Skylum Luminar has been popular as a RAW photo editor for years, but in 2018, it added digital asset management capabilities, making it one of the best Lightroom alternatives out there. Performance seeemingly could be better (poor CPU/GPU utilization), but Lightoom does what it does.Masking tools not as efficient as Lightroom Note: Lightroom on the 2019 iMac 5K exhibited erratic CPU usage and minimal GPU usage. The high-end 2019 Mac Pro with its 28 CPU cores easily outpaces the other machines, but the most common Mac Pro configurations (8/10/12 cores) would be running neck-and-neck or slower than the MacBook Pro M2 Max, so the MBP deserves high praise. The 20-core Apple Mac Studio closes the gap easily outpaces the 2019 Mac Pro. However, it trounces the 8-core 2019 iMac 5K. The 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max ('MBP') does a great job, but it cannot compete with the 28 CPU cores of the 2019 Mac Pro. If below are out of date: view current Mac wishlist and all current OWC wishlists.ĬLICK TO VIEW: Recommended Memory, Storage,etcĬLICK TO VIEW: Recommended MacBook Pro Configurations Lightroom Import/Export

Time was measured until the preview-generation progress bar disappeared.Įxport was high-quality level 90 JPEG at full resolution, with no extra processing involved.ĭisk I/O not a factor, the files being on a fast SSD. Import was done with Add (don’t copy) and generate 1:1 previews in parallel, no lookup of location, etc.

Ever popular Adobe Photoshop Lightroom ('Lightroom') requires that files be imported into its database before they can be worked on.

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