DPP or LR

[David Stallard]

Hey guys, probably been asked a thousand times already - I have been using lightroom for years but only in the most basic of ways, I shoot all my trackside stuff in jpeg and have a couple of presents to basically batch process a couple of thousand at a time before doing a quick crop or cull.

I begrudgingly went over to the subscription PS / LR when I had the R3 but knowing that they are about to screw us over even more shortly with price hikes etc. PLEASE if any of you use DPP exclusively does it do what I require? I tried Luminar (wife uses it) but couldn't get the batch process to work as I wanted.

Appreciate your help

 

[Only RF]

There are no price hikes if you are an existing customer. When your monthly plan runs out you will have two options. You can continue to pay monthly but the price will go up. If you go with the annual paid up front plan your price remains the same. I was lucky that my plan renewed last month so I'm not going to do anything until Nov of 2025. Then I'll switch to pay up front for the year. I actually did that when I signed up in 2018 but decided to give the monthly payment option a try for 2024. I mostly went with the annual plan because I did not want to see Adobe on my credit card statement every month

As for DPP. When I was a DPP die hard I started off there, created TIFFS and sent them to PS. It was an editing nightmare. After 3 trials I finally decided to switch to Lightroom in 2011. My wife said there was much less cursing coming from the digital darkroom after that. Over time I started to appreciate what Lightroom offered.

I have thought about a post Adobe life and figured I'd go back to DPP and use Affinity to finish. I have Affinity v1 which I paid $25 for but have never used. It won't support my new cameras but I can load TIFFS in it. This was while searching for an alternative.

With Adobe getting non destructive Denoise AI into LrC (being tested in ACR) and the new Adaptive Color preset (beta) it's going to be tough to drop LrC for now. I have not sent a file to PS since v11. Add the 5 personal websites, Lens Blur and all of the other goodies.

I am going to explore the LrC, Lr and 1GB option next fall because the price will be $10. These days I only use PS for screen grabs and making arrows. It may be time to start exploring cloud storage for travel.

 

[David Stallard]

Thanks for that - will stick where I am for the moment but will keep looking for an alternative - I still begrudge paying a subscription for something that you used to buy once and had on your PC all the time. Yes old and proud ;-)

 

[Only RF]

By the way be careful of sites out there creating sensationalistic headlines while not presenting accurate information to get hits. I have read of a few out there although I have not seen them. I know I would if I did search on YouTube.

Ask questions at reliable sites like here.

Lightroom Queen Forums

Forum dedicated to the support of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (previously known as Lightroom Forums)

www.lightroomqueen.com

 

[Only RF]

Thanks for that - will stick where I am for the moment but will keep looking for an alternative - I still begrudge paying a subscription for something that you used to buy once and had on your PC all the time. Yes old and proud ;-)

I had a though time deciding in 2018 because of inaccurate information. Trolls and button pushers where trying to convince people that LrC would send your files to the cloud, Adobe would steal them, hold you ransom and double the price. I never believed the ransom part but when I learned it is impossible to send a file to the cloud using LrC I went in.

I don't mind spending $10 a month on my favourite hobby. I don't curl anymore but I went out with my old curling buddies last night and spent $80 CND on beer. We were in Singapore two weeks ago and went Raffles hotel - the Long Bar where the Singapore Sling was invented. In the 50's it was illegal for women to drink in public so the bar tender created fancy fruit drinks and slipped it in. Only $41 CND for one. It was a novelty and we'll never be there again. The experience was fun. Good thing I'm a social drinker It's all perspective. I respect people who don't like subscription or Adobe.

 

[Only RF]

Here is a link to verify. 3rd Item.

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/faq/ccpp-20gb.html?clickref=1101lA6n22vj&app_clickref=1101lA6n22vj&mv=affiliate&mv2=pz&as_camptype=&as_channel=affiliate&as_source=partnerize&as_campaign=lightroomqueen

 

[Arbarthisti]

FWIW I have been using P shop and Lightroom for nearly 2 decades. The improvement over time have sometimes been a little slow, but overall the experience with both programmes has been great. The subscription model has not been updated in many years, I pay a little over £8 a month plus vat, I spend more than that on takeaway coffee. The recent upgrades to both LR and P shop have been fantastic especially the AI noise and Raw masking. I have over the years tried and discarded many programmes, mainly because they were not as intuitive to me as LR. As an aside I find DPP so clunky as to it not being worth the bother. In todays day and age there is no such thing as a free lunch, and as Adobe keep updating us with new features without any additional cost, that alone is worthy the price of a couple of coffees a month.