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Re: Darktable

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Post by BeetleB »

erksa wrote: post #16

Darktable is fantastic, and their darktable-cli is really clutch as a photographer turned SWE. If coming from lightroom or the likes it does take some dedicated learning to adapt to the "Darktable" ways of doing things. Deceptively similar UI, yet very different approaches and naming. Darktable is however, bad at photograpy organization and collections. Something Lightroom shines at. Built many processes around it fo…

> Darktable is however, bad at photograpy organization and collections.

It's like saying Microsoft Word is bad as an IDE. That's because it's not and IDE.

And Darktable is very explicit that it is not for photography organization and collections.

Re: Darktable

#62

Post by dylan604 »

throw0101d wrote: post #51
Hamuko wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lightroom is 15.29 €/month and Capture One can be had for a one-time payment of 391 €. Lightroom is the more expensive one if you plan on using the software more than 2 years and 2 months.

> Lightroom is 15.29 €/month and Capture One can be had for a one-time payment of 391 €. Also worth considering how often you change camera bodies: if you get a new one you may have to upgrade CO to get support for the new RAW format. (AIUI, they don't backport things like that.)

> AIUI, they don't backport things like that.

Ugh, that's horrible. Needing a full app update to handle this minor updates is annoying. The one thing that I did appreciate about Adobe's Camera RAW is that it was constantly being updated with new profiles that would work with whatever version of software being used.

Re: Darktable

#63

Post by patrakov »

arikrahman wrote: post #29

How does it compare to RapidRaw?

RapidRaw is too much AI-focused, with the typical drawback that you cannot tell the AI that it is wrong. You want to remove something from the photo by inpainting something else over it, and the only way to do it in RapidRaw is to brush over what you want to remove and pray that the object is removed cleanly by AI. But often, the AI leaves even worse artifacts, and the low-tech solution, that is, manually selecting what you want to copy over, is not available.

Another issue is that the overblown highlight reconstruction is much worse than in DarkTable.

Re: Darktable

#64

Post by dismalaf »

BeetleB wrote: post #60
flipthefrog wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Want the best software for editing photos? No thanks, I'd rather use inferior open source solutions. Go Gimp

Upvoting you, because I actually use Gimp. While it has its headaches, for photo editing it's still the best after Photoshop. (Yes, still better than Krita). But this is all a digression, as Lightroom/Darktable are not Photoshop/Gimp replacements. Not even the same category.

> still better than Krita

??? Krita is painting/raster image creation software, why would you use it for photo editing?

Re: Darktable

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Post by Arainach »

weezing wrote: post #54
Hamuko wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lightroom is 15.29 €/month and Capture One can be had for a one-time payment of 391 €. Lightroom is the more expensive one if you plan on using the software more than 2 years and 2 months.

391 euro for a piece of software seems kinda crazy.

That's less than €1/hour for how much time I've spent using Capture One.

Good, ergonomic, efficient tools are worth their weight in gold. C1 is one of them. Importing/triage, editing, color profiles, tethered shooting - it's an incredibly powerful suite and works well.

For particularly problematic noisy/dark shots I'll do manual editing in DXO, but I do everything else in C1.

Re: Darktable

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Post by cryo32 »

lionkor wrote: post #34

I've been using darktable for a while to edit my RAW photos. The amount of features, viable workflows, and in general the quality of the software is baffling for a free product. I would happily pay 200 bucks or something per year to use this, it makes all other RAW editing software obsolete. I can only recommend it, and there's nothing missing for me, even for editing thousands of RAW photos with presets, different s…

Another +1 for this.

I just replaced Lightroom with it after several years. So much happier.

Re: Darktable

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Post by Itoldmyselfso »

Mashimo wrote: post #42

Darktable is one of the few Apps that I loved and advocated for, only to land back on a pirated copy of CaptureOne. Which is I think the only pirated software that I still have installed. I was super into darktable and had fun using it. The UI and UX was not an issue for me. Loved the masks. But over time it got harder and harder for me to get decent color grading from it. I don't know what changed. When I tried to c…

Pirated copies seem like a blackbox of potential malware, even if virus scans fail to find any problems (and they often give 10-30% false positives on most keygens/cracks). Even if the code is hosted in github, there has been plenty of cases of malware/viruses being hosted there too.

Re: Darktable

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Post by BeetleB »

dismalaf wrote: post #64
BeetleB wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Upvoting you, because I actually use Gimp. While it has its headaches, for photo editing it's still the best after Photoshop. (Yes, still better than Krita). But this is all a digression, as Lightroom/Darktable are not Photoshop/Gimp replacements. Not even the same category.

> still better than Krita ??? Krita is painting/raster image creation software, why would you use it for photo editing?

You shouldn't. But I point it out because people keep posting "Ditch Gimp. Use Krita instead."

Krita's better for painting. Gimp's better for photo editing.

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