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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Open Source Lightroom Alternatives (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by ellixit@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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I’ve been trying to improve my photography and was trying to decide on an editing software. I don’t have a lot of money to spend on photography so I only have a basic set of lens and I’m hoping to make up the difference with editing. The three names I keep seeing pop up are Darktable, LightZone, and RawTherapee. In your experience, which of these would be best for a beginner while still having all (or at least most) of the same functionality as Lightroom?

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[–] FSmertz@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Darktable is the only accurate LR Classic alternative. The other two only offer Develop capabilities.

You need to understand your requirements in post processing software and which tools should be considered. LR Classic has a serious image management database that is more special than the development capabilities. The latter, while powerful in LRC, can be matched more or less by RawTherapee and other image processing tools. LRC also offers a good, not great, printing capability, book making, a useful mapping, strong integration with Photoshop, and the full Adobe Creative Cloud bucket of apps, which can be highly valuable if you need a no-additional-cost web presence.