Comments on: Geotagging plug-in shows maturing Lightroom

Lightroom can't match Photoshop for customization and plug-ins, but growing beyond its original abilities. Also, it's getting more popular for editing raw images.

[kyle5434]

I'm glad to the see the RAW software field maturing. I personally am looking forward to the release of Bibble 5 in the next few weeks. I've been happily using Bibble Pro for the past two years - Bibble has had a working plugin architecture during all that time, with some handy plugins available. Since I'm increasingly living in Linux rather than Windows, I'm especially appreciative of Bibble's native Linux offering, so I can seamlessly work on either platform. I'm also going to appreciate having the choice of using Bibble 5's built-in cataloging or my own external organizational scheme.

[HedgesX]

No soft proofing makes this unusable for me.

[djacobow1]

I think the star of the show in this article is Exiftool and not Friedl's plugin. I mean, what's doing the heavy lifting? Exiftool by Phil Harvey, is a great example of how the hard work of open source can sometimes get shortchanged. Painstakingly track the raw formats of hundreds of cameras as well as the evolving standards of exif, tiff, and iptc: get an anonymous reference at the end of an article. But add a splashy interface to a commercial tool...

I've noticed, too, that the raw converter in LightZone is none other than dcraw (Dave Coffin), another open source project at the heart of a commercial program. I wonder how many others are like that?