1/13/2024 0 Comments Photo mechanic vs fastrawviewerFreedom to choose the folder structure in your operating system to your liking, while cataloguing can make use of collections to augment the folder structure.Moving files within Lightroom takes care of moving files in the file system. ![]() One catalog easily handles all my image files, 65K+ at the moment and counting.Synchronizing between Lightroom app on iPhone and Lightroom Classic.Adding location to photos from a gpx file generated by a GPS (don't need it anymore, but highly valued it when I did).Keywords, flags, ratings, color labels with filtering on them.Extensive export functionality, enabling presets which I use all the time.Configurable import options, enabling renaming while importing, adding keywords, applying a default setting for the camera and optionally extra develop settings, converting to DNG if so desired, making a backup copy to another folder.Metadata panel per picture is configurable with Jeffrey Friedl's Metadata-Viewer Preset Editor plugin, showing exactly the data you want to see in the order you want to see them.Filtering options, vastly extended by Jeffrey Friedl's Data Explorer plugin.Smart collections are very powerful in conjunction with keywords and other metadata.Collections, indispensable for keeping track of what I published on forums, what I showed at the photo club, series I made, what I printed, what I want to print etc.A veritable f*ckup, damn those marketing guys. Adobe maximized confusion about product naming when they introduced their new Lightroom product for the cloud. When I mentioned Lightroom, I really mean Lightroom Classic, I never use Lightroom (the cloud version). I think I'm starting to get it - or at least something that's going to work for me going forward.Ĭlick to expand.Where to start? Opened up Lightroom Classic to get to some thoughts. I’ll likely tighten up this process in the future but for now I can manage. It has all that I need albeit in a different place or a slightly different method. I bought Affinity a while back and gave it a solid go a few months ago. The perpetual license makes sense to me and so far I’m finding the tool set as good or even a little more powerful than LR, and I really like the built in tether solution. I've upgrade the free Capture One Sony to Pro and like it as well. Now, I've found the culler in FastRawViewer. ![]() Of late, I've been using and liking the free CaptureOne Fuji/Sony and Affinity photo but haven't figured out a viable culling solution. When Adobe went subscription only, I wandered off to try and find something else but was never really satisfied. I used Lightroom to sort and develop and once in a while I'd finish in Photoshop or a plugin like NIK or Luminar, etc. ![]() I have to admit, with 15 years of digital photography I've never really honed a workflow.
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