I've used Lightroom 3 for years and have been perfectly happy with it. I have been meaning to purchase LR5 from Adobe, but wanted to see if there were other options available. I'm a bit weary of the Creative Cloud, and wanted to explore everything available to me. I use a Windows PC (rare breed among photographers, I know), so Aperture is out of the question. I kept coming across recommendations for Photo Ninja. The program seems to get a ton of praise, and many say that the raw editor is better than in LR. The thing is, I liked Lightroom because it is an all-in-one workflow program. I could import all of my shots, cull them down to a reasonable number, and then edited them in batches and individually. This was convenient and effective, though it ate system resources like crazy. As far as I understand, Photo Ninja does not have the same kind of browser/cataloging features as LR. Can anyone who uses this program post their workflow, from import to final product, so I can get some ideas? Does anyone have recommendations for workflow software to work with Photo Ninja? Should I just use Lightroom? I know photo mechanic is a popular program, but I have no experience with it, and want to know if its my only option.