DirtFarmer wrote:
There are a lot of things that are not indispensible, (double negative, i.e. you could do without them). Photoshop is among them. Indispensible items are things like food, water, shelter.
I did without Photoshop until about 2000.
If necessary, I could do without it again. But it would not be a pleasant existence.
While I do not use Photoshop to excess (a subjective claim if there ever was one), probably 10% of my images go through it one way or another.
So, technically, Photoshop is dispensible. But as long as I am able to use it, I will. So, practically speaking, it's indispensible.
Of course you are correct.
The discussion was narrowly limited to "Photo processing software". In the context of the topic, to claim that all people could do without a specific product is as ridiculous as claiming that a computer like device is not indispensable for post processing.
And on topic, I prefer Photoshop, I could live and breath without it, and I could even do most of what I would like with something like Affinity Photo. As of today, and I am in the process of evaluating the latest version of the Serif software, I am not keen on learning its different ways of doing what I already know how to do in Adobe, nor have I yet found it possible to do everything I do in Photoshop.
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I never bought into the Adobe subscription crap, and glad of it. Affinity works just fine along with LR software installed on my computer.