![]() That's been my experience too and for that reason dK is not worth investigating further. 1 Posted January 11 Advertisement (gone after registration) Dear all, Have anyone experience with Darktable as an alternative for Lightroom/photoshop I’m not a fan of subscription models like LR/PS, and like to have local installed software. In the article you linked, he mentioned digiKam and how it would crash regularly. Have heard that several updates improved some things with all these programs but at this point, unless LR goes CC only or some other issue, I wouldn't go back long term. The real deal-breaker for me was, as mentioned, CA, NR and fringing that required way too many trips to RT, which meant added TIFFS and with the XMP files for each stop along the way, it started to feel like I was up to my a$$ in files, because I was. Things got easier after a month (as I got more familiar with DT and RT) and I was very optomistic, but at the 2-month point nothing had really gotten any better and the whole process was feeling pretty cumbersome.Īlso, DT bogged my vintage iMac down as much as LR (even running it in Linux) maybe more at times. But even when using it every day it just takes longer to get to a finished edit, especially when having to send a Tiff over to Raw Therapee (RT) and back. Overall I liked Darktable (DT), it even does a number of things that LR can't. Here's an interesting post in the Pentax forum about a 2-year old switch from Lr to Darktable: High ISO noise reduction should work well - there are many options, some Wavelet based. Raw Therapee picked up the slack but I eventually got tired of going back and forth so went back to Lightroom (and OS10 at the time, now primarily Win10).ĭarktable now has lens profiles, but you might have to profile your own lens. The only things lacking for me were it's handling of fringing, chromatic aberration and hi ISO noise reduction. Last year I used Darktable almost exclusively for awhile when I switched to Linux. I updated my Mac Pro 5.5 to apple mini and did not include Lightroom as I do not want to pay subscription for very little use. However I have not found Wavelet Sharpen, which some consider to be a great RawTherapee option. 1 Posted June 25 Advertisement (gone after registration) I have been away from Lightroom for about 2 years due to health issues I have done very little photography and not likely to. The polling system () recorded IP addresses and user-agent to prevent people from taking the survey more than once. Darktable also has the Parametric Mask, which is supposedly good for X-Trans color array conversion. Between 20, 66 persons have contributed to darktable source code, so we can expect that at most 6 of the respondents are developers and contributors of the project. Local contrast enhancement (wavelet based?) can be done in the Equalizer view. Thanks for citing it.ĭarktable has many noise reduction options, which I have not fully investigated. That is a great introduction, far better than YouTube videos I watched. This page seems to list all documentation that is available. Some of the YouTube videos are worth watching. I'm considering the Fuji X-T20, so have been trying Darktable with X-T2 RAF, which is similar. ![]() I really like Darktable! However I have only two cameras that produce Raw images, and they are EXR so Raw is mostly a waste of time.
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