I keep all important originals of the edited pictures.Īs I have jpg-versions of all final edits and the related RAW originals, I do not care so much about migrating the development settings.

I save storage, as I get rid of unnecessary RAW files.

I can show final images without the need of special software (Lightroom).

The last step is to delete all RAW originals I haven’t color marked.

Once I am satisfied with the results, I export everything to JPG in the same folder.

mark the good ones with colors and focus on those while editing.

Reject unsharp and broken images and delete those.

While I shoot in RAW, I do not keep all the original RAW files. My current workflowĪs today, my library consists of something around 20000 pictures from roughly ten years of hobby photography.

I have to rework this article accordingly. During the process I realized it is not as straight forward as I thought it would be.Īttention: with digiKam 6.4 and Darktable 3.0.1 additional integration is available. Thus I decided to migrate to an open-source photography work-flow.

Unfortunately, it is the last nail that holds me back to Windows and furthermore – I do not like the monthly payment model of the new Lightroom version. I used Lightroom for several years, and still really love the software.

This article might also be helpful if you want to use several photo development tools in parallel. This article describes settings, workflows and problems which I have encountered during the migration from Adobe Lightroom 5.7.1 to an open-source software alternative Raw-image editor. Synchronization between photo development tools, or the migration from Lightroom to open-source alternatives.

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