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<blockquote data-quote="JDFlood" data-source="post: 178110" data-attributes="member: 11653"><p>Well, I wasn't trying to get into it too deep since it gets complex quickly... like what parts are you using, RAW vs JPG... etc.&nbsp; But generally there are two parts, the database and the editor / settings. With Lightroom you get both. If you choose an alternative it may have one or both. If it is only an editor, and you collect 10,000 photos, each which have been tweeked and if you switched to a new editor, depending on what you did, like switching to LR, you would loose the setting that you used to adjust them. However, of course, you could have created output from the editor and don't care. But I would think most people would want them. I go back and readjust, so I want them all to have the setting that I used to adjust the raw file, not just the output. So, I would be starting all over again. If a new render engine is developed, I'd like to apply it to all my old photos... with original adjustments. Etc. I have learned dozens and dozens of software packages, and for me, I try to make the right decision up front, because I have suffered the consequences of going cheap, or non-main stream so manytimes. Now, everyone is not me and cost is an issue, so that is why I recommended the poster try some freeware first keeping in mind the future. JD</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="JDFlood, post: 178110, member: 11653"] Well, I wasn't trying to get into it too deep since it gets complex quickly... like what parts are you using, RAW vs JPG... etc. But generally there are two parts, the database and the editor / settings. With Lightroom you get both. If you choose an alternative it may have one or both. If it is only an editor, and you collect 10,000 photos, each which have been tweeked and if you switched to a new editor, depending on what you did, like switching to LR, you would loose the setting that you used to adjust them. However, of course, you could have created output from the editor and don't care. But I would think most people would want them. I go back and readjust, so I want them all to have the setting that I used to adjust the raw file, not just the output. So, I would be starting all over again. If a new render engine is developed, I'd like to apply it to all my old photos... with original adjustments. Etc. I have learned dozens and dozens of software packages, and for me, I try to make the right decision up front, because I have suffered the consequences of going cheap, or non-main stream so manytimes. Now, everyone is not me and cost is an issue, so that is why I recommended the poster try some freeware first keeping in mind the future. JD [/QUOTE]

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