Tag: photoshop

The First hurdle migrating to On1 Photo Raw

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Location, It’s all about the storage location

The first hurdle in trying to migrate to On1 Photo Raw from Adobe Photoshop/Lightroom has already been encountered. And for me it is a major one, is the catalogue database, in particular the location.

Coming from UNIX background, on my setup the main workstation Operating System (windows) lives on a small 256gb ssd file-system, my LightRoom catalogues are on a dedicated 1tb internal ssd and all my images are out on a many TB NAS. There is no space on the OS file-system to store large catalogues.
I fear what would happen to the OS file-system if I pointed On1photo to the NAS with almost 50 years of work in poking around the imaging industry.

I did try fooling it by moving the %appdata%/ON1 folder to the catalogue drive and creating a symlink to it in %appdata% but all on1 did on startup was ignore the symlink and it recreate the local folder, kind of useless. and most likely kills this option as a workable DAM (Digital Asset Management) system.
In LightRoom you can put the catalogues anywhere and just point to them in the app settings.

This same issue is what killed my attempt at using ACDsee which also seem to insist on storing it catalogue on %appdata%

Finally happened, actively looking to switch from Adobe

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Adobes latest change to their TOS (Term Of Service) which I and many others find not very acceptable was the kick needed to finally start actively looking to migrate to alternate platforms. So the switch from Adobe has begun in earnest.

Butter Tart Friday

I had already switched from Adobe Premier to Black Magics Davinci Resolve as a video editor. And now have purchased On1 Photo RAW as a very promising good candidate to replace my long standing association with Adobes Photoshop and Lightroom. I have been using photoshop for decades from way back when I started on version 2 in 1991/1992.

While there are many photo editors out there both free and paid, not many have a robust integrated library management system. So one of the hardest part was deciding on something that might work as a replacement DAM (digital asset management) solution for my tens of thousands of images most stored in adobes dng format, that have accumulated over my 1/2 century (Yikes) of poking around in the business of photography.

I’ll try to post updates as I find time to work on the migration to a new platform, when I am in country, Couple of biggish trips to far off destinations are in the works at the moment where I won’t have access to my main servers.

if you are also interested here is the link to On1 Photo Raw, they do have a 30 day trial!

Adobe release new products versions

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cloudscapes

Adobe releases their new versions of many products.

Of Interest to photographers are the former Adobe Lightroom CC has been renamed to Lightroom Classic CC
And the new Lighrtoom CC is now cloud based.

New plan pricing

Lightroom CC plan

Includes the all-new Lightroom CC and 1TB of cloud storage.
US$9.99/mo.

Photography plan

Includes the all-new Lightroom CC, 20GB of cloud storage, Lightroom Classic CC, and Photoshop CC.
US$9.99/mo.

Photography plan with 1TB cloud storage

Includes the all-new Lightroom CC, 1TB of cloud storage, Lightroom Classic CC, and Photoshop CC.
US$19.99/mo.

That’s US$10/mo for 980meg of additional storage?
In a year you could by a 4tb drive for the same amount, and handle your own backups.

For now think I will stick to the base photography plan!

Only time will tell how this will work out for them, but working in high end “cloud” systems for years I would not trust my personal important data to any of them.

Hacks, cracks, thefts and redundancy failures oh my.

Now the fun starts checking in on just how well these updates and new programs really work!