With non-destructive editing, all of the edits (or enhancements) to your photographs are made without ever being able to affect the original copy of your photograph. Yikes! That's what's technically called destructive editing. And worse, you had to be extremely careful because if you forget to give the new version a unique filename, it would completely overwrite your original master. This would then create a wholly new and separate version of the file. You had to take the photo into a photo editing program, make the changes, and then do a “Save As” command from the “File” drop-down menu at the top. Up until we had non-destructive image editing, if you wanted to do one of these edits to one of your photographs, and you wanted to be able to keep the original un-edited version as well, it was up to you to manage both - the original and then the edited version. Other common edits - especially ones done to scanned photos - are straightening, cropping, and manually “painting out” small amounts of dust and scratches or blemishes. Calendar dates the photos were taken and GPS locations which are embedded inside of almost current photos, now make it an almost instantaneous and automatic procedure to see your photos grouped by event and location. This information called metadata speeds up what was once a much more laborious task - the organization and identification of photographs. When a photo manager is at its greatest, it's tapping into all of the information invisibly stored inside your photos. Non-Destructive Image EditingĮven if you have little desire to do a lot of complex color correction that professionals take pride in doing, you will be surprised at how many minor changes you may want to make to your photos that are technically still considered edits. Like many of us, for the longest time, I just had photos stored all over my computer's storage drives, in multiple folders, with only a reasonably decent approach at a useful organization.īut, when I started using an outstanding photo manager, I began to see how easy and fun it is to bring all of my photos together into one centralized location.Īnd then there's the ease at which we can now make fixes to our problematic photographs. And it certainly is much faster than Adobe Camera Raw and has processing features whether they will meet your needs is another question.It was seriously a life-changing day when I discovered the magic of a “non-destructive” photo managing computer application. I use LR and CC but many times find that FastStone Image Viewer does a better job as the front end to CC, or Photo Ninja or whatever else you might use.
I''ve never tried Capture One but it seems to have an established and loyal following. And, how many different presets do you really need? Seems to me ON 1's business plan is to field an evolving product and use a stream of never-ending peripheral products (presets, plugins, tutorials, etc.) to generate revenue.
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I have ON 1 and frankly, for Fuji RAFs it is a disappointment, plus I can't come to grips with the (to me) unstructured ad hoc workflow. Same happened with VisiCalc, Lotus 1,2,3, WordStar, WordPerfect, and dBaseII - disappeared thanks to the Microsoft collective. Microsoft, with deep pockets, and corporate users prevailed.
Twenty years ago I taught programming using at least three IDEs superior to Microsoft. While I hope your thoughts re new players in the field are correct, never underestimate the power of marketing money and an established user base (especially corporate).
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