digital paradise wrote in post #18866025
Remember what LR was designed for. A fast and efficient non destructive editor for mass editing. I doubt if working pros shooting weddings, etc processing thousands of images every week were really worried too much about not having Texture. Competition is forcing Adobe to make changes that only benefit myself.
Adobe just doesn't have LR. They have multiple apps and l know it is hard to believe but some love the cloud which offers accessing images on multiple platforms. Your files are always backed up. A cable tech was at our house about a month told kids today live with their phones in their hands. That is the future. Maybe not my future but it is.
So your saying Adobe will die because of competition but I'm not so sure about that. They are well ahead of the competition in many areas. Have you seen how many apps and services they offer? What does this mean to me? Not much. Don't really care as long as they continue to provide me what I want - a desktop app. If they leave me behind then I'll find something else. If some competitor does really blow my socks off then I'll look into it. Right now LR/PS is a pretty powerful combination for me.
Again this thread started out as a new fantastic new Texture slider and turned into Adobe sucks and will die from the competition.
I don't mind, these conversations are interesting. That happens on all the forums. I did point out that Adobe did not just add Texture since going subscription. They added and made improvements too long to list since version 6.14. They may not be ones you want but maybe others do?
If you are referring to my most recent post, I never suggested Adobe would die, nor did I say any of it's products suck. Unlike some here, my reasons for abandoning LR was not because I'm adverse to a subscription plan. What I said was Adobe today has a lot of strong competitors whose software is improving in both quality and features from year to year. This level of quality competition did not exist years ago.
Once upon a time ownership of Photoshop and Lightroom was prohibitive as a result of the very high initial cost and expensive upgrades for their standalone versions. Those who bought it were mostly pros and well healed or dedicated amateurs. The user base probably expanded quite considerably when LR and PS was marketed as a single package for only $10 per month. All of a sudden, virtually any photographer could afford to have industry standard photo software at their finger tips. It was, and is, an absolute bargain.
Since then many people had indicated a strong dislike for a subscription plan, (I hate it when people refer to it as renting their software). In addition, many people realize , recently fueled by Adobe's marketing gaff, that the $10 monthly fee will likely be increased at some point in the future. Those concerns, along with the rise of a number of competent and relatively less expensive alternatives, will likely have a impact on Adobe's user base, especially for those users originally tempted by the modest $10 per month fee. We see the effects of these concerns every day as more and more previous Adobe users are moving to Affinity Photo, Capture One, DXO Photolab, Skylum, ON1 and other software
The number of discussions on this subject that we are now seeing on this and other photography sites is a relatively new phenomenon as a result of a dislike of the subscription plan, fear of price increases, and a growing list of competent alternatives. This trend seems to be expanding noticeably from month to month. That's in a nutshell is my point. If Adobe's products get more expensive and there are viable cheaper alternatives, their user base may shrink.
