Best wishes.Thanks to the rapid evolution of digital photography, web designers and artists are now able to take advantage of an almost inexhaustible array of options when it comes to creating and manipulating images. I have found C1 to be more pleasant to use.once you get used to it.Ĭan’t do that Arthur, I’m afraid, though I can tell you that I use Rawtherapee, GIMP and gThumb. I switched to Capture One a few years ago. Nik Silver Efex Pro 2 for most things in B&W, augmented by the B&W Artisan Pro X panel for architectural work. I work on my images one at a time, I've used Photoshop for the last 22 years, everything else I try is just rubbish in comparison. Lightroom CC works best for me, all my edit are synced so that I can work on my pcs and ipad LZ was leader in industry and I think Adobi LightRoom took many ideas from it. LightZone was great, I guess someone who was analog photographer develop it (thinking about Adams and Zone system). There are many features but I only use less than 5% of it.

Rawtherapee - free open source raw conversion software. ( - I either just use Camera Raw to convert to mono & tweak, or if I want a special effort then I use NIX Silver Efex Pro 2 paid plugin filters in Photoshop That Filmic module, especially, once you come to grips with it, is awesome for color AND B&W

I have been using PS with SilverFX as plugin.Works for me.ĭarktable. I run with Lightroom with the Efex Pro plug in, Lightroom is nice and simple and suits my minimal PP and the Efex plug in, gives a nice range of presets and adjustments Topaz has a better 'brush' application I think I found photoshop a little hard going, but there are plenty of tutorials on u-tube for both. What I can't do with it I generally do in Photoshop but I actually don't find myself using SilverEfx all that much.īeen using Capture One for a couple of years now, it's very easy to use and is fully customizable, you can chose all the tools you want and put them on your main screen. it has some tools for contrast that I really like. I now have some other ones including SliverEfx that I use as a plug in with Photoshop, but for B&W works, I really like LightZone, as bare bones as it is. There's a very basic free RAW editing program called LightZone that I started out with. Originally posted at 2:13AM, 24 November 2018 PDT As of 2018, can you guys recommend the best B&W editing tool you like most, please?

Darktable vs rawtherapee vs lightzone