Still, there are far too many panels and sliders. Once you find a suitable workflow, however, this program will help you gain full control of your image. There is simply too much going on in the software - too much to discover, too much to consider.
Still, I found the program really hard to understand. Of course, a few sessions of editing with Darktable couldn’t replace my years of experience with Adobe.
With little or no expectations, my first impression still was disappointing. But as I wanted to write a fair review of the program, I had to be patient. In the beginning, it was really hard to deal with new concepts of editing and to not have all those shortcuts which are written deeply into my muscle memory. I really like the path tools in Darktable.ĭarktable was the first software I used after a decade of experience with Adobe. Do as much photo improvement as you can in Darktable (framing, denoising, sharpening, color correction, lens correction, color aberration correction.) then finally edit the output in Gimp where you can remove unwanted details and do all final fine-tuning before exporting the image with the format and quality you'll need.Great design and full control. If you are still a beginner, I'll not advise you to always shoot in raw, because processing every single raw photo can be boring at the beginning (and even after.) You can shoot in raw + jpeg and have a try with only a few raw files. Also raw images with wrong exposure can be corrected easier if taken in raw, because it keeps most information the sensor has captured. When you shoot in JPEG, the photo is automatically processed from the raw image on the sensor into JPEG within the camera, you don't control this process, that can even create unwanted artifacts, fake sharpness, excessive softening, and so on. But JPEG is an 8-bit format that does not record as much information as raw.
Most people take their photos in JPEG, so that they don't need a raw decoder and don't understand what use it is. As a standalone, it is the equivalent of Lightroom: converting raw format then do basic editing on it, then save the result to JPEG, PNG or other popular formats, and also do basic editing on JPEG images from your camera. As schumaml told it, Darktable is a raw file decoder, and, if you use it as a plug-in, it will do the same as Camera Raw for Photoshop: converting raw files into a format like TIFF that can be edited in Gimp.
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