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![]() Assuming that Adobe continues to develop Lightroom, it will be Adobe, rather than ON1, that will ultimately deliver the advances that I was hoping for from Photo RAW. At the same time it adds little to Photo 10 in resolving the problem that I do have, namely the steep learning curve of Photoshop. In summary, Photo RAW solves a problem that I do not have I love Lightroom. And again your comments on propriety information suggest that there will never be such a migration process. But if one already has a catalog with tens of thousands of referenced raw images, then, in the absence of a comprehensive migration process, it would be impossible to cease using Lightroom in favour of Photo RAW. Which might be feasible for a new photographer who has never used Lightroom before. To get the benefits of Photo RAW one would need to ditch Lightroom altogether and use Photo RAW standalone. The only benefits of RAW over 10 seem to be some spin off benefits arising from a change in the program’s architecture, namely speed and a more flexible filter stack. So the huge and inefficient PSD files remain, which, in essence, is no different from Photo 10. It can still be used as an add-in to Lightroom, but, if so, Photo RAW still doesn’t receive a RAW image from Lightroom and from your comments about propriety information never will. It turns out that Photo RAW has been positioned as a standalone RAW editor to replace Lightroom. I was hoping never to have to open Photoshop again, but I clearly misunderstood what ON1 was developing. To date I have been using Photo 10 as an alternative to Photoshop much less powerful of course, but excellent for finishing off a RAW image after Lightroom has done the ‘heavy lifting’. I love Lightroom, but I am intimidated by Photoshop. Nevertheless, for me, Photo Raw is proving to be a big disappointment (even if I forget the buggy and slow pre-release). Thank you for your prompt response and link to your excellent video.
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