I’m running OS Mojave and have some incredibly old software and have no issues. I will admit that if I choose to upgrade to OS 10.15 Catalina then some of my software will stop working as well as some of the hardware attached to my Mid 2015 MacBook Pro. Some of that hardware and software that goes with it cost as much as the MacBook Pro new. There seems to be quite a few around here that seem to worry about security. This doesn’t have to be this way. The OS will continue to receive security updates. You don’t have to upgrade the operating system just because they put out a new one. Usually there is more useless fluff than actual useful features anyway.

Ah, right.

I downloaded Luminar 4 this afternoon and have been working with it for about 3 hours. The company was at one time Mac only, so I am thinking that the program is Mac friendly. It works fine on Windows 10, though it is a little slow at times. Non-destructive (parametric) editing, raw interpretation, layers - and it is very easy to work with layers. It does cataloging, but I don't have an interest in that so I just use the "edit single image" menu item to open an image.

I think it is worth a look. It took no time at all to find my way around it. I was skeptical about the AI (artificial intelligence) features, but I am impressed with them.

Download the trial version, give it a spin and if you get stuck just give me a holler and if I can help I will.

https://skylum.com/luminar

Mike

There is another reason to have a perpetual license software, and that would be that as the rented version gets continually “upgraded” while all the time you may be working on aging hardware and eventually that aging hardware won’t support the “continually upgraded” software in spite of the fact that all of your hardware, (camera, computer, etc) may be working just fine including, the software you are currently using. There are reasons someone just might not want to rent software besides a measly ten bucks a month.

There is another reason to have a perpetual license software, and that would be that as the rented version gets continually “upgraded” while all the time you may be working on aging hardware and eventually that aging hardware won’t support the “continually upgraded” software in spite of the fact that all of your hardware, (camera, computer, etc) may be working just fine including, the software you are currently using. There are reasons someone just might not want to rent software besides a measly ten bucks a month.

Mark
I don't deny that Adobe offers the best post processing software. The cost is only a part of why I don't subscribe to it. I suspect I wouldn't use or need all that Adobe delivers. I bought both Affinity and Luminar for $50 each, that's $100 total forever which is less than Adobe for one year.
Another reason is all the problems that Adobe users have. You and many others have posted in this thread about how good Adobe support is, but if that really was the case why are there so many posts about Adobe problems? If you counted up all the posts about Adobe problems and counted up all posts about problems with all the other PP programs combined, I don't think the difference would be that great. Adobe problems might even outnumber the others.
About buying the Leica, I could say that I bought with all the money I saved by not subscribing to Adobe, but that wouldn't be true. It's a gift I gave to myself for being old .

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