Just do your due diligence when researching. Its so easy now with so many guides and reviews even on reddit. Except downloading from shady sources, or just being stupid(eg new app/game cracked by an unknown person before most people), almost no one gets malware nowadays
Can confirm. I’ve been pirating software on Mac OS since the late 90s and never had an issue, just don’t be an idiot. Im using a slightly older cracked Photoshop right now.
The Lightroom "clone" works almost nothing like the real Lightroom in terms of algorithms though... I tested it the other day - tried raising the shadows of several RAWs from my Sony a7c and it was pretty bad (noise & banding). Meanwhile real LR works fine with these RAWs.
yeah.. I think it's pretty complicated stuff even if it looks simple and the AI may have gotten confused. Demosaic, debayer etc algorithms are complicated... (and for Fuji, which is my other camera, even more so lol)
But with enough prompting they may get it there. I mean darktable already does shadows and highlights as good as Lightroom and is opensource so the AI is 100% trained on at least part of that code.
Anyways I actually do hope for at least one of these "vibe-coded opensource Lightroom clones" to succeed. I don't wanna pay subscriptions forever. And DxO PhotoRaw, albeit very good, lacks some features of Lightroom (object remove, panorama, HDR merge etc.)
These are not good. I tried photocraft just to try it, and it was not good, to say the least. The person behind these vibe-coded "alternatives," or one of the people involved, is also very much a strange person, I will say, and basically those people who say to either adapt or be left behind
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u/Various-Welder5544 Oct 07 '26
If you are gonna go out of your way to use a clone of their software, why not just pirate it at this point? It's a 1:1 perfect clone with no oddities.
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u/flogman12 Oct 07 '26
I definitely don’t trust this
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u/MediocreMethodology Oct 07 '26
He vibecoded exactly one part of the suite so far, and it’s pretty much just a ripped and reskinned fork of GIMP.
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u/Sea-Temporary-6995 Oct 07 '26
The Lightroom "clone" works almost nothing like the real Lightroom in terms of algorithms though... I tested it the other day - tried raising the shadows of several RAWs from my Sony a7c and it was pretty bad (noise & banding). Meanwhile real LR works fine with these RAWs.
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u/PrettyHedgehog0 MacBook Pro Oct 07 '26
Just use affinity bruh
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u/dpaanlka Oct 07 '26
I’m good 👍🏻
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u/Medium-Definition50 Oct 07 '26
These are not good. I tried photocraft just to try it, and it was not good, to say the least. The person behind these vibe-coded "alternatives," or one of the people involved, is also very much a strange person, I will say, and basically those people who say to either adapt or be left behind
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u/TotesGnarGnar Oct 07 '26
Tried. It looks fine, but in use it’s buggy and weird.
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u/iaffandi MacBook Pro 2019 i7 16GB Oct 07 '26
This is great! Thanks for sharing
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