Their customer support is slow and generally low grade, not engaging in the problem but clicking out standard replies. And I could not better agree with your comments about CO at the start of the post. JoJu - that explains your presence - thank you. ![]() Sorry but I don’t know how to do the quote thing. V23 so far, knock on wood, didn’t crash, but two things still drive me crazy. ![]() I also had a lot of crashes with V21, more than before and more than after that version. And part of me still has some hopes to see another app becoming as good as AA was, although I know it’s just wishful thinking. My personal “master model” of a usable, stable and comparatively easy to use “converter + DAM” is Apple Aperture, still. And there are sometimes other subjects discussed in this forum which are not directly connected to PL, as well as people coming from or going to CO face some of the problems I also had. So, if DxO would no longer turn their backs to a wellmade DAM (no matter if self-developed or another well-integrated module would be used) I imagine to use it again. Another reason is, in my experience CO support is slow, not helpful (“need to pass it forward to our devs”) and some features of CO are still disappointing. I’m still here because PL is still on my Mac and occassionally I do compare some results. ![]() If you want to refer the issue as Usability then yes, fine, of course.Ī question though - if you have abandoned PL6, why are you still here? I don’t wish to criticise either product against the other (though a comparison is inevitable) and I am not trolling or seeking to convert. We all need things that we find acceptable and comfortable. So I would say to you - if your experience of CO is different then stay with it. Corruption of a catalog database can be fatal - terminal failure of the PL6 database will be no more that inconvenient. Yes, I can export images with adjustments which can then be imported into a session, but their search facility is hugely compromised against that which PL6 can provide (and that is frequently criticised by users). My v23 has failed 17 times since upgrading in December 2022. Furthermore, my CO v21 catalog database failed over 30 times, over a 15-month period, on two different laptops (an AMD and an Intel). So for me, the attempted move from CO to PL6 is showing glaring omissions - but in fairness, had I have been using PLn for several years, I expect a move to CO would have had different, but just as inconvenient omissions.Įach to their own, but my view of PL>CO is that CO is inferior in Lens/Camera Modules, Sharpness capability, Noise Reduction, ability to warp an image (for example, remove black edges when key stoning is applied). If I wish to use the tone curve to boost or suppress an area, hovering over that area will show me roughly where, on the tone curve, I need to apply the adjustment - the numbers are nowhere as useful as they require me to evaluate (say) 42, 125, 243 (I wonder what that made-up colour is!). ![]() In other apps, this is supplemented with a vertical line with moves across the histogram and this is much more meaningful. Meanwhile, I hover over an image and can get a readout of RGB values from below the histogram. I like to edit with only the tools panel visible (so the left and bottom panels and menu hidden) but PL6 does not have a shortcut to hide the left-hand panel, relying on a click on a chevron, which is quite small and has a small active area. I can get AHK to click at a certain pixel co-ordinate on the screen but that co-ordinate will only be valid if the window is open in the exact position - and then … the laptop screen has a different resolution to the desktop monitor. PL6 does not appear to follow Windows standards in that “Alt+F” (for example), in all other applications I have used, brings up the File menu - but not in PL6, so this reduces the ability of AHK to provide additional shortcuts accessible from the menu structure. The lack of shortcuts is a headache - I now realise I did so much in CO using shortcuts, and added AutoHotKey functionality to it to provide both more and combinations of several defaults. I am trying, really trying, to get on with PL6 in my move from CO but there are so many things that are so different, it is proving frustrating.
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