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Photoshop Turns 30, Updated With Dark Mode Support on Mac and Object Selection Tool on iPad

saledug said:
Comparing Photoshop to Affinity Photo is a joke. If you're using this as a professional tool, photoshop is like 1000x more complex and powerful than Affinity Photo. It's like paint on steroids, photoshop is still way ahead.
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As 30 years user of photoshop,I can tell you that affinity photo has done in 5 years what adobe has taken 30 to do and they only charge once for it
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gugy said:
Affinity is a nice app. The only problem is if you have to exchange files with clients/companies then it is a deal breaker. The industry is heavily dependent on Adobe. For me is impossible to jump since the entertainment/motion graphics/design industries are all Adobe based.
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That’s changing rapidl, blender is become the standard and its open source and free.
 
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What's the difference between dark mode and dark interface? Photoshop had a dark interface option with gray windows since CS6 and full dark interface option since CC.
 
citysnaps said:
I would sure like to find a LR alternative. But so far that's been elusive. And then there's the major issue of having thousands of edited photos in LR over the years, and no way to move/export those photos with their non-destructive edits to another program.

I just recently went with Adobe's subscription knowing that I'll be upgrading my computer soon. And with a new OS, LR 6 would be dead going forward.
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I don’t know about LR, but I exported an Aperture volume over to Capture One and it did fine. I’d be surprised if there isn’t a similar option for LR. It kept the edits non-destructive and most were materially the same.

C1 is not perfect — I have my gripes — but it does the same things as LR, the raw engine is arguably better so the photos look as good or better, I can buy it outright, and it’s not Adobe. That’s all I needed to know.
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carl76tr said:
I’d like to move from LR to Capture One, but does it support HEIC yet? Last I checked, it didn’t.
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Still does not, which is ridiculous.

My solution has been to maintain a macOS Photos library for my iPhone photos, and my DSLR photos go into C1.

Not ideal, but it gets the job done for me since 99% of my C1 work focuses on my DSLR photos.
 
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Photoshop peaked at 4.0 back in the 90s. That's when layers were introduced which made everyone think about their 2D image in 3 dimensions.
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Actually, it was Photoshop 3.0 that introduced layers. CS5 is what I still use today. The adjustment layers (from 4.0), Editable type (from 5.0) and Save for the Web's preview (from 5.5) are the most-used features for me.
 
The subscription concept is just another device to move money from your pocket to the developer's pocket. Truly, I do not mind paying for any product, but I refuse to enter the subscription scene other than Amazon Prime and that's a one-time payment per year. Apple has also jumped on this bandwagon and costs become absurd.
 
ptklenk said:
The subscription concept is just another device to move money from your pocket to the developer's pocket. Truly, I do not mind paying for any product, but I refuse to enter the subscription scene other than Amazon Prime and that's a one-time payment per year. Apple has also jumped on this bandwagon and costs become absurd.
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Which Apple software are you referring to?

As an aside, Apple doesn't even even charge for app and OS updates.
 
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incoherent_1 said:
I don’t know about LR, but I exported an Aperture volume over to Capture One and it did fine. I’d be surprised if there isn’t a similar option for LR. It kept the edits non-destructive and most were materially the same.

C1 is not perfect — I have my gripes — but it does the same things as LR, the raw engine is arguably better so the photos look as good or better, I can buy it outright, and it’s not Adobe. That’s all I needed to know.
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Apparently, from reading other peoples' experiences trying to export LR catalogs to C1, a lot the export process works OK (though clumsy) - collections, meta data, etc. But then you still need to "refine" your existing edits. With between 100K and 200K RAW images, and many thousands of LR-edited image files, that's simply not an option for me.

Also, with 12 years of using LR all of my processes and edit is pretty much evolved muscle memory. Going with another photo organizer/editor at this point is not something that interests me being very happy with LR' performance and functionality - other than the subscription model. Even then, $10/month is not a biggie.
 
citysnaps said:
Apparently, from reading other peoples' experiences trying to export LR catalogs to C1, a lot the export process works OK (though clumsy) - collections, meta data, etc. But then you still need to "refine" your existing edits. With between 100K and 200K RAW images, and many thousands of LR-edited image files, that's simply not an option for me.

Also, with 12 years of using LR all of my processes and edit is pretty much evolved muscle memory. Going with another photo organizer/editor at this point is not something that interests me being very happy with LR' performance and functionality - other than the subscription model. Even then, $10/month is not a biggie.
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Yep. I can appreciate that. I didn’t have the luxury since Aperture was dead so I had to migrate — was a necessity not a choice.

Either way, we can only hope pressure from competition makes Adobe better. If they’d kept up with technology and not gone over to subscription pricing, I’d have never left and still be glad buying their software.
 
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