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Dxo photolab black friday8/30/2023 ![]() Give too much and you will hurt yourself the next year. Do a yearly minimal feature release and have a predictable recurring revenue. Imo, release cycles should be determined by development status rather than by calenderīut we all know this won’t happen because of how this works nowadays. Two years ago I wanted to support you, but now I’m dissapointed and giving money to Adobe seems to be the better deal for now.Īnd that’s worrying, if the people even with Black Friday discount refuse to buy your product. ![]() I want to say, that I will rather buy a Lightroom/Photoshop code for 80-90 Euro during the Black Friday week, than giving money to you. People, who own the Nik Collection have even higher costs.īut the problem are not the costs, the problem is the missing progress of your products. If I count the costs for Affinity 2 and if I would update Photolab and Viewpoint, I would have to pay 162 euro. Furthermore I own Viewpoint 3 and the changes in Viewpoint 4 are minimal.Īlthough there is a discount, I’m refusing to update to Photolab 6. Now the situation with Photolab 6 is the same and I’m forced to update, when I don’t want to pay the whole price next year. I own Photolab 4 and last year I was very disappointet about Photolab 5, that offered nothing of interest for myself. TLDR: I agree yearly upgrades are not great and 2+ year with considerable updates would be better. I know new software doesn’t have to be backwards compatible all the way back but I would expect it to be largely working going forward, but this won’t install due to what I can only assume is a faulty installer that is incorrectly identifying version numbers. ![]() I’ve seen there’s a possible work around mentioned in the forum but people shouldn’t be having to edit registry’s and stuff to get something to work imo. Well yep version 12 and now 13 are higher than 10 but nope. It states something along the lines of OS must be version 10.xx or higher. Now I can’t use it at all because of a bug I presume in the installer. I know there are plenty of fans of how PL does masking but LRc masking is on another level in the latest update, at least in my opinion and is much faster to achieve what I need and I think they, DxO, need to really start moving into the automated masking side of things.Īnother little point of contention I have with the non subscription you only pay once thing is that’s great so long as the company doesn’t move the goal posts or decide they don’t want to ‘fix’ something rendering that paid for software useless. I will skip PL6 as for me, my use case and the camera system I use it as of yet offers nothing over 5.Īnd that’s an issue in my eyes for DxO, because unless something major gets added to PL6 I won’t look again until PL7 but by that point Adobe may (but probably won’t!) have brought Fuji demosaicing upto the standard of PL or close enough that I no longer feel the need to do my round trip. You don’t have to upgrade but ‘if’ you do. I think I wouldn’t be too fair away from reality to state most people come to Photolab to get away from Adobe’s subscriptions but the reality is that yearly paid for updates are just a subscription in essence whether they are discounted or not. I understand that DxO needs to generate income, but I’d really advise to get off the yearly release cycle, specially if resources are too few to deliver full features… ![]()
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