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Is there any good alternatives to Lightroom Classic? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by urbanracer34@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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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.

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[–] daBomb26@alien.top 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I might get downvoted for this but I think a lot of people forget how expensive editing software was before subscription based services.

[–] Fineus@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

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).