Lol Brian,sorry if it came across as that,it wasnt meant to be,i was thinking more on the bulk editing that a lot of say wedding photographers need for a quick turnaround,i know personally a pro that uses and needs this aspect of say lightroom as opposed to say dxo pro11 where one has to process each photo and its quite a slow process which i dont mind and like you if i like a photo i want to do the best i can for it nd have a few software options.
Hope this clarifies my point as im quite sure you only want to produce the highest quality product possible
Fair enough. My comments were intended to be a little "tongue in cheek" as well.
I would hope that everyone, pro or amateur, is processing for the best result they can achieve, whatever software they use.
Of course, a professional, who may be working to a deadline, may not have the luxury of time, in the way that an amateur has.
It's definitely not a Pro v Hobbyist thing. There's no denying that the latter can be extremely fastidious about their photography, and can produce some fantastic results.
Speaking as a pro, though, the important thing for me is the final image. Some people may enjoy trying out new software and doing comparisons of one versus another. The important thing for me is really knowing the software inside out so that I can quickly get the best out of the image. After ten years using digital I'm still on that learning curve and Lightroom has been an absolute boon for me. So the thought that I might have to re-learn my processing using different software is not a welcome one. In that sense Adobe have me by the short and curlies. Presumably they have taken a decision that people like me are more likely to bite the bullet with the subscription model than not. Hence my bitterness with what they have decided to do.
I think Pro or Amateur, the final image is the important thing for everyone.
Having auditioned a couple of the "Lightroom replacement" candidates, it's evident that at least some of the software developers have gone to some lengths to make their product "feel" like Lightroom, to the extent that many of the adjustment menus resemble those in LR, and often the keyboard shortcuts use the same keys.
I don't think that learning a new program would be particularly difficult or daunting, nor require too much "unlearning" of familiar commands.
At least one of the alternatives I've looked at offer different, and to my eyes, improved adjustment tools to those in LR, although the overall results were less impressive, and I still think that Lightroom is the program to beat.