If you’ve been using Lightroom for as long as I have, Adobe’s subscription model starts looking a lot like you’re being held hostage. Gone are the good old days when Lightroom used to be a one-time purchase. Now, it’s a subscription where the price keeps bumping up every few years, often at the cost of Adobe’s more affordable subscription offerings. So if you’re tired of spending hundreds of dollars, at the very least, to be able to edit a few photos, you’re using the wrong program. There’s a photo-editing app so good that it can easily replace Lightroom, and you give up only one thing in return. Related This desktop app is like Photoshop but actually free Discover this truly free photo and design app for desktop that rivals Adobe’s creative suite Pro photo editing—without the price tag Why Darktable feels closer to pro-grade editing than you’d expect Yadullah Abidi / MakeUseOfCredit: Yadullah Abidi / MakeUseOf Darktable is a free, open-source photo editing and RAW processing program that runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS. It’s been …