Alternatives to Lightroom

Posted on Fri 13th, May 2022

• #1

swmlon

What's a good alternative to PS Lightroom? I cancelled my Abobe subscription because the cost was too much and the only thing I wanted was Lightroom for organising my 1000s of family photos and quick edits for printing.
What's a good alternative to Lightroom that won't be so spendy?
• #2

MementoMori

Capture One
• #3

DethBeard

I'm looking at Luminar Ai, when I get a computer that can run it.
• #4

greentricky in reply to @swmlon

digiKam is great for cataloguing and rating etc. and is free

Affinity is good for editing and cheap
Darktable, RawTherapee are good and free
• #5

swmlon in reply to @DethBeard

That was one on my radar as well, and cheaper than lightroom. @greentricky thanks for the heads-up, will look tonight
• #6

greentricky

Affinity just gone on sale
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/
• #7

d0cA

I've been using dartable for a few years now - I find it really good but my competencies are quite basic and there is a lot to learn! I've not used anything else apart from digiKam though, so can't say how it compares to proprietary (e.g. adobe) products.
• #8

photoben

Buy Photo Mechanic for organising. It's the best. So fast and easy to use.
• #9

konastab01

What ben has said, I use Photo mechanic to organise, tag selections, put on data and take the raw file from it to photo shop for editing. Im also on a old version of PS too!

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