Is Viral Sensation LightCraft Really a Lightroom Killer?

So I’m sure by now you’ve seen a few videos about the recently released open source clone of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite. As you might imagine, a project that claims to emulate a software suite with a $1000 annual fee is going to collect a few headlines.

I downloaded the suite not long after it was released and shared my initial impressions in my earlier article. But since then I’ve been properly testing the app to see if the claims are airtight or not. They set themselves a very high bar, so I brought a very long stick to poke it with.