Best software for editing Fuji Raws

For me, it’s capture one.

I switched from LR to C1 after a lot of exploring and experimenting. I used LR with Canon and was happy, but when I moved to Fuji, I just was not thrilled with the files. I had tried C1 and loved the results but found it so difficult to adjust to. But then I came back to it and spent many hours playing and watching their excellent webinars. It’s a learning curve but SO WORTH IT. the files are wonderful and there are a lot of features that make it much more robust than LR.

THAT SAID, while I am thrilled with C1 for my raw editing, LR has a few advantages for me from a catalog perspective. I really prefer to have all my personal work in ONE HUGE catalog. For pro jobs, I have no issue with each job in its own session and one catalog per year, but for my personal work, I like t be able to do a global search of all my images from all the years. I often don’t even remember when a photo was taken or know what I’m looking for. For example, I might search for five star photos with tags portrait, street, NYC, smoking; taken with my gfx. I know I have a few photos like that taken over the years. In C1 I can’t grow the catalogs that big. In LR, I can and they have better integrations with my publishing and printing tools. (In addition I really like LR’s mobile apps for easy sharing on the go.)

I am now using C1 for raw editing and LR for catalog management. It’s lousy to have to pay two subscriptions, but I ended up deciding it was worth it for me personally. Let me know if you want me to share my workflow and process for using the two tools in conjunction with each other.