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.

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!