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Anonymous Mon 25 Aug 2025 07:26:02 No.4462455 View View Reply Original Report

So is everyone using Lightroom or what? I already have Affinity 2 and would like something with a permanent license for library as well.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Sep 2025 18:36:56 No.4466275 Report

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>>4466157
OM Workspace. Almost unusable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Sep 2025 18:43:52 No.4466279 Report

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>>4466195
From where I'm standing, RT has borderline unusable file browser - that's true. The fact that they refuse to implement a normal image preview, like it exists in every other editing program is just beyond me. ART actually tries to fix that. Otherwise, I think the editor is good.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Sep 2025 19:31:21 No.4466292 Report

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>>4466263
there are several ways to do highlight recovery, I never had an issue getting highlight detail back
use either tone equalizer or color balance rgb and use the brilliance grading
you can use masks to only affect the sky or the upper luninance ranges, if needed
you could also just make a 2nd exposure module, then make a mask for the highlight areas

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Sep 2025 19:35:46 No.4466294 Report

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>>4466190
The right stick looks like that because it's moving upwards from a frontal perspective at 1/60", but the picture was taken with the mechanical shutter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Sep 2025 20:11:05 No.4466298 Report

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>>4466270
>commie wants to shut people up
news at 11

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 07 Sep 2025 21:17:30 No.4466317 Report

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>>4466195
>>4466279
Well, ok, also the crop tool in RT is kinda bad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Sep 2025 20:06:51 No.4466501 Report

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Can we finally effortlessly stitch panoramas in Darktable or Rawtherapee? As in, having it work as good as in LR or C1 in a single click, with multiple type of panos.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Sep 2025 15:21:16 No.4466697 Report

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I just take pictures I don't use any of these

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Sep 2025 17:16:43 No.4466715 Report

Quoted By: >>4466717 >>4466718

If your JPGs look bad, you're a bad photographer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Sep 2025 17:22:29 No.4466717 Report

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>>4466715
>Good photographers fiddle with camera settings to keep their jpegs looking good!
Boasting about worthless skills is for people who have no worthwhile ones.

Can't imagine wasting my time fiddling with white balance, "active d lighting", picture controls etc when I can just auto iso exp. comp -1, take photos, and set all that shit 10x faster on a computer later. Jpeg is a straight downgrade from the workflow of negative film intended for consumers who did not know or care what was going on, people seen as literal cattle by the manufacturers.

Also, older cameras perform better in raw because manufacturers never updated the firmware to render better jpegs. "Dont pixel peep! (view anything larger than 1920x1080)" is a cope. If you have to tell me how to look at photos to defend a camera, you're using it wrong or it's a bad camera. Pick one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Sep 2025 17:23:19 No.4466718 Report

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>>4466715
jpg shooters are lazy camera operators

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Sep 2025 21:36:28 No.4466810 Report

Quoted By: >>4466811

Anyone have any experience with ON1?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Sep 2025 21:41:48 No.4466811 Report

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>>4466810
Not much but what do you need?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Sep 2025 21:49:19 No.4466814 Report

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>>4466811
Was just curious if anyone here uses it and has their opinions about it. I'm a beginner with all this photography stuff and I've been messing around with RawTherapee when it comes to photo editing. Kind of wanted to try out other pieces of software (with more features etc) but I'm not really into Adobe's jewery with their subscription plans and all that. Stumbled upon ON1 the other day and it looks decent but at the same time I havent really heard about it otherwise. There are some reviews that say it's good but I'm not sure if it's just some random shill on the internet or not. Even the comments in most of those reviews looks like they were written by AI bots.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Sep 2025 21:52:21 No.4466815 Report

Quoted By: >>4466873 >>4466902

>>4466814
ON1 is pretty good, sometimes better than LrC, sometimes worse.
Definitely a good alternative if you're willing to pay for it.
If you're on wangblows, simply pirate LrC, fuck Adobe.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Sep 2025 03:28:08 No.4466863 Report

Quoted By: >>4466864

>>4466718
Camera operators are just lazy collage artists.
Collage artists are just lazy painters.
Painters are just lazy illustrators.
Illustrators are just lazy designers & architects.
Architects are just lazy engineers.
Engineers are just lazy mathematicians.
Physicists are just lazy physicists.
Physicists are just lazy philosophers.
Philosophers are just lazy fuckers oh my god are they useless.

Illustrators are just lazy

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Sep 2025 03:30:33 No.4466864 Report

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>>4466863
God dammit, how tf did it replace my 2nd mathematicians with another physicists? I hate all this shit, everything, all this is just digital…

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Sep 2025 04:04:10 No.4466873 Report

Quoted By: >>4466894

>>4466815
>ON1 is pretty good
It has crazy high cpu usage

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Sep 2025 05:54:14 No.4466894 Report

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>>4466873
Works on my machine

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Sep 2025 06:35:01 No.4466898 Report

Quoted By: >>4466980

Capture One chads, does the C1 perpetual license ever get discounted for something like Christmas sales?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Sep 2025 07:38:49 No.4466902 Report

Quoted By: >>4466907 >>4466950

>>4466815
>pirate LrC
Got a safe source by any chance? I've been burned before.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Sep 2025 08:01:07 No.4466905 Report

Quoted By: >>4466980

Do any of these have some form of auto culling?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Sep 2025 08:06:51 No.4466907 Report

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>>4466902
Monkrus. Been using this for years, it's a Russian guy doing God's work for us.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Sep 2025 11:56:02 No.4466950 Report

Quoted By: >>4467003

>>4466902
CHINKS could be here, he thought. I've been burned before. There could be CHINKS anywhere. The cold glass of fixer felt good in his hand. I HATE CHINKS he thought. Girls on Film reverberated the entire bathroom making it pulsate even as the $1 instant coffee circulated through his government microfilm reels and washed away his (merited) fear of hackers after dark. "With caffenol, you can shoot anything you want" he said to himself, out loud.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Sep 2025 12:01:06 No.4466954 Report

Quoted By: >>4466978

I've been using lightroom for a few years 99% on tablets. First ipad pro then switched to Android. The iPad version was very frustrating. I like using cloud sync uploading via tablet. On iPad whenever you switch apps or the screen turns off or locks the cloud sync stops immediately. It'd take forever to sync with constant screen tapping. Apparently only Apple cloud is allowed to sync when the app is not in focus, no non-apple sync in the background. Dont know if it's changed then. But there's no alternative without cloud features, let alone with, so I'm stuck with it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Sep 2025 13:35:19 No.4466978 Report

Quoted By: >>4466983

>>4466954
What's your use case / need for cloud syncing?
I've never bothered with it

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Sep 2025 13:36:26 No.4466980 Report

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>>4466898
Yes, often around black Friday
>>4466905
Not Automatic, but C1's culling features make it go super quick

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Sep 2025 13:45:33 No.4466983 Report

Quoted By: >>4466989 >>4467211

>>4466978
Immediate import and backup post shoot in case the worst happens. Having my catalogue on any device anywhere (smart preview), so I can show, adjust, export, print if needed. Edit from anywhere and Any edits only need to sync Metadata and not the full images again. Online soft proofing, this let's people sign in and pick images, I can select those images and create a new album with them in Lightroom, super convenient. Shared cloud albums can also be downloaded via link for other people, but I stopped doing that since last I checked they don't export in sRGB, and IG posting screws up the colour after posting while getting the preview before posting correct. Maybe that's been fixed in either LR or IG since then.

My workflow has been tablet based for years now, and there still isn't even a single non cloud alternative, let alone an alternative that supports what I use above.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Sep 2025 14:33:23 No.4466989 Report

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>>4466983
Gotcha, I just backup to SSD in the field as needed, and use my NAS + Pixieset for everything else you described
I think like 9 years of paying for CC at this point and never felt needed for me

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Sep 2025 15:52:23 No.4467003 Report

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>>4466950
Kek

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 19:07:43 No.4467211 Report

Quoted By: >>4468048 >>4468049

>>4466983
You may have heard this before, but it bears repeating occasionally: Do not rely on "Cloud Sync" as a backup.
Firstly, you can't guarantee where the files actually are. If you lose your account one day due to whatever SaaSy bullshit is going on, you may find out you've been optimised to only have the last month of data on your device.
Secondly, you're at the absolute mercy of software bugs nuking your library everywhere simultaneously. As an example, iCloud one day decided that my dad didn't have any files any more. Not on his Mac, not on his iPhone and not on his iPad either. Saved only by an actual backup on his work PC.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 19:46:08 No.4467218 Report

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Tried Luminar, it's dog shit.
AMA

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Sep 2025 21:49:55 No.4467246 Report

Quoted By: >>4467973

Also tried DxO. Actually a good alternative to LrC but total clusterfuck with their products and pricing. Might as well pay Adobe since it's cheaper and integrated.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 11:44:12 No.4467805 Report

Quoted By: >>4468718 >>4468922

RapidRAW is the future. 18 yrs old guy created free LR competitor.
https://www.free-codecs.com/download/rapidraw.htm
https://github.com/CyberTimon/RapidRAW

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Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 14:00:28 No.4467831 Report

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I use Lightroom v8.5.1 (actually pay for it and all to be fair it was $80 for the year) and my camera (Pentax K1ii) isn't fully supported by LR (no Camera Standard profile for example)

Sometimes Adobe Color or Adobe Portrait works to get the colors where I want them to, but has anyone tried the Color Fidelity profiles? Sometimes the Adobe profiles come out too green or blue and I'm better off using the jpeg if I'm not pixel peeping.

https://www.colorfidelity.com/

$25 is a little pricey but I kinda feel like its not doing the camera justice.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 19:46:02 No.4467972 Report

Quoted By: >>4468136

Why does no one ever mention ACDsee?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 19:47:57 No.4467973 Report

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>>4467246
I made the same choice. Also, developments are going so fast it is likely I would want to upgrade dxo, so I'm still paying each year.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Sep 2025 20:04:46 No.4467975 Report

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Capture One users, is there a defined release schedule?
I'd hate to buy a perpetual license for 16.6.x right now and then have 16.7.0 release a month later for which my license isn't entitled to

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Sep 2025 04:06:25 No.4468048 Report

Quoted By: >>4468924

>>4467211
I keep the physical copies, the cloud sync is a backup in case something happens to the physical copies (theft, loss, baggage loss, etc), its a backup in another physical location other than where my cards are. Hence also considered setting up ftp server on my home pc with Hotspot while shooting to stream to. The cloud sync also downloads to my home pc.

I don't tend to remove them off the cards until I'm really done with them and just got a new 512GB cf express to make that easier and use the 64GB with dual card shooting as my import card

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Sep 2025 04:08:18 No.4468049 Report

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>>4467211
Also I did actually want to get tape backup too when i saw tape prices.. until I saw tape drive prices

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Sep 2025 09:02:14 No.4468136 Report

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>>4467972
>why does no one ever mention this decade old image viewer
???

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Sep 2025 11:15:01 No.4468710 Report

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cropping and gamma (iso) adjustments with imagemagick from raw -> png -> encoder of choice (jpegli/jpeg2000/jxl)

editing is haram

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Sep 2025 11:55:51 No.4468718 Report

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>>4466237
>>4467805
stop spamming you fag

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Sep 2025 15:04:19 No.4468922 Report

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>>4467805
Yes, this is clearly the work of a true processing master. He sure knows what he's doing!
https://www.instagram.com/timonkaech.photography/

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Sep 2025 15:31:22 No.4468924 Report

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>>4468048
If you buy a NAS box (myself, I have one of the cheapest single-drive Synology), it simplifies setting up file sharing.

Sugar !egyYvoBZV2

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Sugar !egyYvoBZV2 Thu 18 Sep 2025 16:21:23 No.4468938 Report

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I use LR Classic, IrfanView and PS 2015

>Paying for ((((((((subscriptions)))))))))

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Sep 2025 17:51:08 No.4468976 Report

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>>4462455
I quit Photoshop forever ago and haven't had any difficulty moving on from it. I use the Canon DPP and the other included raw tools. There is Affinity 2 if I need more than DPP.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 19 Sep 2025 00:12:49 No.4469058 Report

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>>4462455
xnviewnp for viewing, photoshop for editing.

BurtGummer !!96etipKDKVm

BurtGummer !!96etipKDKVm Fri 19 Sep 2025 00:32:50 No.4469060 Report

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Photoshop.

Never really saw the purpose of Lightroom. Don't give a crap about batch working photos.
The rest are just scrubs.

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