{"id":324,"date":"2024-06-26T10:18:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T08:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lentic.net\/?p=324"},"modified":"2024-06-26T10:18:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T08:18:26","slug":"more-on-raw-processors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lentic.net\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"More on RAW processors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The LightRoom replacement is not as easy as I hoped it would be. All alternatives are lacking. In fact, so is LightRoom in its own way, but I am used to that so I don&#8217;t notice as much. Also It is not easy to predict which shortcomings I can live with, and which will drive me mad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CaptureOne<\/strong>:<br>Seemed like a good alternative, and in many ways it is. But there are also drawback to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good stuff:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Excellent DAM when using it in catalog mode (with referenced images)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I really like how projects work, and how smart albums are contained within.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Smooth interface<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Good for culling and rating images<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nice local adjustments using layers and a fairly good masking tool<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Not so good:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Shitty Raw processor. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Noise reduction is a joke<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lots of little snags and hickups (becomes unresponsive now and again)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A bit outdated. They don&#8217;t develop modern features very fast.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Expensive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DXO Photolab:<\/strong><br>This very different to C1. All the features that are good in PL is bad in C1, and visa versa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good stuff:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The best Raw processor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The best noise reduction<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The best lens correction<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some very nice modern processing features for exposure and dehaze<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ok local adjustments. No AI masking, but for what they are, the masking tools work pretty well.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pricing and licensing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Not so good:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>DAM and organizing is terrible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It uses a sort of database, but it is rather brittle.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You can&#8217;t see pictures in sub folders when browsing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Undo doesn&#8217;t work very good.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So, is there a conclusion to all this. Not yet. I still have 22 days left on the trial versions. For many reasons, not all of the technical, I tend to prefer DXO, but I need to sort out a few workflow issues first. Mainly related to organizing the images. I don&#8217;t think I can trust the database, which also holds the collections. It would be a real drag if I have to dump and rebuild the index. I may want to use keywords to embed all this information in the sidecar files. In that way, it will be more future proof as I can reconstruct even if I change the software in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LightRoom replacement is not as easy as I hoped it would be. All alternatives are lacking. In fact, so is LightRoom in its own way, but I am used to that so I don&#8217;t notice as much. Also It is not easy to predict which shortcomings I can live with, and which will drive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lentic.net\/?p=324\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More on RAW processors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ukategorisert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lentic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lentic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lentic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lentic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lentic.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lentic.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lentic.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lentic.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lentic.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}