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So, Mr. Huchinson, where is your homepage, and if it shows images that you want to present in a professional way, don't you have a pro lightbox included - for how many A$ per month combined? Don't answer! It's a rhetorical question as my point simply is this: "free" has its limitations when it comes to presenting "true art" to the world (I imagine).

Might be good, but i cannot use the backup from my laptop and restore it on my PC so that I can see the catogorisation that appears on my Laptop. Used ACDsee for years. 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

Enlightening as usual, Andy. I have subscribed to Squarespace and Wix in the past but just found all the features overwhelming for what I required. A relatively straight forward website that had the capability of selling a few prints now and again. As you say, I can't be arsed spending hours and days building and developing a massive website that no one may ever see! I did look into Wordpress but I think it's a steep learning curve for me and I'm too old to spend valuable shooting time on the computer. Ended up on Pixpa and while it's not as sophisticated as some providers, it's aimed at the likes of us photography types and it's not hard to produce a reasonable looking site with a simple pricing set up for selling prints or digital downloads. It has a good support site and the one time I had a question, I received a reply in minutes.

Personally I wouldn't use either Squarespace services or Adobe software, but the comparison here feels a bit disingenuous. After all, Squarespace does actually provide a *service*, where ongoing payments make sense (even if their pricing is bs), whereas Adobe provides a *product* that's bundled with some services purely to justify it being a subscription instead of a purchase to own. In other words, we're not against subscriptions in general. We're against subscriptions where they don't make sense.

Good video. I've been mulling over this subject and came to the conclusion it should be wordpress. Not sure whether I want to selfhost or not at this point. One of the things that make me pause is I am still not sure how the webpage gets into search results effectively (assuming one is trying to some SEO). I hear many folks have blogs that support their website but then how does the blog get into the search results. I don't want to create a site just as a vanity project. :[

Straight to the point as usual! Your info for the hosts is very nice, as I'm looking for a new host/provider... Thanks Andy!

100% agree. I started out with a Squarespace site a few years back. Switched to Wordpress then thought I'd give Squarespace a try again. Wow. I couldn't believe how expensive it had gotten. And once you get past the "easy" setup I found it extremely complicated to do anything. I wanted to create a free members area similar to a Patreon page and it would cost a small fortune. Plus it wasn't ituituve to setup. I went back to Wordpress and found plugins and tools that would allow me to do what I want. In the end it was actually easier. Didn't frustrations but I felt in control. I see the only benefit of Squarespace being the automated security. Wordpress can be suscetptible to malware attacks if you have dodgey plugins or don't keep the site updated.

Haha I love you calling out the BS! Squarespace (which I use) is double the price of the Adobe photo plan. And I don’t use it NEARLY as much as Lightroom. And I use Squarespace because as of today I do not believe they have been hacked. Wordpress just got hit with a doozy. I tried other sites but their blogging isn’t the best and is frustrating. However for the $10 photo plan….Adobe gives you a website builder although it’s basic. But good enough to get your work online and have a contact page and bio. What more does a photographer really need?

Cheers Andy , certainly thought provoking, and until I retired last spring, I worked on the dark side of SaaS , albeit on high end enterprise applications. There is one reason for the SaaS Subscription model over perpetual licenses and thats EBITDA & shareholder value

Thank you Andy for that Video. I know I am a Devil worshipper for still using Adobe and not switching to the new savior Canva. I will keep using Adobe since I have done so for years and I like it (sorry haters) and I like all the new option and features. Are they a greedy Company? Sure they are like every other one out there. I looket into Squarespace myself, but tot not like it that much, I have done a lot of Wordpress Sites and it has a little learning curve but offers so much more for the fraction of the Squarespace site.

Why don't you have a link to your website on this channel?

I can hack wordpress in 5 minutes so please, please, please use it so I can take over all your data

Thanks Andy, I am about to make my camera purchase Fuji 100S II or Nikon Z8. I was leaning more to Z8 due to the RAW processing issues. Your video has given me pause to reconsider my options and now that DO PureRAW 4 is out.

Great video very entertaining and informative ! Love the dry humor !

I bought one. I shouldn't have bothered. Took an age to get here, was charged the $ price in £ and it turns out to be a piece of junk. Save your money. It really doesn't do anything very well at all that you can't very easily work out how to do without it. Clever marketing. I'll grant them that. That's about all.

Got a thumbs up from me at the Fuck No

Love the BS free take on everything..I feel like I should just come watch videos here when I do not have time for nonsense

I don't think it matters what software you choose. As long as the software you are using helps with your creative process. Even the best software is useless if the individual using it doesn't make it work for them.

They’re Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop apps, especially Illustrator are pure garbage compared to affinity’s alternative.

Adobe pulled off biggest ip theft in history

I'm still with Adobe.....CS6 and LR6 that is, until they ditch their subscription model or give users the option to buy a perpetual licence version of their software, which I can't see happening. And yes, you're right, companies like Affinity need to have an alternative to LR and asset management as well

I had *just* bought a lightroom classroom in a book from amazon, and was about to get a lightroom sub when this all went down. I decided I'll just step back from Adobe because I don't actually need it. I have Davinci for the video, but am still trying to decide on a raw editor I can live with. I do think this is the perfect storm for the Panasonic/Olympus LUT in camera presets, where they basically have their version of lightroom presets already built in live in the camera. You can download more presets any time if that's your thing, or create your own. This is the perfect storm for that to take off if they'll license it to others.

Very informative

Absolutely spot on review which I wish I'd seen prior to buying ACDSee. Pretty much echoes my thoughts and experience exactly. Where's the AI stuff that Windows users enjoy? Performance sucks on an M2 Mini with lags on some tools and not on others. I can add another criticism: frequent crashes using anything relating face detection especially manual corrections or importing face data from an LR catalog. ON1 does almost everything better and seems to write meta data to sidecar files rather than locking everything away in its own database. DxO is still one of my go to tools for RAW processing (no, I'm not affiliated to either of them). I'm off to check out ACDSee's refund policy.

Photomator is actually as good as Lightroom for the vast majority of stills photographers who use Mac, provided that you are happy as I am to rely on Apple Photos as your photo archive. You could combine it with Pixelmator if you require more Photoshop type functionality. A lifetime licence to Photomator and Pixelmator is approx £150, as compared to approx £120 for just one year's subscription to Lightroom Classic, and you would still need to subscribe to Photoshop at considerable extra expense to obtain similar functionality...

Once again, a great discussion and I agree with your final assessment. As a sports photographer who photographs human beings and is often paid by those same humans to display a point in time in their lives or sports careers, any use of generative fill AI is more often than not to remove distractions from the background or correct camera issues, without it being obvious that I did so. I would be doing the same thing using the non-AI tools. AI just makes it easier.

It was time to leave them the very min they moved to a sub from the get go.

I like how Apple does subscriptions easy to cancel, this vid reminded me that I hadn't used it for awhile, now cancelled (monthly)

This is my biggest struggle - I use Lightroom 90% of the time and photoshop 10% of the time. I never used Premiere Pro, as I really like DaVinci Resolve, so my subscription is pretty low but I upgraded it to the bigger online cloud storage. I'm begrudgingly going to stick with these assholes in Adobe, but the second I see a Lightroom-style alternative program they will get the middle finger. The only thing I can do to support the cause is drop my subscription price down to the most basic package they have to stop them from taking any more money then I have to shell out to use the oh-too-good asset management and masking of Lightroom. Side Note: I was actually rejected from a job application because I don't have Premiere experience awhile back even when I told then DaVinci is practically the same thing it's crazy how much Adobe is the end-all-be-all.

ditched it ages ago, AI is already old school, and is nothing exciting. Why pay subscriptions when software like Darktable is way better and it's free! Why pay for Photo manipulation, when you can all have it for free?

I have and use the Last Adobe Lightroom version that was a "permanent" license. It does not have a lot on the new wizz and bang features included with newer version, but I have not paid a penny over the $99.99 of the original purchase AGES ago. The current prices are a joke and I will look for a one time payment option when I am forced to move away from my current software.

Every software made you pay for a new version, even Adobe. It costs money to keep feeding developers.

Hi Andy. Thanks for highlighting the usefulness of Photos. I've been using Photos as an editor since 2010 on a sequence of iMacs, and have seen incremental improvements over the years, rather than a massive improvement in any particular release. I seem to remember that those clever Light and Colour adjusters were introduced around 2020, but am happy to be corrected. You are right: the current version is powerful, and has strong fundamentals, such as very high quality processing of my RAW files (Canon 6D). The "magic wand" auto function is similar to Photomator's "ML" function: both have their quirks and need to be adjusted most of the time, but they can be good stating points. I have Photomator as well for masking/local adjustments, currently on a one year licence since, apart from masks which I occasionally use, Photomator is actually quite similar to Apple Photos. Actually Photos may have the edge overall for me because of the Light and Colour functions which you demonstrated. I'm looking forward to Photos Sequoia, particularly the rumoured possibility of an improved magic wand function driven by more advanced AI which, as any Apple fanboy knows, actually stands for "Apple Intelligence" ;-)

I am a hobby photographer. I consider the AI generative thing as a stupid (read boring) way of making images. It is just no fun. I just canceled my Adobe Photography plan subscription because of this.

Aussie pilot here in Sydney, loved the video and had no idea the harbor was restricted flying. Had a mate fly around vaucluse 10 years or so back with a Phantom 3 with neighbours flipping him the bird even back then.

Un-installed acrobat reader 1 month ago, because it was soooooo lagging.... So slow to open even the most simple PDFs. I Love PDF is serving me much better software for my needs. Will ditch every Adobe software whenever possible. Affinitive is on the way.

I wish. If it didn't take longer to produce the same things with alternate software, I'd be gone.

Haven't got a camera for raw files format but I use Apple Photo and the edit feature all the time, a very easy and very powerful app to use

Pondering it but I am still fairly happy with the Photoshop / Lightroom option (and it is not too expensive) and each and every time I use Affinity, most times I find it just a lot easier to do in Photoshop. There are some unusual options such as Procedural texture, equations, patterns, linked layers etc that are not in Photoshop but overall not enough to totally swing it for me. Wouldn't bother with the full creative set, prefer Resolve for video work.

Is there any point in compaining abut this now, since it's too late, they've already used everybody's images to assist with their AI stuff, specifically, generative expand, generative fill. where the hell do you think they got this stuff....I packed up Adobe a couple of week ago, went for Affinity instead, mainly because of the one-off payment, I'm sick of this subscription shit, everybody is at it these days...

Anyone that is able NEEDS to boycott Adobe. That simple.

Well that’s solved that… saved myself a ‘shit load’ of money!! Thanks 👍

What about ON1 Photo Raw 2024.5? I dumped my Adobe Photoshop/Lightroom CC subscription ($9.99 per month US) a couple of years ago and never looked back. Two years ago I felt that it was close enough to all the features that I used in the Adobe products, and now, two years later, it is even better. I wish they had a Linux version so I could dump Windows too.

After 25 years as a micromedia and adobe user I canceled my subscription 3 weeks ago when it came up for renewal...

ON1 Photo Raw

Thanks. I am a retired wedding photographer. I was using a bit of photoshop and light room to edit my photos in the past but a couple of years ago I discovered, like you how good photos had become.If I was still doing weddings I would consider photos is good enough and very intuitive to use. I have tested it on many of my old files.cheers Geoff

It's already been time to ditch Adobe ever since they started shoving their Creative Cloud SaaS ScaM up their customer's arses.

Good review, Apple Photo is great on my Ipad Pro - use it all the time go get fast quick edits for my Social's and to send to friends and family.

I’ve had the grid show up in iPhone, Canon raw and even in negative scans. Pretty. Bad.

Bloody hell. EVERYTHING you said was so relatable. I literally just drive around sometimes and stop and take a shot and then move on. Some days I go out, take a few pics quickly that Im happy with, and then bugger off home 🤣🤣