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chez wrote:
For me the integrated workflow of LR / PS is heads and tails ahead of a combination of stand alone apps. I import, cull, rate, assign descriptive words, select and sort images into groups, raw process, raw sharpening, do fine processing and jump into PS if required, final sharpening, soft proof before printing and adjust for the paper / profile and finally do a print...and if not fully satisfied, I can go back within LR, adjust until the print is what I like.
No way is there such a smooth workflow using a bunch of disjoint applications. This integration is and it's efficiency from loading off a card to final print is totally worth the $10/month or 1 less double shot frappachino with extra cameral a month....Show more →
That's all well and good ... but ... there are an endless mountain of digital RAW images in this world that will never be printed ... EVER. With that in mind, there are a great many photographers that don't require those steps or capabilities and there are already many viable options to handle those needs. The vast majority of images captured these days, RAW or jpeg, will only ever be viewed/presented in the digital realm. Yes, it may take 2 or more applications but the resulting workflow is not nearly as disjointed as you portend.
While I agree, for many photographers, the Lr/Ps CC combo is a great option (I use it EVERY day) there are other very reasonable and capable options that can be equally useful. I have a very close friend who makes a very respectable living and he is currently using the macOS Photos app as his starting point and Affinity Photo along with some other plugins (many that are used also by many Ps/Lr users) for any heavy lifting. He's also excited to see the new functionality that is coming to the Photos App in High Sierra.
Plus, Lightroom and Photoshop are getting very long in the tooth. When you look at the 'new features' added to Lr CC and Ps CC over the past 2 years, just how much value has been added over what existed before CC 2015 and Lr 6 were introduced in April 2015? If we all were using Lr 6 and PS CS6 for that same period it would have cost us $160 less.
Yes, they gave us Dehaze and a couple of other meager improvements, but we are still on Process Version 2012 ... it's now 2017 ... Sure, it's only $10 bucks a month ... but even a 'double shot frappachino with extra cameral' isn't much of a bargain once it sours or goes rancid.
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