PICKTORIAL 3 OR LUMINAR 2018 FREE
At $40 for up to 5 licenses and free upgrades for a year if you're a Mac user it's certainly worth taking a look at. Whether that's a good thing depends on how you feel about learning new ways of doing stuff. My overall impression thus far is that it's deceptively powerful but it doesn't do some things the way other PP tools do. I can even do round-trip editing with Tonality for B&W. Their website claims that it's specifically designed to work with X-Trans RAF files but I tested it on my non-X-Trans X100 RAF files and it works fine. The other interesting thing that it offers is a $15 add-in that allows you to process a Fuji RAF file in any of their film simulations including (Acros and Classic Chrome).
The UI is nice and clean, it doesn't use a library and interestingly you can edit a JPEG and it'll write the edits to the JPEG in a way that you can open it later in Picktorial and still have the ability to tweak and/or undo all of the edits you made to it. It's a Mac only tool and it can function as a stand alone or as a companion of Apple's Photos app. During my evaluation of Luminar I stumbled on to Picktorial. Of course it's a tool that does everything so I can understand why it's that way but I don't see it as the right tool for me. The process of editing seemed more complicated than it really needs to be. Interestingly, I didn't find that I liked Luminar all that well. With that in mind I downloaded a free trail of Luminar and gave it a whirl. It seems like Skylum (who makes Tonality) hasn't really been updating it and as they continue to add features to Luminar I suspect that Tonality's feature set will be rolled into Luminar at some point. My overall workflow is open and image in C1P then do a majority of my PP in Tonality (B&W). In light of Skylum rolling out their sale for Luminar today ($49) I thought I'd chime in with my recent experience looking at tools for PP.
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