Also the Auto options for exposure and white balance etc. There is better RAW conversion allegedly but I'm no pixel peeper(!). With Capture One there is better use made of the "dead space" in the layout, it appears more compact. I would prefer it if you could reduce the font size of the panel titles but that's only a minor quibble. With Exposure X4 I like the lens corrections and presets, the Fuji simulations look interesting. I have tried most of the suggestions over the last couple of weeks (plus Picktorial, ACDSee, ON1) and have narrowed my choice down to Exposure X4 and Capture One. It's helped me to refine my focus on what is going to best serve my needs.Ī quick follow up to this. This thread has been really interesting, reading your suggestions and experiences with the various alternatives. They also really rock at tutorial videos, including many by pro photographers who are using the software. As far as functionality and features I think On1 RAW is well ahead of LR. However, the evolution of the On1 RAW software has been a nice progression of adding functionality and enhancing features. But I'm really tired of this being the defacto standard for paid software releases. Eventually, months later they manage to get the bugs out enough that I feel comfortable using it again. Their customer support also isn't much better than Skylum's. In one release an image could look fine, and the exported image had terrible obvious artifacts in it. It's similar to what I'm experiencing with Luminar 3, where I feel that I've paid them to be their beta tester and the privilege of wasting time working on images that then are unusable because of issues is their software. I have also experienced major issues with On1 every time they release a major update. I wonder how much of that was due to the influence of Trey Ratcliff. At least Skylum (then Macphun) did something right there. I am often hand holding my camera for HDR brackets and Aurora does a stellar job at aligning and removing the ghosting that is going to result from not being able to hold the camera as steady as a tripod could. But in my comparisons between On1 HDR Merge and Aurora 2019 using the same images and settings for Alignment and Remove Ghosting Aurora blew On1 out of the water. The one external editor I do use regularly through On1 is Aurora 2019 though. I would highly recommend getting their free trial version to test Dean what 10% codes? I may purchase the Exposure Bundle, but at the very least I want Blow Up if I can get it to work as a plugin within Grant I agree with you about On1 being so full featured that most external editors aren't usually needed because so much is already covered in On1. But their recent update took care of that with customizable keyboard shortcuts, and even a quick option to convert to Lightroom shortcuts. The one thing that I found difficult is that the keyboard shortcuts were so different. I did have a couple problems though, and their customer support was stellar! Unlike both Skylum and On1 support. Once I watched a few of their tutorial videos the UI was fairly intuitive. Their DAM is very fast to load images, their tools cover all the basics. Unfortunately because I had so much work I wasn't able to use it for the last 2 weeks of the trial, but I had put it through enough by then to know that I wanted to buy it. I used it quite a bit, and also through one of their updates. I downloaded the trial version of their package (with 2 other products at a great price). So I went looking for an alternative and came across Exposure X4. I have On1 RAW also but it's very slow displaying previews of my images, and I've had other problems with it especially every time they launch a new version, I feel like we've paid them for the privilege of being beta testers, though not as bad as 元's problems. basically the endless problems that you may have read about in these forums and elsewhere that I went looking for alternatives. I have had so many problems with 元 losing all of my edits, crashing badly and only supporting very small libraries.
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