Lightroom Alternative?

SDK^ · 19 Jun 2019 at 21:02

Hi,

Are there any good Lightroom alternatives out there?
I've been playing £20 a month for an app I rarely us, even going to cancel my sub Adobe want to charge me a 50% cancellation fee of £80 :mad:

I can’t believe what I’m seeing - Adobe is a large, well respected company. This type of scammy, bleed-them-dry deceptive fees are unbelievable from such a company.

Thanks

EGuitarStar · 19 Jun 2019 at 23:04

Luminar is a decent one, though I found that you need a good spec machine to run it smoothly.

To be honest there are many worthy alternatives. A quick Google will return you many results. Though our fellow members will surely recommend what they use.

PiKe · 19 Jun 2019 at 23:06

Buy lightroom 6, last version before they went with this horrible subscription model.

Captain · 19 Jun 2019 at 23:06

SDK^ said:
Hi,

Are there any good Lightroom alternatives out there?
I've been playing £20 a month for an app I rarely us, even going to cancel my sub Adobe want to charge me a 50% cancellation fee of £80
I can’t believe what I’m seeing - Adobe is a large, well respected company. This type of scammy, bleed-them-dry deceptive fees are unbelievable from such a company.

Thanks

PayPal? Just unsubscribe through PayPal, that's what I did.

The_Abyss · 19 Jun 2019 at 23:56

SDK^ said:
Hi,

Are there any good Lightroom alternatives out there?
I've been playing £20 a month for an app I rarely us, even going to cancel my sub Adobe want to charge me a 50% cancellation fee of £80
I can’t believe what I’m seeing - Adobe is a large, well respected company. This type of scammy, bleed-them-dry deceptive fees are unbelievable from such a company.

Thanks

I cancelled my Adobe sub last month, and they gave me two months free subscription!

GSXRMovistar · 20 Jun 2019 at 14:51

Out of interest what plan are/were you on that came to £20 per month?

Bearjamin · 11 Jul 2019 at 14:20

I hate that you can't just buy the latest version anymore.

LiE · 11 Jul 2019 at 14:42

on1 Raw 2019 is pretty decent, and only cost $80. You also have Capture One, they have specific versions (Fuji, Sony, etc) that are £109. Both have trials so you can test them out.

I prefer on1 out the 2 and would switch, but they only support Fuji film simulations for the latest cameras and I use them a lot.

JRJ · 11 Jul 2019 at 23:04

Watching this thread as I'll be cancelling my Adobe sub next month before it renews for another year, just not using it enough to justify the cost.

Abraxaz1 · 13 Jul 2019 at 19:38

Currently using a mixture of darktable and rawtherapee, trying to figure out which I prefer.

I like darktable but rawtherapee is a lot more powerful, I'm fully moving other to linux in the new year as get sick of windows

MartinPrince · 14 Jul 2019 at 01:53

My friend just picked up DXO Photolab on offer. The Prime noise reduction (for RAW) is class leading. Also check out Capture One.
The rental model by Adobe is master stroke for them.

Minstadave · 14 Jul 2019 at 07:17

Dark table here aswell, but using LR to manage my files (DAM features still work without a subscription).

Darltable is very LR like but a bit clunky.

Gambit · 28 Jul 2019 at 20:43

Using Luminar 3 and so its excellent, its now got file management, which works well for me and all for a one off reasonable price!

SonicSW20 · 8 Aug 2019 at 10:39

As much as I dislike the subscription model of Lightroom/Photoshop, I've yet to find a pair of tools that works as well as those two do.

MartinPrince · 12 Aug 2019 at 20:44

SonicSW20 said:
As much as I dislike the subscription model of Lightroom/Photoshop, I've yet to find a pair of tools that works as well as those two do.

And here in lies the problem. I can switch seamlessly between the two editing one photo and finding a replacement for that kind of workflow is not as easy as I'd like.