PSP 2019 vs Lightroom

[jlarysz]

I'm looking at PSP as an alternative to Adobe Lightroom. I expect to do things differently, but I would like to achieve the same ends. Can anyone point me to the equivalent capability in PSP to the following features which I use in Lightroom:

1: Does PSP keep image changes in a database which are then applied to the image in PSP?
2: Are all original images left unchanged?
3: What is the PSP equivalent of "clarity" in Lightroom? One-step photo fix looks good but I'd like to break out clarity in some cases.
4: Can I mange collection sets and collections as per Lightroom?
5: Can I import collections and collection sets from Lightroom?
5: Can I export image collections to web pages?
6: Can I script an export to generate a file structure containing specific file sizes and supporting XML files?
7: Can I create virtual copies of an image?

There's more, but this list is long enough for now.

Is there a Corel document anywhere that compares PSP with Lightroom?

[LeviFiction]

PSP is closer in function/purpose to Photoshop. Corel's AfterShot Pro 3 is closer to Lightroom (used to be Bibble).

Fair warning, I should not be answering this as I don't use lightroom. I'm told RAWTherapee and Darktable are decent free alternatives to lightroom. Also they are free and work on most OSes

1) No, PSP is a destructive editor. Especially in Manage mode. Any scripts or copied adjustments are permenant.

2) Only if you don't save the changes or work on a duplicate of the image. But then the duplicate is forever changed.

3) PSP used to have a clarify option but changed it to Local Tone Mapping. i don't know if it's an equivalent or not.

4) PSP does have basic collection management. What PSP does is it maps specific folders you add to the manage mode to find all of your images, you can add tags, geolocation, etc. And then it has smart collections. These take specifiic tags, or creation/modified dates, and uses those to create a collection. You cannot drag specific images into collections. You have to make those images uniquely specific to each other (such as a specific tag) and let the smart collection group them together for you.

5) I don't think so. PSP has basic database management tools such as backup, import, and delete. I don't think they planned importing other formats.

6) No. PSP has a basic web-slicer for images open in the editor but that's about it. I don't know of any other web based tools in PSP.

7) No (well...yes but you have to know how). There is no functionality in PSP's scripting to touch the manage mode. Instead, what you would need to do is using the scripting engine to read the database which is written in sqlite3, which support is offered by default, and manually read in collection queries, run those queries, get the list of images, then you can perform batch functions like resizing and there is also support for XML. but you're talking about creating the full software for doing this. PSP will be of no help.

You can create actual copies of an image using the shortcut SHIFT + D in the editor. This copy wlll be thrown away if not saved though. So it's like a virtual copy.

Here is corel's website comparing Aftershot to Lightroom - https://www.aftershotpro.com/en/product ... 82#compare

Corel only compares PSP to Photoshop - https://www.paintshoppro.com/en/product ... compare-ps
and that's a little dated as they still only refer to Photoshop actions instead of the javascript scripting engine when comparing the two.

[CHoffman]

As above, pretty much no to all your questions; it's the wrong tool for the job you want to do. I love PSP as an editor, but that's what it was designed to do.

[jjangfree]

PSP could be an alternative for Photoshop.
so, I recommend Cyberlink Photodirector instead. It's similar to adobe lightroom.

[ehume]

PSP could be an alternative for Photoshop. . . .

Photoshop has a difficult UI, and the new choice of icon sizes makes PSP since PSP 2018 especially easy to use. But it is mostly an image editor. It has raw capabilities, but those capabilities are limited

I have been using Silkypix for Panasonic for my raw stuff, since I have Panasonic cameras. Very inexpensive. Even better: a free upgrade to SP8 (SP9 is their current fee-based offering).