![]() If you are a Mac user, and have upgraded to High Sierra, I'd urge you to consider moving to Photos. Or you could use Bridge from Adobe which is free. You could build yourself a free-account Airtable base and store your metadata there. You could use Apple (or Windows 10) Photos. So if you like its editing tools, you'll still be looking for some other way to keep track of your photos so you can find 'em later. But to say that PhotoLab isn't "as good" as Lightroom as a library manager is misleading. For that purpose it's very good: about as good as Lightroom for most things, somewhat better or somewhat worse than Lightroom for a few other things. PhotoLab is basically it's a single-image editing app. But this is why I have NEVER used DxO software as my primary photo handling app. I have been using DxO software (Optics Pro since almost version 1 and now PhotoLab). No keywords, no albums, no captions, no image titles, no face or content recognition (Apple Photos does faces, Lightroom CC does content), no support for geotags, and basically no find feature. Ability to use star or flag to earmark favourite imagesĪs I have said before: PhotoLab is NOT a photo-library management app. I suspect I'll stop using PhotoLab but will move images that require serious correction into ViewPoint. On the other hand, the perspective correction tools in Lightroom CC are now nearly as good. If you need perspective correction you have to buy the DxO "suite" which includes ViewPoint (or buy ViewPoint in addition to PhotoLab) and you'll now be paying what a couple years of Lightroom CC would cost you. Highlight/shadow corrections in PhotoLab on the other hand are very very good. The brush tools in Lightroom are much easier to use and equally or more effective. But the U-point tools in PhotoLab are - like DxO's "color wheel" - NOT intuitive or easy to use. ![]() I loved the Nik Collection and used it enthusiastically for years. The U-point tools work okay, but I think they worked better in the original Nik suite of tools. Local corrections are a new thing in DxO's products and are most of what led them to rename Optics Pro (which didn't have local corrections) "PhotoLab". The clone/heal in PhotoLab isn't nearly as good as the corresponding tool in Lightroom CC. Ability to recover highlight and shadow detail ![]() Clone/heal to get rid of imperfections in shot (litter on ground etc) PhotoLab's features are described in a fair bit of detail here: The website seems quite sketchy about the program's features, so I was wondering whether people here who know both could clarify if DXO includes the following: If your financial situation is such that a bit more than $100 a year is a hardship, well, don't switch to something that costs MORE but gives you a permanent license (DxO Photo Suite) - switch to something free. ![]() But if the app that works best has a monthly subscription, get over the monthly subscription. My advice is: if you can find a permanently licensed app that you like, great. I understand the gripes about this because I used to gripe about it myself. The monthly subscription thing is a different question. It's the future because being able to access your data from anywhere, from any device, is a major plus. The Cloud is the future of pretty much everything not because some folks in suits with stock in cloud computing are pushing it on us. And if my house is robbed and someone steals ALL of my computers, I have not lost my photos. Plus, my iPhone photos are synced to my Lightroom CC library automatically. I don't have to carry around an external drive. If I edit an image in Lightroom CC on the Dell, next time I view that image on the iMac, the edit is there. I can now access my photos without any special effort from my big iMac, or my Macbook Pro, or my Dell XPS 15, or my iPhone. ![]() I have switched from Lightroom Classic to the new Lightroom CC precisely for the cloud storage. I've been thinking about switching from LightRoom to another package, possibly DXO, because I don't want to store images in the cloud or pay a monthly subscription.ĭon't forget that Lightroom Classic does NOT require cloud storage.Īlso may be useful to consider that cloud storage has many advantages. ![]()
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