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As 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…
In my case, mainly for viewing and editing Canon raw format photos?
As 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.
I used Adobe Photoshop on a 60 MHz Power Macintosh in 1996 and was quite productive with it.
The word "software" is a mass or uncountable noun. It has no plural form. Thus "a modern software" is grammatically incorrect.
I 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.
In case that is an X-Y question, how do I undo in darktable?
I 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.
So, it's not a Picasa replacement then?
As 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…
I'd hesitate to call that an issue. It's more a different focus - if you've only got one or two images to deal with, then sure, GIMP (or Photoshop) is more capable, but when you've got a couple hundred or more raws from a full day's shooting - many of which were taken under the same lighting conditions and thus need similar processing - you really start to want something that's designed specifically around dealing with such large collections. That's where applications like Darktable and Lightroom, with their collection management and workflow capabilities, really come into their own.
(Super excited for the Windows release!)
I wish they support photo management, at least import photos into organized folders by date
Or if you want something more integrated, my editor Filmulator has that, though it's far from being feature complete...
I wish they support photo management, at least import photos into organized folders by date
So, is this a good replacement for Picasa on windows? In my case, mainly for viewing and editing Canon raw format photos?
I personally find the file/library management aspect of Darktable so lacking that it's personally useless to me. I absolutely despise Adobe and would pay double what I give them for a decent Lightroom alternative, but it just doesn't exist yet and won't anytime soon.