Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/12/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Adobe is cheaper than its competitors if you upgrade every time, Luminar has had four upgrades @ US$60-70 each in the last 18 months (Luminar 3, Flex, 4, AI), On top of that they make you pay US$20 for additional preset packs, some of which are essential. Capture One has an upgrade like clockwork every 6 months at Euro 120-130 (upgrade charges), DXO always has an add on, a Nik suite with cosmetic changes or additional presets, a Viewpoint with new adjustments around for you to buy. Each of them always has a very desirable feature that prompts me (at least) to upgrade. Compared to them Adobe is the best, all upgrades come very seamlessly, with no click and bait philosophy. Let us remember that all software purveyors have to survive, and will find ways to charge you periodically, by forcing you to upgrade. IMHO, the most transparent is Adobe - you know what you are paying for the whole buffet, delivered seamlessly to your computer. You might not like the system, or think the charges are high, but there is nothing hidden there. Another subscription I use and find equally seamless and hassle free is for Office, and it comes with fairly good and useful perks (terabytes of free cloud storage, etc). Highly recommended for Windows users. Cheers Jayanand On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 8:45 AM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > I certainly understand the desire not to be hostage to the Adobe > ransomware suite. However, I have terabytes of images in LR catalogues. I > have a very long learning curve on making the Adobe product do my bidding. > Like Jayanand said. For those who didn't bite the Adobe addiction of > yearly ransom I do understand getting software that does wonderful things > compared to Lightroom 6. But the tools now available in the current > versions of PS/LR are incredible. Horses for courses and Summicrons or > Summiluxes. > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 1:01 PM CartersXRd via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > wrote: > > > Finally making the switch- using ON1 instead of Lightroom (v6.x) > > > > so far so good > > > > ric > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > -- > Don > don.dory at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >