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On the flip side, coming from Darktable and trying out Lightroom felt like trying to do good old darkroom work with my hands tied behind my back. Darktable off
by kqr 3y ago
On the flip side, coming from Darktable and trying out Lightroom felt like trying to do good old darkroom work with my hands tied behind my back.
Darktable offers a few really powerful, generic tools that you can use in different ways to get different effects – things like equaliser, parametric masks, LAB curves, etc. It makes little sense to use it without reading up on some of those more advanced tools first.
Lightroom, in contrast, focuses more on offering a small selection of pre-defined tools for specific purposes. But once you want to do something outside of that (parametric masking is one of those things I really missed) you're shit out of luck.
- cfn 3y agoWould you mind giving examples where you use parametric masking? I read the docs* and it is not very clear to me the practical side (I'm a Lightroom user). * https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/3.8/en/darkroom/masking-and-blending/masks/parametric/ https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/3.8/en/darkroom/maskin...
- naejin 3y agoThis video shows how parametric masks can be used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfw-GWowH9M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfw-GWowH9M This is one of the most powerful feature in this software.
- lolc 3y agoAn example: Camera noise is often particularly annoying in the sky area. So I'll have two denoising filters active: A subtle one that doesn't lose much detail, and a strong one that only applies to the sky. Selecting the sky tends to be easy with a parametric mask: Just select the sky's hue and it's done.
- davidmurdoch 3y agoI use mushroom, but these generalized parametric masks look super useful! That said, Lightroom now let's you mask the sky with a single click.
- davidmurdoch 3y agoI meant "Lightroom", not "mushroom".
- actionfromafar 3y agoI mostly tag pictures, adjust exposure, sometimes split toning and contrast, that’s it basically. And cull pictures quickly.
- kqr 3y agoCatalogue management is one of the things I agree Lightroom is better at – at least was, last I was a more active photographer.
- actionfromafar 3y agoIt’s not stellar, but it doesn’t suck, and I haven’t been forced to upgrade. Maybe I will never migrate off LR and just create a new catalog on some other computer with Ansel or something. I use the last version of LR6 one could purchase outright, and I dragged it kicking and screaming all the way into Ventura, but I’m sure the party well end pretty soon.
- hef19898 3y agoYou are most likely both right, because it mirrors my experience everytime I look at Photoshop/Lightroom when my dad does things and when looks at darktable when I do things.