Lightroom alternative
I'm a designer (product + brand) & I take a lot of photos (as hobby)
Software I use:
Lightroom - I shoot both digital and film, and I'm deep into Negative Lab Pro for film scanning. Capture One keeps coming up but I'm not sure it's actually better for my use case or just different. Also - is it cheaper?
No photo tools I am using (for the context)
Photoshop - mostly masking, background removal, and some light graphic editing. Feels like the easiest one to replace? Looking at Affinity or just leaning harder into Figma for the simple stuff.
After Effects - I think I'm replacing this with Jitter for most things. It chokes on more advanced compositions tho, and it doesn't support everything yet. I hate AE tho, I am not an animator and it always takes me forever to get used to that stupid UX.
Premiere Pro - I edit YouTube videos and I've built a bunch of my own AE templates that I use inside Premiere. I already have DaVinci Resolve and I actually tried moving my whole edit there, but I kept missing the motion graphics template workflow. Is there a clean equivalent in Resolve or am I rebuilding everything from scratch?
Illustrator - I use it for logo and icon work, so it's mostly vector. Affinity Designer seems like the obvious move here but curious what is your experience.
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What do you use and why? How hard was the switch?