A Mac-only RAW processor, Luminar lacked (and still does) a browser, but attempted to make up for this glaring deficiency by promising impressive performance. It’s very modern, quite edgy in it’s approach, but has an interface that is so bizarre, it could only have been a Lightroom reject. Late last year, On1 pre-announced a new RAW processor and pretty much on time, shipped On1 RAW, complete with a full-on file browser. But with little or no option, Lightroom it was and while I was happy to see that it was by now much more stable, visually it continued to look like a committee-designed product and was dog slow on pretty much every task.Ī couple of years and several updates later, it’s still a resource hog, can spin up the fans on my MacBook Pro in a heartbeat and still looks like the product from hell. It was unstable, clunky, hard to master and visually, a mess. I’d tried to use several earlier versions and abandoned the effort on every occasion. Much against my better judgement, following Aperture’s demise, I’d opted for Adobe’s Lightroom. Not for the first time, the end user is getting less than optimal value. There’s not really any “wow” on offer, so what I’m seeing is safe, likely to repay investors and shareholders, but not much else. I’d meant to write lots, review good points, better points and the great, but you know what? I’ve yet to find enough great to encourage me to set aside the several days it would take to write, that I could better use for something useful, more liberating. This post is not a review of post processing packages. Something friendly, useful, predictable, understandable and most of all, not still in beta. ![]() So, there we all were, Aperture users as one, looking for an alternative. If you were half as angry with Apple abandoning Aperture as I was, then any kind of rant about the subject is likely to still be quite acceptable.
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