We Need An Adobe Lightroom True Competitor Locked

Batdude wrote:

Who has the balls to come out with a much better RAW converter that truly competes with Adobe Lightroom Classic? We need one.

The only reason why I use LR is because of (it's workflow, that's it!) but as a Fujifilm shooter the files it produces are really poor. When I was using the Fujifilm S5 Pro no problem, but then after several years after upgrading to newer cameras you can definitely see the problem. Color tones, film simulations, sharpness and detail is simply not there and you have to spend a LOT more time messing around with this nonsense. Fujifilm is Fujifilm, not Sony, although I get the feeling that Sony RAW files are easier to manage now over Fujifilm, with Lightroom that is.

That's the first problem. The second problem is that for importing/exporting Lightroom is SUPER SLOW.

One of the comments I liked from the thread "Do You Want 40MP?" is that someone said that more megapixels is only going to get worse. And that's true. But, the hardware is not the only problem, is the software that will be the bottleneck and will slow things up drastically as MP keep increasing.

Sure, if you don't shoot over 1000 photos it should be fine, but over that forget it.

I hope someone comes out with better faster software than Adobe Lightroom with the same or even better workflow and I would be delighted to make the change.

This 8 minute YT video by wedding photographer Taylor Jackson explains how to this using cloud based Imagen AI - he shows how it produced finished edits of one of his recent weddings in only 7 minutes.

However, there is a catch. You will have to get together a few thousand photographs you've edited in Lightroom that you're happy with, so that Imagen AI can learn your editing style and technique. Presumably you can do that?

If you can get the teaching set together from Lightroom,  you can try it for free! If you try it, let us know how you get on.

The video is only 8 minutes long - it's worth a view at least.