LR, would it read the LR catalog during a conversion and create sidecars? Otherwise, you'd be left with choices of converting all those RAW's to JPG or TIF from Lightroom, or re-editing them with Alien Skin. And if you've already associated 5,000 keywords with those files, that would be a huge job to re-create if Alien Skin can't do so.

Rongnongno Loc: FL

DWU2 wrote:

I'm not familiar with the product, but it sounds like it uses sidecar files for storing edits. So, if you had, say, 50,000 RAW files you had edited with LR, would it read the LR catalog during a conversion and create sidecars? Otherwise, you'd be left with choices of converting all those RAW's to JPG or TIF from Lightroom, or re-editing them with Alien Skin. And if you've already associated 5,000 keywords with those files, that would be a huge job to re-create if Alien Skin can't do so.

While we can all find objections to any change I think those who want to do so could do it w/o our objections.

I only took exception to the 'nagging advertised' as I did not experience it at all.

What folks do not quite realize is that LR is a minor part of the PS CC subscription as this is where the real editing meat is. This is not an advertisement for PS CC but an observation. You can use GIMP as an alternative add-in to this software and be more than happy with that switch too.

I would not pay 9.99 for LR alone. I do not use LR.

Longhorn Loc: Austin, Texas

rpavich wrote:

I have been using the Adobe light room and Photosh... (show quote)

Will the program open RAW files from a Canon 7DII?

Old Timer Loc: Greenfield, In.

Is this a cloud program? I have not had much luck running cloud programs because of Slow or intermittent IP server. to many delays and stalls. When I had ATT I did not have that problem but can only get Com Cast here, which is not reliable and consistent.

TheDman Loc: USA

Old Timer wrote:

Is this a cloud program? I have not had much luck running cloud programs because of Slow or intermittent IP server. to many delays and stalls. When I had ATT I did not have that problem but can only get Com Cast here, which is not reliable and consistent.

What cloud programs have you tried to run?

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

Rongnongno wrote:

Sorry, been there done that.
The only problem you can run into is when you cancel before the one year contract ends which is a contractual obligation.

I just canceled after two years and I had to call instead of using the online there was no way to cancel online

Old Timer Loc: Greenfield, In.

I have tried cloud storage and a program not relative to photography and at times I could not get much done other times not as bad but not good.

TheDman wrote:

What cloud programs have you tried to run?

Rongnongno Loc: FL

rpavich wrote:

I just canceled after two years and I had to call instead of using the online there was no way to cancel online

I gave the instructions on how to do that on line in this post....

It is not straight forward, granted, but possible.

joe west Loc: Taylor, Michigan

rpavich wrote:

I canceled my Adobe subscription also, and I agree, it's a pain in the butt

did they make you pay any extra money for closing, or was your year up

Djack41 Loc: Tennessee

I can not imagine digital photography without Photoshop. It takes homework but once learned, PS has no equal. Lightroom is a pleasure. Adobe CC support is excellent.

The $10.00 a month subscription is today's best bargain in photography, in my opinion. 33 pennies a day!

ralphc4176 Loc: Conyers, GA

I, too, have DxO Optics Pro, and I like it very much. Reasonably priced, in my opinion, and very powerful.

Redmark

Nice to have options, particularly if Lightroom go to subscription which I hope they don't.