The development of Adobe as a company is actually really saddening, for those who been in the business from the early days and can see the transformation. Unfortunately Adobe is not Adobe anymore, it became the new Macromedia after the acquisition of that company. The combination of Photoshop, Illustrator and In Design. Yet it performs better than PS on some tasks.īut when it comes to Adobe, it's all about their suit. Still it can't compete with PS for a number of reasons. The best PS competitor for home users and semi pro users I've seen is Pixelmator. But they are programs designed for specific tasks not general pixel manipulation software's. There are programs that do better than PS.

There is very little that can even get close to Photoshop's professional level. Keep it in the boys room if you have to talk about it. It's not fitting to discuss in a filthy manner with grownup's. Just please don't ever mention GIMP, or Linux for that matter in these discussions. When you print anything bigger than A3 you'd better have done a damn good job of editing every tiny detail correctly because any tiny problems will stick out like sore thumbs to the viewer and that's a lost sale. It will be about a 1.5GB PSD with anywhere up to around 10-15 layers of adjustments, both from internal PS tools and other plugins, to ensure that the image is worthy of printing up to at several feet wide at least. An average image will start off as a basic 30MB full-frame RAW by the time it's done and dusted will have been edited for at least an hour minimum sometimes up to 2-3 hours. I shoot landscapes to a very high standard published in magazines, sell prints to ad agencies and solo customers, I'm still a only a hobbyist/semi-pro trying to make it full time pro. It is then a necessity to pre-edit the RAW for preparation for entry into Photoshop for the proper editing. If you shoot RAW correctly and 'expose to the right' what you're talking is absolute crap, because 'exposing to the right' immediately pushes the image to a very bland exposure state to ensure all the highlight and shadow detail is captured by the sensor to minimise any detail loss. Some of us shoot RAW and do very selective corrections, sometimes down to the pixel level. You're obviously one of those people who's happy to takes their shots, a little tweak of contrast, a little tweak of hue/sat and you're done. Re: maybe even try and get the exposure and composition correct in camera? It ain't rocket science.' Microsoft, and now Adobe, made it so clear that only dumbest of businesses will fail to understand the cost of operating proprietary software. Until now it was difficult to explain what 'customer capture' actually means. Oh, I forgot to put explanation why I like it. So be it - as I said, this is heading in the right direction. Of course, this might be a death toll to proprietary software. This puts me, consumer, in nice and clear situation. So basically we are put before a choice: regular payments to software developers (under 'cloud' branding) or use alternative software for free, perhaps supporting the developers on voluntary basis. This is exactly what open source gives me (but some small proprietary applications provide this as well, although without self-support option). Make no mistake, I like owning a license, especially if it comes with perpetual support/free upgrade option. I mean, the direction that proprietary software is heading to. Willing to pay providing the software is good. So Adobe has my cash for at least 12 more months (may not be possible to switch, though I hope it will) - providing I can find a software suite that is rich enough in functionality for me to use that runs on mac (don't like Linux and not about to move all my software to open source just because one provider is now too expensive). I think I have no choice but to pay for one more year, but it is time I start to look for an alternative to LR+PS workflow, including someway of easily importing over 200k photos edits to a similar program to LR (not the edited files in PS, rather any edits I made in LR that are not applied until I export).

Thank god my copy of LR5 was bought!! I don't remember what the new price will be (I tried to find it but they seem not to want to share this easily with me), but think it is over €50 per month! Not fun when trying to edit some photos with the application when paying a special offer price of 36,89 euros per month. Unfortunately, this has happened to me several times when on the road with no internet. You do not need to be always on to use this, though it does need to call home form time to time. Been paying this for nearly a year now, 'upgraded' from PS 5 - Quite pricey in France.

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