I tried Google Photos (my current setup), but while cloud storage is nice, it’s UI sucks (it is Google after all), but most annoyingly you can’t actually name people in photos. It was also not cheap at all, and subscription based. I tried Lightroom, but that was excruciatingly slow to import the photos, and on top of that it had very counter intuitive controls. Serious question: Is there any good photo management software? I’m not even a hobbiest photographer but I’ve got 300GB of photos over 15 years, and it’s a pain in the ass to manage these. Most aĪlternatives to a Photo Gallery want to import all photos to a special directory or even to a central database (see Picasa, and Lightroom) which is like iTunes where all your metadata like the 5 star rating sits then in a central database - that is soooo wrong!! - instead of storing the changes back to the photo files. So you can organize the photos like you want and Photo Gallery just indexes the folders and stores thumbnails and metadata in a central database file for fast viewing and searching. And all photos are NOT-imported to a central database. If you tag a photo (even hierarchy tags like Places/City/NewYorkCity) the tag is stored also in the photo file, so when you copy somewhere else, all metadata (EXIF, XMP, IPC) is still there.
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The cool thing of Windows Live Photo Gallery is that everything is saved back to the file. On Win both Picasa (also discontinued), Lightroom (non-cloud also discontinued), and various open source alternatives are less polished and slower than Photo Gallery. I succeeded in installing the discontinued "Windows Live Photo Gallery" on Win7, despite M$ efforts to burn down all old pre-Win10 tents. In Darktable you're limited to moving sliders around, which is far more annoying.įinally, Darktable is mostly geared towards improving photograph quality, while GIMP is more of an all-around image editor and drawing/painting program which can improve the quality of photographs but is not limited to that but can do much more. For example, making perspective changes in GIMP using the perspective tool - you just drag the corners of the image where you want them. Second, some operations are just much easier and more intuitive to do in GIMP. Just going from lighttable to darkroom or back could take multiple minutes.
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In that case, performing a simple operation on top of the existing ones or just zooming in or out could take a full minute, and exporting a single image could take 30 minutes or more (compared to GIMP, which takes less than a minute). especially when the image I'm editing has lots of operations performed on it.
On the other hand, Darktable has some serious issues that make it less than ideal for me.įirst, on my old laptop Darktable is super, super slow. I'm super impressed with how powerful and polished Darktable is, and overall I really love it. As a long time GIMP user, coming to Darktable has been a revelation.
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