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I want to completely drop all Adobe: Lightroom, Photoshop etc. But before I delete them I need to move any files that may have been edited in LR or PS so that Affinity Photo can access them. 


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I want to completely drop all Adobe: Lightroom, Photoshop etc. But before I delete them I need to move any files that may have been edited in LR or PS so that Affinity Photo can access them. 

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Hello and welcome to the forums @kitmos

In principle, the Affinity programmes can read the files from Photoshop & Co. However, the display may be faulty or even impossible if effects, settings or certain function calls are stored in the proprietary file area in the Adobe files. 

PSD files can usually be opened without any problems and without having to be converted into an exchange format.

Illustrator's .AI format can be read if you select PDF-compatible vector data when saving.

If you want to edit and process Indesign documents with Affinity Publisher, they must be saved in the .idml exchange format.

There is no corresponding Affinity programme for Lightroom. Third-party programmes must be used here.
Free alternatives are, for example, Dark Table or RAW-Therapy
On1 Photo RAW is probably the closest to Lightroom in terms of purchased programmes.

You can try out whether the Affinty programmes are suitable for your purposes with the 7-day trial versions.

https://affin.co/designertrial
https://affin.co/phototrial
https://affin.co/publishertrial
or the complete suite
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I'd like to add another workaround. 

As for Photoshop's native files, online editor photopea often works better with some of the features, which aren't supported by Affinity's apps. I was able to convert some PSD files that way, which were completely messed up when opening in Affinity Photo directly.

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My advice would be to keep both environments for a while and be patient about the transfer. It requires some time to realize the differences and workarounds. My personal interest was similar, to make a complete transfer, but it took longer than I expected, so I am now a happy user of both of these environments (so you can see I am an economical disaster). My point is, different ecosystems have different strong and weak points, and much depends on workflows you are dependent 3rd-party-wise. You really cannot replace one with another.

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Am contemplating dumping Lightroom. However have about 50,000 pics in hundreds of folders. Most have been "developed" to some extent. It would be nice to have a new library of all the developed ones. At this stage that would mean "exporting" all 50,000 from LR. Any alternative suggestions?

LCL

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8 hours ago, LCL999 said:

Am contemplating dumping Lightroom. However have about 50,000 pics in hundreds of folders. Most have been "developed" to some extent. It would be nice to have a new library of all the developed ones. At this stage that would mean "exporting" all 50,000 from LR. Any alternative suggestions?

LCL

Welcome to the forums :)

Dumping LR... I still have it installed and occasionally use it.However it's the last perpetual license version. I did use the photography bundle subscription for a couple of years. I have not upgraded my DSLR to where LR no longer can import them, so for me having the perpetual version works well. I don't have to export all my developed images

Developed images is the key. All the adjustments done in LR are maintained in their proprietary catalog. As far as I know, there still is no other software capable of reading the LR catalog files. So what does that mean? It's what you're up against, having to Export out of LR. However, that's only if you want images from your RAW files, with the adjustments applied. As you probably are aware, RAW files are not altered, thus LR using the Catalog method of storing the changes.

IF you're serious about dumping LR, you need to make some decisions.

  • How much storage (hard drives, ssd or other wise) do you have?
    • You will be creating Developed, duplicates of all your RAW files.
  • What purpose are these Developed images to be used?
    • Sharing, Editing is complete no further work needed
    • Archival
      • Personal or Client files
    • Want to have the option to further develop later
  • LR is able to export (this is in the perpetual version 6.14, maybe they added more since) to 5 formats
    • JPEG
    • TIFF
    • PSD
    • DNG
      • Affinity Photo does not see the Developments from LR. Image viewers do see the developments.
    • Original (Develop adjustments not applied)

If you're just wanting the developed images, I'd just export them to JPEG, smaller file sizes. Exporting to TIFF, PSD the developments are baked in, DNG files are just RAW container files. 

If you're wanting the asset management LR offered, look at some of the suggestions in this thread, for example Darktable. I have looked at it, and it does resemble LR. Keep in mind LR develop settings are not recognized in any other software, and will not be, Adobe says no. Currently I just use File Explorer and maintain my organization, and then use Fast Raw Viewer, or XN View MP to view/locate files. Sadly keywords, labeling like LR are not there.

Hope that helps... Good Luck

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50 minutes ago, Ron P. said:

I have not upgraded my DSLR to where LR no longer can import them, so for me having the perpetual version works well.

I use the free DNG converter for RAW file types younger than LR 6.

50 minutes ago, Ron P. said:

As far as I know, there still is no other software capable of reading the LR catalog files.

Capture One can import/read LR catalogs. (Some refinement may be required as colours between the two apps are not 100% identical.)

I wonder if/when Serif/Canvas will enable Affinity to fully read XMP files, where LR can optionally store the development data as separate metadata files. Currently it still seems to be not available.

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4 hours ago, thomaso said:

Capture One can import/read LR catalogs. (Some refinement may be required as colours between the two apps are not 100% identical.)

That seems relatively new. Capture One is also a little pricey for the perpetual license. Outside of my budget anyway. :)

 

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29 minutes ago, Ron P. said:

That seems relatively new. Capture One is also a little pricey for the perpetual license.

"Relatively": At least since version 20. Weird, I can't detect the number of their current app version on their website.
"pricey": Wow, I purchased v.20 in 2020, meanwhile they increased the price by 160% (Ø more than 10% per year). 😱

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