Lightroom Replacement

shango

Problem with that is I don't want photoshop, or cloud storage or any of the other guff they throw in, if they did a lightroom only option that includes only the lightroom desktop version and nothing else for a fiver a month I may jump on board.

Mr Pleasant

I haven't explored the raw file editing options as I have Capture One for that, but I leapt at the chance of getting Affinity Photo for £38.99 last month. This package really does match Photoshop for just about any pixel bashing I'd ever want to do at a fraction of the price. Adobe, your number's well and truly up.

PS Regarding my earlier comment about Capture One never being as fast as LR for basic editing, I was wrong. I import, select all and apply the 'A'uto settings. It does a remarkably good job of setting white balance and levels, leaving me just a bit of tweaking in most cases. Exporting with process recipes is also very quick once you've done your one-off basic set up.

=adrian=

That is a good deal. I pay £40 per month for the Adobe stuff.

Johnmcl7

I recently found that there's a free limited version of Capture one for Fuji and Sony camera raw files which looks a great way to try out the software if you have either of these brands and it doesn't seem that limited either:

Download Capture One

I had decided on an A7III then found it wasn't supported by the non-subscription of Lightroom so then decided against it and kicked the can down the road a bit.  I should try Capture One but when Lightroom works for what I want at the moment I suspect I'll lack the motivation to get into Capture One as it took me a while to get the hang of Lightroom.

shango

Maybe the A7r iii? that is supported in 6.14

Johnmcl7

You're correct the A7RIII is the last one that was supported and I spent a long time deliberating over getting that one instead as I started to justify it that the high resolution sensor would be a good alternative to the D750.  Then when I was looking at getting a decent prime for I decided on the RX1RII instead so I've put off the need to change editing software for now.

sparkie1984

Hi, is Affinity Photo good to learn photo editing on?

I’m planning on buying some kit and learning to take decent photos and then edit them. If this software is on offer and half decent then I may buy it now so I’ve got it.

tonyk79

Just downloaded Capture One pro to try, been a lightroom user for nearly 10 years and its just far too slow now and coupled with the price increase, I just feel it’s not good enough anymore.

Feels like being a newbie using this Capture One but liking some of the customisation available on the menus and lots of tutorials available.

doug56hl

What price increase?
When I looked just now it's still £9.98 a month. Also cancelling my Lightroom subscription at the end of June I got offered 3 months for free bringing the cost down to £7.94 a month over the 15 month period covered.
Didn't take this up as I'd bought a 12 month prepaid code for £85.99 from amazon a few months ago which made my next 12 month subscription £7.16 a month.

As for speed I too thought Lightroom was getting slower and slower but noticed when I switched to a windows performance power plan option rather than my default power save plan it kicked Lightroom performance up considerably. With power save the cpu was staying at <1GHz whatever Lightroom wanted CPU wise, with performance it's always on 4.3GHZ. Seemed windows just wasn't noticeing that Lightroom wanted more CPU cycles and so didn't ramp up the CPU like it should have done. Might be worth checking your power plan just in case.

tonyk79

Thanks for advice,

I am not on the basic Lightroom plan, now paying £26.99 up from £19.99. Unfortunately I have tried Lightroom on my own 2018 iMac, my own PC and the speed is really slow on everything from import to developing.  Even the adjustment brush has severe lag on both system when masking in overlay mode. The PC was built with Photo Editing in mind, i7 water cooled, 32GB Ram, 3 SsD to host OS, apps and Scratchdisks, even an overkill Nvidia 970. When the import was slow I bought the high speed memory cards for the camera, replaced the card reader and still the same, replaced the GPU with an AMD r380 to see if that’s would help withe adjustment brush issue.

Interestingly I booted up my old q6600, 8GB Ram and 7200rpm hdd, ati 3850 with an old version of lightroom still on it (v5) and it’s as quick as these new computers

I think Adobe have just dropped the ball, kind of like Intel did with the initial Pentium 64bit cpu and needed a redesign and the core2quad’s where born. I hope Adobe go back and redesign this from the ground up as computers costing £1000’s shouldn’t be reporting speed an issue.