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RIP Adobe :D Darktable is great.
by canbus 5y ago
RIP Adobe :D Darktable is great.
- franga2000 5y ago> RIP Adobe If only! Take an over- or under-exposed photo and try to correct it in Lightroom and Darktable. Lightroom is able to recover far more detail from those regions than Darktable. No idea how, but it can. Everything else is far better in Darktable, but edit quality is all that really matters in the end.
- orbital-decay 5y agoThis really contradicts my own experience, with both Sony and Nikon RAWs, as I see no difference in highlights/darks recovery with my photos. Thing is, Darktable is super technical unlike Lightroom or most commercial software, and hides very little from the user, so it's fairly demanding to user's knowledge. Just like processing in Photoshop that Lightroom doesn't replace for all cases because LR is more oriented towards magic. What I like about Darktable is vastly superior color uniformity and handling, and its tone equalizer module that allows for visual zoning control; it replaces most 3rd party plugins for Photoshop. PS really feels more and more outdated at this point for the de facto most popular software for photo manipulation, since it doesn't include modern tools and you have to construct massive workarounds or buy additional plugins. What I dislike about Darktable is lack of persistent masking; currently all masks are generated by previous modules in the pixelpipe, so going back in editing can alter the mask.
- canbus 5y agoAI magic I guess. I'm just a hobbyist but it's given some good results for me with whatever i've thrown at it. Maybe I don't know what I'm missing out on with Lightroom but Darktable is more than good enough for my use case!