For one, I get to use my dual monitor setup to perhaps light-table the images at a larger size. But can I do what I need to do with Linux? A coworker says his experience is the same with Lightroom post version 3. Things just take forever and that delay costs me free time. Without providing any noticeable improvements over 3, it is so slow and memory-intensive compared to 3. The problem is that Lightroom 5 is horrible. So I figured I’d be a Lightroom user for a few more years. But I’d had Lightroom 5 on my wishlist and someone bought it for me for Christmas. So while it’s cheaper to pay monthly than buying outright (at the prices they had when they went subscription), I rarely found the upgrades worth is and so was able to save some money. While there are surely some benefits to being able to rent Photoshop and Adobe’s awesome video editing software when you need to do a project rather than for a thousand-plus fee, one way I’ve afforded Lightroom is not upgrading every year. Lightroom is still available standalone, but it appears the rest of the CS suite (including, for example, Photoshop) are on the treadmill now. But Adobe seemed to be moving more and more towards a subscription-only model. Competition from Apple Aperture and other programs caused it to eventually drop to $150 per version. Back then I was making use of the student price to actually be able to afford it.
Last Fall I started considering moving away from Lightroom after having used it for nearly a decade.
0 kommentar(er)
