![]() Capture One Pro is the leading contender to Lightroom, and an all-around fantastic photo management and editing tool. To try out the various applications, I used the same set of photos-278 DNG files, taken recently with a Leica Q. Now, let’s go through the various choices in photo management and editing apps. That said, tomorrow isn’t here yet, and professionals can’t wait. True disruption in tech happens about every 25 years, and mobile devices and cloud computing are changing how we work, so Adobe has built a consistent and replicable experience across all your devices, anticipating how we work today and, more importantly, tomorrow. It’s very limited in functionality right now, but clearly, the foundation is there for a new, more powerful workflow. The good news is that there are plenty of programs to choose from, but before I get into that, I want to note that Lightroom CC is a tremendous reboot of the photo-editing and photo-management tool, intended for a new era of computing. When Apple killed Aperture, photographers didn’t have much choice but to switch to Lightroom, and now with Adobe changing the Lightroom ecosystem-changing the desktop version’s name to “Classic” while removing the non-subscription version and creating a new cloud-based Lightroom CC-many photographers are once again looking for alternatives that don’t require a subscription. Depending on the shoot, some of my photos never touch a hard drive or desktop. I wrote about mobility back then, and just now iOS supports RAW, and ever-more-powerful tablets can work with the file sizes. It wasn’t that long ago when a mobile workflow was a new thing. Much has changed since my initial forays into professional photography, mostly related to cloud services, much more bandwidth and the surge in mobile devices. I remember RAW editing, too, and my workflow back then changed to getting the shot, the moment and then finalizing it in post, eventually creating my own visual style and a Pacific Northwest take on bicycle photography. ![]() I was amazed at how it would efficiently move a library from one drive to another when I upgraded to a 1 TB RAID. If I forgot to set up the camera’s date, I’d later marvel at how well Aperture handled the change on gigs of photos. Back then, I used it to create web albums and even made a slideshow movie. I learned quickly enough how powerful managing photos was, from staying organized to changing dates to adding GPS coordinates. My introduction to “real” photo management happened when I outgrew iPhoto and installed Aperture.
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