![]() I was so impressed I bought it before the trial ran out and thought this is a marriage made in heaven, but alas it was not meant to be.As an avid amateur photographer I have, and keep adding to, many thousands of photos. It integrates with photos to work as an extension and so makes life for the average user very easy. It has a limited selection of presets which work fairly well. This really is a great bit of software and has just about every tool for editing you could possibly want patch tool, skin smoothing, linear and radial gradients, highlights and shadows, curves ,frames, Luminosity masks it has it all.It does not slow the operating system at all and works with most cameras raw files and all jpegs. Next up was Picktorial a well written piece of software (Mac only)which I believe is from Israel. And it is described as the swiss army knife of photo editing so still a useful tool.So I decided to try another. But in all honesty Graphic convertor was probably never designed to edit and library as Lightroom does but initially as a convertor as the name suggests. Although I had been using it and trying desperatley to get on with it I had by now had to purchase it as the trial had expired! To be fair it is a very useful piece of software and I have kept it for future use, but it lacked a library function a core component of Lightroom, the dehaze was uncontrollable and the graduated filter did not work as expected. It took too long and lacked the basic functionality of lightroom. ![]() But it was slow opening and slow to respond and no matter how hard I tried it just could not replace Lightroom. I certainly dont dispute this and after asking nicely he even added a graduated filter to the software at my request. People raved about it and the developer saying how good it was and how helpful he was. After much deliberation I decided to try Graphic convertor 10 by Lemke. I started by searching for Lightroom alternative, as you do. I triple boot mint,ubuntu and Osx high Sierra (hackintosh). I have a high spec pc with an i9 7900x processor 32gb of fast memory, two Samsung 1tb nvme drives three samsung ssd and numerous external drives. A one time windows user but eventually driven to change before insanity took over, so now I only use windows in the virtual world on my Mac. To be clear, I mainly use Mac osx sierra, followed by a spot of Linux (Ubuntu and Mintlinux Cinnamon edition). I will write a review for each of these as and when time allows and add to this column so check back to see the results. Some of these are open source, some I purchased and some I tried as a free trial. ![]() To date I have tried Affinity photo, Fast raw viewer,Alien skin exposure x3,Corel aftershot pro3,Graphic convertor 10, Picktorial,Photolemur,On1 photoraw.Capture One 11, Cyberlink photodirector 9, Dxo photolab, Photomechanic 5, Athentec Perfectly Clear, Gimp, Darktable, Lightzone and Digikam and a few besides. I had my lightroom subscription at the bargain price of £7.99 it worked ,it was fast and was easy to use and, as a bonus you get the one and only Photoshop in with it! But as an amateur and mostly for fun photographer it grated me to keep paying over and over for the software so, I decided to look for a viable alternative that would be a one off purchase. So now here is a huge ready made market ripe for the picking for the company with the right software! But who, has the right software waiting to mop up this rich swathe of ex adobe users? Read on! So ,why then would anyone wish to replace it? Well, the switch to a monthly subsciption has surely been the most controversial move ever and has photographers in particular, amateur photographers up in arms and searching for a more economical solution to their editing needs. Over the years its got better and easier to use and is continually improving. Adobe Lightroom has always been a very useful and functional piece of software. ![]()
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