Advice on editing software choices.

Affinity photo is fantastic value for money, particularly if you just edit individual images. Lightroom classic with all its masking capabilities is very powerful if you are batch editing.

If you also have a recent iPad, Lightroom mobile is brilliant.
Very intuitive.

Huw said

KernowPhoto said

Personally I think the £10 a month for Lightroom and Photoshop is well worth it. Its by far the most widly supported of the editing tools out there and its always up-to-date with features being added and updated on an ongoing basis.

I agree.

You don't even need to pay £10 a month if you keep your eyes open for offers on Amazon. 

Gothic Image said

Huw said

KernowPhoto said

Personally I think the £10 a month for Lightroom and Photoshop is well worth it. Its by far the most widly supported of the editing tools out there and its always up-to-date with features being added and updated on an ongoing basis.

I agree.

You don't even need to pay £10 a month if you keep your eyes open for offers on Amazon. 

Yep,  I buy at Amazon prime days; usually £80 per year or so.

Thank you everybody for your thoughts and suggestions. Affinity seems to be popular, so I think I will do a trial run with that for now.

Affinity Photo.

Plus (I'm breaking the First Rule again Allesandro B , sorry) I really enjoy using NeverCenter's CameraBag.

Get the Pro version and you'll be able to construct and export LUTs you can use in Affinity Photo, as well as use the tools on video. I think this might be quite a good replacement for some of the fun quick-edit tools in Photoshop Elements; it can work on TIFF files easily enough but it will also open raw files.

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Have Affinity v1 of both Photo and Designer from the beginning.

Today a mail dropped in, offering the complete v2 suite for only 33 bucks.

Deal!

Creative Cloud Lightroom & Photoshop.. a hands-down no brainer for me as I'm a professional image retoucher as well as a model.. but even if you aren't, it's well worth the £10 a month.

It has everything needed for a complete and thorough workflow, both function seamlessly 99% of the time, and everything is always up-to-date. Lightroom is also brilliant for cataloguing, sorting & rating work, (making it easier to choose favourites) and batch editing, ie. weddings, events, etc.

♥ Chiara Elisabetta said

Creative Cloud Lightroom & Photoshop.. a hands-down no brainer for me as I'm a professional image retoucher as well as a model.. but even if you aren't, it's well worth the £10 a month.

It has everything needed for a complete and thorough workflow, both function seamlessly 99% of the time, and everything is always up-to-date. Lightroom is also brilliant for cataloguing, sorting & rating work, (making it easier to choose favourites) and batch editing, ie. weddings, events, etc.

Totally agree, similar for me as have full Creative Cloud as use other software within the package as well for other jobs. 

But I flow from Capture One into PS and back in my workflow

You could try Darktable it is very, very good, but would recommend LR & PS for a photographer, though as you have said it is a subscription package. Plus they appear to be concentrating on Generative A.I which I don't like or use. The downside is you will be tied into to using it for the rest of your life... LOL. Move away from LR and say goodbye to your work flow, yep you will still have the originals and the exported finals but, workflow not so much.

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tandi said

You could try Darktable it is very, very good, but would recommend LR & PS for a photographer, though as you have said it is a subscription package. Plus they appear to be concentrating on Generative A.I which I don't like or use. The downside is you will be tied into to using it for the rest of your life... LOL. Move away from LR and say goodbye to your work flow, yep you will still have the originals and the exported finals but, workflow not so much.

 

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Thats not true about your workflow as Capture One flows directly into PS and back again

RAWing Waves said

tandi said

You could try Darktable it is very, very good, but would recommend LR & PS for a photographer, though as you have said it is a subscription package. Plus they appear to be concentrating on Generative A.I which I don't like or use. The downside is you will be tied into to using it for the rest of your life... LOL. Move away from LR and say goodbye to your work flow, yep you will still have the originals and the exported finals but, workflow not so much.

 

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Thats not true about your workflow as Capture One flows directly into PS and back again

So you can move all of your Lightroom work flow to Capture one???

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tandi not quite sure what you mean by ‘move all of your workflow’, but my workflow is Capture one for raw processing and basic adjustments, round trip flow into/out of Photoshop for retouching, and Capture One for final colour grading and output. Not used Lightroom for a long time.

you could certainly import all your files and worked on files into capture one yes

or are you saying all your settings, styles, presets etc

JonC said

tandi not quite sure what you mean by ‘move all of your workflow’, but my workflow is Capture one for raw processing and basic adjustments, round trip flow into/out of Photoshop for retouching, and Capture One for final colour grading and output. Not used Lightroom for a long time.

Not everyone will use Photoshop for every single image and some editors will use auto A.I masking, Ai De-Noise, A.I DOF etc to speed up their editing in lightroom then sync all similar images to save time. These settings are not transferable to Capture One as far as I know. Therefore your editing workflow once you stop using LR will be lost.

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