I still use aperture
― 龜, Thursday, 19 October 2017 17:27 (six years ago) link
So... the practice of LrCC making a local copy of all yr pics makes it's a no-go for most laptop users, I'm thinking? That's your experience, Stet?
I'm basically just using it as a viewing tool for things I've synched with Lr Mobile. That's all that's in there - the 500+ images (Smart Previews only) I've synched over the last couple of years. The LrCC web tool is ok for a quick tweak too. And I'm now sharing Lr Mobile albums with people, rather than a Flickr link. But I could have done this without LrCC.
LrClassic all the way for me, for the time being.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 11:28 (six years ago) link
Oops.
It works OK in general, as you can set how much disk space it should use for previews. I’ve been trying it out with a 20gb shoot and it has kept the local usage small. The problem is the migration, where it insists on making a local copy of everything first and won’t move without it. I’m hoping that’s a stupid oversight, otherwise I just won’t be able to ever migrate to it
― stet, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
this decision to fork lightroom is really insane
― 龜, Saturday, 23 December 2017 13:56 (six years ago) link
i might live to regret this but i think i'm going to subscribe to lightroom cc
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 29 December 2017 21:32 (six years ago) link
i decided to stick with aperture and bought affinity photo the photoshop killer. if i need a better digital cam program (right now primarily managing film scans) i’ll fork out the 300 or so for capture one.
― 龜, Friday, 29 December 2017 21:58 (six years ago) link
should i buy lightroom 6 while they're still selling it without a subscription? i "acquired" 5.x and i like it. facial recognition is the only reason i know of that i want to upgrade to a new version. i assume the cloud version also has a slicker workflow for sharing galleries and getting photo snaps into the library.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 15 January 2018 05:47 (six years ago) link
I preferred 5 to 6 -- the performance tanked miserably for me with 6. CC is getting better, but obviously the standalone doesn't benefit from that
― stet, Monday, 15 January 2018 10:38 (six years ago) link
LR6 feels slower than 5 to me for no clear reason. i needed the upgrade in order to handle the RAW files for my new camera so i guess that's that... it also adds the ability to go in and futz vertical adjustment, not just take what the algorithm decides (tho what you can do is still a bit constrained) and maybe there are other goodies i can't see...
― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Monday, 15 January 2018 13:00 (six years ago) link
I went from Lr5 on a budget Toshiba W8.1 laptop to LrCC (what they now call Classic) on a Mac Book Pro, so any slow-down was more than compensated for by a huge leap in hardware performance.
Also like the latest color/luminance range masking in Lr, which I'd only previously seen in something like CaptureOne (it was much nicer to use in there though). Though naturally I still do basically the same shit to every photo I work up (with the occasional round-trip to Ps for content-aware fill, or Silver Efex Pro for B&W), so most new tools are wasted on me.
I think the layout in Lr is a bit tired and mid-'00s now. You shouldn't have to scroll down a massive panel on the right to access all the tools. I don't know how I'd rework the UI, tbh.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
"When you said you worked on Aperture, you’d get a sympathetic response. Oh, I’m so sorry to hear that."
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 30 January 2020 04:37 (four years ago) link
choice quote
"Many people, including myself, developed long-term health problems. One person, as I mentioned, had a nervous breakdown, others just took forever to get any spark back in their careers. I would look these people in the eyes, and they had this look like someone close to them died.
An amusing aside was that in my annual review, I got the most substantial bonus I’ve ever gotten and the most significant salary increase. I guess getting yelled and screamed at has its perks. Or they felt guilty. Who knows."
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 30 January 2020 04:41 (four years ago) link
I've been meaning for ages to get off Lightroom CC after it caused me to lose a few hundred images last year, and this week's 5.4 "sorry we deleted your pictures" update has finally prodded me into it. The Downloader is predictably terrible — I have 500gb (how did I manage that) to download and after an hour it's still sitting at 1%.I'll figure out where to go next after this. I've been using Lightroom since v1. Capture One seems to be the only serious alternative, right?
― stet, Friday, 21 August 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
i switched from lightroom to apple photos and honestly it's fine for my purposes. the developing side is more than i need. the organization is a little basic but fine. it knows about live photos and all the other weird shit that comes out of an iphone.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 07:31 (three years ago) link
Adobe finally updated LR so it remembers which preset you’re on when you step away and come back
― ncxkd, Friday, 18 June 2021 17:59 (two years ago) link
Okay so moving to M1 Mac means my old copy of Lightroom no longer works. And I'm not paying for a subscription. Anyone have a recommendation?Right now I'm tempted to just write a script to make the right folders in the photo library and copy images from the SD card, then use Pixelmator on individual images I give a shit about. (I don't shoot a ton any more, although that will change if my family situation turns out as I expect it to.)
― what have I done to deserve you (lukas), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 20:11 (one year ago) link
A pro I know swears by Affinity (which is about $60?) but it’s not an organising tool; not sure what else there is for that. I still have a basic version of Capture One knocking around - apparently that can convert Lr catalogs. I can understand not wanting to give Adobe a tenner a month for the rest of time but I can’t switch, not now. And AI masking in the latest version is really good.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 21:13 (one year ago) link
i switched from lightroom to apple photos and it's been fine
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 2 February 2023 22:41 (one year ago) link