affinitt photo have a perpetual license. It is not the same but it is a nice to have. I would even recommend getting a CS6 perpetual license if you can. software as a service sucks
Yes, I chose Affinity Photo when Adobe went to the subscription model and my current versions stopped recognizing new camera RAW files. Have never looked back.
I moved away from Adobe to Affinity Photo due to their subscription model. To be honest, I could now easily afford Adobe but Affinity does everything I need and does some things better than Adobe for a very reasonable one off cost. I think I paid about £30 (～$41) four years ago and have had updates with improvements since then for free. The UI is so similar to Adobe there is very little relearning to do so it's easy to switch too.
Yeah but what Adobes software has and no other image editing software has, is fluid, intuitive and easy to work with user interface. Working in PS and LRC is the easiest, most fluid and most intuitive user experience ever. Programs like Capture One, Affinity, Skylum Luminar or any others, are just terrible to work in/with. The UI is much more important than the subscription fee amount - at least to me it is. I am willing to pay $1000 more if I have to, just to have a fluid, easy to work with and intuitive UI to edit my shoots in.
@@nogerboher5266 Affinity Photo is far easier to use! I used Photoshop for years, then Lightroom and Photoshop. The Affinity UI is so similar it took no effort to change and there are certain features of Affinity which are better than Adobe. Cost is irrelevant to me as well so it's a double win - better software and no rent.
I have no intention of paying for cloud storage for my photos. Sorry. I have a high quality NAS system in my home, an extra backup in a fireproof, flood proof lockbox, and a third copy at a family member's home (also in a fireproof, flood proof lock box). Yes, if something extremely unlikely happens, I might lose the more recent photos that are just on my hard drive and NAS, but honestly that's not enough to make me pay a company for the rest of my life. If a shoot is really super important to me, like a major life event, I'll make sure it's fully backed up in all three places immediately. No system is foolproof, but this is more than good enough for me. (I'm also still using an old version of Lightroom so I don't have to pay a subscription. Though with all the new features, I'll probably cave on that at some point since it would certainly save me time.)
I used Lightroom until version 5.7, when it became a monthly fee. I'm just a casual photographer so I didn't tough that I needed to pay each month. I now use DXO I still use Lightroom for it's library functionality (DxO is getting better at that, I may not need Lightroom at all in not too long), but for the treatment of my photos, DxO is really good enough for me.
@@marasaTQ Yep, system upgrades are a big problem. I still use a dark age system in order to run stand alone Photoshop plus an older version of DXO. I can’t let go of Photoshop.
"Casual photographers," as Tony refers to them, don't "need" Adobe at all! Of course they don't! Not sure who really does but I, for one, left all Adobe products three years ago. After the initial learning phase with new SW, I didn't miss Adobe at all! If you're rooted in on Adobe, and willing to pay the monthly fee, that's fine. But do not kid yourself somehow that you "need" any Adobe product!
I've been using Dx0 Photolab for a couple of reasons; Adobe's tyrannical policies & pricing & Adobe's RAW engine is poor in quality. I did side by side comparisons & Dx0 RAW processing was superior. That's it!
Cheapest way to back up your pictures / video's is to burn them to a Verbatim M DISC BDXL 100GB 6X, i do this when i go to bed and write one disk each night, it takes about 6 to 8 hours for it to write the data to a 100 GB disk, at 6X.. but it's said that the disk and the data on it will last about 1,000 years with out worry for bit rot, so you probably won't live long enough to experience losing your data lol.. i have Currently 20 of these disks stored with all my stuff and kept in a safety deposit box, very simple and very easy.. and cheap..
It's great that you have the discipline to manually initiate backups but most people will fail at that over time. For most, effective backups must be automated.
@@TonyAndChelsea This is true, But i care about my work so i make sure they are all backed up.. I have people come up to me, (i have a BA in computer science, 1985 Grad, So my friends run to me when their hard drives crash or they lose data.. At that point what i do is ask them how badly do you want your data back they look at me strange, i tell them about sending the hard drive out to data recovery, and then warn them how expensive it could be. Usually after an experience like that they start making backups.. LOL I Always tell them it's not a matter if IF, It's a matter of when, your hard drive will fail, they all fail sooner or later..
I’d still be using LR perpetual if it would support the raw files on my new camera. Was using LR since version 2 and the workflow was so ingrained in me. I moved to Capture One about 1.5 years ago and am still not as fluent as I used to be with LR, but I’m 90% there. The subscription model was such a turn off for me that I considered shooting jpg only, and just using Photo Mechanic to rate and organize my photos. I’ve been doing photography for 15 years now and as time goes on I edit my photos less and less, so my eventual goal is to shoot jpg and not edit anyways. :)
I’ve tried both and prefer the new Lightroom. When I renewed my subscription, I tried classic again but again found it didn’t suit my needs. I’m happy with the new Lightroom. That said, adobe’s bugs in its software is astonishing. They have absolutely the worst quality control in the world.
I agree and found the same thing. Used to be a classic user, but am happy with Lightroom now. I don’t have a 20tb catalogue, and am happy enough storing mine in the cloud through Adobe but agree their cloud pricing is over the top. I’m on a 3tb plan.
I can make it much easier. Just switch to Capture One. It has far better masking, exporting, tethered shooting, pano stitching, and may other advantages. It is a bit more expensive, however.
I also think Capture One is at least as good, at least for my needs, than Lightroom Classic which I have used before. The main reason for me switching is because I could buy a licence and not have to subscribe every month/year like with Adobe. I'm just a hobbyist so don't need to upgrade every year or so. Also, Adobe are quite terrible regarding their privacy policy from what I've heard.
@@TonyAndChelsea In fairness, no application is clearly the best for all users. Just as you both say, there is no best camera - it depends on your needs. I'd love to see Tony do a thorough comparison of LR vs C1 to highlight the benefits and drawbacks of each system.
I want cloud service integration, I just don’t want it to cost as much as Adobe wants to charge. I can be anywhere in the world and access my raw files in Lightroom in seconds. On any mobile device or even any computer with a browser. That’s awesome, just too expensive. Currently on a 3tb plan, but if I had the data that Tony does, it’s a lot harder
I prefer Lightroom (cloud) and Adobe Bridge. Pretty simple solution with storage...only import the absolute keepers into Lightroom...never paid for storage.
Like many others I won't use photoshop etc due to the subscription model. Here in the UK it's £20 a month! ($27.11). I just won't do it on principle. I would never own the software that I'm paying for, and would have actually paid for the product many times over after a while. I could buy a lot of hard drives to back up my files for the price of a few years worth of subscription (£3253 over 10 years, $4409).
Affinity photo is Photoshop but for a one off fee. I have had numerous free updates on their current version. And then just need to buy a one off database catalogue manager of choice.
The current price for the Photography package in the UK is £9.98 (they just extracted this months payment from my account, so I just felt the monthly pain!), which is Photoshop, Lightroom Classic and the pointless cloud version! It is bizarre that Photoshop on its own is twice the price, but taken with LR it's cheaper...Adobe really are taking the proverbial!
Me, I'm just annoyed that Adobe went on the subscription model for Lightroom (classic). I have no real need for Photoshop, but I do like using Lightroom as that covers most of my photo editing needs and I mostly want the database part of the product. I have zero interest in paying for a subscription that I might not need that many times in a year as I no longer take nearly as many photos as I used to and now am working on scanning images for a personal genealogical project.
My problem with Backblaze is that it doesn't let you backup network drives. Since I keep all my pictures on my NAS and edit them on my Mac, Backblaze is basically useless.
From a long time newby to photography thank you!! Whenever I was wanting to sign up for a class I was always asking myself which program to use - this naming legacy from Adobe has been impossible. Thank you very much Tony for putting this video together!!!
Hi Tony, I've been following your channel and content a while now, great job. One brief feedback, the cloud actually works slightly different: It's optimized for a Smart-Preview Workflow - meaning, the smart preview memory space is not accounted against those 20 GB. I for myself have tons of Pictures on my local server, but most of my edited smart previews are synced in the cloud, taking only up to 200 MB, yeah Megabytes.
You have a synology NAS and you have not done a video just about it? Do a video about your BACKUP system only! I bet most of your viewers has no backup at all or does it every 10 years when they have the time.
I fear that Adobe will discontinue Lightroom Classic CC, and force everyone to Lightroom CC, forcing everyone to cloud storage, holding our files hostage to online storage. If they do this, I’m walking away from Adobe. What is your take on this Tony?
IMHO, it all boils down to $$. Before the cloud, Photoshop cost $700, give or take a couple hundred. So "average Joe" thinks - "$700! Yikes! I can't afford that!" Or, "I'll splurge, but it'll be a one-time thing. I won't pay for upgrades." Adobe ends up losing $$ b/c they have more supply than demand. Adobe thinks, "If Joe won't pay for upgrades, we're sunk." So Adobe uses the tried and true "take away" philosophy. They discontinue a product with which you've formed an emotional and familiar bond. At the same time, they entice you with a "new, improved" product that's budget-friendly, has unlimited updates, PLUS cloud storage! "What a deal!" you think. Until you start calculating. Usually, by then, the stand-alone versions have mysteriously vanished off the shelves, and you're forced to use the new system. Hope this makes sense [think Microsoft Office Suite vs. 365; same philosophy]
What's to stop them from not only holding OUR photos hostage, but changing them just a bit so when you retrieve them if you want to change software ... they won't work on any other product. I was sick of the cloud when software companies 1st started using this. I want stand alone software back. There's nothing on my computer that's cloud based.
My process: *1)* File dump onto hard drive -> Open Bridge -> Wait a few moments for preview render -> Full Screen and browse pics -> Open file I like in Adobe Raw, click Done instead of Cancel to create an XMP file -> Repeat until finished -> Scroll down the files on my OS file browser and select RAW images that have an XMP file associated with them -> Open in Adobe Raw -> Edit -> Open in Photoshop -> Final edits -> Save as JPG high def (for print), and JPG small (for web). *2)* Name folder by YYYY_MM_DD_[trip/location/name]. XMP files remain, instead of me having to remember which pics I liked. *3)* Back up to 2 or 3 hard drives. Best ones on the cloud.
@@ronjenkins4257 Yeah. With the sidecar files, then at most Birdge will need to re-load files in that particular folder if I want to revisit pics for printing. And if I'm working on a different computer, I don't have to do anything but plug in and load Bridge again.
I'm the same. I only use Photoshop, Adobe's picture downloader via Bridge then ACR when ready to develop my images . Regarding hard drives-I have a back up drive on my computer that backs up every day, and I also use Backblaze for offsite back up. I have developed a pretty good filing and folder system for my images over the years so retrieving them from years ago is fairly simple. I tried Lightroom and I just can't handle the catalog system they use. It drove me nuts with missing pictures and moving catalogs etc. I'm a Photoshop, ACR, Bridge gal.
I refuse to pay monthly fees, so I use Open Source Darktable. I have old versions of Adobe, including Elements, C3, C5, etc. I may have considered buying Adobe products had I still had the ability to purchase whichever one I wanted to purchase. So I'll stay with Darktable until that time ever comes, if ever.
@@sylvaindupuis5595 If it's the DxO that I found the website for I have to say that it's lacking big time. It's doesn't give minimum specs for the products. I primarily run Ubuntu (Linux) on an older medium spec desktop. I shoot Raw only. I don't think DxO will work on my PC. I don't do phone apps for photography.
I’m using imaging edge + gimp for similar reasons. It is definitely holding me back but I think it makes sense to further improve my photography for some years before I start paying for lightroom.
Talk about perfect timing. I was just looking through your lightroom playlist looking for an updated video discussing thoughts and comparisons on lightroom vs classic. Over the last couple of days I've been going through and watching a lot of your content. It's amazing and really helpful and I hope you and Chelsea bring back Picture This! and T&C Live (T&C Live was hilarious, loved them)
I use all 3. I pay for the 1TB photography plan. I upload all my new photos to Lr. Once uploaded, I can edit in both Lr and LrC. I create albums to share using Lr (you didn’t mention this in your video). LrC is my main cataloging app. As my cloud storage gets full, I delete older pics from Lr, but they are retained by LrC (stored on HD). I use Backblaze to backup my LrC HD. The sharing feature of Lr is very useful, I don’t have to export edited pics, then upload to Dropbox, or Flickr, etc…. I can create as many online albums as I choose. An FYI, if you upload pics to your cloud via Lr, your shared albums have full resolution pics available for download. If you upload pics only from LrC via online collections, your albums have 2048 px images max available for download.
Tony idiots CC how fast 500 more classic cc on slow fools, just the one name will do! Haha 😆 So if all I need to do is cut out rubbish in the background to make a studio back drop for example and retouch image should I get LR Classic CC and can it be purchased as stand alone? Or would you recommend rent it for month do you shoot and that’s how?
I don't know why but I still find this confusing. I thought Lightroom classic was purchasing the software with no monthly fee. It looks like all versions have a monthly fee. Adobe really likes to make this confusing.
I don't remember if you have maybe done a Video on this before. I'd love a guide on how you organize your images both with regards to the filesystem as well as lightroom (classic) itself.
Thanks for the breakdown. I always appreciate your POV, Tony. In this instance, I think there are some very popular use cases that you're under-weighting. For example... I take photos for pleasure, mostly with my Canon R5 but also with my iPhone 13 Pro Max. I use all of LR, LRC, and PS... but the single most RELAXING & ENJOYABLE photo editing experience I've had is using LR on my iPad with an Apple Pencil. I can easily transfer my big-camera photos directly to LR on the iPad using an SD card dongle, and the app seamlessly syncs with photos taken on my iPhone. LR even integrates with the iPad version of PS (which is much simpler than the PC version, but can get many basic PS jobs done... certainly good enough for many social media use cases). I can do all of this from my couch... which feels a lot less like work and a lot more like art... to me.
Please include a discussion of Photoshop Elements for the more casual user. I know it's not appropriate for a professional workflow, but it works well for a lot of your youtube watchers. IMHO it is much easier to learn than LR or PS. Also it is a one time purchase at a reasonable price.
Let's be honest... instead of paying "one large sum", you pay a MUCH larger sum by having to pay monthly! Free updates is where it sorta evens out, but subscription-based software is much more expensive. That said, I have to say this is one of my more favored plug videos I've seen lately. Informative, as long as you're well-versed in this stuff already or are adept at hitting the back button so you can catch it all. Lots of good info here. Backup storage is a must, even if you're like me and only shoot a small amount of photos but want to keep them. Hard drives fail! I will be checking out your tutorial video offerings. Thanks for all your content!
Thanks for the video! Another video I'd love to see is the ins-ands-outs using of dropbox to sync photos from your phone (taken with your phone) to your Lightroom Classic catalog. I do this now but am confused about how to manage the photos I want to keep on my phone (recent family pics, vax card, etc) and those I want to flush after they sync into my Lightroom catalog. This is especially important now that phone cameras have gotten to be good enough to shoot pictures to add to portfolios in some situations. Would be great to see tips on managing this. With your combined tech and photography background, I can't think of a better person to tackle this. I'm an Android, but iphone users are equally in need.
Lightroom CC stinks. The tools may share the same names as in Classic (like exposure, dehaze, etc.) but function entirely differently, with CC versions doing a poor job.
Hey, Tony, this makes me think: it'd be really cool if you did a "Lightroom vs Capture One vs NX Studio vs whatever that one is that I'm forgetting" video! I've tried them all at least briefly, but I default back to Lightroom before I really get a feel for the others, because it's just what I'm used to, but I always feel like maybe I'm missing out on software I might prefer if I really got into it. Having your vastly more experienced input would be neat!
Yes I'd also love to hear your take on the various apps like Lightroom. I'm trying some of them, but maybe I don't know what I'm missing from one to the other. Which ones are good for which users? Why do you prefer Lightroom Classic over all of them?
I'll just stick to doing everything in Photoshop since I've been using it since version CS5. I edit all of my RAW files there and by all of the videos I've seen, I don't see an advantage to spending time to learn a new software (to me) that does the same thing. I was in a photo club in the past and they always told me that I cannot do what I'm doing in Photoshop. I have to use Lightroom (classic) until I showed them what I was doing in Photoshop. Then they quit telling me that I MUST start using Lightroom (classic). Nice informative video though for those wondering what the differences are. Oh, I don't care about using Photoshop to organize my photos. I did that when I stored them on my drive to begin with. As in your example, If I want pictures from the trip I took to Paris, I simply go to the folder of the photos I took in Paris. Ba-da-Bing, Ba-da-Boom! There they are. I do slightly agree about the Cloud. Although, there is no cloud, it's only someone else's computer (LoL!). BACK-UP Storage, no matter how you do it is a must for all photographer, not just the serious business ones. I lost photos of my dad, who has passed away, due to a drive crash and I will never get those back.
Just a tidbit of useless knowledge. Coke pulled a fast one to switch from sugar to corn syrup. Original Coke had cane sugar, "New Coke" had high fructose corn syrup and some other flavors. "Classic Coke" had high fructose corn syrup without the other flavors. You may notice he says "Classic Flavor" and not original formula...
The truth is you can do anything in Photoshop and Camera Raw that you can do in Lightroom plus a whole lot more. It may be a steeper learning curve but you can start out using it as though it was Lightroom and go from there. I started with Photoshop 3.0 with no training, (there was no RU-vid then) but still managed to edit my shots and learned as I went. To tell you the truth I am still learning new techniques every time I use it thanks to the additional functionality that Adobe puts into Photoshop every iteration.
I've been a fan of you guys for years Tony! Awesome vid as usual! I see you mention the mobile app at the 4:18 mark. I recently downloaded Lightroom on a new PC and I guess I got the simple mobile/PC software. It has a bunch of pics from last year on it and some new pics I recently took on my new Sony A7Cii. So I went back and download Lightroom Classic, which is what I thought I was getting with my first download. Is there a way to transfer the pics on the Lightroom basic to Classic? I appreciate any help!
I share all your feelings. Lightroom is way overrated after all the mumbo jumbo you just mentioned. There are better, less frustrating alternatives. I stopped using in 2017.
Nobody needs LR CC, because it's too primitive and there are plenty of alternatives, including free ones. Lightroom Classic is what you need if you are serious. And nobody really needs Adobe cloud. If you don't need much storage then there are free choices. If you need a lot, Adobe is a waste of money. I have a 28TB RAID Synology server, which also serves as a private cloud.
I pay like $9.99 a month for Creative Cloud from Adobe which includes LightRoom and Adobe Bridge and online storage. I purchased the online version because I operate from three different computers systems, plus it’s faster for me to access and edit my stuff. But when using Adobe Bridge I cannot edit RAW files in Bridge because I don’t own Photoshop or LightRoom Classic ! But, I’m paying for LightRoom online. Lol. I’m still paying so why can’t I edit raw files in Bridge? I use to own LightRoom Classic but decided to do the online version because it’s more convenient out on the road. Have I got this wrong or is there a legal workaround. Thanks.
Agree totally, LR Classic is for me the only serious LR option, I effectively ignore mobile LR. All my pics initially go to LRC most can be finessed well enough in LRC then output as needed. PS is still the 'daddy' that takes care of any 'heavy lifting edit work and oddly, just for finessing a one pixel keyline for smaller PDIs (usually pics for amateur photography competitions - aka 'projected digital images').
OMG, I just downloaded "Lightroom" and never looked back. I thought it was safe to assume that a product with "Classic" in the name was some kind of campy old program for WindowsXP. Guess what I'm playing with after work today.
Hi, I am self training to become a real estate photographer, which one should I use?, I already downloaded LR Photoshop Lightroom (version 5.4) , but I don't think it's photoshop itself. It's confusing, thanks for your help~
I use current versions of all three apps. I have a workflow that TOTALLY syncs Lr and LrC. I 'Edit In' from either lightroom. Lr returns a .tif version of the image. LrC returns a .psd version. When the file is saved then closed in PS the new file is synced to both LR versions.
I’m new to photography and am considering an editing program. Can Lightroom Classic allow you to embed copyright information? IE: name of photographer, place where photo was shot, company name.
So i have the student package from Adobe - that gives me all the apps plus 100GB of cloud storage, i have LRC installed on my PC and i shunt all the files from my camera onto the pc and edit them in LRC and sometimes use PS for stuff i cant do in LRC. I have the LR app installed on my Z fold 4 and edit pictures on the go using that whenever iv taken images using my mobile phone, its quite handy and has a lot of decent features - i wasnt aware that it syncs with my LRC though? I need to check that out and see if the images from the cloud are also on my LRC/Pc.
I still remember the horror of New Coke….and subsequently driving all over the county with my little sister to try to find a 12-pack of the rapidly dwindling stock of “real” Coke...
Adobe is a company founded in the 20th century with 20th century paradigms. The monopoly 😢 of the cult of the "industry standard"... that'll be defeated one day 😊
Well, looks like Adobe got wise to people wanting just the LrC-"classic" version. Now it appears that you can only get LrC as a bundled option along with regular Lr and Ps for $19.99 at the time of this comment.
You keep calling the creative cloud online storage but that is not why it is so expensive. Online storage can be relative cheap compared to the creative cloud. The reason the creative cloud is more expensive then regular online storage is that you get a fast rendering server with it including fast graphics card, fast memory, etc. Lets just be honest. How much did you actually pay for the computer or computers to edit your photo's and video's? Is that 10K? Probably more, right? Probably way more. With Lightroom you can do all the fancy stuff from you tablet. No, the whole creative cloud is still not mature and I would not depend on it entirely but that is most likely where the Adobe research will go to.
Lightroom CC 2023 and the phone app mostly work fine for me in terms of editing and exporting for social media etc. Where I find it frustrating exporting for printing. You can’t set the dpi based on the size you want to print. You have use the formula using ppi to set dpi. I’m not even certain it makes much difference.
Watching this on my 27" iMac from 2011 running High Sierra. All I've ever used is iPhoto and nothing else because I'm old & allergic to monthly fees...
I don't mean to sound like a troll, but after using Adobe for almost 20 years, I finally got tired of them sucking more and more money from me for a product that has a lot of issues, I switched to Affinity Photo and have never looked back. Just as powerful. Just as useful. And a LOT cheaper. Best decision I have made for my photography business in years.
cloud storage comes with your account. never used all of the base 20gb as i do not store everything in the cloud where others can steal it (people seem to forget how many of these have been hacked), also working from cloud all the time is way slower. For back up i use local drives
I remember the good old days when Adobe used to offer perpetual licenses for their products so that you actually OWN the software outright, instead of renting it out with this crappy CC subscription service. Adobe, PLEASE go back to that and stop gauging your customers for money each month or per year to rent your products. And for people that are going to say 'oh it isn't that bad really', well that's easy for you to say.
I took 38GB of birthday shots with a Canon R3 last weekend. Cloud sucks. Would have cost me a small fortune over the years. Would have paid for this R3!!!
I have the photography plan so I have both versions of Lightroom, Photoshop plus a few others. I rarely use LR. I mostly use LRC and Photoshop. I did have the app on my phone that I use when I'm on vacation when I want to post to social media. But I bracket a lot of my shots and blend the exposures so I have to use Photoshop for that. By the way, Coca Cola classic is still not the original version. They switched from sugar too high fructose corn syrup. You can actually taste the difference if you really know coke. I think they came out with new coke to drastically change the taste so that when they rolled out the "classic" coke you wouldn't know they changed something. But I noticed. Google when coke came out with new coke and when they switched sweeteners.
After watching this, I went back and checked to see what version I am trying out. You didn't mention this one: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Now I am thoroughly confused.
This video was a little misleading. I have the new Lightroom, I just click pause on cloud sync and I store 0% of my images in their cloud and 100% in a local library on my Mac and local backups
The cloud app is mostly worthless. Even with 160 megs download, waiting for downloads is excruciating. As for travel, where are you finding enough upload speed to get much to the cloud. I’m in areas with little to no cellular, so does nothing for me.
I thought about moving from Lrc to Lr and then it popped up with a warning that once I migrated my catalogue, I couldn't undo it. Nah. Stuck with Lightroom Classic.
Thank you. I even wrote to Adobe by way of their online talk and they connected me to someone that did NOT answer my question. My question was. I purchased lightroom 4.1 which came with luminar 4 . I am looking at lightroom classic but you dont always use that terminology and I am confused. I sure dont want to buy another program if I already have it. They didnt bother to explain . They sent me a link to the comparison that I had already looked at. I asked again. They answered the same. Then said Is there anything else I can help with you. I said obviously you cant help me at all.
Highschoolers: If you are considering buying an adobe product, I would NOT buy any adobe product before checking if your school supplies it for you. If your school does you can save lots of money and you get all adobe products free for your full 4 years.
thank you for this vid. I just purchased classic and photoshop. You made me feel like I did right. Only problem now is they don't pull up my computer so there is a fight with adobe about to happen.
I do not understand what this gentleman is talking about. You subscribe to the Photography Plan and then you receive all three of those programmes, giving you the possibility to choose for yourself. In other word, you cannot make mistakes and, also, you do need Photoshop. Photoshop is a design piece of software these days.
Great video! I'm getting back into serious photography after some time away and always had Photoshop as my 'Go To'. After seeing a lot of people editing in LrC, I was wondering if I was missing out on something, or doing everything the hard way using Ps only - this helped answer that. I can second the cloud storage; I had all my important files saved on two laptops and a NAS, when our house had a lightning strike. The surge strips will protect the power feed, but won't save the ethernet - fried them all! it's heartbreaking losing all those pix!
I honestly dont understand why people focus on lightroom storage so much. am I crazy? but you dont have to storage every photo you've ever taken onto lightroom. why not just keep your most recent work and keep older stuff on a SSD
