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In the summer of 2023, I decided I was no longer serious enough about photography to continue paying for an Adobe subscription. (I still enjoy taking and editing pictures, but some of my other hobbies are just more fulfilling at this point, and the time I spent as a “serious” hobby photographer got shorter and shorter.) It was hard to justify paying $120 a year for software that I wasn’t using that often. Non-subscription photography software has come a long way since I started using Lightroom and Photoshop
The advantages of such a move were obvious to me: long-term financial savings and having all of my photos easily accessible on my iMac, iPad and iPhone.