Free Lightroom Alternatives

[@JakubVacek42]

This way of comparing was very helpful, thanks!

[@challengedollar2880]

Thank you for this kind sir. Love these in depth tutorials.

[@NathanCoolPhoto]

Glad you found them helpful!

[@actorjay]

This is a fantastic resource. Thank you for putting in the time and thought to show us the free options and possibilities. Fabulous.

[@potatopotatoeOG]

11:22 My exact reason why I don't like dark table. It makes extra work on dark photos because it can't decode nicely

[@huwevans4452]

Thanks Nathan, really interesting and something I hadn't given much thought to before.

[@JoeCastellon]

Thank you for this. My Adobe photography plan is about to expire and I recently learned that Adobe automatically renews for the whole year, and I don't use the software enough to justify the monthly cost. From your video, I see that RAWTherapee is the way to go. Thanks again!

[@bruceacphoto5240]

Thank you Nathan. I very much appreciate your superb delivery & insightful content. Glad I came across you here. Will continue to seek your wisdom🤓

[@NathanCoolPhoto]

You're very welcome Bruce.

[@ronjenkins4257]

Very good survey. Question: Lightroom has lens profiles to automatically detect lens information where available, and to apply barrel/pincushion and vignette corrections. Newer mirrorless lenses rely heavily on lens correction. I'm using a Canon camera, so I expect DPP will do the job at least for Canon lenses. But exporting TIFFs from DPP is super slow and files get huge. Will Raw Therapee make lens corrections? Or, does Raw Therapee use the embedded jpg in a Canon RAW file to carry lens corrections from the camera to editing? I'll have to play with Raw Therapee for other things but are masking tools available? They're important to me. At the moment my path from Lightroom/Photoshop looks like a combination of DPP, Raw Therapee, and maybe GIMP, possibly also using XnView MP for triaging large numbers of images before editing. Alternatively drop some money on Affinity, if it has the capabilities I want mostly in one place.

[@triplewinlin5576]

Thanks for this video, Nathan!

[@tonymazza8305]

Many thanks for a great comparison video!

[@NathanCoolPhoto]

My pleasure!

[@Luckyrider1958]

As to how Dark Table initially renders an imported Raw picture. IIRC.. you can make your own presets. A "preset" tuned to what Raw Therapee does should even up the playing field wouldn't it? Hypothetically ?

[@krimke881]

Does RT have pano stitching and bracketing merge?

[@lltskylife]

Thanks got it for Fujifilm, thank you Sir! 🛣

[@averymcdaniel423]

I shoot Nikon. With the free software, will I be able to tether?

[@williamaungleyraud]

This video inspired me to give it a second shot to RawTherapy. 😎👍👍

[@brendamilstein1062]

Very interesting and thanks 👍

[@drpentecost]

Hi Nathan, thanks for this info. I think one of the main reasons that Lightroom will still win with many photographers at the end of the day, is because of it's batch processing capabilities. At the click of a single button Lightroom can Autotone 100's if not 1000's of images and do a relatively good job with maybe some minor tweaking.

[@NathanCoolPhoto]

Thanks! Note that many OEM applications can do the same thing, and there are automation tools and/or scripts in other apps as well. I touch on that a bit when talking about copy-pasting settings for batch processing in this video, but perhaps I should elaborate on that in a future video.

[@drpentecost]

@@NathanCoolPhoto That would be great if you could show how other softwares can batch process with auto toning or equivalent. Thanks.

[@cmillerx41]

Any chance you will do another video on virtual tours? Maybe in the commercial space setting? I started a business creating virtual tours for businesses and I follow all of your recommendations for real estate photography (and I have several of your books). But sometimes I shoot businesses with dark floors, dark ceilings, and they are very large rooms. I want the pictures to come out with the highest quality so I use flash, but I’m having problems lighting them sometimes and I end up creating a lot of extra work for myself. I would love to see more videos about those kind of difficult lighting situations and how to handle it. As always thank you for all you share with us!

[@NathanCoolPhoto]

Hi Christina, I do have videos on the subjects you mentioned (do a search on my KZbin channel...quite a few videos on virtual tours). My lighting guide book will help you with the dark rooms, and I have a book on virtual tours as well. Here's a link to all of my books if you want to see them all: amzn.to/3s6RGmG

[@Lepewhi]

Have you tried GIMP? If so, what do you think? Thanks

[@NathanCoolPhoto]

Yep, here's a video I did on that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2LGm36jr5Vsaqs

[@Lepewhi]

@@NathanCoolPhoto Thanks, I'll watch it immediately. I just downloaded the software.

[@TheMarcfont]

Hey Nathan. How do you deal with the windows reflections when the exterior is not bright enough to do the window pull with flash?

[@NathanCoolPhoto]

Search my KZbin channel for "reverse window pull"

[@TheMarcfont]

@@NathanCoolPhoto thank you!

[@reinhardgrossmann8054]

Well, Canon‘s DPP is missing!

[@NathanCoolPhoto]

Go to: en.canon-cna.com/support/consumer_products/software/digital-photo-professional.html?os=windows%2010%20(64-bit)&language=

[@reinhardgrossmann8054]

@@NathanCoolPhoto I'm using DPP in the first place. Only if I had to do some fine adjustments I'd go for additional processors, e.g. Affinity Photo. Anyway, to my understanding it would have been only logic if you had included DPPP in your presentation.

[@NathanCoolPhoto]

@@reinhardgrossmann8054 I did include DPP, perhaps you didn't watch the whole video, see kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHWzmKCtjLyVabs

[@PradyutChowdhury3DVFXartist]

Hope RAW therapy or Darktable will support  M1 I am waiting for so long..

[@dandanita1692]

darktable makes everything dark