As the title says -- looking for things to consider as alternatives to Lightroom and Photoshop.
I haven't decided to move away from them (yet) and I may not, but the subscription model really irritates me. Other than that however, I am comfortable with both and I like them both. The subscription BS is my only motivation to move.
For a LR replacement I am primarily looking for catalog management. Processing I can do elsewhere. Preserving keywords on my 20,000+ image library is almost a requirement (if I didn't have that I'd have to have a pretty compelling other reason to move).
For Photoshop, Affinity Photo seems like possibly the best runner-up, and I actually already own it (I got the package for Publisher and Designer and it came with) though I haven't played with it much at all yet. I'm finding some of the newer AI-based tools in PS pretty useful though, and though there was a time in the past where I would have said that PS was only a little ahead of its competition I think that lead may be widening considerably.
Thoughts?
Thanks!