What are good editing tools other than Lightroom and photoshop?

[Ben F]

Any other suggestions?

 

[john.margetts]

Affinity Photo - actually designed for photography unlike Photoshop. If you do not do a great deal of manipulation, Gimp is very good. The RawTherapy is a much better Raw converter than anything produced by Adobe although I struggle a bit with the interface.

 

[Ben F]

Thanks! Will look into all the above. Do they all allow cloud work or are they limited to working on local machines?

 

[AnimalBones]

I'm pretty sure there is no cloud work in GIMP. This thread gives a link to the free NIK collection NIK Collection. It's free but the caveat is that all I have tried is Silver Efex for b/w (it's pretty good for free) so cannot comment on the other stuff in the package. Anyway, probably worth a whirl.

 

[Ben F]

Thanks!

 

[GarethB]

for RawTherapee...though I agree, it's a steep learning curve.

Another decent (and free) alternative to LR is Darktable.

 

[Ben F]

Thanks!

 

[MK1 Photography]

I think Snapseed is amazing for a quick edit and it turns out pretty good result

 

[Actinia]

Affinity Photo - actually designed for photography.

I have been using Affinity photo for several years now and have not looked back. Affinity supports many, but not all, PS plugins. I use Nik and Topaz a lot. It will work with the cloud but is not recommended. Files can get corrupted if the transfer is interrupted.

 

[thequietman]

Wow..never even knew Raw Therapee existed looks amazing for free software.. thanks for the heads up..just downloaded it to see how it performs on batch editing raws.

 

[ancient_mariner]

Any other suggestions?

You don't specify paid or free. For paid software I quite like On1 PhotoRaw and DXO Optics software. Capture 1 also have a good reputation, but their product is very expensive.

 

[droj]

batch editing raws.

Something's nagging at me that a base function of shooting raws is that your aim isn't going to be batch processing. But each to their own ...

 

[Phil V]

Something's nagging at me that a base function of shooting raws is that your aim isn't going to be batch processing. But each to their own ...

I think you'll find most wedding / portrait photographers do exactly that.