TribesmanJohn 🇦🇺🌏👨🏼‍💻📷

And PhotoRAW 2024 Testing complete. I'm going to stay with Lightroom for another year.

Didn't take long to discover for me at least that the HDR merge only worked half the time and looked like it reduced the photo to 16 colours for the other half.

Additionally the HDR Merge when it did work inexplicably applied a noticeable sharpening effect to the merged photo.

Along with the product activation issues (See previous Toot) , dealbreaker straight away.

While it is either a bug (or "just me”), the app has been around in a consumer ready form for over 5 years and these things just should not happen, even if it turns out to be a bug that gets fixed next patch.

Glad I didn't commit to migrating away from LR this time.

#photography #on1 #photoraw

Nov 3, 2023 at 4:45amWeb
Show threadJonnyBNov 3, 2023
@bcshort Thanks for the update. Are there any other alternatives to Lightroom?
Show threadTribesmanJohn 🇦🇺🌏👨🏼‍💻📷Nov 3, 2023

@jon If you want to go down the OSS route, theres Darktable, but my previous experience of it (Intel Mac in a VM) was it was pretty slow and clunky because software rendering - https://www.darktable.org

Skylum Luminar May be worth a look, its DAM feature is pretty recent (therefore not as mature). I've tended to steer clear of it because it was very big on AI recomposing at it's inception - “Magic Adjustment" - which didn't really appeal to me as I prefer to tinker. Things may have changed since I looked at it years back - https://skylum.com/product-tour

darktable

darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer

darktable
Show threadJonnyBNov 3, 2023
@bcshort thanks, I will check them out.