{"id":2244,"date":"2012-06-02T10:08:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T17:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2015-04-26T20:35:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T03:35:47","slug":"giving-in-to-lightroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/giving-in-to-lightroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving in to Lightroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got my first “nice” camera early last year<\/a>, and soon realized I needed a nice way to organize my photos.\u00a0At first, I decided to use Picasa<\/a>\u00a0because it seemed to have a nice beginner interface, and more importantly, it “worked<\/a>” in Linux. For most of the year, I got by with Picasa for organization and\u00a0Gimp<\/a>\u00a0for times of extra editing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By the end of the year, I had gotten fed up with Google’s lack of Linux support for Picasa, felt I had “grown” past using it for my photos anyway, and began searching for alternative programs to organize my photo library.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I had gotten a Macbook Pro<\/a> and discovered that\u00a0iPhoto was actually pretty good at organizing photos, while offering decent basic adjustments – but, it is only for OSX. I wanted something for my desktop, and wanted it to run in Linux (I only boot into Windows rarely for gaming). Unfortunately, this left me with few options.<\/p>\n

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After searching online for a while, I stumbled upon digiKam<\/a>, which seemed ideal because it was cross platform, and offered<\/a> photo library management and a decent set of editing tools. It is impossible though, to search for “photo organizing software” and NOT see\u00a0recommendations for\u00a0Adobe Lightroom<\/a>, but meh, it wasn’t available on Linux.<\/p>\n

This brought me to an important decision: use digiKam and stay in sweet Linux land, or conform to the dark side and give into using Lightroom in Windows (yes, I could use Lightroom on my macbook, but I wanted to use my nice desktop and large monitor for photo stuffs). So at the time, the choice was easy: screw Windows, I just found my new Linux based photo-workflow<\/a>!<\/p>\n

(Note: a little while after choosing digiKam, I found another alternative:\u00a0darktable<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0looked very similar to Lightroom, but was very awkward to use, and just didn’t seem to offer much more.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fast-forward 6 months to today, and guess what? I’m giving in to Lightroom.<\/em>\u00a0Yup, not only am I ditching free digiKam for paid Lightroom, but this also forces me to give up editing on my Ubuntu desktop and use my Apple laptop instead (yes, I hate Windows that much, and Lightroom is that awesome)!<\/p>\n

Don’t get my wrong, digiKam is still the best<\/em>\u00a0photo organization software in Linux (with darktable catching up), and it’s free! But, after giving Lightroom 4 a good try, I am convinced this is the gold standard<\/em> of photography workflow software. Period.<\/p>\n

It is unfortunate Adobe doesn’t support Linux in their software, especially since OSX is Unix-based! Accepting this tragedy though, it is also a shame I didn’t just start off with Lightroom to begin with.<\/p>\n

In the end, digiKam got me very far, and I’m glad I gave it a fair shot, but it still pales in functionality comparison to Lightroom, and also I felt that I had grown out of another tool. I am excited about finally learning to use the ever popular Adobe Lightroom for my photography<\/a> workflows, but man, I wish it worked in Linux \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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(p.s. checkout my new 500px<\/a> account!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got my first “nice” camera early last year, and soon realized I needed a nice way to organize my photos.\u00a0At first, I decided to use Picasa\u00a0because it seemed to have a nice beginner interface, and more importantly, it “worked” in Linux. 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