Once imported, you can organise and sort your photos, rating them and putting them into albums or otherwise organising them. In a photo workflow application, instead of working with individual files one at a time, you import all of your images as a set. You can use Jpeg files in Photo Workflow applications and they behave the same way to useing RAW files for the purposes of what we're talking about here. Note: This applies to working with Jpeg or RAW files.
Capture One, which has actually been around for quite some time, became more mainstream and a direct competitor to Lightroom, and newer applications such as On1 Raw and Luminar also emerged.
Since then newer competitors have emerged. Adobe followed with Lightroom, and after a few years of the two competing, Apple eventually discontinued Aperture and Lightroom was left as the major photo workflow application. Then you would do your image processing in Photoshop and finally you would save your edited file from photoshop as a Tiff, PSD or Jpeg.Īperture combined all of these separate tasks into one application, and added a media management option for managing and sorting your files. First you would do your conversion in Camera RAW or alternatively you might use your camera’s native raw converter. The traditional way of working with a RAW file, before Aperture came along was to open the file in something like Photoshop. When it was released, it changed the way people work with photos, especially RAW photos by combining what was previously several different types of applications.
Capture one and panolapse software#
A brief history of Photo Workflow ApplicationsĪpple’s now discontinued Aperture application was the first piece of software that was a true photo workflow application.
If you’re already familiar with Lightroom or Capture One or two they work, please remember that not everyone has the same skill or knowledge level. Note that this post is for absolute beginners who may be struggling with the whole concept of photo workflow applications. To answer that and other questions, let’s take a look at how this class of "photo workflow” applications actually work. One of the most common questions I see from beginners or people not familiar with this way of working is “how do I save in Lightroom?”, as there is no save function in the menu. While photo workflow applications like Lightroom or Capture One have been around for a while now, there are still some new users who are confused by how these applications work.