Originally Posted by
Adrian
Maybe. I think it equally likely that people bought into Adobe years ago and have simply stuck with it, hence many people never spend the time to evaluate what the alternatives are and whether they are better. I spent a good few years using Lightroom, Photoshop and InDesign, so I am well aware of the software. I've even done two Adobe processing courses. But it is now time for a reboot. Maybe this will take me back to Lightroom (I am about to evaluate it against Capture One 21).
There are things though that put me off. For example, I have started the free 30 day Capture One 21 trial (and will post about that tomorrow). I am evaluating that against the current iteration of Lightroom which I have downloaded to a clean Mac (previously had problems with Lightroom Classic crashing on OSX Big Sur). With Adobe there is only a 7 day trial, but they also force me to give credit card details and will do the many grab if I don't cancel. So it requires a negative action from me. That is indicative of the Adobe attitude that I very much dislike. (My business used to need several full creative cloud multi app licences and that was very expensive).