If you know how to make that work please let me know. (Uploading to Creative Cloud was super slow also.) I could not find a way to make Creative Cloud operate like iCloud does where it would keep previews, then download the master if I wanted to edit. My primary issue with the Creative Cloud storage was that it wanted to download masters to my MacBook Air that I use when I am traveling. I really did not want multiple versions (iCloud + Creative Cloud) for my photos. I am open to alternative applications and insights on how others have migrated away from Adobe.
I can live with this, but I am hopeful that Apple will make this more seamless in the future. I timed the process of using Luminar 4 to apply lens correction and it takes (on my 21" 2017 iMac with a 1T fusion drive) about 18 seconds to get into Luminar 4 when invoked as an add-on and about 13 seconds when I save the image back. With LR, my first processing step on import was to apply the lens correction first before doing any image triage or editing. Photos is also deficient in batch processing. So any operation that requires more than one photo looks like it would need to be done outside of Photos and the result could be imported. The problem starts with the fact that Photos is an "edit one at a time" program. Luminar 4 has way better lens coverage and has the RF lenses that I own, so I am good there.įor Panorama and HDR, it is a but more of a struggle. I have purchased Affinity, Luminar 4 and Pixelmator Pro so far.įor lens correction, both Affinity and Luminar 4 have the feature, but Affinity uses open source lens definitions that is missing all of the Canon RF line. I analyzed my usage of Lightroom (I don't use Photoshop) and the features I really used a lot beyond basic cropping and global developing were: Please note, I am an avid amateur photographer who shoots mainly landscape, wildlife, vacations, etc. It was very slow to upload and it wanted to download everything to my laptop which sucked down all the disk space. My attempts to use Adobe's creative cloud did not go well. My primary motivation has been the accessibility of my photo library from all my (and my wife's) Apple devices. I have been on a quest to divorce myself from Adobe.