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As the title suggests I am looking to ditch Adobe as it is simply too large. I have already ditched Photoshop, saving 4GB. Lightroom is another 4GB adobe installer another 2GB. Light classic is very buggy and gives me regular grief however, its D.A.M is second to none.as its printing module.
I use a Mac Studio M2 with 32mb ram.
I am looking for an alternative editor with a complimentary D.A.M system
Any ideas?
 
Ted 2 said:
As the title suggests I am looking to ditch Adobe as it is simply too large. I have already ditched Photoshop, saving 4GB. Lightroom is another 4GB adobe installer another 2GB. Light classic is very buggy and gives me regular grief however, its D.A.M is second to none.as its printing module.
I use a Mac Studio M2 with 32mb ram.
I am looking for an alternative editor with a complimentary D.A.M system
Any ideas?
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Just wondering what goes wrong with your LR Desktop Classic? I run this on my M1 Studio (and iMacs before that) with zero problems. However I find that its print module is nowhere near as good as EPL (Epson Photo Lab) - as long as you have an Epson printer, that is!
 
LR Classic does not show any bugs on my PC W11. Perhaps the bugs are only in the MAC version. I do have Epson Photo Lab and an Epson printer but would not consider using it instead of LR for printing as the proof printing on LR is superb. I always had the impression that MAC's are less important to Adobe so any bugs are sorted for Windows first. Worth checking the Adobe Forum to see if other MAC users are having similar issues.

Dave
 
Stephen L said:
Just wondering what goes wrong with your LR Desktop Classic? I run this on my M1 Studio (and iMacs before that) with zero problems. However I find that its print module is nowhere near as good as EPL (Epson Photo Lab) - as long as you have an Epson printer, that is!
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I wish I knew my first Mac following thirty years a windows user. Printing spot on. canon printer. Fotospeed paper
 
Dave Canon said:
LR Classic does not show any bugs on my PC W11. Perhaps the bugs are only in the MAC version. I do have Epson Photo Lab and an Epson printer but would not consider using it instead of LR for printing as the proof printing on LR is superb. I always had the impression that MAC's are less important to Adobe so any bugs are sorted for Windows first. Worth checking the Adobe Forum to see if other MAC users are having similar issues.

Dave
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I will check, thanks
 
Dave Canon said:
LR Classic does not show any bugs on my PC W11. Perhaps the bugs are only in the MAC version. I do have Epson Photo Lab and an Epson printer but would not consider using it instead of LR for printing as the proof printing on LR is superb. I always had the impression that MAC's are less important to Adobe so any bugs are sorted for Windows first. Worth checking the Adobe Forum to see if other MAC users are having similar issues.

Dave
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In the graphics industry Macs prevail, using Adobe. I used to manage such a section, along with Windows PCs, and had no issues on either. If anything, Adobe design firstly for Mac.
 
I had a M1 MacBook Pro with 32gb of ram and LR classic was fine, now have a M4 studio with 64gb of ram and it is a bit quicker. Quick google shows an M2 studio should be very good with LR classic
 
I wish I was a bit more technically minded.
Just been using the blur tool and the spinning wheel of doom, spins at every move. What does that mean?
 
Stephen L said:
In the graphics industry Macs prevail, using Adobe. I used to manage such a section, along with Windows PCs, and had no issues on either. If anything, Adobe design firstly for Mac.
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I totally agree, everywhere i have worked its always been Macs over Pcs, and from my experince, Adobe software has always run better on Macs, especially now the M series are here.
 
GreenNinja67 said:
"I use a Mac Studio M2 with 32mb ram"
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Ram on the M Macs is on the chip and more efficient than windows ram sticks

Don't know if the OP has checked activity monitor to see what is slowing down the system
 
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On1 Photo Raw is a near equivalent of Lightroom, with good DAM. I haven't used it for something like a year but recall that it was heavy on RAM usage and could run slowly on my old MacBook with an Intel processor and 32GB of RAM.
 
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