"I hate Adobe" ...
Well, I hate christmas cookies ... at least after the event, after
consulting the scales in the bathroom. I usually stop eating
them for quite a while.
This solution works for Adobe-SW as well. If you really and
seriously "hate" Adobe, or the way their SW is developing
(cloud-everything, rent-SW, and the like), then stop using
it now.
The point is, if you don't stop using it, if you continue to use
an older version, you never learn the alternatives, because
you never spend enough time with them to work with them
as confident as you do wit Adobe-SW. So, in the long run,
if you require support for a new camera or whatever, you will
feel to stay with Adobe is the way to go.
Once you worked with the alternatives (and there are enough)
you will see, that there is a world outside the jail of Adobe.
It took two weeks until I could do the same things in the same
speed with "gimp" that I usually do with Adobes PS/PS-E ...
I never really started to use Lightroom, so I'm already using
other raw-converters as a standard. Nevertheless, I assume
another two weeks to get familiar with a raw-converter of your
choice ... and eventually add some more weeks to test different
SW (as there is not onle the one choice).
In the long run these four to six weeks are well spent. It is certainly
better than continue "hating" and "using" Adobe.
Just my 2cts ... Rainer
Well, I hate christmas cookies ... at least after the event, after
consulting the scales in the bathroom. I usually stop eating
them for quite a while.
This solution works for Adobe-SW as well. If you really and
seriously "hate" Adobe, or the way their SW is developing
(cloud-everything, rent-SW, and the like), then stop using
it now.
The point is, if you don't stop using it, if you continue to use
an older version, you never learn the alternatives, because
you never spend enough time with them to work with them
as confident as you do wit Adobe-SW. So, in the long run,
if you require support for a new camera or whatever, you will
feel to stay with Adobe is the way to go.
Once you worked with the alternatives (and there are enough)
you will see, that there is a world outside the jail of Adobe.
It took two weeks until I could do the same things in the same
speed with "gimp" that I usually do with Adobes PS/PS-E ...
I never really started to use Lightroom, so I'm already using
other raw-converters as a standard. Nevertheless, I assume
another two weeks to get familiar with a raw-converter of your
choice ... and eventually add some more weeks to test different
SW (as there is not onle the one choice).
In the long run these four to six weeks are well spent. It is certainly
better than continue "hating" and "using" Adobe.
Just my 2cts ... Rainer