External Editor

[tspear]

Any suggestions?
I have been using Lightroom for a few years, never liked Photoshop.
Now Adobe has made it obvious they are going in a direction I do not care for. It is time to find another solution editor solution.
I make extensive use of gradients, local brush edits, pano merges, hdr merges, and lens corrections.

Thanks,

Tim

[hro]

Have a look at On1 PhotoRaw (www.on1.com). Pretty decent editor, great support and engagement by their team.
And they stated their licensing will never be subscription.

[Carlo Didier]

And they stated their licensing will never be subscription.

Didn't Adobe say so too? 

[Giblets]

DxO are offering a free copy of Optics Pro 11 via Practical Photographer.

http://www.dxo.com/us/practicalphotography

[pmbvw]

DxO are offering a free copy of Optics Pro 11 via Practical Photographer.

http://www.dxo.com/us/practicalphotography

Danke für die Info über das DXO-Angebot.
Leider ist es nur die stark eingeschränkte Essential-Version mit Upgrade-Angebot auf Elite für schlappe 149 Euro

[pmbvw]

Have a look at On1 PhotoRaw (www.on1.com). Pretty decent editor, great support and engagement by their team.
And they stated their licensing will never be subscription.

I am actually testing the beta On1 Photo RAW 2018.
It makes a good first impression, but is very complex.
A lot of presets, layers, now local adjustments and a lot of helpful videos are out there.
An export from On1 RAW and import to IMATCH 2017 seems to be ok (No metadataproblem) 

[wanderer2022]

I've just moved the Datas from Lightroom to Imatch, its working fine as far as we speak about the keywords, everythink i did in Beschreibung is only comming with jpg files, not with the sony raw side car files. As far as i have mostly minimum 1 jpg file i can see what i have written to the Group, not nice, but a work around, for the development i test at the momen on1, RawTherapee and Capture One Sony. At the moment no clue what is the right one, alle can do a lot, but i just need an easy way, thats not what the are for me at the moment. Would be nice to read if there are some more users on this way.

[jch2103]

DxO just introduced its latest iteration, DxO PhotoLab. It introduces local corrections, among other things. Worth a look.

[Lincoln]

Must say I have been very happy with Affinity Photo - after several months,  I have finally removed Lightroom and Photoshop from my hard drive. Imatch and Affinity Photo are a great match.