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R E K

Can anyone recommend an alternative to Adobe's Lightroom for processing raw images?
Ideally, an open-source alternative that won't be too jarring for an avid Lightroom user(asking for a friend). Boosts ok.

(Looking for recommendations from photographers. Plz don't recommend software you have never used yourself. )

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Kira, feral fox 🦊 🏳️‍⚧️

@rek I've only ever used Darktable for my photography. I found the UI kind of clumsy, but it worked for me.

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@rek Dark table does the job, but it was definitely a bit painful making the switch from Lightroom.

Alexander Cobleigh

@rek i was just talking about this with @raelzero yesterday!! he shoots a decent amount and uses ART (hilarious name imo)

bitbucket.org/agriggio/art/wik

Xavier Van de Woestyne

@rek I am pretty happy with Darktable (but as a non professionnal photographer)

Lizbeth

@rek I've been using darktable too for a couple years and it's pretty good!

Tendigits

@rek Another vote for Darktable. Here's a screenshot so you can see there's similarities with lightroom UI (at least the version I remember from years ago). There's a lot of features, but honestly after learning 5% of it, I've found it meeting my needs, and usable.

R E K

Thank you everyone for the suggestions :), I think I've got what I need!

nomand

@rek Can you share what you chose? I'm using Affinity Photo a lot, it's good, but could be a lot better.

R E K

@nomand I just wanted to gather 'tried and tested' options for a friend. I sent them the two most-mentioned options in the replies: Darktable and Rawterapee (I had read about Darktable a little)

Kevin Boyd

@rek I tried Darktable a few months ago and nope'd out of learning the UI. It did seem like it would be able to do the job, though.

Other options include ACDSee (I used to work there, in fact, and used the software a decent amount before switching to Lightroom), and Pixelmator (which I haven't used).

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