And had the same hassle as Linda cancelling my subscription. The ability to use ACR as a filter is good but this can be done just as easily by closing the file, working on it in LR, re-opening and saving. I'm still with CS6 but I did try out CC for a few days in late 2013 and there were no features in it that I needed which were not already in CS6. It's hard to envisage a real alternative to Adobe (LR+PS) but it would be nice to see a really good one to provide some real competition - a raw converter, database and quality image editor all in one. I also do a lot of panoramas so Photoshop is not optional in my current workflow. I don't do heavy image manipulation or compositing but I like to do local contrast adjustments in my images and Photoshop is far superior in this regard - making and saving selections to use as curves adjustment layers (although the grad filter in Lightroom is very useful). Photoshop (CS6 and later) is far superior to Lightroom for its graphics so much quicker for checking for spots etc. I'd rather look for the alternative than go subscription though! Of course, Adobe at some point may stop updating CS6 for new OS's which would force us to sign up to CC or, look for an alternative. So unless you use a lot of image manipulation or 3d rendering then I would say you'd safely get by with CS6 for some time to come.

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