We don’t want to pay Adobe anymore, so my Dad is looking for an replacement for Lightroom Classic.
He has over 4500 photos in Lightroom and we want a basically drop in replacement.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
EDIT1: Also, how do we transfer photos out of Lightroom?
EDIT2: All photos are locally stored.
This would be my choice too. Does 95% of what LR does, does some things much better, and performance is like 10x.
And the one time cost every few years is awesome
Yeah I do minimal editing now anyways, their raw handling is great and it allows you to apply edits to multiple photos etc like Lightroom, make your own presets.
I do wish their masking was better developed, that’s my big gripe right now. Control Points are great but a little more fiddly than some of what Lightroom can do so easily (‘select subjet’ etc.)…
Yes I’d agree with that
One time cost… Every few years … Hmm
I mean, its nuanced.
Right now, buying a new license is $229. Upgrades are like $100 - $150.
The only time you need to rebuy / upgrade is when you get a new camera that is only supported by the newest cameras.
I bought my copy for a D7000, and it worked with my old files, worked with my D7100 too as I probably bought in late.
I had to get an upgrade in ~2015 for the D750, and used that with a 5Dsr, and various Olympus cameras (Everything not Nikon are cameras given to me for assignments).
And a final upgrade for me around the time the D850 came out, and I used that for the year I shot a Z7.
Even estimating high, that would be $4.50 a month.
For anyone who isn’t usually on the newer cameras, it should be even cheaper.
You could buy it right now and keep that license (essentially) indefinitely, with bug fixes made to the latest version (7) for about the next year.
But in a year the new version will likely drop with some improvements. You won’t get those unless you pay more to upgrade to the latest version.
So you don’t pay a subscription, but if you want the latest toys then you must pay.