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This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.
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Support can come from the community though, and i don't remotely need it to edit photos, i use 1% of lightroom, turn b&w, use sliders, that's it. It's the basic photo processing i want, not the billions of options I'll never use. I don’t even know what 'support' means for photography. I get videogame engines because they're extremely complicated.
The community is exactly what I referred to. The reality is that such community is often an order of magnitude larger around well established products, regardless of whether they are sold or are free (often they are commercial products, think MS Office for example).
Moreover, nobody said that you should buy something that you do not need. That would be coercion indeed. I would not pay 1 quid, let alone 10, if I did not need Lightroom.
I do not feel forced in the slightest when I pay my 10 euro a month (I actually pay a lot more than that for the full suite) when such money makes me do the work in 10% or less of the time I would need with alternative products.