It’s a simpler task doing it on flat 8- or 16-bit data in Photoshop, where Lightroom and ACR require a non-destructive procedural approach that works on floating point Raw image data. It’s understandable why bringing a feature over from Photoshop is a slow process. Advanced Healing BrushĪdobe has a pretty great arsenal of healing tools in Photoshop, and they are now moving into Lightroom and Camera Raw with the improved Advanced Healing Brush. But since you’re not going to switch to Lightroom 5 because your files are held hostage, Adobe’s going to have to convince you to upgrade the old-fashioned way-compelling features. Maybe if FreeHand still existed, Illustrator might have been spared the Creative Cloud treatment as well. Almost no one would be willing to risk losing access to his or her photo library’s rich metadata catalog for a low entry fee. Lightroom’s price is now low enough to buy outright (also roughly $80 for an upgrade). Today, a five-machine license of Aperture can be bought on the Mac App Store for $80, and I’d say that has a lot to do with why Lightroom was not put into a rental license scheme.
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By Lightroom 4, Adobe’s price dropped to $149 from $299, largely due to this competition. And by Lightroom 1's release, Apple even had time to address some of Aperture 1.0’s significant failings. Adobe was playing catch-up, especially to Apple’s Aperture, which was the first real monolithic professional Raw workflow app that Lightroom emulated. When Lightroom 1 debuted, it launched into a Raw converter market that was pretty mature. I don’t think you have to be a cynic to pick out the main reason for Lightroom being spared the Creative Cloud treatment. That means that if you upgrade to Lightroom 5, you pay once and own a license to use the software indefinitely-unless it’s used to add more rockets to Iran’s arsenal or make Portia de Rossi look any more like one of the Olsen twins (that’s my law). So let’s first talk about what’s not in Lightroom 5: the Creative Cloud license.
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But the consensus from our end was obvious: people hate the new rental software scheme, and they are livid at the prospect of paying what many likened to a protection racket for their files. Yes, for every 30 or so negative comments, there was someone who liked being able to buy in at a lower cost. Commenters told us what big fans they are of the new pay-forever-or-lose-your-program Creative Cloud license. And since our review of Photoshop Creative Cloud and its rental license scheme, many people chimed in with pitchforks and torches in hand. Today things center on the Creative Cloud. It’s been just over a year since we reviewed Lightroom 4, and a lot has happened since-not just in the software box itself, but also in Adobe’s revenue generation scheme.