p.2 #1 · Interesting Article from PetaPixel: "someone-rebuilt-free-open-source-versions-of-photoshop-premiere-and-lightroom"
What I pay for my Adobe subscription is a tiny fraction of the annual cost of my photography hobby/addiction. Close enough to free that I would not tolerate even minor problems to adopt a completely free alternative.
p.2 #2 · Interesting Article from PetaPixel: "someone-rebuilt-free-open-source-versions-of-photoshop-premiere-and-lightroom"
dclark wrote:
What I pay for my Adobe subscription is a tiny fraction of the annual cost of my photography hobby/addiction. Close enough to free that I would not tolerate even minor problems to adopt a completely free alternative.
I’ve been saying something close to this for years.
When people (and I’m one of them) are carting around six-figures worth of cameras and glass and tripods and accessories…
… paying the equivalent of what you’d pay for a coffee and a bagel at Starbucks each month of the software that virtually replaces (and exceeds the power of) an old school darkroom ad also is an advanced image management system seems like almost no cost at all.
p.2 #3 · Interesting Article from PetaPixel: "someone-rebuilt-free-open-source-versions-of-photoshop-premiere-and-lightroom"
I think this thread is not about the costs of buying coffee or Adobe subscription. Some people are sensing pretty dramatic changes that are happening too fast with the advances in AI. I suspect that in 5 to 10 years Adobe might be as relevant as rotary diale phones are today. The reason for this will not be someone's copying Lightroom or Photoshop. The reason should be that in 5-10 years the "old-fashioned" photography tools would likely be replaced by new AI-driven tools, developed by some innovative companies different from Adobe.
These AI-driven tools are going to be used for raw processing by the large majority of the enthusiasts photographers who today don't like the traditional time-consuming fiddling with the sliders in LR or PS for basic corrections. I can imagine an AI-driven photography app that would do all the basic corrections in a fraction of a second, and produce several edited versions of an image for the user to pick one from - one to their liking. Manual raw development will be like film photography is today - relatively uncommon.
I believe that many things we take for granted today may rapidly become obsolete in the very near future (such as Adobe software). I say this in a matter-of-fact way, not because I like the changes. Personally, I find that the AI development is damaging to the humanity because people, especially the young people, are increasingly offloading intellectual tasks to the AI. Basically, AI development shall make humans less intelligent, on average.
p.2 #4 · Interesting Article from PetaPixel: "someone-rebuilt-free-open-source-versions-of-photoshop-premiere-and-lightroom"
This thread is about free software that supposedly replaces Adobe CC. No claims about better, just free. No claims that it has free access to AI processing.
Adobe seems to be well aware of the changing environment. And they seem to be preparing for a new economic model of selling access to AI processing (e.g. Firefly) rather than selling or renting access to code. The trends are pretty clear to anyone paying attention. We will see who rises to challenge them. Some guy giving out free code is unlikely to be an important player.
I use AI to write code and other image processing tasks. It ain't free but it's well worth what I pay.
p.2 #5 · Interesting Article from PetaPixel: "someone-rebuilt-free-open-source-versions-of-photoshop-premiere-and-lightroom"
I can't get too excited about any of this. If better tools that I can afford come along while I'm still alive, I'll use them. I don't have loyalty to Adobe, but for me, as of today, they're the best thing going.
