Keyboard shortcuts are configurable while in Lightroom they are not.Īt the end of November, version 11 has been pushed out which greatly enhances layer tools plus other minor updates. Tethered shooting is supported as well as export with watermarking. Compare mode among multiple photos is available and also with more than 2 images with zoom, that is not supported by Lightroom (for performance reasons I think) and it's a very useful feature to pick up the best shot among multiple ones. It also provides an import from Lightroom functionality that does a good job though not every Lightroom information is imported from Lightroom catalog (smart search folders and people taggings are not imported).īrowsing the folders to show a preview is quite fast and in general performances are good, with a better overall navigation speed than in Lightroom. Want to jump to the conclusions? Go to the conclusions.Ĭapture One (often called just C1) is one of the most long standing competitor of Lightroom, made by PhaseOne that builds also medium-format cameras so they know the photographic world. We consider these as mandatory tools so we will not cite those features in the review unless something unusual is offered or limited in a specific software. In the following of the article, when referring to "usual development tools" we refer to standard tools like the following: exposure compensation, highlight recovery, shadow enlightment, contrast/saturation correction, RGB curve correction, noise removal, custom white balance, free angle rotation, saving correction presets (full or partial ones for changing just some corrections), crop.
We will look both at free and paid software. We have tested for you the most popular alternative software to Adobe Lightroom for photo development -especially RAW- and image cataloguing as a guide to evaluate their latest versions and eventually choose one of them.
Competing companies are pushing more than ever their products to make the best of this period and attract photographers away from Adobe. After the announcement from Adobe last October that there will be no more a perpetual licence for Lightroom but just a monthly subscription including also cloud storage and/or Photoshop, many hobbyist photographers have started to look for alternative software that do not required to pay more than 100 $/€ per year to be used.
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