You are not in the position to demand anything. This is great, but as a user you need to understand that your are not a customer. They just allow us to use their creation, basically without any restrictions. They do it out of passion and they don't work for any of us. There is a community of developers, creating this software in their spare time. It is important to understand this aspect. The free referes to freedom, not free beer. I'd really like to see the user base around darktable grow and prosper.ĭarktable is my favorite raw processing tool and I would not want to replace it by C1, LR or the other well known applications.īeside being very powerful, darktable is free and open source software (FOSS). Glad to see you trying it out and I hope it works for you. I generally find a way to do what I need.Ī lot of people complain about the subscriptions but don't seem motivated to try the alternates. At this point I'd say while I could still use something else, I never really find a reason to look. It took me about a year to really get comfortable in it and I was looking at other options in that period. They change rapidly and features that seem exclusive to one generally make it to the other over time. I only use darktable because I prefer working on a single platform. Where it makes up for it in spades is "parametric masking" so I suggest you look up tutorials on youtube before you try doing too much with the brush.ĭarktable and rawtherapy are both very powerful tools. darktable uses a vector brush tool the doesn't add and subtract like LR so it is hard to control. One item I think LR is stronger at and darktable frustrates people converting at is the brush tool. That's of course not true for advanced manipulation like switching backgrounds, multi-exposure blending and other things PS is incredible at. The other thing I find is a lot of color manipulation that LR users do in PS, can be done using blend modes in darktable modules so there's no need to switch to another program for editing. The way the menu is, you can shut down modules you don't use and turn on ones you do or might. They all have specific situations where they work best. One of the reasons why there are so many ways to do things in darktable, is because modules get developed this way. It'll probably be standard in the next release. One of the developers (Bill Ferguson) picked up on it and wrote a lighttable module called filetether which works very well. You can certainly get away from the subscription but I would say the point of open source is to participate so the software becomes what you really want to use.įor example, I asked on if there was a way to automatically import a directory when a file is copied into it to work like a sudo-tether on a directory rather than specific to a camera. I'm generally very happy with LR / Photoshop (except for hating the subscription concept).
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