Background: photography is a hobby. I abandoned Adobe Lightroom after 10 years because they’re slime and went to Capture One. But that was dumb, they’re owned by private equity and jacked the price even higher. Now all my edits are in there and I’m stuck.
I found a site with a crack for my specific Mac version. But, I long ago stopped pirating software due to not wanting to install a frigging keylogger. That is not the same as downloading media. I can’t know what a crack is doing.
If you want to send me good sites for recent Mac versions of Capture One, lol hey great. But really, my question is if I’m right that it’s kinda risky to crack software here in 2025.
I hate to pay this scum company again so they can extract rent for another year just to see my own photos.
I’m not sure I agree. I did move to DarkTable but the organization side is much rougher than something like Lightroom.
That said I would never go back. Switching to darktable’s scene-referred workflow was almost like switching a chemical process. People looking for a 1:1 with LR or C1 will be disappointed, but darktable’s tools and masks can do so much more than either of them. I feel limited working with LR now. I also don’t use AI at all in my work so I don’t care about those features