My university is kicking me off their free creative cloud by the end of the summer. What are the best Lightroom alternatives?
Rawtherapy is really good The workflow is pretty straitforward and there’s a lot of tutorials. It’s really professional although it’s not as easy as Lightroom.
Darktable is another good alternative but I prefer Rawtherapy
RawTherapee is really powerful, way more powerful than lightroom. It isn’t as quick, and is missing some of the more convenient tools like the perspective correction, masking and enhance features. If youre geeky you’ll appreciate the extra features it does have though, like choosing a demosaic algorithm or viewing your images without any WB applied.
This is a timely thread. I’m trying to ditch lightroom because it’s just way too expensive, but the reason I keep using it is that content aware healing tool. I’m a film photographer and a lot of what I do is get rid of dust from scanning negatives. Do any of these solutions have something similar? (I mean, yeah, I could google it, but maybe someone has some experience to share)
Edit: I just watched a video on the retouch tool in darktable. It seems like an excruciatingly painful exercise to just remove a spot. I may need to just keep giving adobe $15/mth
I used Darktable for a few years, and while it is a very powerful tool, it was taking me a long time to edit a few pictures because of all the trial and error. I spend several hours watching YouTube tutorials to get the hang of it. But I decided to try Lightroom Classic again (you can get it for free if you know how) and I was surprised with all the new AI capabilities, it takes me a few clicks to get a very similar result to what I got in 10 minutes using Darktable. You definitely have more control on Darktable, but if you are already used to Lightroom, you can try to have a look at the Classic version. There are other alternatives that you can use for a trial period and see if you make the compromise and stick to a new workflow, all of these programs are the same but they will require slightly different skills from you. Mind you, I am not a Pro photographer and this is just my experience.
You could just download a cracked Lightroom.
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Darktable
Which features of Lightroom are important to you? The editing capabilities? Organizational capabilities? Cloud sync?
Just the editing. I guess enough organization to look at one set of photos at a time. Don’t care about cloud sync.
