HDR and panorama functions don't do anything for me whatsoever. I don't
use face recognition or GPS info because I know who it is and where I am
most of the time.
Having said that, I use LR Classic and gladly pay the monthly because
it's as much a part of my photography as my cameras, electricity, and
bills for studio time, and my income is likely at this point in time
more uncertain than yours.
99% of my editing is LR, with the periodic visit to PS for layers or a
more molecular edit if necessary, maybe a content-aware fill here and
there, but the cataloging function and workflow ecosystem of LR is
arguably more important to me.
I can't tell you what features of the program are going to be important
enough to you to justify the cost. I can say that a few bucks a month is
easier for me to cover than the full price package, so I live with it in
order to stay functional and on top of the very many moving parts of my
current work.
On 11/22/19 5:55 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
I recently came into the possession of a macbook pro that is a lot newer than
mine, the downside is it only has a 1TB drive, and no ethernet port, but it
does have USB 3 and two thunderbolt ports. It had OSX Mojave installed on it,
which it turns out won’t run LR 6.
I’m in the process of installing High Sierra, so that I can run LR 6.
I was happy to upgrade lightroom every couple of years. However, when they
went to ransomware, I declined. My income is uncertain these days and I don’t
want to be committed to paying an annual ransom to not be locked out of working
on my photos. I just haven’t had time to try out alternatives to lightroom and
make the switch. LR 6 had a couple of new features that I considered pretty
cool, HDR and panoramas. The face recognition is kind of nifty, but not as
nifty as character recognition would be. They also work pretty well, but have
enough shortcomings that I’m not entirely happy with them.
Are there any absolutely must have features of the current lightroom that would
make it worth $120 per year? Mind you I have practically no interest in photo
shop, certainly not enough to pay any extra for it.
Side question. I’ve got what I want on an external drive and I’d love to just
copy that over, but if I boot off the external drive, migration assistant won’t
seem to just transfer everything to the recently formatted internal drive, so
I’m doing the long slow installation of High Sierra, which is going to take 2
hours, before I can even start the copy of data off the external drive.
Is there a quicker way to do this that I’m missing?
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