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What is your preferred editing software?
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My preference for most of my images is Lightroom with an occasional foray into Photoshop ( the Content aware feature I find incredible) plus the nik/onOne suite.
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I mainly use photoshop, and some scripts I created, and of course, the Niksoftware suite.
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LAdobe ightroom classic cc, and Photoshop cc.. rarely Lighroom cc.. , but need to try some of another softwers too 
Adobe Lightroom , Luminar 4 , Topaz , Photoshop , but mostly only LR
I always used Affinity Photo for all of my workflow, from raw development to finished image. But after getting deeper into editing I found the raw developer to be lacking. For me personally it is very annoying, that I cannot save any edits in the raw development stage and always have to develop them first which irreversibly leads you to the editing and retouching stage. So having multiple forks of the same file or just coming back and changing something on the raw is impossible with the software. I also found the raw tools somewhat lacking. Some you just can't use on layers but only on the base picture (e.g. clarity), which makes it impossible to apply them on specific details.
Because of this I now switched to Capture One Pro 20 for raw editing and use Affinity exclusively for retouching and further edits not possible in the raw process.
I found a very convenient way to roundtrip my pictures between the softwares by creating a .tif in Capture One and handing it over to Affinity (this can be done automatically). In Affinity I can then do edits on layers in the non developer persona, which I can save as a layered .tif, which I then can send back to Capture One and treat like a raw file.
So: Affinity for Retouching and more complex effects, Capture One for raw development.
I don't use anything Adobe related because I'm not a fan of the subscription model and the tools I use do everything I need. I still can see the merits of their software though.
Because of this I now switched to Capture One Pro 20 for raw editing and use Affinity exclusively for retouching and further edits not possible in the raw process.
I found a very convenient way to roundtrip my pictures between the softwares by creating a .tif in Capture One and handing it over to Affinity (this can be done automatically). In Affinity I can then do edits on layers in the non developer persona, which I can save as a layered .tif, which I then can send back to Capture One and treat like a raw file.
So: Affinity for Retouching and more complex effects, Capture One for raw development.
I don't use anything Adobe related because I'm not a fan of the subscription model and the tools I use do everything I need. I still can see the merits of their software though.
I use mosly Lightroom for editing and some Photoshop work now and then. I would give up Lightroom in a heartbeat for any of the other alternatives but Photoshop never
