FYI if you don't have Lightroom...

[Keely~B]

You may want to check this out on the Weekly Photography Tips blog Photo Director. You can download the beta version, try it out and if you fill out a survey, they'll send you the full version next month for free.

[deepounds]

Thanks for the heads up, Keely . . . unfortunately, it requires a PC & I have a Mac.

[stevens89]

thank you for mentioning this. I was wondering if there was a cheaper alternative to Lightroom! Now, off to play with my photos

[ayaandjudah]

Weird the download doesn't work for me.

[Giseli Freitas]

Thank you! PSP has inside a pretty much good photo editor, but I love to try new things.

[Lyd]

Oh - really bummed there isn't a Mac version. . . .

[Davita]

Thanks! I can't wait to try this out.

[Kara]

I'm playing with it now! Thanks for the heads up!

[dover6473]

Originally Posted by ayaandjudah

Weird the download doesn't work for me.

Mine wont either

[ayaandjudah]

Originally Posted by dover6473

Mine wont either

I forwarded the email to a different non gmail account and it worked fine.

[Sarah8914]

So those of you that have tried it, what do you think?? Easy enough? I just signed up but haven't downloaded yet... but it has to be easy to use because well... I don't have time to play around TOO much!

[ayaandjudah]

Sarah, I think it's VERY easy

[Keely~B]

I didn't even look for the MAC option. I didn't have any issues downloading so I'm not sure about that either. Sorry!

I haven't had a lot of time but I did play with it a little bit. So far, so good. I think it's pretty easy, and I like the interface, the side by side viewing etc. I've never messed with Lightroom, I just edit in PS, so I can't compare.

I like free LOL

[Ginger_79]

Thanks for mentioning it, Keely! I'm downloading right now. From the pictures it looks like a Lightroom clone to me. But as I don't have the money to get the original again...well... can never hurt. Will see if I can go back to that workflow. I got very used doing everything in Photoshop in one go. Especially using more actions.

[Shawna]

Thanks I'm downloading it now to tryout! I do all my editing is CS3 but you can't beat getting it for free!!

[jomi]

Originally Posted by ayaandjudah

I forwarded the email to a different non gmail account and it worked fine.

What helped for me is to open the link in a new tab instead of just opening it. I was able to download it from my gmail account

[Ginger_79]

Bumping this up, don't forget to take the suvey til tomorrow!

I played around a bit and I'm torn. I liked Lightroom better, but this one is an ok alternative. What made me crazy are the import functions. I found them to be less convenient that in other programs. Especially that I cannot select a folder and get images from all subfolders as well.

I did like the build in noise reduction and sharpening though.