![]() If you just want the home version its still retails at £ 59.00 / year for a one person license. Even Microsoft Office is £ 9.40 per month if you want the desktop apps and some online sharing / backup capability. If you are into 3D CAD design, Autodesk Inventor is licensed to you at £ 300 per month, or £ 6500 for a 3 year license. If you think £ 1200 per 10 years is incredibly expensive, think again - its pretty good for professional level software. Also there are often surveys or other giveaways which give a months access here and or two months access there and can be used to extend the license period at no financial cost to you. I buy my Photoshop CC / Lightroom plan using the discounted versions which appear fairly regularly - black friday, new years, so top up my account with those. So, if cost is a concern, try the free ones and go through a number of the tutorials.Īlternatively, for about the cost of one Starbucks coffee a week, you have the latest version of the top imaging editing system on your desktop, I remember this when switching from Paint Shop Pro to Photoshop. I found Lightroom pretty simple to use and learn, although with anything there is an unlearning / relearning phase. What I don't want to do is invest a ton of time learning to use Darktable and then find I've got to then learn Lightroom! But given I've never used any of these, is the learning curve for Darktable/GIMP really that much higher than for Photoshop? And once I've gone up the learning curve and invested the time, is it genuinely the case that the functionality (or at least the functionality that I'd need to use) is the same? Or am I really missing out if I don't use lightroom etc. There seem to be a ton of video tutorials online for how to use all of the above.Īs a beginner, having something that is easy to use is important. Darktable (I'm aware there are other RAW editors too) / GIMP: The arguments for this is that these are free and can do just about everything adobe software can do. But it's incredibly expensive (£1200 over ten years for some software.).Ģ. The arguments for this seem to be that it is the industry standard and reasonably slick. ![]() Adobe Lightroom / Photoshop which costs £9.98 a month. I've done some research and concluded my options are:ġ. I'm a beginner and have little to no knowledge of any post processing or image editing. ![]()
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