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We don't want to pay Adobe anymore, so my Dad is looking for an replacement for Lightroom Classic.

He has over 4500 photos in Lightroom and we want a basically drop in replacement.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

EDIT1: Also, how do we transfer photos out of Lightroom?

EDIT2: All photos are locally stored.

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[โ€“] Not_FinancialAdvice@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd argue that it depends on your workflow; if you like to manage files in folders on some local/network storage, then Rawtherapee is great since it doesn't force a collections workflow on you like Darktable does (which I find really annoying).

[โ€“] stevewmn@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Lightroom also stores your files in a folder structure based on year, month and day that the metadata in the images says they were taken. But when you import a day's photo shoot it adds it to your current catalog where you can easily browse an entire day, month, year or multiple years worth of photos, so long as they were all added to the same catalog. With Darkroom every group of imported photos becomes a separate item that you can browse, but you can't browse more days all at once that easily.