![]() ![]() It’s not impossible though, so long as I maintain a few rules in my DAM (Digital Asset Management) workflow. Any move away is likely to result is a massive amount of work to shift workflow to a different application. As a result, I am essentially locked in to Lightroom. Although I am not enamored with the way that LR processes images, it has become my de facto imaging workflow tool - mainly because it is so efficient in sorting, ranking and searching for images. ![]() Personally, I have a master library of over 12000 images that I use Lightroom to navigate through. There are several alternatives to Photoshop for bitmap editing (more on this in a moment). The ramifications of losing Photoshop aren’t necessarily that large however. The downside is that when you decide that you no longer want to follow the subscription path, then you lose the ability to use the software. While I don’t endorse the choice of subscription model, the price is actually cheaper than if you were to buy Photoshop 6 and Lightroom 6 as standalone packages and upgrade at every second upgrade. Added to this are Lightroom Mobile and a limited amount of space on the the Adobe Creative Cloud for shared files. After the original debacle of the CC rollout, Adobe quickly created a photographers package that included Photoshop CC and Lightroom. What exactly are the options available to photographers then? The good news is that the Adobe Photographers package is actually a reasonable package of software for, surprisingly, a reasonable price. Unless of course you decide to - as Adobe suggests - trash your original RAW files and only keep the DNG copies, thereby potentially losing advantages to future manufacture driven software, or non DNG alternatives (think Nikon NX-D and it’s eventual successor or perhaps better alternatives from other third parties like Phase One and their very capable Capture One software).Ĭonsidering Adobe’s now permanent move to a subscription model for Photoshop, it seems logical to predict that Lightroom will ultimately also migrate to a fully ‘cloud-based’ subscription model. It also potentially doubles the amount of storage space that you require for your images. Working with the DNG converter is far from efficient and requires an additional step in the ingest workflow. Not that this is really much comfort mind you. No problem, say Adobe, you can still download their free DNG converter and convert your RAW files into DNG that can be handled with any Photoshop suite back to Photoshop 7 (in the pre CS days). Many writers predicted that this would happen when Adobe first launched their so called ‘cloud’ version of Photoshop, Adobe CC (Creative Cloud). ![]() It seems that they are now finally throwing the towel in with the boxed versions of Photoshop. I’m not an Affinity user, but I do own it.Last week Adobe rather unsurprisingly announced that the standalone Photoshop CS6 would no longer be updated with new features or have new codec supplied to handle the files from newly released digital cameras. And then added a couple adjustment layers that all operated as they should on the image. In there I could run the file through the Topaz Sharpen AI plugin filter (also with no issues). dng into Photoshop (2022) with no issues. Made some settings changes to it & let it process, then Saved image with the same “Preserve Input” setting you used. I just tried opening one of my Sony ARW files into DAI 3.7.0. I have Preserve Input settings checked because I want a raw file for further editing (without the noise)ĭeNoise now creates me a DNG file of about 50MB with dimensions of 256x171 with a resolution of 350dpi. I open these files in DN make the adjustments and press SAVE IMAGE. The pixel dimensions are 3969x2648 and about 10MB Raw files from a sony A7ii in ARW format. ![]()
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