Lightroom Alternative SHOWDOWN - Which One Is The Best in 2021?

Lightroom has been the go-to raw editing program for the longest time. But, if you don't want to use Lightroom, there aren't really videos running down the plethora of alternatives. That's why I chose to download the trial to 9 different alternatives and see how they work.
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[@villerasku]

I have now tried Exposure X7 as well as On1 Photo RAW and here are my conclusions. Exposure: The UI is just wonderful. It is really really simple to start using and everything I feel like I need are just there instantly. Overall, all features work very very well and I feel like it's going to be the one that I go with. Exposure X7 costs 129$ On1 Photo RAW: The UI at first seems very good. At first, On1 almost went to the top of the list for me. But, problems arose when I wanted to do the HSL adjustments. Sadly, the features were nowhere to be found (at least easily), so that kind of ruined it for me. I will say, the extra touch-up features on On1 are very extensive and seem fantastic as well. On1 Photo Raw costs 113,95€ or 9,10€/month or 102,50€/year (subscriptions cost 200gb) also, I'm not sure if these are sale prices or what. Also, I did both of these trials on my laptop which is not a powerful rig and both pieces of software worked really well. All edits were nearly real-time. And exports only took seconds once again. Have you ever used any of the programs from this video? If so, which one? Which one of them looked like the most pleasant to work with? PS. The focus box on my head is a byproduct of this video being the second video I shoot with this camera. Apparently a common bug. Quite frustrating.

[@cameraprepper7938]

You an also get Capture One in free versions for Fuji, Nikon and Sony, the Capture One Express, I use it for Sony and can highly recommend it !

[@philhacker2405]

Use Blender.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nXW7hYClaJaEia8

[@QuickQuips]

I switched to Acdsee and am a happy user. It feels the most like Lightroom for me, and organization is top notch.

[@Vanalleswa]

exactly your reason why i am watching this. If i just could buy Lightroom and have it for the rest of my life, i would be happy.. but noooo, they want my money every year!!! i hate it.

[@lphilpot01]

Regarding RawTherapee and darktable you're absolutely correct, they *require* learning: "With power comes responsibility", sorta. 🙂 They're both very much in the "here are all the tools, now you need to learn (to use) them" school. They're designed to give you total control, but with total control comes the necessity to learn and manage that control (i.e., they're sharp tools). Both of them have a huge depth of functionality. Your 'intentional newbie' approach is certainly how it usually happens in the real world. But I don't think it's valid long-term since no one serious about it will stay there. Generically speaking, if you're shooting raw in the first place you're probably well past "one-click-fixes". So IMO, pick the tools that'll allow you to go the farthest and then invest in learning it. To compare then at a very high level, the major differences (UIs aside) is that darktable is a conversion / editing plus DAM tool (import, tagging, etc.). RawTherapee is purely conversion / editing. darktable is moving to a scene-referred workflow that's as minimally as possibly limited by display device restrictions (larger color gamuts, etc.). There's a fork of RT called ART that targets UI simplification. For RawTherapee I recommend Andy Astbury's channel and the official Rawpedia documentation. For darktable, check out the channels of Aurelien Pierre (a primary DT developer, advanced), Bruce WIlliamson (beginner / intermediate oriented) and Boris Hadjukovic (advanced) to name a few. Also see its official online documentation. Both of their forums on PIXLS.US are massively good resources. RawTherapee Andy Astbury - kzbin.info RawTherapee documentation (Rawpedia) - rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/Main_Page Forum - discuss.pixls.us/c/software/rawtherapee/14 darktable Aurelien Pierre - kzbin.info%C3%A9lienPIERREPhoto Bruce Williamson - kzbin.info Boris Hadjukovic - kzbin.info Documentation - docs.darktable.org/usermanual/3.8/en/ Forum - discuss.pixls.us/c/software/darktable/19 P.S. - I did hear your disclaimer about your approach... just saying my $0.02 🙂

[@ricdotdev]

Thanks for this. I wanted to start learning Darktable and this list will make it easier for me to know where to find quality tutorials.

[@villerasku]

I'm not surprised at all that the functionality is there. And they're definitely worth trying to learn if one is adamant about not paying for their editing software. But if one is willing to pay for their editing software, I'd still recommend getting one of the paid ones as they're simply much more polished and pleasant to use (undestandably). Thanks for providing resources for people that want to have a go at learning those pieces of kit. And also, thanks for watching!

[@lphilpot01]

Well, it's not about free vs. paid. I've done both and have no objection to paying for software. It's about capabilities in (for example) darktable and RawTherapee that aren't available elsewhere. But choice is always a good thing.

[@gorbshal2598]

I watched this video and happily decided to get both darktable and rawtherapee, but when I open a raw photo in darktable it says "color matrix not found" and for rawtherappe "no exif data" It gives me an aful looking photo and even after trying to restore it the colors look atrocious. I have a canon SL3, my thought is that this camera just isn't supported for both programs but I was wondering if you were more educated on this topic. Thanks!

[@kierke3008]

Just putting this in my pocket for later, thanks friend

[@bradleygro]

This was SO helpful! I also appreciate your attention to the UI, which is a monumental factor for me. Most every other review I've seen completely ignores the interface and control layout which directly impacts how well I'm able to learn and use a program. Thanks!

[@villerasku]

Glad I was able to help! Thanks for watching!

[@jeffkogler1170]

A very good video. It addressed to a significant extent the questions I have about comparable software. Thank you.

[@villerasku]

Of course! Thank you for watching!

[@Tinaleann_]

New subie here just because you mention other photo editors aside from Lightroom.(I can’t stand subscription stuffs). So, thank you for this video.

[@Medborgarjournalistik]

Great content! Thanks!

[@Mica45]

pirating Adobe Products is always morally correct

[@PeanutBreathing]

Read a conspiracy that Adobe allows this to control the market... Sort of a get hooked before you buy.

[@greatpix]

Good review! If you ever do an update to this video maybe it would be a good idea to find other pro photographers who have switched from Adobe products to one of these other alternatives, then have a sort of roundtable discussion speaking on what each person liked or disliked about Adobe vs alternative. So you could speak of your switch to Luminar (and since there is Luminar 4, Luminar AI, and Luminar Neo maybe you could speak on differences?) Someone else could talk about their switching to Affinity Photo. Capture One. DXO, etc. It would be interesting to speak with photographers who, like you, have tried all the alternatives and speak on why they finally went with the software they did?

[@dissipatezz]

The reason you made this video is the same reason I am watching it. Thanks for doing the leg work so we don't have to do as much!

[@mrt_tube]

For ACDSee you were in the wrong place for raw editing , switch to develop mode first

[@WakizashiSabre]

Thanks for a video, almost bought Luminar AI myself. Glad they have trial, cuz the app crashed like mad on 12 thread machine, 24 GB RAM and VEGA 56. Looked forward for sky swap with water reflections there and realized it does not work that well as i planned. Also the masking did not work that nice, like when pillar or the boat was in sky area... Maybe needed more time with it, but crashing itself makes it no go for me. Seems I stick with Darktable or Rawtherapee (not that user friendly to me?) DXO should have one of the best denoise modules out there, maybe other SW also got now to that level.

[@EPeltzer]

I settled on RawTherapee about 4 years ago and have been happy. I initially tried DarkTable, it was maybe easier to pick up but then I soon realized the more advanced operations were not as satisfactory or simply missing. RT is really deeply capable and even in some cases more granular controls than LR. So a pretty and intuitive UI is great, but if it doesn't do what you need . . .

[@alseveron6558]

In some ways, I too, prefer Rawtherapee over Darktable. It's just a shame it doesn't have the drawn masking facilities that Darktable has.

[@potatofuryy]

@@alseveron6558 Rawtherapee finally got local adjustments in november, not sure how they compare to Darktable's but they seem quite capable.

[@DalsPhotography]

Lovely video ! I have tried all kind of softwares as well, and it also depends a lot if you are using cameras like Fuji (like me) the best color rendition for fuji I found it within a very old program, slow, but efficient for a first tiff file : Silkypix , then I might use any other program . With Canon, I find that they all ,are kind of similar, I am a fan of Topaz De-noise as well as Gigapixel Ai from Topaz. There are lots of alternatives, even for a mac user as me. Great stuff, pls keep it on, Best regards from Uruguay. Have used a lot of prg, Capture one is great, and On1 too!

[@villerasku]

Thanks for the kinds words!

[@unyu-cyberstorm64]

one thing with photo director is that you have to enable hardware acceleration for some features to work well

[@wellfoxs]

great video! Luminar AI/NEO if they fix laggy and make WAY more presets they could easily be the best photo editing software in the near future but as you said, the workflow if u wanna edit more than 5 photos is really slow, slow to change photos, export event change some effects.

[@BalthusTube]

🙏Thank you 📸very helpful 👍

[@johns7988]

Did you consider trying On1 Photo Raw 2022? I'd love to see you try it and compare it with the ones you just did. Thanks!

[@villerasku]

Ooh..I knew I forgot something. It was totally supposed to be in the video but for some reason I completely forgot about it. I'll see if I can get something out about that in the next day or two.

[@signedelacroix7213]

Affinity photo are now v. 2 now. But it's not a LR alternative as your video show. It's a Photoshop alternative. But I understand your point of view, it's hard to lean a software and when you do it's hard to move to another one. Photo director is certainly the easiest to learn, it's very geared to beginner. And it give incredible results.

[@xoneeleven]

Luminar has a file size limitation, that has not been fixed. Additionally, Luminar is slower than dirt. We have an enterprise workstation with two-Xeon processors, and 128GB RAM. Affinity Photo is good, but as you said, it is not "enough".

[@villerasku]

Yeah, I just can't understand how someone could defend Luminar. The features are neat, but nothing is going to remove the fact that it just runs like dung.

[@xoneeleven]

@@villerasku The management at Skylum (Luminar) are more concerned about SaaS (software as a service), than making their software better based on customer feedback.

[@xoneeleven]

Subscribed

[@nogardniwt]

I've had luminar for a while now and on PC it's still unreliable to date. You can easily find forum posts on crashing.

[@RickyHester1]

Hi there, does exposure have a select sky option like Lightroom? Thx

[@villerasku]

No, unfortunately. Thanks for watching!

[@arnonart]

i on linux and use rawtherapee as my main raw editor. it's a great tool with a relatively low learning curve. at least when comparing with darktable. what you mentioned about not being able to be precise with the sliders: press shift and scroll with the mouse. you can't review and compare anything if you don't know theme equally inside out. otherwise the comparison is biased.

[@villerasku]

I'm glad that rawtherapee works for you. As to your point of not being able to compare without knowing all the editors inside and out, I disagree. The point of the video was to compare a brand new users experience using the editors. That way the comparison comes down to the intuitivness of the software itself. And as I said in the video, the only two editors I had used before the video were affinity and luminar. So, all of the others were on an equal footing.

[@greatpix]

Speaking for myself, I've been using home computers since 1978 and before that, in college, IBM mainframes that used punch cards. Over the years I've tried almost all those software alternatives and even others not mentioned. For paid software I did the purchase to have more time to test the product. The first thing I need to talk about is the interface. Some like RawTherapee, Darktable, Capture One - have over the years become more and more complicated to the point of making Photoshop look easy. The learning curve is getting steeper and steeper. I would like them to keep with more traditional design language. If they want to include every feature or control known to mankind at least offer a simpler control panel option somewhat like Adobe Photoshop Elements does with a Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced options. That way with RawTherapee you won't have beginners jumping into the deep end of the pool. As far as color, I give the award to the manufacturer's own software, Nikon is a good example of retrieving the most accurate colors in Nikon's own color palette. After that I like Capture One for being able to get me closer to that color palette of the Original Manufacturer. Adobe is trying to improve but still hasn't gotten there, at least with Nikon's pallettel. I'm not really a fan or 'looks' macros or filter based photo editing software like Luminar as they never get me anywhere close to where I want to go as quickly as I can get there using Lightroom's or Photoshop's interrace. That most likely comes because I used to edit photos for other pro photographers and companies. How much fun I had proceeding 1.500 images that I had to finish in 48 hours. I admit I did do some macros to use in the same set of photos but changed for a new sequence of photos. I ended up using the wrist brace I sometime use when bowling to ease the pain in my wrists that weekend.

[@MiracleRed]

The newest version of Affinity allows you to re-edit your raw photos by double-clicking, leaving off where you finished up

[@cameraprepper7938]

You an also get Capture One in free versions for Fuji, Nikon and Sony, the Capture One Express, I use it for Sony and can highly recommend it !

[@villerasku]

That's a great point! Completely forgot about that one!

[@Joh146]

I use Affinity Photo since 1 year because of it runs on my lame pc and for the money it inlcludes everything. The raw processing is not the yellow of the egg (as we say in Germany) but I could live with it. Finally I bought the Nik Collection for a special price and it comes with DXO Photolab Essential and the upgrade to Elite was only 75 EUR. So I bought it too and I think that is more than I ever need as an amateur photographer. The additional opportunities of DXO Photolab are great.

[@muaathe78]

what is the CPU of your PC pls

[@mtbboy1993]

Would be interesting to see what you think with the latest version. Have you found any other software? I need to find something that is completely compatible with Sony ARW files. LAstest Darktable is not fully compatible, nor is Rawtherapee 5.9

[@villerasku]

Personally I've been happy with On1 Photo Raw for all of my editing (I edit Sony ARWs). I'll probably revise the video at some point since updates can change any piece of software a lot, and I'd love to see the free software hold their own against the paid options. For now though, the video is about 2 years old and I've developed both as a photographer and editor so the experiences in this video are really representative of someone whos brand new to photography and editing.

[@mtbboy1993]

@@villerasku I went for Lightroom and Photoshop combo. Cheaper than each seperately. It works well. Some bugs a few times only. But I got the hang of Lightroom quickly. I've not tried on1 Photo Raw, but good to know it works with Sony ARWs. What are the advantages over Lightroom? I will look into it.

[@markdalbey]

I have been using Luminar since Luminar 2018. I simply do not like the Adobe SAS model, that is a deal breaker for me. 2018 was before Luminar got into ai and it was slow, but it was reasonably fast and it ran fine on my Haswell laptop, at least fast enough to live with. I wouldn't put ai on a Hawell laptop. When Luminar got in ai, things slowed down a lot, the speed was terrible in Luminar 4. The speed in ai is annoying, but I can live with it. Luminar seems to be getting faster with each generation. The computer you describe may be a little old for ai. You might try a newer computer. It seems that with people that have speed issues, the older the computer the bigger the issue. It may not be about the beefiness of the computer, it may be about the newer instruction sets in a newer computer. I built a 10400 and do not experience speeds anywhere near what you describe. Opening times are usually around 5 seconds, exports times seem to be on the average 15 seconds. Very rarely, export times go up to 45 seconds, but never over, and as very rarely as little as four seconds. File size seems to be a large determining factor in opening files. Using compression in DNG RAW converter before loading your files into Luminar seems to reduce the load times considerably. Luminar is slow for me, but it is more of an annoyance than a deal breaker.

[@villerasku]

But this is my problem precisely. Luminars AI is barely if at all more advanced than its competitors. Yet, every single one of them open images in a second and export them in 4-5 seconds max. When I went to troubleshoot my issues in the forums, there were people with brand new powerful rigs saying the same thing, so I wouldn't say it's down to the age of the machine either. Overall, I'm happy that Luminar works for you. I just have to go a different route, and it irks me to have spent the money that I have on Luminar.

[@chingo3625]

Luminar relies heavily on Microsoft Windows DLL libraries to its process, especially in opening a raw file. Windows is very notorious slow because it creates all unnecessary DLLs and only a couple of dlls are needed to use.

[@villerasku]

Oh that's interesting! Didn't know that. Nice to finally have an explanation.

[@Happenings19046]

I just want to convert a scanned color film negative to a digital color positive without using a product that requires a subscription payment. Is there such an animal?

[@villerasku]

If you just need to invert the colors, even something like GIMP can do that completely free. To be honest, I don't know anything about that process (except for the googling I just did), so if you need to find someone with more knowledge on the matter, I'd recommend the r/photography subreddit.

[@paparazzininja7897]

Negadoctor in darktable.

[@STAR0SS]

Both Darktable and RawTherapee have good handling of negatives.

[@douglasprinceart]

No digikam? I've found it my fav so far.

[@jackboyd147]

you can do that in elements

[@jeffstreck]

00:35 I felt that.

[@SzilviaVirag]

The answer without watching this: none of them! I still use Lightroom 6.

[@maartenpsion9036]

I tried all of the editors and went for On1 PhotoRAW in blackfriday sale. These are my ratings. Lemme know what you think. 1: Capture one Pro (5/5) I think this is the very best but it did not have a great black friday deal. The price is a tad too steep. Still the best editor 2: On1 Photo RAW (4.5/5) I think this is second best especially for portraits. Tons of options and I think the workflow is great. They might have to do some optimization though. 3: Skylum Luminar (2.5/5) Way too slow imo. Horrible performance. Also there are like 3 tools and they release 2 new ones every 1 or 2 year or what? It also has a trend in photography that I quite dislike. AI here and AI there. Its still good though but I wasn't blown away. 4: DXO Photolab (2/2) I couldn't do even the most basic stuff that is easy to do in other tools. It just didn't work for me. Also expensive and you need to buy packs to do something as incredibly basic as adding a vignette?? No HDR or whatever and I think other tools do this way better. 5: SilkyPix Developer studio (3/5) Terribly marketed in the west but not that bad honestely. Wouldnt instabuy this though. I think the best is capture one pro. Great raw engine. Not really a lightroom clone but Affinity Photo is a great purchase as well. Especially alongside C1 or On1 or whatever. I would say to go either for capture one or On1 Photo RAW. I picked on1 because of their cool BF deal. Thats it.

[@villerasku]

After a few more months now, I've gotta say that On1 was surprisingly probably my favorite. Really enjoyed the shoot that I edited with On1 entirely.

[@maartenpsion9036]

@@villerasku yeah I'm using on1 too and it's mighty fine. The offerings are too good too. Always great deals during holidays and the program works great. I think capture one is the best still but also the most expensive (overpriced) so on1 seems like a no brainer.

[@sexysilversurfer]

I found Silkypix way too slow and outdated in its brushes and selection. It needs a complete overhaul.

[@gilroylibbs2947]

Thing is.. Several you tried, were really NOT for "amateur's" to just install, then bingo! Now lets go Edit pics on! Darktable, Raw Therapee etc.. have a known learning curve to be proficient. So Does Photoshop. And Lightroom. Sad thing is, some people seem to confuse FREE, with low featured anyone can use this out of the Box stuff. LINUX is free... but FOR AMATUERS? don't think so. There are many places Raw Therapee for example, kicks Lightrooms butt! Features LR doesn't even have. I'm sure some others have similar pluses. Open Source programs, may not be as "user friendly/consumer polished/anyone can do it " interfaced, but do not make the mistake they have lesser power/ability or function. Many long time users, have complained of Mac/Apple software, becoming too "Consumerized" over the last several years to the point the "good stuff" was taken out and their effectiveness, diminished or LOST! Not knocking your video, I thought it was good. But having gotten into dabbling in Linux etc.... I've found a lot of the open source programming is both good, but not for beginners . it takes some work and learning to get the most from much of it, that's all.

[@dalphalpha3487]

Bro Luminar Neo is so sluggish in my windows 11 pc! How did you get yours to work smoothly cause wtf? My pc specs: i7 cpu 32gb of memory 3070 ti gtx graphics card 4tb Samsung evo ssd

[@villerasku]

That was the older version of Luminar but don't worry, 99% of the time it worked terribly as well. Skylum just has no idea how to make programs work.

[@dalphalpha3487]

@@villerasku I just don’t understand because I’ll see people using it on KZbin but I don’t see the issues like what I’m having. I’m having like 10 to even like 15 minute slow down periods all because I hit the synchronize batch button! SMH

[@dalphalpha3487]

@@villerasku Update: trying the Capture one trial and my performance meter is showing my pc isn’t even breaking a sweat while using Capture one! Guess I’ll have to use this instead. It’s a shame because I really wanted Luminar to work and I think most other people want it to also which is why they keep releasing updates for upgrades such as noiseless ai instead of more important updates such as boosts in performance which it direly needs!

[@Sk8Wine]

Affinity Photo 2.0 has changed this review for sure!

[@mejhon6592]

How is it good or no? You reccomen it?

[@abeibrahim5846]

Thank you - You're the first one that feels the same about Adobe - Thank You....!!!!

[@terrybrooks395]

I have to say I was of the same thought process several years ago, thinking that I hated the Adobe subscription model, however, after those years of having bought and used other software (Capture One, Affinity Photo etc) I've come to realise that it often works out more expensive and for less capability than the subscription model I hated, for example Capture One Pro was £299, it was a mere two years until there was a new major version out which meant I had to be left behind or pay full price for the new version, often having a new camera leaves you little choice as older software does not support the files, same with Affinity except it's been a couple of years, add that to the fact these programs do not cover the full range of abilities required by most people i.e. DAM (digital asset management) RAW editing and pixel level editing (for compositing etc) at £120 per year the Adobe photography package is quite a bargain compared to spending around £340 every two years for own outright software plus you get so much more with 20gb storage, support for new cameras very very fast, mobile versions and online versions of the apps. After so much searching and testing I am close to the conclusion that actually the adobe subscription model is a better deal all round

[@michaelscott1778]

no affinity ?

[@mejhon6592]

I know he didnt talk to much about it

[@Lepewhi]

And Gimp?

[@Eigil_Skovgaard]

If you don't want to pay a lot for an Adobe like raw editor with bugs, then Capture One should be off your list. I have had the pleasure? twice and ended up being frustrated over the bugs, the very evasive support combined with the price. My Adobe Bridge, ACR and Photoshop plus a number of other Adobe apps of a high standard cost less than Capture One. That said, any free raw editor with fair Photoshop features could make me consider a free solution. I think Darktable is the most potent, though the UI is challenging. RawTherapee is rather good but have no real useful masking. I'll look into Exposure X7 based on your extra test. My alternative to Adobe has to cost much less than 144 USD per year, otherwise Adobe wins due to UI, very good masking features and the interaction with Photoshop.

[@accentontheoff]

Have you tried Darkroom. And ACD See.

[@villerasku]

Darkroom I didn't try due to having so many pieces of software already, but ACDSee I have and it's in the video. (Starts at 11:28)

[@accentontheoff]

@@villerasku Yes thanks.

[@accentontheoff]

By the way, have you tried ACD See on the iPad. I’m ideally looking for a photo editor that works and syncs on Mac and iPad. Thanks.

[@villerasku]

@@accentontheoff Unfortunately I haven't since I don't own an iPad :/

[@accentontheoff]

@@villerasku K thanks.You mean it’s not good for editing.

[@videojeroki]

the money you save using free software, is the money you spend on training and anti-depressors :D

[@sigsegv111]

:D ... there's one thing obvious ... you could tell it straight away in the beginning - you don't understand howto work with images right, you're just hey-sliders-gonna-try-u-all guy :D

[@villerasku]

And that was completely true a year ago when I had just gotten into photography. I was the complete beginner trying to understand how editing works. While a professional shouldn't (and let's face it, probably wouldn't) use my experiences as a reference to how a piece of editing software works, the video still works well to show the workflow experience to beginners like I was. It also showcases the UI as a "this is how easy things are to find and these are the things available", which for me is a big deciding factor in what software I use for editing my photos.

[@ivanfranceschin]

Luminar is the worst You buy the program and then you find out you have TO PAY AGAIN for the extension Don't to mention it doesn't work, i litteraly STOPPED EDITING photos because of this program I have an Nvidia 3070

[@tcurdt]

As for Affinity "you develop and then you work on a jpeg" that's the wrong mental model and not really how this works.

[@villerasku]

I'm not entirely sure if you meant that I had understood Affinity wrong, or that Affinity has got it wrong. If you meant the latter then I agree and therein lies my problem with Affinitys "raw editing".

[@tcurdt]

@@villerasku Affinity (or any photo editing software for that matter) does not work "on a jpeg". That's not how the internal memory representation of images work in software. It might be that the the bit depth is reduced once the raw adjustments are applied - but that's really not the same thing.

[@villerasku]

@@tcurdt Ohh yeah now I get what you mean. I misspoke at that point. What I meant to say was "you develop and then you work *as if the image had been a jpeg*" referring to the reduced amount of data/control/bit depth(?) between a raw and a jpeg. Hadn't caught that. Thanks!

[@tcurdt]

@@villeraskuThat still isn’t quite right. A jpeg as source would still have had significantly less information. The big difference is that the raw settings cannot be changed. The real question is how e.g. Lightroom image data is represented in the filter pipeline.

[@villerasku]

@@tcurdt All right, that may be. As I'm not an expert on the matter I can only speak to the way using Affinity Photo for Raw editing feels, and to me, a raw image that has been developed by AP, feels very similar to opening and editing a jpeg. If there is a distinctual difference, I've never felt it. But if the data is there then the data is there, wouldn't know what to tell you.

[@TPVPRO]

Luminar ai is sooooo slow.

[@spyker603]

Don't buy Luminar AI, I run it on high end gaming pc and it's slow and crash all the time.

[@sailingsvsalacia8398]

I run Photoscape X free version on a Dell G5 and it runs FLAWLESS.

[@sweetsourworld1583]

this is why I love torrents 🤎