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Is Adobe really out to screw us???

 

I've been an ardent Photoshop user since the 90s. I've tried almost every alternative (until the last few years) and none really seem to hold up to PS and Lightroom. But a bunch of them seem to come quite close today. I'm thinking Capture 1 and On 1 photo raw.?

Take a look at this article and see if you feel the same about Adobe now :-)


cheers,

Tom O'Connell
 

The only constant is change. In this time and age, every facet of our life will undergo metamorphosis. We have to embrace the change and adapt or perish. There is no value in wanting to stick to the status quo. In this case, nothing will be achieved by changing software with very steep learning curves which will take another few years to master. I am all for Adobe's transition to AI modes, I find it saves me hours of time. Like all such emerging technologies, there are pros and cons, and I find that the former outweighs the latter big time for me. YMMV, of course!

As an example, see the decline in stock photography as a vocation, because pro photographers behaved like camels, and stuck their heads under the sand, wishing the new order would go away. Well, obviously, it did not!

My two bits.

Cheers
Jayanand


On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 6:16?AM tomoc via <tomoc=[email protected]> wrote:
I've been an ardent Photoshop user since the 90s. I've tried almost every alternative (until the last few years) and none really seem to hold up to PS and Lightroom. But a bunch of them seem to come quite close today. I'm thinking Capture 1 and On 1 photo raw.?

Take a look at this article and see if you feel the same about Adobe now :-)


cheers,

Tom O'Connell

 

Jayanand-

I agree with most of what you say on this. The investment in learning a system is really important.

My thought is that Adobe might well be heading out in a path to a "larger" market (much like Apple has done) at the expense of the top end users - photographers - and blend Illustrator and Design with photography rather than continue to be the best at Photography as a separate category.?

If that happens, I think that Cap1 and On1 are both dedicated to photography with a camera as God intended :-)

If Adobe stumbles, I think anyone proficient with Photoshop and Lightroom will have very little trouble using either of these apps. Integrating all of your plug-ins might be another issue but I have to believe a surmountable one.?

cheers,

Tom O'Connell
 

Tom,
Cap1 and ON1 will remain as you say only up to the time they find out how much Adobe is raking in. Adobe themselves went on the AI path after seeing what Skylum and DXO were achieving with that process. Nobody is in it for societal good, only for the bottom line. The idealists run NGOs funded by government grants (taxpayer money), while the rest have to survive by their own wits and expanding bottom lines.

The classic photographic example today, to my mind, is Leica. They have reinvented themselves from being a manufacturer of legendary tools for photographers to a luxury marque selling fashion accessories for the ultra wealthy, much like Rolex and Montblanc have done in their own industry. I fully endorse this attitude of targeting markets that helps a corporation survive - after all, they do not want to echo Moliere's doctors - who insisted on the "correct" known treatment till the patients died!

Cheers
Jayanand


On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 8:42?AM tomoc via <tomoc=[email protected]> wrote:
Jayanand-

I agree with most of what you say on this. The investment in learning a system is really important.

My thought is that Adobe might well be heading out in a path to a "larger" market (much like Apple has done) at the expense of the top end users - photographers - and blend Illustrator and Design with photography rather than continue to be the best at Photography as a separate category.?

If that happens, I think that Cap1 and On1 are both dedicated to photography with a camera as God intended :-)

If Adobe stumbles, I think anyone proficient with Photoshop and Lightroom will have very little trouble using either of these apps. Integrating all of your plug-ins might be another issue but I have to believe a surmountable one.?

cheers,

Tom O'Connell

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