![]() Albums/Projects: They are much the same.For people who like to use folders as their primary organizational tool, PhotoLab is better because it will update to show any changes made elsewhere. Folders: The key difference here is that Lightroom does not show a ‘live’ view of folder contents.Image credit: Rod Lawton DxO PhotoLab vs Lightroom Classic for organizing images Image credit: Rod Lawton Even in PhotoLab’s Customise (edit) mode, you still get a thumbnail browser and filtering options for color labels, star ratings and more. Instead of in-depth drill-down metadata searches, it offers a simple pop-up Search box with search options that ‘autofill’ as you type, from image metadata to keywords. Image credit: Rod Lawton PhotoLab 6’s search tools are very different to Lightroom Classic’s. PhotoLab 6’s ability to arrange Projects in a hierarchy puts it on an equal footing with Lightroom Classic’s Collections. From being a file browser with extra tools, the DxO PhotoLibrary has now become a Lightroom alternative with the benefits of live file browsing. Now, you can arrange your images in PhotoLab Projects with all the hierarchical organization you get with Lightroom Collections. However, the have traditionally been displayed as a single, linear list, which has limited their usefulness.īut PhotoLab 6 brought the ability to nest projects in a hierarchy, a feature easily overlooked amongst all the other improvements and additions, but one which completely changes the value of Projects. That’s why image organizing programs offer ‘Albums’ or ‘Collections’ – effectively, these are ‘virtual containers’ for photos perhaps stored in many different locations.ĭxO PhotoLab has long offered ‘Projects’ in its PhotoLibrary panel, which are effectively albums under another name. What you also need is some way to separate out collections of images for a portfolio, for example, a web gallery, a client or just for your own interest. It shows exactly what’s in your folders at any one time.īut this has its limits. This is more likely to suit users who are happy to organize their images in folders and know where to look when they need them. At hearts its PhotoLibrary window is a simple file browser, albeit with additional search and filtering tools. Lightroom does not offer a constant ‘live’ view of the images stored in your folders.ĭxO PhotoLab 6 does. You have to import images into the catalog, and while you can move, rename and edit images within Lightroom and it will keep track of them perfectly well, if you move, edit or rename images outside of Lightroom, it will lose the link to the image file(s) until you manually reconned them or synchronize your folders. Lightroom Classic works with catalogs, or databases. It depends on your approach to image organization. PhotoLab 6 offers better RAW processing and noise reduction than Lightroom Classic and more extensive local adjustment tools, but with the improvements to the PhotoLibrary in PhotoLab 6, can it also do the same job as an image cataloguing tool? Are PhotoLab 6’s image organizing tools now good enough to tempt users away from Lightroom Classic? Image credit: Rod Lawton I could have done all these edits in just Photoshop, but I would have lost the ability to organise my shoot and apply global edits to several pictures from the same shoot at once.PhotoLab vs Lightroom Classic for image organization is an interesting question. Here I retouched the skin, brightened the eyes, removed parts of the dress, toned down the lamp in the background and applied a bit of colour grading to bring the image colours into a better harmony. So, I exported the image into Photoshop for the finishing touches. However, in this case, I wanted to make the portrait look more professional, and, if I’m going to be honest, I should have had a reflector bouncing some light back into the face. In a lot of cases, most people will stick with just the Lightroom edits. I have adjusted the contrast, colours and saturation of the picture. Here I made global adjustments to the portrait. Image 2 is the same image with just the Lightroom edits. This is the picture straight out of the camera with no edits. Image 1 below is the Raw file of a studio portrait. ![]()
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