Same problem for me. Photoshop? Don't care, plenty of options. Lightroom? Nothing's really an adequate replacement, not least because most of the tools touted as replacements are a lot more concerned about the "digital darkroom" fucking-around-with-RAW-settings aspect that the asset management side of things.
For digital asset management I use ACDSee Photo Studio for Mac. I’m pretty satisfied.
Is ACDSee Photo Studio a good bet for managing metadata on video assets too, do you happen to know? I’ve been looking for a good asset manager to complement my FCPX workflow for ages, seems like a largely abandoned space on Mac.
I don’t know. I don’t do any video.
Thanks. I'll check it out.
I'm not sure your specific workflow in Lightroom, I admiditly haven't used it since 2008 I suspect. However I'd maybe suggest trying some of the other modern RAW tools, I'm personally been editing with CaptureOne as I got a serial with my Fuji camera. Usually when I want to start getting crazy with masking I'll jump into Photoshop or the likes pretty quick, personally.
Capture One Pro is pretty good and even slightly better than Lightroom at making colors pop