[Leica] Photo-editing software recommendations?

[Don Dory]

I would not worry about Adobe transitioning completely to the cloud.  With
8K video there is no way that cloud based storage will be ideal.  Also, if
you transition to the subscription based program the cost is similar to
upgrading every several years to maintain the new features(from my last
interview I believe that color control is going to get much better).  Now,
if you are concerned about storing your completed images save them as TIFFS
on your hard drive.  You will always have your DNG's on the hard drive but
if your discontinue the subscription then the work will be lost probably
but not the underlying image.  Or, use Brian's approach which is to print
out the image on archival paper.

I find that the capability of the latest version of LR is incredible and I
rarely find myself in PS.  Focus stacking and some blending modes are the
exception.  A reality of the digital age is that if you don't upgrade you
will find yourself trapped in an older operating system and eventually
trying to support an older computer that will not be repairable in the
future.  My wife found her self in this position professionally when a
program favored(required) by the production side of her business would only
work on Windows 95.  She kept three computers on standby as eventually all
good machines die and 95 isn't supported by anybody anymore.

On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 2:12 PM Aram via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

> Yes, speaking for myself, I am giving up something.  For one thing, any
> new
> cameras with proprietary RAW files will not open in version 6.xx.  There
> are
> all sorts of new tools, too.  So far there has not been a new tool that
> has
> tipped the scale for me, but some are close.  If Adobe could give me
> assurances that I will always have a working LR on my computer to work
> with
> files on my hard drive I would make the switch, but I do not trust that
> will
> be the case.  Where I live, the internet speeds are not great.  My upload
> speed is 0.6 and download is 9.0.  I have 56K images in LR and about 95%
> are
> RAW.  At these speeds, it would take forever to first of all get them all
> to
> the cloud, then to work on them would be like pulling teeth.
> I have invested a lot of time and effort and work into LR from version 1.
> It took me till version 3 to really get the hang of the non-destructive
> nature and master the fill handling power of LR, to get over my PS days of
> multiple copies in different folders at perhaps various stages of work.
> Once you get the hang of it, LR is a dream come true.  It may not be the
> best developer, or the best printer, but there is nothing that I know of
> that does it all so well in one package and a reasonable price.  I don't
> want to spend the time learning something else.  At 69, and not a
> professional, LR is it for me.  I don't want to left in a lurch by the
> whims
> of Adobe.
>
> Aram
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard L Ritter Jr
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2019 2:42 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Photo-editing software recommendations?
>
> Got it. Didn’t know if those LUGgers using 6 were giving up anything by
> not
> going Classic. I guess they are!
>
> —howard
>
> > On Dec 19, 2019, at 5:23 PM, Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > I can't imagine why you would want to go backwards.  The newest version
> is
> > 9.1 and is much, much faster than even the last version.
> >
> > Tina
>
>
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