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If you haven’t already, try Capture One. It’s so much faster than Lightroom and, at least for my needs, has much better functionality as well.

katabasis 6y ago
I just made the switch for exactly this reason! Still getting the hang of the UI but seems promising so far. I shoot with Fuji cameras which seem well-supported here.
- leeoniya 6y ago
  a bit off-topic, but would you have any interest in a barely-used FUJIFILM XF 80mm f/2.8 R LM OIS WR Macro. and also a FUJIFILM XF 1.4x TC WR Teleconverter. my Fujifilm XT2 was stolen during a trip to Europe last year and i've switched back to Nikon since the battery life of the mirrorless was disappointing (due to the EVF). now i have some Fujinon macro glass collecting dust as rather expensive paperweights :(
  - FireBeyond 6y ago
    https://www.reddit.com/r/photomarket/ https://www.reddit.com/r/photomarket/
benbristow 6y ago
Serif Affinity alternatives for Photoshop - https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/ https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/ Illustrator - https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/ https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/ InDesign - https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/publisher/ https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/publisher/ 50% off each product (one-time purchase with updates, no subscription) too during the COVID pandemic. Won't take you long to adjust at all as they're very similar and the apps are more lightweight and faster than Adobe's products have ever been. Also iPad versions if you want to edit on a tablet. Been using Affinity Photo for a while now as an alternative to Photoshop and wouldn't look back.
- diebeforei485 6y ago
  How does Affinity Photo compare with Pixelmator Pro? I'm trying to pick between the two.
  - benbristow 6y ago
    I've never used Pixelmator, but Pixelmator is Mac Only where Affinity works on Windows too.
  - ultrarunner 6y ago
    I tried both. Pixelmator lacked (or I couldn’t find) vector tools I was looking for at the time, then the trial expired. That pushed me to Affinity and I had less trouble. Take this with a grain of salt, but vector work feels like a bit of an afterthought with Pixelmator.
- werber 6y ago
  I lost my adobe license from my old job and gave designer a go. For my purposes, I’ve found it to be a superior solution. Runs faster, and basically the same shortcuts.
- oefrha 6y ago
  I’ve used Affinity Designer as a cheap alternative to Illustrator. Not surprisingly it’s way better than Inkscape (the Inkscape UI alone makes me lose all interests in designing anything), but Illustrator definitely has a lot more features and power tools, and arguably more importantly, a hell lot more online resources. So I guess Affinity Designer fulfills the role as a budget alternative, but not much more.
  - derefr 6y ago
    I've always wondered why the space of professional graphics programs isn't like the space of professional DAW (audio) programs. With DAWs, everything is a standardized plugin (a VST) that can be run inside any of the workstation programs. Customers can buy VSTs separately from any consideration of what ecosystem they're going to be using them with.
ISL 6y ago
Check out Darktable, too!
- acidburnNSA 6y ago
  I learned on Darktable as an amateur using Youtube tutorials and absolutely love it. I really "get" the concept of the digital darkroom now, and I love the conscious effort of "developing" my photos.
hnick 6y ago
Know any Premiere Pro alternatives? I know nothing about videos except we pay $70 a month and Premiere Pro still can't edit our older iPhone videos because they were filmed without a certain compatibility setting turned on for the phone. We have to run an older (years older) Premiere Pro on our Macbook that somehow can edit them without any issues at all, with a newer up-to-date version on our much faster PC for recent videos. We've tried transcoding and various things like using an older version on Windows, but nothing else seems to work. Then the other day I had to stay up until 3am because a video being edited just stopped saving with an uncaught exception and no useful information on both versions. I finally figured out that some effects like loudness and reverb control applied to the sound channel had become corrupted (after noticing it would save with sound off, then fiddling with the clips for another 2 hours having no idea what I'm doing). Ever since the Flash days I've been wary of their software quality. Paying over $800 per year is fair if you're earning money and the stuff just works, but they don't seem to be holding up their end of the bargain.
- rainbowzootsuit 6y ago
  DaVinci Resolve is worth a look and is a one time licence. Also, there is a free version. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/ https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/ For transcoding your footage nothing but the best, FFmpeg: https://ffmpeg.org/ https://ffmpeg.org/ However, if you don't need the absolutely full array of switches available in FFmpeg, Ive used the fork FFmbc to get into standard broadcast formats with easy presets: https://github.com/bcoudurier/FFmbc https://github.com/bcoudurier/FFmbc
  - hnick 6y ago
    Thanks, I've heard of DaVinci Resolve and found out shortly after commenting that there is a free version. We should give it a try. I've got ffmpeg and Handbrake for transcoding but for some reason they both caused issues in Premiere Pro still (audio sync, choppy/repeating footage, etc) on those files. I'm not very experienced, so that might be on me, but it didn't seem to happen outside of Premiere Pro.
- aldanor 6y ago

katabasis 6y ago

I just made the switch for exactly this reason! Still getting the hang of the UI but seems promising so far. I shoot with Fuji cameras which seem well-supported here.

leeoniya 6y ago
a bit off-topic, but would you have any interest in a barely-used FUJIFILM XF 80mm f/2.8 R LM OIS WR Macro. and also a FUJIFILM XF 1.4x TC WR Teleconverter. my Fujifilm XT2 was stolen during a trip to Europe last year and i've switched back to Nikon since the battery life of the mirrorless was disappointing (due to the EVF). now i have some Fujinon macro glass collecting dust as rather expensive paperweights :(
- FireBeyond 6y ago
  https://www.reddit.com/r/photomarket/ https://www.reddit.com/r/photomarket/

benbristow 6y ago

Serif Affinity alternatives for Photoshop - https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/ https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/ Illustrator - https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/ https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/ InDesign - https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/publisher/ https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/publisher/ 50% off each product (one-time purchase with updates, no subscription) too during the COVID pandemic. Won't take you long to adjust at all as they're very similar and the apps are more lightweight and faster than Adobe's products have ever been. Also iPad versions if you want to edit on a tablet. Been using Affinity Photo for a while now as an alternative to Photoshop and wouldn't look back.

diebeforei485 6y ago
How does Affinity Photo compare with Pixelmator Pro? I'm trying to pick between the two.
- benbristow 6y ago
  I've never used Pixelmator, but Pixelmator is Mac Only where Affinity works on Windows too.
- ultrarunner 6y ago
  I tried both. Pixelmator lacked (or I couldn’t find) vector tools I was looking for at the time, then the trial expired. That pushed me to Affinity and I had less trouble. Take this with a grain of salt, but vector work feels like a bit of an afterthought with Pixelmator.
werber 6y ago
I lost my adobe license from my old job and gave designer a go. For my purposes, I’ve found it to be a superior solution. Runs faster, and basically the same shortcuts.
oefrha 6y ago
I’ve used Affinity Designer as a cheap alternative to Illustrator. Not surprisingly it’s way better than Inkscape (the Inkscape UI alone makes me lose all interests in designing anything), but Illustrator definitely has a lot more features and power tools, and arguably more importantly, a hell lot more online resources. So I guess Affinity Designer fulfills the role as a budget alternative, but not much more.
- derefr 6y ago
  I've always wondered why the space of professional graphics programs isn't like the space of professional DAW (audio) programs. With DAWs, everything is a standardized plugin (a VST) that can be run inside any of the workstation programs. Customers can buy VSTs separately from any consideration of what ecosystem they're going to be using them with.

ISL 6y ago

Check out Darktable, too!

acidburnNSA 6y ago
I learned on Darktable as an amateur using Youtube tutorials and absolutely love it. I really "get" the concept of the digital darkroom now, and I love the conscious effort of "developing" my photos.

hnick 6y ago

Know any Premiere Pro alternatives? I know nothing about videos except we pay $70 a month and Premiere Pro still can't edit our older iPhone videos because they were filmed without a certain compatibility setting turned on for the phone. We have to run an older (years older) Premiere Pro on our Macbook that somehow can edit them without any issues at all, with a newer up-to-date version on our much faster PC for recent videos. We've tried transcoding and various things like using an older version on Windows, but nothing else seems to work. Then the other day I had to stay up until 3am because a video being edited just stopped saving with an uncaught exception and no useful information on both versions. I finally figured out that some effects like loudness and reverb control applied to the sound channel had become corrupted (after noticing it would save with sound off, then fiddling with the clips for another 2 hours having no idea what I'm doing). Ever since the Flash days I've been wary of their software quality. Paying over $800 per year is fair if you're earning money and the stuff just works, but they don't seem to be holding up their end of the bargain.

rainbowzootsuit 6y ago
DaVinci Resolve is worth a look and is a one time licence. Also, there is a free version. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/ https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/ For transcoding your footage nothing but the best, FFmpeg: https://ffmpeg.org/ https://ffmpeg.org/ However, if you don't need the absolutely full array of switches available in FFmpeg, Ive used the fork FFmbc to get into standard broadcast formats with easy presets: https://github.com/bcoudurier/FFmbc https://github.com/bcoudurier/FFmbc
- hnick 6y ago
  Thanks, I've heard of DaVinci Resolve and found out shortly after commenting that there is a free version. We should give it a try. I've got ffmpeg and Handbrake for transcoding but for some reason they both caused issues in Premiere Pro still (audio sync, choppy/repeating footage, etc) on those files. I'm not very experienced, so that might be on me, but it didn't seem to happen outside of Premiere Pro.
aldanor 6y ago