[Leica] Photo-editing software recommendations?

[Tina Manley]

You can always export your edited files (as a tiff or jpeg) to a folder on
a hard drive.  They will always be there, edited, but you can't go back
through all the editing steps.  My best photos end up as full-sized tiffs
on Alamy where I can download them any time I want to and sometimes I even
earn a little from them!

Tina

On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 8:10 AM Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> The catalog is a collection of image (raw, jpg or other) plus the sidecar
> files (The editing commands) for each plus some form of file structure
> that  “ collects or links “ them together.  It may be different for each
> version of LR or not. What is important to remember is that the unaltered
> image files are always present.   If you want to use a different editing sw
> which required its own different catalog. You could make another catalog
> for that sw and use either or.
> What is most important is that the edits you made are all lost. Gone. You
> must start each image and redo ALL the work again. For each different SW
> you use
> It is my understanding that with LR, the monthly pay version that is
> resident on your computer (no cloud stuff) , that if you stop Paying, you
> will lose The ability to do further edits. the rest of the program
> functionality remains. I have little to no belief that this is fact or
> better said, that IF true , that Adobe , in the future, would not change
> the facts and make you cough up some money to ever see your images with
> edits again.
> Adobe is predatory. Expect them to act in a way that optimizes their
> revenue. Not your future once you leave their Fold
> Last point. V6 has only so much functionality. . The CC versions have
> more. If you used some CC functionality in your edits that V6 does not
> offer, that edit will not work in the V6. Not today. Not tomorrow.
> My thought is that the catalog is unimportant. You want to protect the
> editing work you did. There is only one way to ensure that: play the Adobe
> game. $9.99 per month. Forever.
> But if you stop the monthly pay then change your mind (1 day? 5 years?)
> later, start paying again and you are off and running with no loss
> One last thought. Go look at ON1 as an editing program. The program claims
> to take in LR edits and convert them. Salvation or snake oil?????
> Does this answer the question?Frank
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>  On Friday, December 20, 2019, CartersXRd via LUG <lug at leica-users.org
> > wrote:
>
> almost—will CC convert my LR6 catalog to a version that I would later be
> unable to use in LR6 if I unsubscribed?
>
> i’m over-engaged in this thing I guess—I just despise adobe—they are the
> neo-fascist trumps et al of the software world
> I guess I just never forgave them for killing PageMaker
>
> ric
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> > On Dec 20, 2019, at 9:10 PM, Frank Filippone via LUG <
> lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> >
> > With each upgrade to the old version of perpetual LR, there was a / some
> change to the files/ structure/catalogs.  It was forward compatible.... LR6
> would accept LR 4 images / catalogs and do the conversion. All edits were
> maintained. The opposite is not true. LR6 edits and file structures are not
> useable in LR4. But usually you would not go from V6 to V4. Am I answering
> your question?Frank Filippone
>
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