If you think of DAM (catalog functions) as the front, RAW demosaicing and adjustments as the middle, and output as the back, I find that C1 wins in the middle, works in the back, and is barely manageable in the front.
For the most part, output processing is fine. It's the conveniences (or lack thereof) that drag printing down. No printer/paper/ink/paper size presets, in particular.
But it's the DAM end of things that is the most frustrating. But I do see PO slowing moving C1 forward in that regard. Right now, C1 sorely needs:
Image stacking in all views (not just variant stacking in some views)
A simple way to delete an image from the catalog and the disk from within an album
Some control of metadata displayed with the thumbnails
And I'd sure like:
Flags for variants
Renaming of color tags
Aspect ratio metadata (2x3, 4x5, 11x17, etc.)
I won't go into the things that apply everywhere, such as memory leaks and the many reported bugs.
Has anyone found some good "tricks" to get by the DAM deficiencies while PO works to improve the DAM?
