lighthound wrote:
Average Starbucks drink = $5.50/day
LR & PS subscription = $0.33/day
Once we acknowledge the fact that we don't even own our homes after the mortgage is paid off, suddenly renting software for $0.33/day becomes trivial.
Speaking of rented software....
I remember not long ago how we would all get all excited waiting for the latest and greatest software update on the big release day that happened once a year.
Now, I almost cringe every time I open LR or PS because they have yet another update to install where they added even more tools and powerful widgets that'll take me an hour to play with and figure out. Which by that time I'm bored and go to bed without editing any images. ...Show more →
I don’t drink coffee
No way would I sign up for a subscription… just never gonna happen.
I still regret the day Apple decided to kill off Aperture. The days when it was still possible to buy a photo management app (Lightroom included) and not be forced into subscribing. Now it's everywhere. I hope enough people tire of subscriptions at some point, but we may be beyond the point of no return, sadly.
Pixelpuffin wrote:
No way would I sign up for a subscription… just never gonna happen.
I know it's not right for everyone, but the amount I spend on my Adobe Photography Plan subscription is roughly what I would have spent every 2-3 years to stay current with Photoshop and LrC. (You need to do this if you are using current cameras, since new camera support does not come to older versions of the software.)
In any case, I am not sure this has come up in the thread earlier, but one of the unique things about DPP is that it takes the settings from the camera as its defaults for RAW conversion. This is actually a rather powerful feature, since you can set up your preferred Picture Style settings, lens corrections, ALO, High ISO NR, etc. all in-camera and your RAWs processed through DPP will be a near exact match to SOOC JPEGs.
Of course, you can still change all that in post, but for a DPP workflow, these camera settings that most RAW shooters ignore or turn off suddenly become relevant.
garyvot wrote:
I know it's not right for everyone, but the amount I spend on my Adobe Photography Plan subscription is roughly what I would have spent every 2-3 years to stay current with Photoshop and LrC. (You need to do this if you are using current cameras, since new camera support does not come to older versions of the software.)
In any case, I am not sure this has come up in the thread earlier, but one of the unique things about DPP is that it takes the settings from the camera as its defaults for RAW conversion. This is actually a rather powerful feature, since you can set up your preferred Picture Style settings, lens corrections, ALO, High ISO NR, etc. all in-camera and your RAWs processed through DPP will be a near exact match to SOOC JPEGs.
Of course, you can still change all that in post, but for a DPP workflow, these camera settings that most RAW shooters ignore or turn off suddenly become relevant. ...Show more →
I didn’t know this
Thanks for bringing it to my attention
👍🏻
garyvot wrote:
I know it's not right for everyone, but the amount I spend on my Adobe Photography Plan subscription is roughly what I would have spent every 2-3 years to stay current with Photoshop and LrC. (You need to do this if you are using current cameras, since new camera support does not come to older versions of the software.)
In any case, I am not sure this has come up in the thread earlier, but one of the unique things about DPP is that it takes the settings from the camera as its defaults for RAW conversion. This is actually a rather powerful feature, since you can set up your preferred Picture Style settings, lens corrections, ALO, High ISO NR, etc. all in-camera and your RAWs processed through DPP will be a near exact match to SOOC JPEGs.
Of course, you can still change all that in post, but for a DPP workflow, these camera settings that most RAW shooters ignore or turn off suddenly become relevant. ...Show more →
I have DPP on at least 10 computers. I suppose next year it may be a pain to manage mutiples, but Adobe for consumers is more limited in number of uses and it is not clear how to get a volume license.
garyvot wrote:
I know it's not right for everyone, but the amount I spend on my Adobe Photography Plan subscription is roughly what I would have spent every 2-3 years to stay current with Photoshop and LrC. (You need to do this if you are using current cameras, since new camera support does not come to older versions of the software.)
In any case, I am not sure this has come up in the thread earlier, but one of the unique things about DPP is that it takes the settings from the camera as its defaults for RAW conversion. This is actually a rather powerful feature, since you can set up your preferred Picture Style settings, lens corrections, ALO, High ISO NR, etc. all in-camera and your RAWs processed through DPP will be a near exact match to SOOC JPEGs.
Of course, you can still change all that in post, but for a DPP workflow, these camera settings that most RAW shooters ignore or turn off suddenly become relevant. ...Show more →
That's a major reason I use DPP. I really hated the other raw processors basically ruining the image, then having to get it back. DPP got close to the lcd
I can't really say subscribing (renting) the software is appealing, however it used to cost $600-700 for ps, $2k suite, IIRC
Just reviving this a bit. I've been playing around with comparisons the past couple of days between using DPP 4 vs ACR on my old machine where I still run CS6. Now I've been at photography for many, many decades but have never really developed my post processing skills.
With my older stuff I seem to be getting better results (more initial detail) out of using DPP at default vs my normal workflow using ACR. I've used both ACR and DPP to import the same RAW file into photoshop and it seems pretty consistent. The files I'm playing with are from both my 7D II and my 5DsR.
I think the next thing I need to try is using the Afinity I have on my Macbook to convert the same files and them move them over to my old windows box running photoshop. Curious to see which workflow ultimately works best for me. I probably should just give and move onto a subscription of photoshop but the whole concept of subscription vs owning just sticks in my craw! Hence why my new Macbook is running Affinity.
