I do occasionally enjoy cuddling up on the couch to edit photos on my iPad.ĭarktable: Not a bad app, but it’s open source and has that non-modern “open-source look” that just looks extremely dated.

This is currently my best option but they lack an iPad app. I import my photos, do my work, export to my hard drive.

This was the best app to work with, but when you click “import”, it puts them all into your Photos app and I’m back to the problem above. Export the pictures that made the cut into large JPEGs and then import those into iCloud Photo Library.Īpple Photos: Don’t like it because Photos is my “personal library” and I don’t want to load it up with a bunch of RAWs that I’ll be deleting.ĭarkroom: Don’t like it because it doesn’t have an area I can just import to that isn’t your photo library.Import the RAW photos into a photo editor (currently Lightroom).Load SD card into Mac, and copy all RAW photos to a folder to be backed up and archived.However, I am struggling with a Lightroom replacement. I also just want away from Adobe Creative Cloud. I have replaced After Effects with Motion. I have replaced Photoshop and Illustrator with Affinity Photo and Designer.

When I moved to the Mac a few years ago, I fell in love with Final Cut Pro and decided to use it over Premier.įast forward to today, and I’m almost completely free of Adobe’s $50/month subscription. I take photos with a DSLR, I make motion graphics, I make still graphics, and I do video editing.

I’m a hobbyist creator who sometimes freelances. I’ve been a Windows user most of my life.

Darktable for ipad