We don’t want to pay Adobe anymore, so my Dad is looking for an replacement for Lightroom Classic.
He has over 4500 photos in Lightroom and we want a basically drop in replacement.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
EDIT1: Also, how do we transfer photos out of Lightroom?
EDIT2: All photos are locally stored.
I might get downvoted for this but I think a lot of people forget how expensive editing software was before subscription based services.
You are right. It was very expensive to buy, that’s why they were pirated so much. A lot of people also seem to think they need LR or C1 when they really don’t. They are professional tools and were priced as such. Photoshop elements, Gimp, or even Affinity Photo are way cheaper, and still have more features than the average person taking photos of the family or vacation needs.
I think it depends how often you update either the subscription or the standalone.
If I bought DXO Photolab and kept it for 5 years without paying for an update then it’d come out far cheaper than 5 years of Adobe subscriptions.
But those subscriptions would bring me the latest version, where that Photolab license would only count for the existing version (which would be 5 years old at the end).