You might be glad you tried ACDSee for this reason alone. That might just prove to be a very useful safety net one day. The first copy can be imported to one folder and the second copy can be imported to another location. Presuming that you leave your images on the card in the camera, ACDSee gives you the choice to make two copies on import and to give you those second and third copies of your images. The extension of that thought is that you do not actually have a backup until you have a third copy. Please check out my fine art and travel photography at or on Instagram at am a huge believer in the adage that “Data only exists if it exists in two places”. I shoot about 10k images a year so that program is super fast.įor the very occasional need to mash pixels, I use the very capable program Affinity Photo as a plug-in for C1P. I have since adopted the workflow that I create a new catalog for each year. Unlike LR, C1P allows you to have multiple catalogs open at the same time. Like with LR, I use a reference folder structure rather than ingest the image files into a proprietary database.

The only issue that I have with C1P is that in order to keep performance up, I had to limit the number of images in a catalog to less than 40k. Now at version 12, C1P has fully capable DAM in addition to the best RAW conversion and image processing tools that I have ever used. About 3 years ago, I ditched LR and the Adobe Creative Cloud subscription and replaced it with Capture One Pro and Affinity Photo.Ĭ1P has limited DAM capability, but it has gotten better with every update. When switched from Canon FF pro DSLRs to Fuji X cameras and lenses about 4-1/2 years ago, I was very unhappy with the RAW processing of Fuji files using Lightroom.

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