J M Smith

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"David Mantripp"Ergonomically and performance wise there are not many competitive contenders. Lightroom, ON1. DXO will not be it for me, Luminar neither"" David, For me both LR and DxO are comparab...

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• J M Smith
• December 11, 2022 21:12
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So folks what is the consensus on the replacement for C1P? LRDxOTopazOn1LuminarRawTherapeeDark Table Other? For me I think it is going back to LR/PS...

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• J M Smith
• December 08, 2022 08:29
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I would be interested in this as well...  

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• J M Smith
• January 09, 2025 06:06
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@Barry Justice I am certainly gone forever. I post here because I am still a “customer “. I transferred all edited files to high quality jpg’s and the KEEPERS to high quality tiff’s and moved to LR.

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• J M Smith
• January 31, 2024 17:39
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Unfortunately for Axcel this is not the way to do a profitable exit. I don’t really shoot weddings, portraits, fashion, or tethered . So I am not in the sweet spot for their ideal customer profil...

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• J M Smith
• January 31, 2024 16:50
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Had CO said we have to move to a subscription model to survive, I would have happily signed up. In reality they should have offered (in parallel to a robust subscription model) a perpetual model th...

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• J M Smith
• January 31, 2024 14:39
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BeO Right now in the US you can purchase a perpetual license for $179.40.  A 40% discount on the normal $299.00.

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• J M Smith
• October 10, 2023 14:01
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BeO Hahahahahahaha Yeah just like Adobe did, they will probably at some point announce that Version xxx will be the last perpetual version...  I suspect once they get enough subscribers that is whe...

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• J M Smith
• September 19, 2023 04:23
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BeO I didn't actually do the math in this post, the anaylis is fairly long.  If I can find my previous post where I actually did the analysis I will repost it. 1.  Neither Axcel nor potential buyer...

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• J M Smith
• September 19, 2023 00:40
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@... I am ecstatic with LR (are there bugs and issues? sure).  There is nothing that COP can do that LR cannot do and LR's catalog works. I resorted to a new CO catalog for every single shoot to tr...

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• J M Smith
• April 18, 2023 15:34
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