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Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by t0bia_s »

orbital-decay wrote: post #123
t0bia_s wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Name some color process that cannot be done in PS. I'm recommending PS for color grading to be precise.

You can do anything in a hex editor. The question is how convenient it is.

Beside Adobe terms of use and implemented spyware, their software is convenient enough to justify monopoly on market.

Sure, editing via prompts or personalised automated actions would be ultimate convenience, but we are not here yet. Day by day software like those from Adobe or BlackMagic will be obsolete.

Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by scotty79 »

jayphen wrote: post #169

I actually downloaded this and tried it. Am I the first one here to do that? As someone who hasn't touched DaVinci products before (but a lot of experience with LR) - I am immediately confused by the integration of photo editing here. It feels very much like video editing software with photo editing tacked on. I can imagine that this would be much more intuitive for people who are already used to using DaVinci for vi…

> It feels very much like video editing software with photo editing tacked on.

Isn't it exactly what it is?

Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by jayphen »

_joel wrote: post #170
jayphen wrote: post #169

I actually downloaded this and tried it. Am I the first one here to do that? As someone who hasn't touched DaVinci products before (but a lot of experience with LR) - I am immediately confused by the integration of photo editing here. It feels very much like video editing software with photo editing tacked on. I can imagine that this would be much more intuitive for people who are already used to using DaVinci for vi…

Isn't this aimed at people already using Resolve for video work who want to do still images too?

It is unclear. Their marketing material at least does imply that they are targeting photographers:

> Whether you’re a professional colorist looking to apply your skills to fashion shoots and weddings, or a photographer who wants to work beyond the limits of traditional photo applications, the Photo page unlocks the tools you need

Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by alkonaut »

danbruc wrote: post #140

Complete tangent, what is going on with this image [1]? Render? AI? Too much post-processing? It has some computer game graphics look to me, but I can not quite put the finger on what seems off. [1] https://images.blackmagicdesign.com/images/products/davincir...

That lens (Sigma Cine 18-35/F2) is a big lens, but it looks almost too big there, like it was composited in, or the perspective is somehow strange.

Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by jayphen »

scotty79 wrote: post #172
jayphen wrote: post #169

I actually downloaded this and tried it. Am I the first one here to do that? As someone who hasn't touched DaVinci products before (but a lot of experience with LR) - I am immediately confused by the integration of photo editing here. It feels very much like video editing software with photo editing tacked on. I can imagine that this would be much more intuitive for people who are already used to using DaVinci for vi…

> It feels very much like video editing software with photo editing tacked on. Isn't it exactly what it is?

Yes, but I think it's important to make that clear. It doesn't appear to attempt to target photographers who are not coming from a video editing background, and photographers will probably be disappointed.

I do hope they split this out to a separate focused product, as the photo editing space is in dire need of more options.

Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by PaulHoule »

dbspin wrote: post #138
gyomu wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The short of it is that there’s no money in photography, compared to videography. Movies routinely have 8 or 9 digit budgets, with teams of hundreds of people who have to collaborate to make footage coming from dozens of different cameras look seamless and consistent. Meanwhile, $1M would be an insane budget for a photo shoot. You can see this in the actual skills of people working in the field as well. Anyone workin…

Fundamental misunderstanding of the market dynamics here. There are at least an order of magnitude more people making a professional salary as photographers (ie.: enough to justify a software purchase) than professional videographers. Outside of film, videographers are generally paid a day rate about half as high as photographers, with enormously higher equipment costs. Film - hollywood, streaming, TV etc, combined a…

As a semi-pro photographer I look at the $295 pricing and think that is a very reasonable price for something that could help my photos look like my photos. I bought DxO PhotoLab for $235 and color grade with it all the time. Right now I use LUTs that other people made and have been thinking I’d like to learn to be more systematic and make my own.

I don’t really do video but I have in the past so a video editor coming in a box sweetens the deal in the same sense that Adobe CC comes with, say, Premiere, which I use just occasionally. I can totally shoot video with my Sony and there is definitely a lot of demand for it on the internet these days. I also know Divinchi resolve is a product that many people in film/video are enthusiastic for and that counts too.

Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by Y-bar »

geerlingguy wrote: post #11

It's crazy that the RAW photo processing market is so underserved that a video editor can add on photo capabilities and it's immediately in the top 3 photo editors. I mean, they all process image data, so it had that going for it, but I'm still disappointed Apple gave up on Aperture, then nobody really innovated after that, in terms of library management and workflows.

Only one mention of Aperture, suppose I can be the second one to also lament the loss. Lightroom never grew on me and I still miss the UI and workflow of Aperture.

Might give this a try. I just keep on holding back because I do not want to lose all my thousands upon thousands of edits.

Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by Keyframe »

gyomu wrote: post #64
arecsu wrote: post #31

This is incredible. There are soooo many features that Davinci already handles so damn well when it comes to color editing, that I only wish they existed in photo editors. To the point there were people posting videos on Youtube about hacky workflows to edit RAW photo files on Resolve and export each one as JPG files haha. Only Darktable seemed to push the technical capabilities of photo editing forward (AgX, paramet…

The short of it is that there’s no money in photography, compared to videography. Movies routinely have 8 or 9 digit budgets, with teams of hundreds of people who have to collaborate to make footage coming from dozens of different cameras look seamless and consistent. Meanwhile, $1M would be an insane budget for a photo shoot. You can see this in the actual skills of people working in the field as well. Anyone workin…

those big productions are production design and above the line heavy. Most people on shoots are paid well. However, if you look at the other side of the coin, hardware and software supporting the industry, it's actually "laughable". ARRI which is the biggest name in the game on shoots is ~$1b, RED was sold of for $85m, BMD could fetch as high as $3b, Autodesk's Media & Entertainment is and then you have Adobe which has ~%65 of its revenue coming from Creative segment ($14-15b over $23.77 for 2025), which would put it at ~$70b - $100b valuation if it were standalone (5x-7x revenue).

That's how big Adobe is compared to literally everything else. Its creative division is 3x-4x more than the entire industry combined.

You do have new contenders now with Epic (~$22b), Canva ($26b), Figma ($20b), but I'm not convinced.. in certain segments for sure, but still not confident based on stock performance or revenue.

Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by 8-prime »

mikae1 wrote: post #30
jez wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is your Linux photo editing software of choice?

darktable[1] and Spektrafilm[2]. [1] https://darktable.org [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47761280

Damn, there really are no original ideas anymore. I have been working on essentially the exact thing that Spektrafilm is doing. I'll check that out to see how I can improve my setup.

Re: DaVinci Resolve – Photo

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Post by 8-prime »

yonatan8070 wrote: post #166
talkfold wrote: post #164

Blackmagic's move: ship a Lightroom competitor inside software photographers already pirate for video editing. Distribution solved.

Who's pirating Resolve? Doesn't it have a generous free version?

It's generous but limited in some aspects. True 4k resolution is not supported (or at least wasn't the last time I checked). It also didn't support H.265 4:2:2 files.

I guess once you reach the level where you need to work on these types of files, it would be warranted to pay the very reasonable price for Resolve.

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