Editing & Post-Processing
Lightroom vs Capture One vs DxO: Which Editing Software Is Actually Worth Paying For?
I spent three hours last Tuesday doing something I’m not proud of: recalculating my annual software subscriptions while my actual photos sat unedited on my hard drive. When you add up Lightroom at $9.99/month (bundled with Photoshop through the Photography Plan at $119.88/year), Capture One’s subscription at $179/year, and the one-time purchase I made for DxO PhotoLab 7 at $219, the numbers get uncomfortable fast. And that’s before you factor in Luminar Neo or any of the AI-upscaling tools that keep landing in my inbox.