
There are lots of programs that are better at certain things than Lightroom, like DxO PhotoLab for noise reduction, for example. Lightroom Classic works with them pretty well, Lightroom CC does not. (Image credit: DxO Labs) (opens in new tab) 6. It’s not just Adobe that makes great photo-editing software. I also use Capture One, Exposure X, DxO PhotoLab and Nik Collection, ON1 Photo RAW, Luminar and more. Lightroom Classic plays nicely with all of these. Most come with plug-ins that you can launch from within Lightroom Classic, and for those that don’t (like Capture One) you can run them separately, export your processed images to the same folder structure used by your Lightroom catalog and then sync your folders or import the new images manually when you’re done. Lightroom CC does not support plug-ins and only talks to one external editor – Photoshop. So you CAN open an image in Photoshop from Lightroom CC and THEN launch the plug-in you need, but that seems a really clumsy way to go about things that takes twice as long and needs an additional application that gobbles up precious memory you might not have available.
