The slider on the bottom part of the screen is helping you to navigate through the images while not using the grid view. In the center of the screen is either a grid view of the photos, a single photo or multiple ones to compare them. Beyond the folders you will automatically have some smart collections you can use or define yourself.
The folders are shown on the left side in Lightroom after you imported them into the software.
Luminar finally did add the library feature in the latest version that was released in the mid of December 2018, so lets compare both solutions with each other. That’s why the library is such an essential and great feature. After some basic RAW corrections I am mainly using Photoshop and the Nik filters for retouching my photos. I am mainly using Lightroom to manage my huge library of photos, rating them and having additional smart collections to summarize my best photos in one single spot. Short note: I am comparing Adobe Lightroom Classic CC to Luminar 3 (Version 2018, released in the mid of December 2018), because the cloud based version of Lightroom is still lacking in so many features, although it is a newer version of Lightroom that is not meant to replace the older classic version. Like many others I couldn’t do the switch though, because it was missing one key feature that is basically the core of Lightroom: The library. Going back to the original topic, I was so happy when I heard about Luminar* from Skylum and that they are using a similar pricing model. I love this concept, because it motivates the company to create valuable features based on what the user wants and needs.
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After the period ends you can use the software for free forever without the cloud servers - which totally makes sense since this is also the part that they have to pay for and maintain - and buy the software again whenever there is an update that adds features / improvements that make sense to you. Within this time you can also use their cloud solution. You pay it once and get all updates for one year for free. Since the switch, a software called "Sketch" is my most favorite one and I love their pricing model. To my surprise I found alternatives (Affinity Photo + Designer, Sketch, …) that were not only much cheaper, but that also made a lot of things so much better than the software I was familiar with and used for over 15 years. I thought very carefully about using alternatives, because using software professionally means that you also need to be as productive as possible and that’s probably why the whole industry is using Adobe software.
Adobe lightroom alternatives for mac professional#
Since Lightroom is a software that doesn’t require any servers or content the company needs to maintain, it’s even more important to me that I benefit somehow from the yearly money I pay.īecause I am a professional web designer, I started using alternatives to Adobe products like Illustrator or Photoshop years ago, mostly because I felt that they were just too expensive. I started searching for them around 1 year ago and my main reason wasn’t the subscription model itself - which I think is good in general to support the further development of a software - but the features and improvements Adobe made or didn’t make to the software in general. After using Lightroom for so many years now and having edited thousands of photos with this great piece of software by Adobe, it was finally time to have a look on other alternatives.
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