Alterations are stored in the LR database by default, but change a preference and sidecars will be generated. It has a strict "do not touch original photos" policy. This is how LR has always worked from the beginning. It then saved the "alterations" in a sidecar and left the original file alone *without* making a copy of it If I'm not doing super picky fine art work, I'll select all images from a shoot and hit the Auto shortcut to see what it does. For serious work, it's a good starting point and I take it from there. For casual snapshots I often don't make further adjustments. But the general consensus is that the new AI-powered Auto does an impressive job. Hit the autocorrect ("I'm feeling lucky") for all the files, Like Picasa, every photo "in" LR is really a stored link path to wherever the original image file is on disk. In case you don't know: No photos are stored inside an LR Classic catalog. It can also auto-organize the into date folders if you want. When I started using LR on my folders of images from many years before LR existed, I didn't have to move a thing. If the pictures are already in the desired folder, simply tell LR to work with them in place without moving them. Lightroom Import dialog allows you to copy files directly from camera card to any folder you tell it to, on any storage device you have connected, internal or external. And Lr can publish to your own web page (you get 'em with the Adobe subscription), or you can upload to your own non-Adobe site, or publish to Instagram or Flickr or others.Īs far as I know, Lightroom Classic (NOT the CC version) can satisfy your needs, you might not have figured it out in your testing. It does NOT create an image unless you export. Lr for example stores the adjustment parameters in either it's database or sidecars, or both. Lr has it.Īnd Photos, Digikam, and Lightroom do not store separate files they are non destructive editors. While none of those have "I'm feeling lucky" (or "lazy" or "hurried" etc) many have an "auto" correction that can be applied in batches.
So, is there something else available that I haven't tried that can do those three things? I can't use Picasa too much longer as it is a 32bit application, and I don't want to run a VM just to do this.
I could edit a template and it would use that to create a web page. It didn't make an extra copy of the photo and burn up space. I'm not trying to do fine art photos, but sometimes I just need a quick and dirty auto adjust on maybe 500 similar images and Picasa did it just fine. Many want to store a copy of the original somewhere else (I don't want to duplicate my files), many don't have a batch "I'm feeling lucky" to allow a best educated guess at adjustments, many won't publish to a web page based on your own template. I have tried Digikam, ACDSee, Darktable, Affinity, jAlbum, and LightRoom and while they are all excellent programs, none of them (as far as I can see through testing) do the same.
For a lot of simple photography needs, Picasa (on a Mac) was a great tool that allowed me to get the files I wanted into a folder, hit the autocorrect ("I'm feeling lucky") for all the files, it then saved the "alterations" in a sidecar and left the original file alone *without* making a copy of it, and if I wanted to publish to a web page it would then apply the sidecar changes and create a web page.
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