10/2/2023 0 Comments Darktable forum![]() ![]() If you want something a little more in the middle between darktable and LR, check out RawTherapee or ART (a RT derivative). But they're very good, if a bit 'unconventional' at first glance. Yes, they take learning and no, I'm not totally "there" yet. Some feels this fact to be a disadvantage and this makes sense, too.įWIW, I think darktable's masking tools are extremely powerful. or I'd better say a balance between the two approaches.Īnd yes, darktable has very limited user base compared to old and reputed tools like Adobe, so the choice of pre-cooked recipes is limited. ![]() In other words, what's "powerful"? Total control or lots of other folks' canned ideas? You decide. Is it easy? Well what's "easy" - A tool that lets you do exactly what you want but requires you to know exactly what you want? Or is it a tool that has preset defaults from someone else, you choose one and knock 'em out? I'd say both are valid approaches given differing requirements. ![]() I believe ART may offer some scene-referred tools as well. Culling ~42000 of shots, and reduce their number to ~2000? Ok, works well for me, and the procedure us pretty straightforward.īut for those who want or need to go beyond the tools offered by more mainstream products it's very powerful.įor those who want to edit as linearly as possible, darktable's scene-referred workflow provides that. I found the darktable's culling capabilities being at the same level (if not better) with its commercial counterparts. If the latter, then darktable is perfectly capable of doing that, and is even more flexible than others. Or maybe you are speaking of some "standard" way to apply customized presets to a bunch of your images? ![]() Probably you are speaking of a software vendor-defined set of reasonable defaults? But advanced photographers don't use these, everyone has his own individual "magic" and secrets of craft to apply. Hmm Ok, this makes sense, but can you please tell us what the "standard" approach is? IMO, darktable is an expert system, written by experts, for experts and / or those who want to go beyond the standard approach. The Lua scripts are also handy, allowing some automation and integration with other tools into the workflow.Ī few shots from those events, processed in darktable, with a Lua script passes the exports to nind-denoise and GMIC's deblur_richardsonlucy. darktable utilizes the GPU very well, not only making the darkroom buttery-smooth, but also speeding up the export process significantly (7-10 times faster than CPU alone). ) while having presets applied on export allows me to ignore the basic settings (demosaic, sharpening, hot pixels. Copying/pasting the history stack makes it easy to apply the common settings to all images (WB, exposure, filmic. I'm not a working pro, I don't make a single dime from photography, not sure how my wife lets it slide But, I can definitely churn out hundreds of images in one night with darktable. about 900-1200 shots to process in darktable after culling. With my spray-and-pray approach, I typically ended up with at least 3000-4000 RAWs after each theater/musical performance, karate tournament, or professional conferences. It's probably not the tool for a "working pro" who shoots, e.g., sports and needs to churn out hundreds if not thousands of images at a time. ![]()
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