What is truly upsetting is that if you check all the competing programs like Capture One Pro, Photo Mechanic, After Shot Pro, Fast RAW Viewer and the brand new Photo RAW from On1, they are all exceptionally fast. It is Lightroom’s speed or, actually, the lack of.Īs with every new version of Lightroom proving to be more and more powerful, it also became painfully slow. There is one issue that nullifies all the positives I listed above. However, not everything is rosy and perfect in my photography world. I am happy with my workflow as it perfectly fits my travel photography. I only rasterize RAW images at the very end of my editing process when I need to apply selective sharpening and advanced noise reduction in Lightroom or Topaz Plugins. I really enjoy working in a nondestructive RAW environment for its flexibility and simplicity. When Adobe released version 6, I realized that Lightroom had almost completely replaced Photoshop in my editing process. With every version, Lightroom has become more powerful and capable. Learn about my favorite Lightroom export settings for web, print, Facebook. My workflow starts when I import RAW photos into the Lightroom Catalog and it ends when I am ready to publish the final version of my photos to SmugMug for safekeeping, hosting and sales. Since then, it has become an integral part of my photography workflow. I started using Lightroom when it was in its beta version.