Preparing To Wave Adobe Goodbye 4
Preparing to wave goodbye to Adobe 4
This is an update to Preparing to wave goodbye to Adobe 3.
Adobe has issued its last update for the standalone product Lightroom 6. For anybody wishing to purchase this last version of Lightroom it is available on the Adobe website but it is extremely difficult to find apparently.
Users of Lightroom Classic have been reassured by Adobe that it is an ongoing product that will not become cloud-based. For those of us who are not reassured by Adobe’s promises that at some point in the future Lightroom Classic will become cloud-based have to keep an eye out for alternatives.
Lightroom Library Database Compatibility
In an ideal world, the transition from Lightroom to another product would be seamless. There are currently some products such as Capture One that allows you to it import your current Lightroom catalogue. The big but here is that the transferred Lightroom catalogue within the Capture One environment has very limited usability. Many features do not work such as Smart Collections.
I feel there will be an ongoing development issue for any potential alternatives to Lightroom because Adobe will not open source it’s coding for the Lightroom library. As such, even though alternatives may be using the same library database platform how it works will not be compatible with your current xmp files.
How this leaves us as Lightroom users is a huge quandary how we preserve our pictures within the Lightroom set up should it go cloud-based is a very nutty conundrum.
As yet, I have no feasible option but innovation and technology are constantly evolving.
Potential Alternatives to Lightroom Classic
Since November 2017 on the introduction of Lightroom Classic, there has been a flurry of activity from many Raw processing software providers all looking to take a slice of the Adobe cake. Perhaps in a years time, we will be a will to see which one of those has the most credible alternative to Lightrooms image management and processing capabilities. Here is a link to some of the current potential alternatives on the market.
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Hi Andy,
The Internet, everyday, all around us is where we are going….but it is not reliable….I know. If you are a company who wants to survive you need to go with the flow….innovate or die. To some keeping up constantly with Facebook is more important than keeping their job! Photographers often fail to understand the simple business facts…provide what your customers want or lose them. Remember also though, that some customers are more trouble than they are worth. Adobe understands this, the’ve seen many other “giants” fall by the wayside.
From the day I got my first DSLR I’ve had to use the free adobe DNG converter,(and I understand from Tony Worobiec that ACR is a free download too), to use RAW files with PS/LR. So all my computer saved files are dng or jpeg. Most of my saved files are rubbish. (Zack Arias uses there term “noise, see his blog”)
All my files are accessible at any time (on a mac) by clicking on them in the OS. The single most important thing in my opinion is naming your files, ideally as imported/saved, with a unique humanly recognisable name.( If you ever want to find them again).
Lightroom only really helps with a catalogue. You need, it is said, 5 copies of a digital file, to be “safe`’. Two original copies on original media, one/two copy/s on a hard drive, and two on physical media. And the worst part. How are you going to read them in a hundred years time? Yet we claim that this is all so IMPORTANT to us? Really? Assets are only valuable if they can be used/sold. Otherwise they are a liability. Lightroom is an ASSET management system but most use it as a liability management system.
If your customers adopt an internet only system and you” teach it,” surely you need to have & master it. OH YES. And pay whatever fee the manufacturer asks for it. Because, in one calendar working day, you can make a 300+% profit on that investment.( Lewis Hamilton borrows a car for two hours a fortnight, masters it, wins a fortune, hands it back, having never owned it or been liable for its upkeep. Does he complain?)
…….just another two penny worth.
Shiny