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OK, this isn't a photo, but it is very much about photography.
I posted a similar workflow diagram back in 2017, shortly after escaping my monthly Adobe subscription. Nine years on, I thought it was time to share the current version.
A lot has changed over those nine years, including my move from full-frame to Micro Four Thirds. Over time I realised that the creative and technical skills behind an image usually have far more influence on its impact (or lack thereof) than the camera itself. On top of that, I find I just engage better with my MFT gear and like the 4:3 aspect ratio.
I have updated this since posting it a week or so ago because my ON1 software suddenly stopped working on my laptop. Although I run a desktop that is well equipped GPU-wise, my laptop runs an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 w/ Radeon 890M; I have 96GB of DDR5 of with I reserve 32GB for the AMD Radeon 890M Graphics. DxO PhotoLab is fine with this hardware, and I accept the performance hit of not having a dedicated GPU. Despite the normal shenanigans of messing around with AMD drivers, I was unable to resolve this. So, I decided to deprecate ON1 from my workflow, with the exception of AI Resize; if DxO can make their GPU intensive workflow function on my laptop hardware, then the ON1 guys should be able to as well. My new workflow is now as follows:
- XnView MP for asset management.
- DxO PhotoLab 9 for RAW development (best I have used for this task, especially noise reduction).
- Nik Collection 9 for creative styling (more sensible than ON1 as there is less overlap with PhotoLab and results are excellent).
- Affinity Photo for the pixel editing and compositing tasks that I would previously have used Photoshop for.
XnView MP and Affinity are free, and the other applications do not require a subscription, so I can decide for myself whether each new major release of DxO PhotoLab or DxO Nik Collection is worth paying for.
In an ideal world, DxO would produce an integrated application that combined PhotoLab's superb RAW processing with the creative editing capabilities of the Nik Collection in a fully non-destructive, layered workflow as I think they are best for quality of output. Better still, they'd produce a native Linux version as I now only boot Windows for photo processing.
Anyway, I hope some of you find it interesting, and perhaps even useful in developing your own workflow.
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