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mes2600

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  1. PhotoPete, I'm looking for software to help me manage and edit my photos. Aperture, while not perfect, did a lot of what I wanted and I was pretty happy with it. Photos, for now, looks like a big step back with the possible exception of the better cloud support. I have to say that I worry about Affinity Photo without a way to manage, display, and archive my photos. Once I settle on some piece of software that does this, most of my editing will be done there. The effort cost to use Affinity goes way up when I have to export, edit, then re-import. It seems that Affinity is focussing on being Photoshop, but Photoshop has had Lightroom for quite some time now. Without this component, it will be harder for them to compete. While I believe that Affinity can probably handle the database part of this problem, I'm not as sure they can provide a comprehensive cloud solution. Apple has a staggering amount of money in this and they have a huge head start. It's why I suspect the best future for Affinity Photo is to fully integrate with Apple Photos. And this assumes both that Photos will continue to improve and that Apple intends to leave the photo editing to third parties instead of developing it all themselves.
  2. Boy, it's pretty black and white to me. The subscription model is about rents. Adobe wants your money forever no matter what they do. If they can just convince us that renting makes sense, they don't have to lift a finger again. That's not strictly true. They have to do some minimum effort. Or maybe they make just slow progress. The competitive model is a great one in that it forces a company to create compelling new functionality in order to earn our money. It's a constant sword over their head that reminds them that they cannot simply rest on their laurels. Once you start renting your software and renting your car and renting your music and renting your movies and renting your house and renting your book and renting your magazines...pretty soon there's no money left. This is an expensive way to live. And think about this...companies are desperate for us to rent because it makes them lots more money for less effort. Exactly why we as consumers should be against it. There's a lot to be said for buying what you need when you can afford it and then just keeping it.
  3. That was the original consensus on Final Cut Pro X too. I understand that if you are a professional photographer and take hundreds of photos a day, that Apple Photos is probably not for you (at least right now). But that's a fairly small market. And there is a lot of room between "iPhone picture snapper" and professional photographer. I don't know why Apple is discontinuing Aperture. My guess is that the underlying software architecture had some problems and they decided to start again. We also don't know is what Apple intends to do with it. They might transition it to a tool that actually replaces Aperture over the next few releases. Or they may have completely abandoned the professional and semiprofessional market altogether. My guess is that Apple will focus on the underlying photo catalog/browser/cloud functionality and will open up Photos for third party editing. This might get them somewhere useful over the next year or two. In the meantime, there seems to be nowhere else to go. Aperture WILL die. So far, Capture One is not doing it for me. And I have no interest in renting Lightroom forever. If it is the case that Photos is opened up and Affinity is not there, I can imagine that it will impact their bottom line. If I ran Affinity I'd be looking very closely at this opportunity.
  4. Apple Photos is now available and Aperture is dying. Apple Photos looks like it might develop into a decent photo library browser with sync to the cloud. But. The image editing is very primitive. The belief is that 3rd parties are going to remedy that situation soon. One has to believe that some development time might ought to be spent figuring out how to bring the power of Affinity Photo to Apple Photos. This could be a big win for everybody.
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