[Leica] Stand-Alone Photo Processing Software

[pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein)]

Jim:  I have been using Picture Window Pro for almost as long as I've 
been on the LUG. I'm extremely happy with it and see no reason to 
change. I just upgraded to v.7.

My Raw processor is Capture One Pro 7. Now that it does masks and 
rudimentary layers and has a great color-mixer B&W conversion, I find 
that I don't need PWP for many digital images. But there are many things 
that a full-featured photo editor does (or does more easily and 
comprehensively) that C-One doesn't, so PWP is still in regular use.  
And of course, it's PWP all the way for all my film images old and new.

I can't personally vouch for Capture One's superiority with Fuji's 
X-Trans sensor Raw files, but all the online examples and discussions 
I've seen show that C-One is better than Lightroom in this respect.

Both C-One and PWP have user interfaces that take a bit of getting used 
to, but they are both really good programs. And neither are trying to 
get you into a perpetual rent model like Adobe is.

--Peter

 > Jim, I think my story is much like Meino's, except I use Photoshop 
instead
 > of PW.  I stopped at PS8 as it offers all I need after I finish with
 > Lightroom 5, which is the latest I'm using.  I probably would have been
 > happier stopping with LR4, because I liked the tools a bit better.
 >
 >
 > I don't even know how long I've been using PS8, but it does what I need.
 >
 >
 > On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 5:10 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
 > wrote:
 >
 > > Thanks, Meino.  I knew that someone on the lists had mentioned it.  It
 > > requires a different workflow from Elements, but I can adapt to that.
 > >
 > > One major difference from Adobe products is that it lists a phone 
number,
 > > and my emails were answered within 24 hours by the primary author 
of the
 > > software.
 > >