![]() I have access to Adobe cloud and the only thing PS has new that I want or need is RAW and that's why I am exploring RAW alternatives to Adobe Cloud. It will display the camera settings as you browse files and you can "flag" files.įor my use I have CS3 and CS6 which are paid for. I hadn't heard of On1 I will have to try it.Īsset management in Photoscape I have just browser windows folders with it. ![]() As a Mac user, I have plenty of excellent alternatives. If I need the Adobe Camera Raw engine, I use it in PS (ACR). Although I have access to it, I do not use LR. I use the creative cloud suite (mostly PS, AI, AE). Photoshop is long in the tooth and LR continues to get bogged down in processing bottlenecks to the point where it appears to unusable for a lot of users. If I had one wish for Photoshop, it would be to have a new version that is node-based, like Resolve or Blender or any number of image-processing pipelines. For folks who have invested heavily in time and resources in an Adobe-centric workflow, it makes sense to stick with it - I hope that all of the recent development in node-based and non-destructive full-fledged editors and raw developers would nudge Adobe to completely re-write and redesign the Photoshop experience, but I am not holding my breath. Think about photo editing as tuning and manipulating pixels, not operations in Photoshop, and you can accomplish most everything outside of the Adobe universe if that's how you want to roll. That's the lemonade resulting from Adobe's decision to go subscription and, despite all of the hype, not fix their aging, existing applications. While the LR+PS combo works for folks, there are plenty of alternatives now that do not involve a subscription, a database/DAM, or dedicated cloud storage. Given that I am, and probably would be, paying for Ps anyway any alternative to Lr/ACR would have to have some very significant advantages or be the same effective cost. I could not have afforded the sort of money that the perpetual licence upgrade would have cost me in one lump sum. As things stand paying monthly is for me an accessible means to achieving the upgrade. I only upgraded to CC because I needed the HiDPI support for my Dell 5K monitor. Buying Lr 4 was nice as it gave me the DAM I was looking for, along with the new version of the process version, without the need to upgrade from Ps CS5. I have always used Ps along with the RAW converters, although given how good the RAW converters have now got, I tend not to need to use Ps nearly as often as I used to do. Especially in regards to all the DAM features I regularly use in Lr. So a large part of my sticking with ACR/Lr is the fact that I am used to the way the programs operate, and I don't have to invest in significant learning of an entirely new system. Thanks to the abjectly bad predecessor to DPP being essentially unuseable, I ended up using RawShooter Essentials as my first real RAW converter, and when Adobe bought the program and incorporated it in ACR and Lr I moved first to ACR, and then as my image collection grew, I moved to Lr in 2011 at about the time of the first Lr4 public Beta release. C1 Pro probably comes closest to the full versatility of Lr, but it is a much more expensive proposition.Īlthough Lr and Ps, along with Bridge when necessary, are my main workhorses when it comes to my photos, I do have DPP 4, and DPP 3 since I need support for my old 300D and my 20D which I use as a second camera, as well as DXO 10, Picture Window, FastRawViewer, GIMP, and ICE on my computer. As far as I'm aware nobody else has quite the same level of combined DAM and RAW functionality within a single application interface. ![]() With a really good RAW converter, essentially ACR, directly incorporated directly in the same user interface. I use Bridge quite a bit, even though I access all my photographic images via Lr.Īdobe also throw in Lr for free if you want a heavyweight database driven DAM application that can make looking after your images incredibly simple. Although Bridge is a very good file manager program, with plenty of useful multimedia functionality, along with a lot of tight Adobe integration. Are you going to be using Ps CC? If yes then you get the choice of a very good RAW converter, with absolutely no attached DAM at all, just use ACR. Actually since Adobe also give you ACR along with Ps, and Bridge now being free for everybody, it poses some interesting questions. PhotoscapeX is like Lightroom it is for adjustments before Photoshop work.īut the point is still valid, you get Lr for free with Ps, or of course you get Ps free with Lr if you are looking at CC Classic. ![]() Photoshop is a different animal a much more powerful animal.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |