I only had a Nikon D5200 and Lightroom 5.7 for a very long time. About a year ago, I bought a Fuji X100V for travel and street photography. My Lightroom version is too old for my Fuji camera. I tried all the other competitors and decided to buy DxO Photolab 7 only because of the raw rendering. It doesn’t have a catalog, only a file browser so it’s not great for organizing large numbers of images. Adobe bridge is much faster.

I have Affinity Photo. I like it a lot but not for raw development. I’m using the Nik Collection to do the final adjustment. It’s not the best workflow but I’m getting pretty good results.

2024 version just came out. They say it has major speed and ui improvements. I haven’t imported my full library yet. I’ve been using a small catalog for testing the free trial. I think for the price, it’s good and worth a try.

The reason I’m looking for a new raw editor is because my old non-subscription version Lightroom(5.7) doesn’t support my new camera’s raw files.

I’ve tried C1 many times but I’ve never been happy the interface and raw rendering. I like on1 probably more than C1. C1 is a heavy program in my experience. On1 is faster on my computer.

DxO photolab 7 is currently my top choice for Lightroom replacement. It’s not perfect. Raw rendering is great and it gives me a great starting point but the other tools aren’t as good. My main problem is the tone curve is poorly implemented. I haven’t explored the catalog tools yet. It’s double the price of on1.

I’ve been looking for a Lightroom alternative. I’ve been doing the free trial of all the major raw editing programs. I haven’t decided which one to buy yet. On1 Raw 2024 has AI catalog tools. Not sure how it would run on an old mac but it could help tag your pictures.