Ditching Lightroom

[edwinn]

Have been running the trial version of Lightroom 3.6 for the past three weeks. I see that it cannot handle or display PNG format, of which I have over 11,000 images. PNG is my primary WORKING format for single layer images due to its lossless compression, support for EXIF data, and transparency later. Lightroom creates tens of thousands of tiny folders and catalog files that are difficult to defragment and greatly complicate my routine backups. I must comment that Adobe filters, especially Noise Reduction are really great but the lack of PNG support is a show stopper.

Also ran Lightroom Synchronize to add recent photos to the Canon folder and for some reason it changed the date stamp on over 3 GB of photos to the present day. When I went about a routine backup of the photos, the backup software wanted to completely overwright all the files with TODAYS date on the MyBook drive!! What? no way. So now I must RESTORE all these files BACK to the original date stamps. This is way over the top. Plus Lightroom is very slow to complete the Sync task, and might even take two passes. Haven't figured that one out yet.

So PSP14 is looking very good now!!

Please comment.


-Ed

[pdxrjt]

I like PSPX4 and use it quite a bit. I like LR4 and use it quite a bit...mostly for cataloging, repetitive tasks and simple editing (covers 90% of my editing.) I have not had the problems with LR 3 or 4 that you have had. But PSPX4 is a very good program so if it does what you want... super!