It makes file management much simpler in my mind. There is never a point at which I can't scrap what I'm doing and be made whole again as if I were starting the process over again.ĭNG, I like not having to have separate sidecar files for each photo, all my nondestructive edits are stored in the dng file itself. I can revert back to the original source at any time. True nondestructive editing across the entire process. This article is an explanation of my logic.įirst, let me tell you what I like, dislike, and am ambivalent about in Lightroom so you can get an idea of what I value in photo software. Upon testing, I found ACDSee pro to be very compatible with my desired post processing style, and I decided to switch to it. I had upgraded Lightroom to Lr 3.6 but as I said, I was starting to feel uncomfortable with the Lightroom way of doing things.
I liked Lightroom better and started to use it. Since I was using a PC, my only choice was Lightroom and ACDSee Pro. Actually it may have been with in a week or so. If you recall, a few years ago, Aperture, ACDSee Pro, and Lightroom were all announced within about a month of each other. I decided that I would evaluate ACDSee Pro 6. I wanted to see if some of the options that are available would be useful to me. But I had grown increasingly uncomfortable with how Lightroom was forcing me down the “Lightroom” way of doing things. And for good reason, it works and it works well. Of which, Lightroom had been probably the single most important tool I used. About this time, last year (late 2012 – Early 2013), I thought I'd start to reconsider my options regarding my photographic tools.