
For me, this amounted to something like 30,000 photographs, and around 600 keywords.
All of the tags, labels and keywords which I have added over the last twenty years need to transfer over to the new system.
Any applications I consider must allow keywords, not just ratings, labels and picks. I need to lose as little data as possible. Having gone through this journey, I came up with a set of requirements which would satisfy my needs: This post outlines my Journey from Lightroom. This post outlines the processes and research I did to arrive at my new system for photo management and processing, in the hope that others facing the same journey may benefit. With the coming of MacOS Catalina-which no longer supported 32-bit applications-that day had arrived. I also knew that when that day came, I would be faced with the unenviable task of moving twenty years’ worth of photographs into a new system. I knew the day would come when it would stop working. Since Adobe’s change to “software rental”, I’ve been muddling along with my old version of Lightroom (version 5). There are enough people reaching into my digital wallet every month. However, when they announced that-from Lightroom 6-they would no longer be offering standalone applications, and would be moving over to the subscription model, I knew my days with Adobe were numbered. Now, I’m the first to admit that they make some great applications for image management and processing. One of the major companies leading this push into subscription-based applications is Adobe. Who wouldn’t want a monthly semi-guaranteed income? However, is this model really the best for the consumer? I’m talking about those application which you used to purchase once, install on your system, and use until you either decided to upgrade them yourself, or operating system changes made them unusable.
However, there has been a move in recent years to move regular desktop-based applications into the SAAS world. Traditionally, this has been the realm of SAAS, or subscription-based services.
When data must be collected into a central repository-and that data needs to be accessed from anywhere-then the obvious solution is a cloud-based system.
There is, of course, room – and even a necessity – for software as a service (SAAS).