I may try Darktable next, I have been watching videos on it and it looks like a possible LR replacement. Also, saving changes took forever in the version I tried and since you had to edit one image at a time it really would not work for my workflow where I get a starting point for hundreds of images, sync the initial color grade to all of the subsequent images then just make small adjustments on a per image basis. I probably did not give it enough of a chance but it just did not appeal to me. I really wanted to like CaptureOne but it felt too much like Photoshop and too little like Lightroom. I looked into CaptureOne, but it seemed to have performance problems as well, and if I recall it had no file organization features. to the images that I take for customers that is not $4,000 worth of software in my book. I really don't do much beyond basic layer masking, color grading, skin retouching, blemish removal, flambient, etc. I know $8 does not sound like much ($52 in my case) but I estimate that I spent over $4,000.00 on Adobe over the past 6yrs for features I neither asked for, needed, or in the end even used. So yes, if there was a DR equivalent for LR and PS I would absolutely switch in a heartbeat. DR 16 has really come into its own as a full fledged NLE and now that i am familiar with node based editing AE seems like an ancient way to do things. I wrapped up all of my outstanding projects using DR and it is a one time cost of $300 with updates for life. LR and PS are the same way, so unstable after updates that I stopped updating until months after the update had been out and even then sometimes something would break in the middle of a project due to an update (mainly performance issues but sometimes crashing).ĭR on the other hand is fantastic, this pandemic gave me to the time I needed to learn how to replace AE and PP with DR (I have already downgraded to the photographer only suite), and it is rock solid stable compared to PP. You could still argue that that is not much but those "updates" you mentioned were neither desired nor in most cases beneficial every PP update was more like a beta test that broke everyone until the update to fix the update came out. Click to expand.I get what you are saying, and yes I use it professionally, however I was paying for the full suite at the time since I needed AE, PP, LR, and PS since I offer both video and photography services which was adding up to around $600/yr.
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