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I would say they're complementary. Digikam is more of an all-around organizer and has lots of import/export stuff, tagging, and now good face recognition too ap

I would say they're complementary. Digikam is more of an all-around organizer and has lots of import/export stuff, tagging, and now good face recognition too apparently (the old one was based on classic Haar cascades). Darktable is for selecting a series of shots, going through them, developing the ones you want to keep.

virtualmic 6y ago
Thanks, I will try Digikam too.
MR4D 6y ago
Which would you use to replace Picasa (on a Mac) ?
- morsch 6y ago
  Darktable's targets digital photography enthusiasts or professionals. The learning curve is steep. Picasa's target demographic was "everyone". So probably Digikam.
  - distances 6y ago
    I can confirm. Every now and then I want to edit some of my photos and run Darktable, only then to remember it has zero automation and a hundred of sliders for individual adjustments. It definitely requires dedication to use, more of that than I have to give for holiday photo editing.
    - morsch 6y ago
      You can get by using the same 5 sliders for almost all your photos. The other sliders remain available for edge cases or when you want to go the extra mile.
toredash 6y ago
Would you say I replaces iPhoto/Photos on Mac?
- callahad 6y ago
  I'm not sure how seamless the experience is on macOS, but I'm happily using digiKam on Linux as an iPhoto/Photos replacement. It's nowhere near as polished as Photos, but it's capable, open source, and multi-platform. I hope to maintain my photo library for decades, so avoiding proprietary software / service lock-in was my most important consideration. This decision was reinforced earlier this year when we had to do some surgery on my spouse's meticulously curated Photos library: it's damned near impossible to completely preserve metadata when moving items between Photos libraries, and it is impossible to remove RAW files from stacked RAW+JPEG pairs in the Photos library. If I ever ran into those issues in digiKam (which I haven't), I'm confident that my SQL abilities would be sufficient to work around them.
  - tinus_hn 6y ago
    FYI Photos/iPhoto also store their metadata as SQLite
throw0101a 6y ago
> lots of import/export stuff, tagging So perhaps closer to Photo Mechanic?

virtualmic 6y ago

Thanks, I will try Digikam too.

MR4D 6y ago

Which would you use to replace Picasa (on a Mac) ?

morsch 6y ago
Darktable's targets digital photography enthusiasts or professionals. The learning curve is steep. Picasa's target demographic was "everyone". So probably Digikam.
- distances 6y ago
  I can confirm. Every now and then I want to edit some of my photos and run Darktable, only then to remember it has zero automation and a hundred of sliders for individual adjustments. It definitely requires dedication to use, more of that than I have to give for holiday photo editing.
  - morsch 6y ago
    You can get by using the same 5 sliders for almost all your photos. The other sliders remain available for edge cases or when you want to go the extra mile.

toredash 6y ago

Would you say I replaces iPhoto/Photos on Mac?

callahad 6y ago
I'm not sure how seamless the experience is on macOS, but I'm happily using digiKam on Linux as an iPhoto/Photos replacement. It's nowhere near as polished as Photos, but it's capable, open source, and multi-platform. I hope to maintain my photo library for decades, so avoiding proprietary software / service lock-in was my most important consideration. This decision was reinforced earlier this year when we had to do some surgery on my spouse's meticulously curated Photos library: it's damned near impossible to completely preserve metadata when moving items between Photos libraries, and it is impossible to remove RAW files from stacked RAW+JPEG pairs in the Photos library. If I ever ran into those issues in digiKam (which I haven't), I'm confident that my SQL abilities would be sufficient to work around them.
- tinus_hn 6y ago
  FYI Photos/iPhoto also store their metadata as SQLite

throw0101a 6y ago

> lots of import/export stuff, tagging So perhaps closer to Photo Mechanic?