Section 04
Fifteen named, and they do not agree
The paid programs, and what each is actually good at.
Lightroom catalogues and Photoshop pixels neither one alone
Lightroom Classic is a catalogue with a raw converter attached, Photoshop is a pixel editor with everything else attached, and the reason people carry both is that neither is the other. Price it as of the date you write the sentence.
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Everything in programs
Full archive →- Lightroom catalogues and Photoshop pixels neither one aloneLightroom Classic is a catalogue with a raw converter attached, Photoshop is a pixel editor with everything else attached, and the reason people carry both is that neither is the other. Price it as of the date you write the sentence.
- Capture One's colour picker selects the exact hueCapture One came out of Phase One's scanning-back business and its colour editor and tethering are why studio photographers move to it.
- Affinity Photo 2 bills once and never againAffinity Photo 2 is a perpetual licence from Serif, now owned by Canva. That ownership change is the thing worth watching, and the price should carry the date it was taken.
- DxO and Topaz rescue the file your converter cannotDxO's PureRAW and Topaz Photo AI both do one job on files other converters have already given up on.