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Last I checked (maybe a year or two ago) Darktable was an integrated photo-management tool for ingesting, sorting, cataloguing and developing RAWs, while RawThe

Last I checked (maybe a year or two ago) Darktable was an integrated photo-management tool for ingesting, sorting, cataloguing and developing RAWs, while RawTherapee was almost entirely built for developing RAWs with just a few management features on the side.

rqs 9y ago
Well, darktable user here (Also a RawTherapee 5.0 user). I just closed darktable few minutes ago, so I guess that made my experience of it pretty fresh. On my system (Ubuntu 17.4), darktable runs nicely. And it's easier to use than RawTherapee. I only encountered some problems cause it to freeze up when loading photos, but I can't figure out the reason (Of course it's not because I'm loading photos). RawTherapee is bit harder / complicate to use, but once you used to it, they're almost the same (Not totally, like darktable's Vibrance adjustment is far weaker than RawTherapee's etc). One problem with RawTherapee for me is, it sometime can't correctly recognize the color profile of my camera, so the initial preview look over exposed and require manual adjustment. I didn't get same problem with darktable.
stevekemp 9y ago
Yup that matches my recollection too. I use RawTherapee for all my RAW-processing, and I find it both easy to use, and very flexible. One of the reasons I use RT is because it doesn't try to take ownership of my images. I have a hierachy of images that looks something like this: Images/ Images/2017 Images/2017/10 Images/2017/10/01-jody/ Images/2017/10/01-jody/RAW Images/2017/10/01-jody/JPG Images/2017/10/01-jody/JPG/thumbs Images/2017/10/01-jody/Public/ I like that I can file things my own way, and use the tool just to export from .CR2 -> .JPG.
- brudgers 9y ago
  In Darktable, applying styles to the light table `Export` module is a way of sending 'prints' to a standard subdirectory structure. Bash scripts calling darktable-cli might be another possibility for automating a similar process at higher volumes. Having used both Dartable and Rawtherapee, part of the reason I primarily use Darktable is that it seems to better facilitate working through a few hundred images in a few hours...a use case that not everyone has and that some people might reasonably not ever wish to have but one that I deal with based on the type of subjects I sometimes shoot.
  - stevekemp 9y ago
    A 1-2 hour shoot for me with a model might easily result in 500+ images. But I've found with the rating system of rawtherapee it is easy to process such a large number of images efficiently.

rqs 9y ago

Well, darktable user here (Also a RawTherapee 5.0 user). I just closed darktable few minutes ago, so I guess that made my experience of it pretty fresh. On my system (Ubuntu 17.4), darktable runs nicely. And it's easier to use than RawTherapee. I only encountered some problems cause it to freeze up when loading photos, but I can't figure out the reason (Of course it's not because I'm loading photos). RawTherapee is bit harder / complicate to use, but once you used to it, they're almost the same (Not totally, like darktable's Vibrance adjustment is far weaker than RawTherapee's etc). One problem with RawTherapee for me is, it sometime can't correctly recognize the color profile of my camera, so the initial preview look over exposed and require manual adjustment. I didn't get same problem with darktable.

stevekemp 9y ago

Yup that matches my recollection too. I use RawTherapee for all my RAW-processing, and I find it both easy to use, and very flexible. One of the reasons I use RT is because it doesn't try to take ownership of my images. I have a hierachy of images that looks something like this: Images/ Images/2017 Images/2017/10 Images/2017/10/01-jody/ Images/2017/10/01-jody/RAW Images/2017/10/01-jody/JPG Images/2017/10/01-jody/JPG/thumbs Images/2017/10/01-jody/Public/ I like that I can file things my own way, and use the tool just to export from .CR2 -> .JPG.

brudgers 9y ago
In Darktable, applying styles to the light table `Export` module is a way of sending 'prints' to a standard subdirectory structure. Bash scripts calling darktable-cli might be another possibility for automating a similar process at higher volumes. Having used both Dartable and Rawtherapee, part of the reason I primarily use Darktable is that it seems to better facilitate working through a few hundred images in a few hours...a use case that not everyone has and that some people might reasonably not ever wish to have but one that I deal with based on the type of subjects I sometimes shoot.
- stevekemp 9y ago
  A 1-2 hour shoot for me with a model might easily result in 500+ images. But I've found with the rating system of rawtherapee it is easy to process such a large number of images efficiently.