If anyone's been looking for a free alternative to Lightroom, I've recently come across "Darktable"
darktable | the photo workflow software
I've had a chance to fiddle around with it the past couple of nights, and I'm liking it so far -- I think it will replace UFRaw and the GIMP for the bulk of my RAW image processing. I find the user interface to be relatively easy to figure out. I can't compare it to Lightroom, however if you Google around, some people have done comparisons between the two.
The only catch is that it's currently only available for Linux and Mac OSX, so no Windows support. (But hey, Ubuntu (a version of Linux) is free, and runs nicer than windows, so why not install it anyways? ).
darktable | the photo workflow software
I've had a chance to fiddle around with it the past couple of nights, and I'm liking it so far -- I think it will replace UFRaw and the GIMP for the bulk of my RAW image processing. I find the user interface to be relatively easy to figure out. I can't compare it to Lightroom, however if you Google around, some people have done comparisons between the two.
The only catch is that it's currently only available for Linux and Mac OSX, so no Windows support. (But hey, Ubuntu (a version of Linux) is free, and runs nicer than windows, so why not install it anyways? ).