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Ah, the new Lightroom CC! I was a happy, delighted, enthusiastic Lightroom user from the moment it originally came out and threw Aperture into the bin where it
by vr46 2y ago
Ah, the new Lightroom CC! I was a happy, delighted, enthusiastic Lightroom user from the moment it originally came out and threw Aperture into the bin where it belongs. Lightroom was fast, brilliant to use, a fabulous wrapper around ACR and managed all the photo files perfectly.
It was, to me, as perfect a piece of consumer software that has ever existed.
The moment CC turned up, not only was it a cut-down version in terms of features, but the file management side was gone too, and this whole cloud functionality took over. A complete workflow change.
The main benefit that I found, ok, the only benefit, was that I was able to easily create web galleries for client approval etc. Everything else was gone. Lightroom Classic came back, kind of, but the direction of travel was fixed.
It took me years and years to finally get close to that one-stop-shop workflow, using Photo Mechanic and Capture One, both of which have gone subscription-based and offering close to zero value in return.
My strategy now, I shit you not, is to never ever perform a major upgrade on this Mac and hold out until all the root SSL certificates expire with my current setup.
We used to have such stable computing environments and now everything is a cloud-connected, exposed and defenceless security shitshow.
- freedomben 2y agoAgreed. This is I think the single biggest contributor to my now fairly radical approach to software. Unless the app is at least source available, I will only use it if I really need it. One of the most valuable things about open source to me now is simply that nobody can take it away. Sure maintainers can disappear, but (aside from accreted cruft/bitrot) I can keep using whatever version as long as I have hardware to run it on. I dedicated four hours to learning GIMP a few years ago, and many times now I've been so glad I did. There are a ton of books and courses out there for people looking to do the same. Kdenlive is another one I'm super glad I took the time to learn.
- vr46 2y agoDitto. Commercial software turned out to have limited headroom. GIMP is here but I can’t quite get my head around the lack of integration with open and save dialogs, even while I recognize your reasoning. The dumbest stuff becomes the biggest obstacle sometimes. But no matter, because said commercial software companies are finding new paradigms for shrinkflation while reaching new heights in fiction and fantasy.
- CobaltFire 2y agoCapture One still has a one time purchase option. I just demo'd Capture One against DxO Photolab because they were the two big ones with that feature left. I'm not familiar with Photo Mechanic.
- vr46 2y agoAh, but C1 has completely changed the offer by not including a single new feature update on the one-time perpetual purchase, only bug fixes, and no upgrade pricing at all. So it completely removes any kind of incentive for customer to stay loyal.
- egorfine 2y ago> the direction of travel was fixed Yes, but Lightroom Classic is still here for years and no end in sight. So I feel like the backslash is still strong enough. Given the fact that Adobe Cloud is absolutely unusable outside of the US, I have a strong feeling that local file support is not going anywhere soon.
- egorfine 2y ago> never ever perform a major upgrade on this Mac 9 out of 10 ransomware vendors support this strategy!