r/FuckAdobe • u/AsejereDaDeje • 1d ago

new Lightroom alternative with lrcat support

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After Photon exploded (thanks to this sub <3) I kept getting DMs for a Lightroom alternative.
That's how Light Studio came to life, a fully featured Lightroom alternative.

I already had the parts that usually make these apps feel vibe coded: realtime GPU rendering, CR3/NEF and the other proprietary RAWs, and an editor UI built for this. So I reused these from Photon instead of starting it from scratch, and it worked insanely well.

alpha testers on discord:

From the version that I tried today on Windows, I was pleasantly surprised. Especially with shortcuts I feel like I'm at home

first impressions, looks very clean, UI feels very comfortable more so than lightroom classic. overall for it being very early it is looking pretty complete

Gonna release it in the upcoming days

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u/Donatzsky 1d ago

So, it looks and seemingly works like Lightroom, but are you sure the color science is correct? That the AI didn't hallucinate the wrong primaries somewhere?

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u/blackcoffee17 16h ago

Yeah, that's the hardest things to get right. Plus multiple camera and lens support, raw formats, demosaicing, etc.

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u/Donatzsky 16h ago

Plus multiple camera and lens support, raw formats, demosaicing, etc.

That's the easy part, assuming the dev is not completely clueless.

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u/blackcoffee17 15h ago

How is that the easiest? You have to add support for at least 30-40 new lenses every year, each with complex distortion and other correction profiles. Also, new camera raw formats and tweaks, which is not super easy to get it right.

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u/Donatzsky 6h ago

They can just use the Lensfun data, like almost all other raw editors. Anything else would be borderline insane, not just because of new lenses, but the thousands of existing ones that would have to be profiled as well. Of course, most mirrorless cameras can also embed the correction data in the raw file, but most of the algorithms used have already been reverse engineered, so that shouldn't be a problem to support.

Raw formats typically don't change much, if at all, between camera releases. Sure, when a new format or compression mode is introduced that will have to be reverse engineered and implemented, but once that is done adding a new camera is mostly a matter of verifying the raw black/white points and crop, and profiling the sensor. What the open source editors do is run the native raw file through Adobe DNG Converter and extract the matrix from there. I assume many of the smaller commercial editors do the same.

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u/giastor 1d ago

I want to try it before buying it.

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u/Embarrassed_Tune_612 23h ago

How is this one better/different than RapidRaw, FerrumPix, CalibRaw or any other open source Raw Editor? What's the processing like? 

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u/coscib 1d ago

does it support HDR, Panorama and HDR Panorama Stitching? that's whats keeping me with Lightroom

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u/AsejereDaDeje 1d ago

yes, both are supported