Adobe Lightroom photo editing (from US$120 pa) gets more competition from Darkroom, Luminar - No subscriptions...
Adobe Lightroom photo editing (from US$120 pa) gets more competition from Darkroom, Luminar - No subscriptions and more choices are good
Two software tools, Bergen's Darkroom and Skylum's Luminar, just got a bit better at challenging Adobe's dominant Lightroom software for editing and cataloging photos.
Darkroom, an iOS app, now has a version just for iPads for a better look at the photos you're editing, more room for catalog operations and support for external keyboards to speed things up. And Luminar, for MacOS or Windows machines, added a library feature that makes it more adept at organizing photos, not just editing them. The updates arrived this week.
For me free and open source digiKam (for Windows, Mac and Linux) does well enough - supports all major image file formats, such as JPEG and PNG as well as over 200 raw image formats[3] and can organize collections of photographs in directory-based albums, or dynamic albums by date, timeline, or by tags. Users can also add captions and ratings to their images, search through them and save searches for later use. Using plug-ins, users can export albums to various online services including (among others) 23hq, Facebook, Flickr, Gallery2, Google Earth's KML files, Yandex.Fotki, MediaWiki, Rajce, SmugMug, Piwigo, Simpleviewer, Picasa Web Albums. Plug-ins are also available to enable burning photos to a CD and the creation of web galleries. digiKam provides functions for organizing, previewing, downloading and/or deleting images from digital cameras. Basic auto-transformations can also be deployed on the fly during picture downloading. In addition, digiKam offers image enhancement tools through its KIPI (KDE Image Plugins Interface) framework and its own plugins, like red-eye removal, color management, image filters, or special effects.
See https://www.cnet.com/news/lightroom-photo-editing-more-competition-from-darkroom-luminar/
#photoediting #lightroom #darkroom #luminar #digikam
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Two software tools, Bergen's Darkroom and Skylum's Luminar, just got a bit better at challenging Adobe's dominant Lightroom software for editing and cataloging photos.
Darkroom, an iOS app, now has a version just for iPads for a better look at the photos you're editing, more room for catalog operations and support for external keyboards to speed things up. And Luminar, for MacOS or Windows machines, added a library feature that makes it more adept at organizing photos, not just editing them. The updates arrived this week.
For me free and open source digiKam (for Windows, Mac and Linux) does well enough - supports all major image file formats, such as JPEG and PNG as well as over 200 raw image formats[3] and can organize collections of photographs in directory-based albums, or dynamic albums by date, timeline, or by tags. Users can also add captions and ratings to their images, search through them and save searches for later use. Using plug-ins, users can export albums to various online services including (among others) 23hq, Facebook, Flickr, Gallery2, Google Earth's KML files, Yandex.Fotki, MediaWiki, Rajce, SmugMug, Piwigo, Simpleviewer, Picasa Web Albums. Plug-ins are also available to enable burning photos to a CD and the creation of web galleries. digiKam provides functions for organizing, previewing, downloading and/or deleting images from digital cameras. Basic auto-transformations can also be deployed on the fly during picture downloading. In addition, digiKam offers image enhancement tools through its KIPI (KDE Image Plugins Interface) framework and its own plugins, like red-eye removal, color management, image filters, or special effects.
See https://www.cnet.com/news/lightroom-photo-editing-more-competition-from-darkroom-luminar/
#photoediting #lightroom #darkroom #luminar #digikam
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Darkroom and Luminar updates give digital photographers are better Lightroom alternatives Adobe customers might not switch, but there are plenty of new photographers entering the market. |
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