Alternatives to Adobe Lightroom for all platforms with Open Source License

darktable

darktable is a virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers: it manages your digital negatives in a database and lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable....
- Complete Raw processing suite. Best free open source solution Guest • Oct 2016 • 15 agrees and 6 disagrees
- Powerful RAW processor with options that not even Lightroom has. Guest • May 2018 • 7 agrees and 1 disagrees
- The best alternative for Lightroom as a professional photographer. ehshi • May 2017 • 7 agrees and 4 disagrees
- Lacking photo organisation abilities of Lightroom Guest • Jul 2017 • 1 agrees and 6 disagrees
- Same as lightroom, but the organization is not too simple Guest • Aug 2016 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Darktable lacks any photo organization capabilities. They consider this a feature and state you should organize them on disk outside the app. This is a pretty dumb idea since inside the ap, you can't organize, and outside the app you can't see the changes. Any comparison to Lightroom in this case is silly. 1/2 the (organize & develop) capability is gone. Guest • Jan 2017 • 11 agrees and 16 disagrees
- Nearly exact same features/behaviour Better denoise capabilities especially the Sensor-Profiled plugins. Guest • Jan 2016 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Raw Photo processing Editing photos Non destructive editing Advanced retouching ... Command Line support Geotagged Photos Image Editing Watermark images Lua scripting Multiple languages No coding required Photographic filters Photo Organization Add a feature

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RawTherapee

RawTherapee is a free RAW converter and digital photo processing software. All changes can be applied and batch processed at a convenient time.
- Fairly advanced control over RAW processing including demosaicing algorithm, gamma curves, etc. Supports its own profiles and presets. MercuryHero • Sep 2018 • 3 agrees and 2 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com
Batch conversion Batch processing Curve Manipulation Image Editing ... Image Processing Multiple languages Non destructive editing Portable Raw converter Raw Photo processing Add a feature

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digiKam

Professional digital photo management software to organize, tag, compare and process photo collections.
- digiKam is good at organizing photos but has nothing to edit or adjust photos and RAW files. It only covers half of the features of Lightroom Guest • Oct 2019 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Database functionality - Lots of other pieces of software mentioned are good at RAW processing but few, if any, have a good, structured back-end to organise photos. Guest • Oct 2017 • 4 agrees and 0 disagrees
- digiKam is a photo management while lightroom is a raw photo editor, they have nothing in common Guest • Sep 2017 • 15 agrees and 44 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD KDE ... Qt
Photo Organization Raw editing Duplicate image finder Facial recognition ... Geotagged Photos Image stacking Built-in Photo editor Email automation Facial recognition File Tagging Multiplatform Export Photo Organization Photo Sharing Raw import Raw View Tag based Workflow Add a feature

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LightZone

LightZone is a digital photo editor software application. Its main purpose is to handle the workflow when handling images in various RAW formats.
- Very easy to use tool, a bit limited, but a very well thought tool set, and how they work. Stil my most favourite tool (easy to use, does what I want, good results) Guest • Feb 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Image Editing Image Processing Add a feature

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Shotwell

Shotwell is an open source photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment. Features Import photos from folders or from any digital camera supported...
- Shotwell is only a photo organizer; Lightroom is an advanced RAW's photo editor. Guest • Jun 2019 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees
Free Open Source Linux
File Tagging Photo Organization Lightweight Edit photo ... Photo Organization Photo Sharing Add a feature

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photivo

Photivo is a multi platform photo processor for RAW and bitmap images with 16 bit precision. Photivo tries to give the user as much control as possible to express his...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux GIMP
Image Processing Raw Photo processing Add a feature

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F-Spot

Personal photo management application for the GNOME desktop environment. F-Spot is based on MONO F-Spot is a cross platform application for organizing thousands of...
- Discontinued
  The most recent version of F-Spot is 0.8.2, released December 19, 2010.
Free Open Source Linux
Image browser Add a feature

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Galapix

Galapix is an image viewer that allows you to directly zoom into large collection of tens of thousand of images from tiny thumbnails down to the images original size...
- Discontinued
  The project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, 0.2.1, released in April 2014, can be still downloaded from Github.
Free Open Source Mac Linux
No features added Add a feature

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ART - a fork of RawTherapee

ART, a free, open-source, cross-platform raw image processing program. ART is a derivative of the popular RawTherapee, trading a bit of customization and control over...

Free Open Source Windows Linux
Batch conversion Batch processing Image Processing Edit photo ... Raw converter Raw Photo processing Add a feature

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PhotoFlow

A fully non-destructive photo retouching program providing a complete layer-based workflow including RAW image development.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Image Editing Add a feature

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