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This thread reminded me of three things. 1. I have always been afraid to cancel my Adobe subscription that gets me Photoshop 2. I bought the Affinity Suite mo

This thread reminded me of three things. 1. I have always been afraid to cancel my Adobe subscription that gets me Photoshop 2. I bought the Affinity Suite months ago 3. Why not cancel my Adobe subscription, burn the ships, and give Affinity a REAL try. I can always go back.

uptown 4y ago
Just did that. I still like PS better and I haven’t found a good alternative for LR. I may go back - but I’m giving it a try.
- rodgerd 4y ago
  Same problem for me. Photoshop? Don't care, plenty of options. Lightroom? Nothing's really an adequate replacement, not least because most of the tools touted as replacements are a lot more concerned about the "digital darkroom" fucking-around-with-RAW-settings aspect that the asset management side of things.
  - yakubin 4y ago
    For digital asset management I use ACDSee Photo Studio for Mac. I’m pretty satisfied.
    - darkteflon 4y ago
      Is ACDSee Photo Studio a good bet for managing metadata on video assets too, do you happen to know? I’ve been looking for a good asset manager to complement my FCPX workflow for ages, seems like a largely abandoned space on Mac.
      - yakubin 4y ago
        I don’t know. I don’t do any video.
    - uptown 4y ago
      Thanks. I'll check it out.
  - oktwtf 4y ago
    I'm not sure your specific workflow in Lightroom, I admiditly haven't used it since 2008 I suspect. However I'd maybe suggest trying some of the other modern RAW tools, I'm personally been editing with CaptureOne as I got a serial with my Fuji camera. Usually when I want to start getting crazy with masking I'll jump into Photoshop or the likes pretty quick, personally.
  - syeare 4y ago
    Capture One Pro is pretty good and even slightly better than Lightroom at making colors pop
jinto36 4y ago
I haven't tried Affinity Photo but Affinity Designer has been a pleasant surprise. Worth the non-recurring $50 investment. I want to like Inkscape, but there are just too many quirks still. PDF output from Designer so far always looks great. My primary use case is putting together figures for scientific papers.

uptown 4y ago

Just did that. I still like PS better and I haven’t found a good alternative for LR. I may go back - but I’m giving it a try.

rodgerd 4y ago
Same problem for me. Photoshop? Don't care, plenty of options. Lightroom? Nothing's really an adequate replacement, not least because most of the tools touted as replacements are a lot more concerned about the "digital darkroom" fucking-around-with-RAW-settings aspect that the asset management side of things.
- yakubin 4y ago
  For digital asset management I use ACDSee Photo Studio for Mac. I’m pretty satisfied.
  - darkteflon 4y ago
    Is ACDSee Photo Studio a good bet for managing metadata on video assets too, do you happen to know? I’ve been looking for a good asset manager to complement my FCPX workflow for ages, seems like a largely abandoned space on Mac.
    - yakubin 4y ago
      I don’t know. I don’t do any video.
  - uptown 4y ago
    Thanks. I'll check it out.
- oktwtf 4y ago
  I'm not sure your specific workflow in Lightroom, I admiditly haven't used it since 2008 I suspect. However I'd maybe suggest trying some of the other modern RAW tools, I'm personally been editing with CaptureOne as I got a serial with my Fuji camera. Usually when I want to start getting crazy with masking I'll jump into Photoshop or the likes pretty quick, personally.
- syeare 4y ago
  Capture One Pro is pretty good and even slightly better than Lightroom at making colors pop

jinto36 4y ago

I haven't tried Affinity Photo but Affinity Designer has been a pleasant surprise. Worth the non-recurring $50 investment. I want to like Inkscape, but there are just too many quirks still. PDF output from Designer so far always looks great. My primary use case is putting together figures for scientific papers.