Photo Editing software which one do you all prefer

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That happens when you computer runs out of RAM and starts swapping with a scratch disk. I suspect you are using Windows?

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6 hours ago, jaapv said:

So many things in life are a subscription, from the rent of a house, a lease of a car to a season ticket to your football club. What is so bad about a software subscription?

Subscriptions are fine if they are providing new things you care about on a regular basis, whether it's a series of football matches or electricity or the new season of Squid Game. I'm sure there are people who used to buy every version of PS and LR, were excited by the new features, and are maybe paying less per year than they used to. But what if you aren't bothered about that stuff and effectively have to keep paying for the subset of features you actually use, again and again, with no exit from the treadmill that allows you to keep using the software?

It's often not cheaper, either. If you used only LR and only updated it every few years when you bought a new camera, you are paying some multiple of what you used to, because the cheapest annual CC subscriptions costs more than a 'perpetual' licence did on Amazon in the LR6 days. If you used to need (say) PS, Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat Pro for production work, you might previously have bought a perpetual licence for the Design Standard CS collection, which cost £1,032 in the UK for CS6. The standard subscription price that covers that suite is £56.98 per month, so you'd spend as much in 18 months as you would have done on a 'perpetual' licence you might have used for 5 years or longer. Even at the discounted rate Adobe offers from time to time, you'd only get about 2.5 years worth of use for the cost of the 'perpetual' licence. There's a reason why Adobe has made subscriptions mandatory and C1 are trying to push as many people in that direction as possible - many people used to skip versions because the updates weren't compelling enough, so perpetual licences were much less profitable.

The other issue is that it's not just Adobe. I could be paying a monthly rental for any number of things, like my Office suite and my internet radio app and even a fitness game for my VR headset, all of which have switched to subscriptions. They all offer extra stuff I don't much care about, and the frequent interface changes usually irritate more than they enhance. Where does it stop, and why should I encourage them?

[LocalHero1953]

2 hours ago, jaapv said:

That happens when you computer runs out of RAM and starts swapping with a scratch disk. I suspect you are using Windows?

Yes, I do my photo editing on a Windows PC with a good GPU. When travelling I use a MacBook Pro M1 Pro and 32Gb RAM, but it is slower than the PC.
16Gb is more than enough to run Adobe s/w on Windows. 32Gb might be even better, but 16Gb is not a limitation. Under normal circumstances it trundles along using 5-8Gb, but sometimes, for no apparent reason, ramps up to the full 16Gb (and would probably keep going till it gets to 32Gb).
The Adobe memory leak issue was an acknowledged bug. The current incidence is not sufficiently frequent that I've looked into the cause yet.
And yes, it was when it was clearly struggling with disk swaps that I checked and found that crash reports were occupying much of the hard disk. Deleting them solved that problem.

Edited February 3, 2024 by LocalHero1953

[jaapv]

As a matter of fact 16 GB on a Silicon mac is ample.The rarely needed swap with the SSD is amazingly quick. 

[LocalHero1953]

One valuable thing that comes with the Lightroom Classic subscription, is the free online Lightroom CC collection galleries - places where large numbers of images can be placed for people (single individuals or anyone with the link) to view and download. It's a great way to distribute the photos I do for theatre/music/dance productions. They can only download at about 2000px/side, but that is more than good enough for online publicity use, and even posters........

Two of my shots uploaded and downloaded by the local ADC Theatre this way - I told them to ask for hires images if they wanted them for such posters, but they printed them anyway. (Photo taken today with a smartphone, but original images taken with SL2-S.)

Someday Adobe will decide to charge extra for this service.

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Edited February 3, 2024 by LocalHero1953