What have you people used to get away from Adobe Lightroom? This is about raw photos but also about properly managing a photo library.
I know about both Rawtherapee and Darktable. I've used both in the past but mostly for one-shot RAW conversion. I've seen that Darktable now has machine learning support (e.g. Segment Anything for masking) which is a plus. But are there other (not necessarily open source) apps for photo libraries? Like what Affinity is for Photoshop...?
@compfu@mograph.social I agree that Rawtherapee is not very helpful for managing libraries. Not sure about Darktable.
If you're looking for something to mainly manage your collection, what about Digikam?
Tried out #Digikam on Windows... it takes a while to open and I had to check the task manager to see that it's actually running. It starts with a setup wizard that asks me database-related questions. I know what Sqlite is but do other photographers? It highlights widgets whenever I move my mouse over them which makes any UI immediately feel fragile and dated I think. It thinks my 4TB USB disk is a USB stick and the import feature locks up because it wants to process thousands of photos.
👎 sorry
@compfu@mograph.social I haven't tried this yet, but I can't stop being impressed by the development of https://getrapidraw.com/
I'm just being hesitant with all new open source projects these days, but I might try this soon.
@compfu@mograph.social I'm not a pro but ON1 scratched that itch of library management and editing for me. They frequently do heavy discounts.
It's still not as good as Aperture ever was, but what is. 🙃