Need recommendation for photo editing app for Mac OS Sequoia

[Vetteran]

My LR6 installed on Mac OS Sequoia is no longer working. Requests for "Adobe Application Manager".

My LR6 was from Leica back in the days when Leica included standalone LR with camera purchases.

Anyway, need new Apple compatible photo editing recommendation. I only use photo editing apps occasionally and would prefer to avoid a monthly subscription solution.

Thank you.

 

[jaberg]

I use Nitro for raw processing and Photomator, which can also process raw, for adjustments to “developed” images. Both can work with images in Apple’s Photo.library or via the file system.

Affinity Photo, recently made free by Canva, is also in my collection. I don’t use it often because it doesn’t work directly with my image library, but the tool is worth a look.

 

[Vetteran]

Thank you

 

[DM-CO]

Have you looked at Apple’s Mac-based “photos” software (not the iOS version….. the Mac version). There are people on this site who use it and find no need for any other stuff —- and it’s free. When I looked at it I found it to be “quite capable”. Perhaps give that a try since you already have it installed on your Mac? And, if you want to keep your library local (not in the cloud), you CAN do that on Mac Photos.

That said, I use Photomator and affinity now as I am moving away from LR and adobe.

 

[Glen Barrington]

Have you looked at Apple’s Mac-based “photos” software (not the iOS version….. the Mac version). There are people on this site who use it and find no need for any other stuff —- and it’s free. When I looked at it I found it to be “quite capable”. Perhaps give that a try since you already have it installed on your Mac? And, if you want to keep your library local (not in the cloud), you CAN do that on Mac Photos.

That said, I use Photomator and affinity now as I am moving away from LR and adobe.

I've found Photos to be a fairly decent raw developer, at least for the basic stuff, and an OK touch up editor, but it really needs a good bit mapped, layers capable editor for more advanced work.

I also think its photo management tools need some work. If you are a casual, low volume, user, it's probably just fine. But once you get a large database accumulated, say 10,000 to 20,000 photos or more. It becomes rather awkward to manage, and find, the stuff you are looking for.

In my opinion, it's almost what I'm looking for, but not quite.

 

[DM-CO]

I've found Photos to be a fairly decent raw developer, at least for the basic stuff, and an OK touch up editor, but it really needs a good bit mapped, layers capable editor for more advanced work.

I also think its photo management tools need some work. If you are a casual, low volume, user, it's probably just fine. But once you get a large database accumulated, say 10,000 to 20,000 photos or more. It becomes rather awkward to manage, and find, the stuff you are looking for.

In my opinion, it's almost what I'm looking for, but not quite.

I agree with all of your assessments. But, since the OP was using LR6, he may actually find the FREE Apple photos for the Mac a step up in some areas.

 

[Vetteran]

I checked out the Mac Photos App yesterday. Seems useful.

Need to print to see if colors/printer profiles are consistent like LR6.

 

[Adam2]

What are your requirements? DAM, RAW editor, subscription/not, etc. Include those and perhaps we can help you.

 

[Godfrey]

For macOS systems, I bought the Adobe LR/PS subscription way back when and have been grandfathered through every version since for the same ~$10 per month. I only use LR Classic, although I have installed PS once or twice to do an extraordinary need, but it's unusual for my photography. I use LR Classic enough that it's worth the $120/year.

I've been experimenting with Photomator on the iPad and it works quite well. Photos works decently but is too lacking in too many ways to cover all my bases, particularly with regard to photo management (I have hundreds of thousands of photos in my LR Classic library). SnapSeed on the iPad or iPhone also works well (albeit the latest revision has gotten to be annoyingly complicated and gets in the way too much). Affinity Photo was a decent alternative to PS but I never got friendly with it; Photomator seems to work more smoothly for me.

There are many others. Poke about, experiment, find what works for you.

G

 

[Love_my_R5]

I use Nitro for raw processing and Photomator, which can also process raw, for adjustments to “developed” images. Both can work with images in Apple’s Photo.library or via the file system.

Affinity Photo, recently made free by Canva, is also in my collection. I don’t use it often because it doesn’t work directly with my image library, but the tool is worth a look.

I also recently downloaded Affinity. Looks good for basic editing including RAW. Not exactly a replacement for LR though.

BTW, I am still running LR6 on an Intel Mac mini (2018) running Monterey. If you have a Time Machine backup of a system where LR6 was working, it may still be possible to restore. Re-installing LR6 is not possible for several reasons including that the original installer was 32-bit and therefore will not execute on recent versions of macOS.

 

[DM-CO]

What are your requirements? DAM, RAW editor, subscription/not, etc. Include those and perhaps we can help you.

He already did.