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#3Ditched Adobe Lightroom 10+ years ago in favour of Darktable and never looked back. It was the first FOSS software, which showed me how green the grass can get.
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#4https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel
> Meet Chantal, your image processing AI librarian
Instant pass.
Edit: This appears to be their 'knowledgebase' and not something baked into the app.
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#5Ditched Adobe Lightroom 10+ years ago in favour of Darktable and never looked back. It was the first FOSS software, which showed me how green the grass can get.
Don't lead people down a fruitless path. From their own FAQ:
>Is darktable a free Lightroom alternative?¶ Yes and no. Darktable is an alternative to Lightroom the same way any other raw editor is, since it edits raw files, but it would be a mistake to think it’s a direct replacement. Other than both being raw editors with photo library management, and looking somewhat similar, they have very little in common.
What they mean is, Darktable has very capable editing functionality, but its "library management" is such an afterthought that I would challenge whether it even deserves to be called library management. It seems to be oriented around the design philosophy that photographers should be organizing their library with CLI tools.
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#6See also: https://ansel.photos/en/
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#7https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel
> Meet Chantal, your image processing AI librarian Instant pass. Edit: This appears to be their 'knowledgebase' and not something baked into the app.
I can't find that on the page.
Edit: I finally found a reference. It's a separate project that has nothing to do with the photography stuff. Right?
It's a way to search the docs?
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Meet Chantal, your image processing AI librarian Instant pass. Edit: This appears to be their 'knowledgebase' and not something baked into the app.
I can't find that on the page. Edit: I finally found a reference. It's a separate project that has nothing to do with the photography stuff. Right? It's a way to search the docs?
It's on https://ansel.photos
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#9https://github.com/aurelienpierreeng/ansel
I haven't heard of either, but have been hoping for a replacement for Aperture for years. Having no knowledge of the history here, reading the `ansel` github page sounds like the developer has some animosity towards `darktable`. Does anyone have any experience with both? Or more knowledge of the history here?
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#10See also: https://ansel.photos/en/
Ansel is what Darktable 4.0 could have been if it didn’t die of feature creep .
Between 2020 and 2023, Darktable has suffered massive code additions of peripheral features, often ill-coded, poorly designed and penalizing usability, performance and maintenance. Too many workarounds failed to fix bugs, but layered new problems on top of legacy code : welcome in maintenance nightmare.