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Does it have a good catalog module? I use LR 99% for organization and only do basic touch up. My requirements for a replacement would be an excellent import/exp
by alkonaut 6y ago
Does it have a good catalog module? I use LR 99% for organization and only do basic touch up. My requirements for a replacement would be an excellent import/export/organizer and a decent raw converter.
- diarrhea 6y agoA popular path is to ditch Lightroom for the trio of Rapid Photo Downloader, digikam and finally RawTherapee. This was entirely unusable for me. RawTherepee is only for RAW treatment/export. Digikam can only do photo organization. Now here's the kicker: the two won't talk. Metadata known and written by one is invisible to the other. Using Manjaro, Rapid Photo Downloader eventually started segfaulting on me. I also tried Darktable which looked much better and much more like a Lightroom replacement, but didn't like it. So back to Lightroom, and even Windows as a whole, it is for me.
- dflynch 6y agoSorry that you saw segfaults when running Rapid Photo Downloader under Manjaro. I am the developer of Rapid Photo Downloader. One thing to keep in mind is that Manjaro, similar to Fedora, is bleeding edge. Things break sometimes when running Manjaro or Fedora. That's the nature of a cutting edge distro. The good news is that things that break are often quickly fixed.
- errantspark 6y agoIt depends on your workflow I suppose. It has a catalog module that lets you tag images with a color, a star rating and inspect the image easily at 1:1. That's basically all I care about so I have no problems with it. I generally only keep the most recent 100 GB of photos or so locally and I have a decent organization system using folders so I don't lean on it too heavily.