To give you examples of the kinds of things that I want to automate: I recently upgraded my photo organization and management workflow from 'nothing at all' to Lightroom 4, and while I'm generally very pleased with the software, one feature that it's sorely lacking is the ability to record any sort of macros or scripts to automate repetitive tasks - during the course of my migration into lightroom, there have been a lot of repetitive tasks that I've wanted to do, and I'm wondering if it's worth learning how to write LR plugins to do some of these tasks. Digikam (sort of the same for KDE) is supposedly much, much better, but I recall it may also have been one of the ones where it keeps its own database of the images that departs from the file system. Of videos meaning you'd still need gthumb. Shotwell also has very poor RAW processing capability meaning you'd still need Rawtherapee, and can't That's the reason I've so far avoided things like Shotwell. I don't like the viewers that force you to crawl your hard drive and then build an internal database of your images I already have a database of my images and it's called the file system. Increasingly I find I don't need to use this anymore as Rawtherapee does what I need.įor general organisation, such as adding keywords into the image files, grouping them, moving/sorting them. Also works with JPEGs too, of course, but you lose quality. It's also great at previewing all types of image files.įor all RAW development and exposure/geometry corrections, sharpening, colour management etc.

It has insanely rapid fast previewing of image files, including RAW, to quickly skip through see which ones are in focus/have other issues and delete them. I find that a combination of different software works best.įor browsing thumbnails and previewing files.

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