Lightroom alternatives?

airborne said:
Never used that but I have been trying this recently, even the free version is good
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Ouch - $450...

While not a lightrom alternative I'm still not sure what it offers of any use to me that PhotoMechanic doesn't already have (at half the price).
 
bwana said:
Ouch - $450...

While not a lightrom alternative I'm still not sure what it offers of any use to me that PhotoMechanic doesn't already have (at half the price).
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As I said the free tier is fine for me and I posted it in response to what??
 
airborne said:
Is Fastrawviewer a LR alternative?
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I'm still looking into it, but on the surface, yes, but ymmv. Some of the features I've found, with the limited amount of time I've spent using it, include shadow, exposure, and contrast adjustments.

And obviously there's the asset management side of things.
 
bwana said:
I'm still looking into it, but on the surface, yes, but ymmv. Some of the features I've found, with the limited amount of time I've spent using it, include shadow, exposure, and contrast adjustments.

And obviously there's the asset management side of things.
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A LR replacement?
It just adds xmp sidecar files with the adjustments for LR to read and apply, come now.
 
airborne said:
A LR replacement?
It just adds xmp sidecar files with the adjustments for LR to read and apply, come now.
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I'll be dammed - I didn't realise you couldn't export adjustments directly but could only pass them on to another (not limited to LR) app.

So you're correct - it's just as unsuited to this thread as Fast Image Selection.
 
bwana said:
I'll be dammed - I didn't realise you couldn't export adjustments directly but could only pass them on to another (not limited to LR) app.

So you're correct - it's just as unsuited to this thread as Fast Image Selection.
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Seems only LR or ACR:

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FastRawViewer allows one to apply adjustments, and records them as XMPs,

providing Adobe converters with a better starting point
 
Culling software for RAW is useful in combination with LR if you shoot lots of RAW, culling raw in LR is relatively slow in comparison, it gets really tedious if there are many hundreds or thousands to sort through per shoot. Narrative has some interesting AI features which is especially handy if you are shooting people.
 
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