![]() But I don't want to subscribe and pay annual "rent", which is the only way I can update to newer LR versions. and almost every other version of LR since it was first introduced. I've been using LR version 6 for several years. I recently watched a video about alternatives to Lightroom. That bit isn't rocket science-getting the right final image can be. In fact try out all the free ones before you spend any pending upon your needs - some of the smaller programs may 'do for you' for a while and you will quickly learn tools and 'effects' and be able to 'think through' the different tool names that each program uses. So you can safely use Darktable and if you do not like it - simply uninstall it.your images will be safe! If your images get downloaded to User,home files(or similar) pictures.that is where they will always reside - catalogues only 'lose' images that you move outside of the catalogue. ![]() Your image files do not reside in any program.they get 'associated' with programs to open them. Dark table will search your files in whatever 'system' you use. I have a simple filing system based on year, place, object (person etc).and delete a lot of images that I am not instantly happy with (I did originally think that I would re-visit them to fix, but frankly life is too short) So having lots of Key word search capability is not my thing.LR does this well!!!if that is your requirement. It can be run in a partition with Windows. I too swopped to has a great selection of image manipulation software free to use. I use darktable because its raw processing appears closer to the jpg than UFraw. In a fit of stupidity I put my name on one image and LR decided to put it on all of them.never did learn how to remove it - as links people said were there - i couldn't get to work. It was a pain to set up and most 'alterations' used my PSE as an 'add on'. But I will say Darktable is a very polished product for being free (Linux version). I wouldn't say one is better than the other, because everyone has their own opinion and comfort level with their personal workflow. But the most common modules become second nature after some use, just like any software program. With Darktable, there are always multiple ways to accomplish similar results, so it is a very complicated program to fully master. There are great tutorials for Darktable that help the user learn the program and the modules. ![]() ![]() With Darktable you can tag RAW files upon import or any other time allowing for searches (which are saved), also pretty much any other searchable criteria that is located in or with (sidecar file) that file can be searched on. That is not to say that it doesn't offer a very effective method to sort through, categorize, and search RAW files. Even with good hardware support, this gets slow - several seconds on each change for the preview update.Since I have a Linux system I can't use Adobe products, so I am not sure of the difference of the two.ĭarktable is in fact a RAW file editor and not a file manager. Using, besides the basic ones, 3x color zones (hue by hue - masked, lightness by saturation, saturation by hue), global tonemap, graduated density (masked), lens correction (manual), vignetting. Otherwise, I hope this picture doesn't nearly look as heavily processed as it is: Noise-wise, I used the bi-lateral median filter masked to the sky and non-local means, chroma only. Here's a recent example, cross-posted from Fisheye Fever Club - Flaunt your fisheye photos!. ![]() The main features drawing me to Darktable are masks & multiple instances of modules. I need to put Noise reduction in Darktable - Tomas Sobek Photography on my reading list for 2.6. Even though i went through some articles and noise handling, I feel more confident with Rawtherapee. I'll likely be running both side-by side for some time longer, with Rawtherapee for more specialized things like pixel shift or for recovering noisy images. It's my second attempt on moving from Rawtherapee to Dartable - this time more successfully. Thanks for the 2.6.1.notice, it looks like I need to finally a compile a version myself - running Debian stable (Stretch) with the 2.4.4 backport currently, made reasonably fluent by an AMD RX 480, which I bought just for image processing (opencl). ![]()
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