PhotoMechanic is another well-known tool for this work. move images from SD card to dated folder in your master Images folder (called “Pictures” on Mac): something like “/20181116-SC-Kittsee-vs-Pama”.The images which need to be managed in most workflow are our finished images, not our RAW files. The easiest way to integrate DAM with DxO Photo Lab (or any RAW developer) is to separate culling from image management.
I’m something of a software geek and I struggled with XNView. At the end of the day LR CC on mobile is very good.
I do keep them separate at the moment with the finals in LRCC.Ī flow I had been considering was made up of DPL, NeoFInder and Affinity Photo but it is how to integrate that with the cloud. So my question is where now or just stick with Adobe and that in turn is influenced by should I keep my raws and final tiffs/jpegs separate. Downside is you can only hand off jpegs to the plugins and that has obvious consequences. It has all the basics, is fast, works across all devices, has excellent plugin support and is free. To really dirty the water - Apple Photos as a DAM is not too bad imo. I still think LR is a difficult act to follow (certainly DAM-wise) and I am quite taken by LR CC and its cloud offering - it is a shame that as yet it does not support plugins and one can only hand off to Photoshop which does accept plugins of course. Do I wait for that? How long will it be? Will it be good enough? Or do I just pick a stand alone and go with it. It was always going to be between NeoFinder and XnView the latter is free the former is of course Mac architecture.ĭPL now building a DAM has rather muddied the water. Also displays Luminar project files, not that I am into that piece of software. What drew me to it was its functionality in the direction of metadata and geo tagging plus it is able to display thumbnails from Affinity Photo project files. These have now been corrected and it runs pretty swiftly on my 2017 iMac.
My mileage is limited mainly because when I first loaded the trial it had performance issues with Mac Mojave.