How Many Programmes

[DWU2]

Here's what I own, and how much I use them. I believe that only 3 or 4 of the never-use list I purchased; the rest were freebies.

Have and Use Regularly:
Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, NIK Silver Efex, Dynamic Auto Painter, Photomatix Pro

Have and Use Occasionally:
Helicon Focus, On 1 Effects, Rest of NIK Suite, Topaz Photo AI, Topaz Sharpen AI, Topaz DeNoise AI, Topaz Studio, XnSketch, Spektrel Art

Have and Never Use:
Canon-provided software. DXO Photo Lab, Luminar, Corel Painter, Paint Shop Pro, Corel After Shot, Microsoft Ice, Perfect Photo Suite, Photo Spills (for collages), PortraitPro Studio, Adobe Bridge

 

[Only RF]

I don't read of too many that have PL but don't use it. I can download PL3 but I can't use it as it does not support the current cameras I have. I used to use Photomatix Pro quite a bit. I'd convert a file to HDR and then convert it to B&W. Produced a lot of punchy tones. I found some videos on how to make punchy B&W images using LrC alone so I started doing conversions myself. I could never repeat the same process twice for the same file. It's like getting a box of chocolates.