This bit-by-bit comparison made me feel more secure when using Darktable. Any feeling that I was missing out on an important feature Lr includes has vanished. I used to edit on Corel Aftershot years ago (that's what I had).
Just came across this - 2 years late but hey.... I've been using Lr since v3.0 and consider myself an advanced user. However the last few Lr Classic updates have caused me significant speed problems and corrupted my catalogue. I bought a new 480GB SSD last week specifically for the Lr catalog and I've even built a brand new, clean cat but it makes no difference and so I'm looking for an alternative. I'm not a pro but I do sports shoots and sessions for people on occasion and need a RAW processor, but I also something to manage my images going back to 2002 and the 2mpx (I know - awesome!) digital I started with when looking at converting from film. Lr took forever importing my images on a local drive from 2012 - 2022, Darktable took a couple of hours. As you have said, the Dt learning curve is much steeper, especially after many many years with Lr. (And I also dread going into Ps!) I found the same issue you have with Dt jpeg export - limiting by size which I used all the time in Lr. Dt has some frustrations but I had several lightbulb moments watching your video, so thankyou for that :D. I'm going to persevere with it though and take the time to learn it and who knows - maybe cancel my Adobe Photographer's subscription!
Thanks for your feedback 👍 👍 i will definitely continue with darktable videos 😁 no worries. You can also check my darktable playlist. There are about 30 videos already in it. Cheers
Cheers Maxime. You can read more here (www.darktable.org/usermanual/en/module-reference/processing-modules/color-balance/) on adjusting the image’s color balance
Someone recently mentioned Darktable to me and I need to know if this is something I should consider using. I shoot mostly headshots and events. I use Adobe Bridge, Photoshop and a couple of software applications that I also sometimes use as a Photoshop filter/plugin. Of what use is Darktable?
Hi Richard. Darktable is similar to lightroom with a few features of Photoshop. It has , in my opinion also.better masking capabilities. In my video Lr vs dt i.go through the most important things. You can download it for free and check it out and see if it good for your workflow. Enjoy
Unfortunately, I don't have Olympus so no first hand experience. In saying that I have seen many photos made with Olympus on the Unofficial Facebook darktable group. You may want to add a comment there and collect personal experiences
I think darktable is not as an alternative to lightroom. But it is another great application to edit the raw file with many option. Just cannot think why this aplication is free.
I would personally not use Lightroom and darktable at the same time, either one or the other, and in this respect I see it as an alternative. In saying that, darktable offers so much more than Lightroom and hopefully it will keep running as a Opensource project. Cheers
@@raphaelkrupinski7572 Yep. I'm happy to contribute to the heros making these programs. As little as a Euro a week would suffice if we all pull together. 52 Euros a year is some money but in my mind it's for a good cause.
I had the same thinking at first. With the interface being a far cry from Lightroom, I was very hesitant to make the switch. Migrated my system to Linux from Windows, and had no choice but to give Darktable a try (since Adobe products are not compatible with Linux). Never judge a book by its cover. As I meddled with the tools and took the time and effort to learn them, they have a huge set of settings for processing raw images. Compared to Lightroom, Darktable has a less destructive editing approach. You have to do a bit of research to understand the tools and options offered. In the end, my pictures came out looking more natural and professional than in Lightroom. The reason why it's free is because it's an open source project. People are welcome to view the code and contribute bug fixes and ehancements. With open source software, bugs are faster to get fixed than with proprietary software in general.
This bit-by-bit comparison made me feel more secure when using Darktable. Any feeling that I was missing out on an important feature Lr includes has vanished.
I used to edit on Corel Aftershot years ago (that's what I had).
What I'm trying to say is: thank you =)
Just came across this - 2 years late but hey.... I've been using Lr since v3.0 and consider myself an advanced user. However the last few Lr Classic updates have caused me significant speed problems and corrupted my catalogue. I bought a new 480GB SSD last week specifically for the Lr catalog and I've even built a brand new, clean cat but it makes no difference and so I'm looking for an alternative. I'm not a pro but I do sports shoots and sessions for people on occasion and need a RAW processor, but I also something to manage my images going back to 2002 and the 2mpx (I know - awesome!) digital I started with when looking at converting from film. Lr took forever importing my images on a local drive from 2012 - 2022, Darktable took a couple of hours. As you have said, the Dt learning curve is much steeper, especially after many many years with Lr. (And I also dread going into Ps!) I found the same issue you have with Dt jpeg export - limiting by size which I used all the time in Lr. Dt has some frustrations but I had several lightbulb moments watching your video, so thankyou for that :D. I'm going to persevere with it though and take the time to learn it and who knows - maybe cancel my Adobe Photographer's subscription!
Brilliant
Thank You! I like your presentation style - hope to see more of these darktable videos
Thanks for your feedback 👍 👍 i will definitely continue with darktable videos 😁 no worries. You can also check my darktable playlist. There are about 30 videos already in it. Cheers
Very nice video, thanks!
Thanks for sharing. Can you change gamma settings? Trying to have a log gamma as a starting point.
Cheers Maxime. You can read more here (www.darktable.org/usermanual/en/module-reference/processing-modules/color-balance/) on adjusting the image’s color balance
Someone recently mentioned Darktable to me and I need to know if this is something I should consider using. I shoot mostly headshots and events. I use Adobe Bridge, Photoshop and a couple of software applications that I also sometimes use as a Photoshop filter/plugin. Of what use is Darktable?
Hi Richard. Darktable is similar to lightroom with a few features of Photoshop. It has , in my opinion also.better masking capabilities. In my video Lr vs dt i.go through the most important things. You can download it for free and check it out and see if it good for your workflow. Enjoy
@@StefanoFerro Thank you.
i use it all the time now, if i need granular i use GIMP, but i can do much more in Darktable and used to use lightroom, its better in my opinion!
can darktable read .CR2 format from canon 6d mark ii?
I am sorry, but I am ot sure. I use a Sony. You should join the darktable FB group and ask there
Generally, .CR2 files can be read by Darktable. I use 700D and I just import them as they are.
It does!
Suports orf raw from olympus?
Unfortunately, I don't have Olympus so no first hand experience. In saying that I have seen many photos made with Olympus on the Unofficial Facebook darktable group. You may want to add a comment there and collect personal experiences
@@StefanoFerro thank you
it does!
I think darktable is not as an alternative to lightroom. But it is another great application to edit the raw file with many option. Just cannot think why this aplication is free.
I would personally not use Lightroom and darktable at the same time, either one or the other, and in this respect I see it as an alternative. In saying that, darktable offers so much more than Lightroom and hopefully it will keep running as a Opensource project.
Cheers
You are free to pay for it, one of the authors, a full time developer, accepts donations
@@raphaelkrupinski7572 Yep. I'm happy to contribute to the heros making these programs. As little as a Euro a week would suffice if we all pull together. 52 Euros a year is some money but in my mind it's for a good cause.
But its slow and sticks on mac book pro
I had the same thinking at first. With the interface being a far cry from Lightroom, I was very hesitant to make the switch. Migrated my system to Linux from Windows, and had no choice but to give Darktable a try (since Adobe products are not compatible with Linux). Never judge a book by its cover. As I meddled with the tools and took the time and effort to learn them, they have a huge set of settings for processing raw images. Compared to Lightroom, Darktable has a less destructive editing approach. You have to do a bit of research to understand the tools and options offered. In the end, my pictures came out looking more natural and professional than in Lightroom.
The reason why it's free is because it's an open source project. People are welcome to view the code and contribute bug fixes and ehancements. With open source software, bugs are faster to get fixed than with proprietary software in general.