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Goodbye Adobe
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I have heard of it, but Lightroom seem strong to me.He hasn't heard of Nimbus.
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Adobe has acknowledged they need to speed up their program.
Opinions of others on Lr performance.
http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2017/07/on-lightroom-performance.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2017/07/on-lightroom-performance.html
I purchased an iPad version of the Affinity for my Pro 10.5 (10.3.3.). Kind of feel a bit dissapointed with regards to the stability of the app. For a few times in first 2 hours of usage something froze in a process while altering an image, leading to a manual restart. Once the app crashed and closed for no apparent reason, once it crashed and the project became unusable at all (could not open it again). It feels a bit slow applying changes as well sometimes.
I really hope that you can improve the overall stability with future versions.
I really hope that you can improve the overall stability with future versions.
For me Affinity Photo on the iPad is only for editing in the field, when I have to do that and produce an image ASAP. Nothing beats the desktop for editing resources: larger calibrated screen, stronger CPU & GPU, more memory and storage, and more photo editing apps available. To me an iPad app is not a replacement for a desktop one. But an iPad can be a replacement for an expensive laptop.
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Take this as a grain of salt, however Scott Bourne, who is now on the board or is a chair person, or something to the like, mentioned on MacBreak Weekly, there will be an announcement in the very near future from MacPhun and a DAM. He didn't say when, but he did say soon. This was two weeks or so ago when he talked about it.
But that is not what Alex, Macphun COO, said on the Macphun FB page. He was said mid 2018. Lets hope that after the dust settles from the launch of High Sierra, Aurora 2018, and any new Luminar releases.....we will indeed get the Macphun DAM in Q4.
He didn't say when it would be released he said there would be an announcement. The soon part is regarding when the announcement would be made. Which is what I said.
Came across this interesting tidbit today posted on Petapixel from a person that intimated she(?) was with Macphun:
Alina Macphun • 2 months ago
We are busy now working on a supercharged DAM platform for Luminar. However, no ETA yet.
Here is the link, the quote is near the end of the thread:
https://petapixel.com/2017/07/13/macphun-luminar-now-windows-get-free-beta/
Nice! Now if we could get an "official" announcement from them along with a release date!
Ive been using Affinity Photo since early June and have been very happy with it. Im waiting until next month to dump my adobe subscription as they now have ETF's if you decide to cancel early. The iOS app for Affinity is extremely powerful especially on an iPad Pro with the Pencil.
I have been using Lightroom for all my "photos" and I have no problems there. My problem is that as a Graphic Design & Photographer, I have lots of other filetypes (AI, EPS, IND, etc.) to manage. I have a couple hundred clients and many "projects" for most of those clients that I need an ongoing visual reference for. I used to use Extensis Portfolio before they went the Enterprise route and it did everything I needed. I could create a project catalog or annual catalog for each client, drag all associated files into that catalog (even fonts!) and it would show me scaleable thumbnails just like Bridge for everything. In fact Adobe Bridge would be perfect if I could just save collections based on the source folder I drag in to Bridge!
I was lucky enough to buy both CS5, and later CS6 just before Adobe changed, and have been using CS6 ever since along the NIK software bundle, which by the way works fine on an 2010 with an "Intel inside" iMac and the latest OS X. Since Google is not longer supporting the NIK's effects, I decided to give Luminar a try, but this app has a long way to go in relation to ease of use. In fact OnOne's Effects, Enhance, and Portrait version 10.x seems to be a lot more user friendly than Luminar. However, if the designers of Luminar can come close to the NIK effects in relation to ease of use, then it should be fine.
Hi folks,
Has anyone experienced working with HEIF files yet? I bought an iPhone 8+ and now have the new file formats to deal with. I've converted them to jpeg, but I sure don't like how they look. I just used the built in Apple stuff.
So I'd rather go with the original file formats, but I'm on Yosemite (it's been so stable for me!). Of course, new files need Seirra (or High Sierra). Right now, Aperture isn't playing nice with the new formats, but maybe that's because I'm still on Yosemite.
Not sure if CaptureOne works with new formats either.
I really don't want a subscription so not looking at LR although I think you can still buy a standalone?
I'll also check out PhotoMechanic.
Has anyone experienced working with HEIF files yet? I bought an iPhone 8+ and now have the new file formats to deal with. I've converted them to jpeg, but I sure don't like how they look. I just used the built in Apple stuff.
So I'd rather go with the original file formats, but I'm on Yosemite (it's been so stable for me!). Of course, new files need Seirra (or High Sierra). Right now, Aperture isn't playing nice with the new formats, but maybe that's because I'm still on Yosemite.
Not sure if CaptureOne works with new formats either.
I really don't want a subscription so not looking at LR although I think you can still buy a standalone?
I'll also check out PhotoMechanic.
The problem is that High Sierra doesn't support HEIF/HEIC encoding, I think. But if you download the files, some applications can work with them, like Pixelmator 3.7 and Graphic Converter, and Photos of course.
If you want the "original" file format, then I presume you mean DNG. In which case you'd need an app that can take such images, like Lightroom Mobile or Manual or some others.
And Aperture? It uses the converters etc in the system, and on High Sierra it will import HEICs. You can't realistically expect to use new image formats without upgrading. It "plays nice" with them for me, although I only used it for testing, and not extensively.
Photo Mechanic's current version doesn't show HEICs. Sorry. Try Graphic Converter instead.
Thanks for the info. I'm backing up my system in a few minutes with TM then will try High Sierra with Aperture importing the HEICs. If that works, then I might be good. I'm still culling my library* so not quite ready to permanently leave AP (although I'll have no choice eventually lol
* the culling - sigh! I kept way too many photos in previous years. The last 3 years I've been excellent at killing the ones I really don't want.
Cheers,
Brian
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Thanks. I did a search on their support site and no plans at the moment to support Heic files although I'd be very surprised if that didn't change.
Cheers,
Brian
I'm wondering if HEIC support will be system-wide, like RAW support is. I don't think PM does it's own raw decoding, although I could be wrong. If it can use Apple's, cool.
I think PM is also 32bit, which needs to be fixed as well.
Did anybody else see what Macphun Software put up for their Luminar software. They are now showing 2018 they will have a DAM component to go with Luminar. Coming early 2018. No official date announced but at least we now have a time frame!
LOL. Sounds like they took a page from Serif. And it appears they are having a hard time financially.
We will be lucky if we ever see a DAM.