Why “Lightroom” is being discussed
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Most everyday Lightroom editing and library work is there. Missing: print, book, map and web modules, face recognition and tethering. There’s a full list in the README under “Ho…
by thesnarkitecht · Oct 8, 2026
Fair. Your originals are never modified and edits are standard XMP sidecars that Lightroom and darktable can read, so if this project ever stops, nothing is locked in.
by thesnarkitecht · Oct 8, 2026
Pro photographer here. And I've counted at least ten of these photo editing apps that have appeared in the last year, many of them in the last few months. All of them LLM-assist…
by vouaobrasil · Oct 8, 2026
What advantages does this offer over Darktable, the long standing FOSS lightroom alternative? Edit: One criticism of Darktable is that it emphasizes its "scene-referred workflow…
by ikmckenz · Oct 8, 2026
Show HN: Free open source Adobe Lightroom alternative, completely local with AI
by thesnarkitecht · Oct 8, 2026 · 38 points
You’d develop the raw file into another format before publishing it in any case, and Lightroom can export to JXL. (Or you can of course export to a lossless format and then reen…
by spider-mario · Oct 8, 2026
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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, often shortened to Lightroom, is an image organization and editing application developed by Adobe and licensed as part of the Creative Cloud suite. It is primarily geared towards photographers and provides tools to import, view, organize, tag, edit, and export large numbers of digital images. Lightroom is available on Windows, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, Android, and tvOS. The name Lightroom is a play on the darkrooms used for processing film. Read more on Wikipedia