I started a thread on this topic on their community support board: https://on1help.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360055861911-Switching-from-lightroom
I’ve run into another issue with Photo RAW, setting the white balance of a group of photos based on a greycard. > On Dec 28, 2019, at 11:37 AM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > > >> On Dec 28, 2019, at 7:39 AM, Ralf R Radermacher <fotor...@gmx.de> wrote: >> >> Am 28.12.19 um 15:14 schrieb Godfrey DiGiorgi: >> >>> I must say: Studying the other offerings on the market points out to me how >>> good a job Lightroom is. Adobe is the irritating part of it. >> >> Fair enough and I'm aware that I'm losing some very handy features. But >> the idea of all my work being taken hostage by a company whose business >> model is a glorified protection racket just doesn't appeal to me any >> longer. > > If it weren’t for the ransomware feature, I’d stay with lightroom. If I had > better income, I’d still be tempted. I have no interest in going through the > bother of learning photoshop, and especially not paying for it. > >> >> Besides, it takes me one step closer to my next goal and that is freeing >> myself from the tyranny of Apple. > > That is the big advantage of darktable, it’ll run on Linux. However, if I > switch to Doze, with Linux running in VMs for getting real work done, it’ll > be easier to back up the linux boxen. Also it seems that all the astrophoto > apps run on Doze. > > One thing I really like about On1 is that they have a focus peaking review > mode. I haven’t compared their HDR and panorama software with lightroom. > They also have focus stacking that could be handy. > > Here are the questions that I’ve sent to them, however since it’s now the > weekend, I don’t expect an answer before the special is over? > > I suspect this might be a bug report. > I tried to get back to the state of a fresh installation, so I did an > uninstall and reinstall of photo raw. > When I tried to migrate my lightroom (6) catalog, and photo raw came up, all > of my keywords were still in photo raw, even though I hadn't imported any > photos. > > Related question.... > Do all the migration tools work with lightroom 6? Or just lightroom CC? > > Some of the photos seem to be getting the development data, some not. > It’s also gone through and imported everything from my home directory. > > I've been working on learning photo raw and importing my small lightroom > catalog on my travel computer. > None of the lightroom settings are coming over, I've tried various things, > and I'd like to delete all the photos from photo raw, but not from the hard > drive, and start all over. > I've tried starting by holding the shift key. > I've also tried deleting all of the .on1 files, > it's still wedged. > I can't find the database. > How do I bring it back to "start”? > > I'm reading the user guide and it doesn't mention an option for only > importing new photos. > I can see two possibilities, if there is already a sidecar file, photo raw > could just skip that file. Or, it could copy the new file off of the memory > card of the camera to the new location (rather than just skipping it if its > there) and overwrite the sidecar file. > > Your user guide on setting color labels says > 6 (red), 7 (yellow), 8 (blue), 9 (green > > but, like in lightroom > 8 is green and 9 is blue > > I'm looking to buy photo raw (assuming it will run on my desktop computer at > home). I read someplace that there isn't a way to back up my edits, like > backing up a lightroom catalog. > It's hard to believe that such an important basic feature was missed. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
