I wish they support photo management, at least import photos into organized folders by date
Darktable 2.4.0 released
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#12I wish they support photo management, at least import photos into organized folders by date
Yeah, this is where Lightroom really does well at. For a good photo workflow you not only need something that can process raws but also let you deal with 500+ images in a manner where you don't spend hours culling/sorting.
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#13It's a shame open source projects with great features still have astoundingly bad copywriting. No one cares about it having a database behind the scenes or the upgrade/downgrade process, tell me what it can do and how it compares to the real alternative, Adobe Lightroom.
HN links to the news article so I was confused as to what Darktable was, I clicked on a few of the links in the menu and couldn't figure out quickly what it was, I then googled to find out it was an alternative to lightroom, so I googled darktable and clicked on the link to find out there's a homepage with the information I was looking for initially... But there's no menu item to get to the homepage?
There's a link to the homepage in every single page of the website, it's the image of the logo.
While I agree that it's not obvious, that's a common practice (Hacker News does the same) so you should probably keep that in mind.
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#14I wish they support photo management, at least import photos into organized folders by date
Yep, and they steadfastly refuse to do so. Its myopic. Photo editing requires photo management to do efficiently.
Even the built in filesystem access is poor.
Nothing on Linux is acceptable though, so they're not alone, it's just sad that something so promising is so hobbled.
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#15Is the home page supposed to contain placeholder like phrases? Such as: >Mention that having (photographer) developers as part of the target audience is good for understanding the real world problems, challenges, and workflows. >Something about capability - highlight about some big important features! Maybe mention flexibility here (ease of writing new modules). >Something about community, mailing list, maybe discuss…
Can't say, but it actually seems pretty forced, like a joke. All of those placeholders actually link to the resources they'd want. I'd guess it's a poke at regular start-up style "We are awesome because X" statements on their home page.
It is a joke :)
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#16I only started using darktable recently. It’s been great with the exception of speed and the MacOS UI having tiny controls. I have a reasonably powerful MacBook Pro and would have expected it to handle things like changing exposure levels pretty quickly.
But honestly I can’t complain because this thing allows me to make decent photos fantastic.
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#17As a long time GIMP user, coming to Darktable has been a revelation. I'm super impressed with how powerful and polished Darktable is, and overall I really love it. On the other hand, Darktable has some serious issues that make it less than ideal for me. First, on my old laptop Darktable is super, super slow... especially when the image I'm editing has lots of operations performed on it. In that case, performing a sim…
Sorry. You cannot come to a software release and complain that your old laptop handles a modern software, even a brand new version, with shitty performance. Media processing be it images or video isn't made for old laptops.
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#18I wish they support photo management, at least import photos into organized folders by date
I was excitedly looking for how they manage this, but alas, it looks like not well :(
Is there any tools nowadays that:
(a) Lets the user keep Favorited/marked images in a local storage location
(b) 'ages-out' other files to secondary storage pools (removable disks, cloud storage)
(c) Keeps Low-res thumbnails of all images in the collection?
I keep trying to find something that would help keep tabs on a growing collection of images, with growing file sizes from newer cameras, but it all seems like doing it manually is the only way to go :(
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#19As a long time GIMP user, coming to Darktable has been a revelation. I'm super impressed with how powerful and polished Darktable is, and overall I really love it. On the other hand, Darktable has some serious issues that make it less than ideal for me. First, on my old laptop Darktable is super, super slow... especially when the image I'm editing has lots of operations performed on it. In that case, performing a sim…
Sorry. You cannot come to a software release and complain that your old laptop handles a modern software, even a brand new version, with shitty performance. Media processing be it images or video isn't made for old laptops.
"Sorry. You cannot come to a software release and complain that your old laptop handles a modern software with a shitty performance."
Well, GIMP has new software releases all the time, and works quickly on my old laptop.
You can't blame the fact that Darktable is slow on it being new.
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#20I somehow confused this with 'Lighttable' and was really confused about why printing was such an important issue.