5 FREE Lightroom Alternatives | Edit your photos for free today!

Today I am looking at 5 free lightroom alternatives, so if you break out in hives at the thought of a subscription package from Adobe, one of these might be exactly what you are looking for!

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My Equipment list:

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Timecode
0:00 - 5 Free Lightroom Alternatives
1:10 - DarkTable Photo Editing
7:03 - Pixlr Photo Editing
9:25 - RAW Therapee Photo Editing
14:39 - Polarr Photo Editing
16:27 - LightZone Photo Editing
18:07 - My thoughts on free photo editing apps

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[arletteo]

Darktable is very comprehensive but incredibly difficult to use imo. Lightroom is so intuitive, but I cannot stand the fact that we can’t just buy it outright.

[pinabad]

I edit in Darktable + GIMP, the best duo for people who are on a budget or starting to learn photography or both.

[arnonart]

I'm using rawtherapee. I'm on Linux so the open source editors are my only option. However, there is no difference in the results compared to any of the subscription programs. My main goal is not to manipulate but to restore the photos and bring back what was there at the time of shooting. When I work with layers I work with gimp which is enough for me. Not only in the field of photography, but many others, people tend to believe if they don't have the best top notch they are restricted and limited. It's not true. I won a huge photo competition in 2004 with a photo I took on film back in 85 with a modest camera and El cheapo zoom lens. The imagination is what counts.

[asifikram]

For simple edits, Irfanview is great. Been using for many years. Great video sir, will try dark table thanks.

[RyGP]

Love the new composition. Almost didnt notice coz it was done smooth and subtle. 100% bro. Ok now back to the video....real good stuff

[lindakantes]

Affinity Photo---and iPiccy ---it is amazingly versatile, layers etc. so easy to use but no ARW yet

[stephenwoodburn]

This was great, Mike. I had not even heard of most of these. I use several RAW editors, to include Lightroom CC, Capture One and Adobe Camera Raw. I have never considered not having the Adobe subscription because not having Photoshop would not be an option. Take care, brother.

[tectoramia-szlu]

I use lightRoom as it lets me edit a lot of photos 100-200 pretty quickly, and I also use Capture one.
I have tried some of the freebies, and although they are very good they are a lot slower to use.
Needing two or three kep presses for functions which only take one on LR.

[marchinderickx]

Great job to find alternate solutions to Lightroom. I hate the subscription model.

[Valerie]

Hi thank you, so much I normally use lightroom, however I have been having problems setting up the subscription and was looking for alternatives thank you for the suggestions they helped alot.

[cldcne]

My main beef with cross platform software is that they largely don't adhere to native UI standards, are often inconsistent in their use of layouts, icons, controls, panels and other UI elements, and generally look messy (non-aligned labels, group boxes galore, poor color schemes, etc.). They also offer little or no integration into the ecosystem, like having to find your desktop under /Users/uid/Desktop instead of providing a shortcut, lacking the Mac-native share options, etc. To me, it feels like I have to fight these apps every step of the way.

[amg]

Good stuff... I recently binned lightroom and photoshop and went with capture one express for nikon (think they do sony & fuji) perfectly fine for the bits of adjustments I do. Also discovered I'd bought affinity photo a few years ago so been using that not bad for 25 quid

[samuellambert]

I currently only take photos with my smartphone and edit them in lightroom mobile and snapseed mobile. Saving for my first dslr.

[mahmoudfotoh]

What a great video, helps A LOT in the beginning.

[Eliaspraciano]

Thank you, Mike! Great content! ☕👍🏻♥️
I use Hugin to stitch my pictures into panoramas.

[jean-claudelaurin]

I've tried Darktable and Rawtherapy. These are certainly powerful programs but their u.i. is a mess which makes them very complicated, confusing and not fun to use at all. I've watched a few tutorials on youtube and that didn't changed my mind.

[deihnu]

u see that little cog option button on the bottom near the fullscreen button? if u click on that u can chose to slow it down or speed it up. i

[budjeepman]

Great information! I just bought a strong laptop and wanted something good but not a subscription based editing. I think Im going to use Raw Therapee.

[FarzadFarzamfar]

I use Capture One Pro and if needed Affinity Photo.

[tasneemcoovadia]

Thanks for an informative video. Please share your thoughts on the Canon
editing programmer DPP. Thank you.