Darktable 2.2.0 released

IMHO it&#x27;s the best FOSS photo application out there. It&#x27;s cross platform, fast, stable and manages the whole photo workflow (RAW developing, photo management, non destructive editing).<p>Thanks darktable folks!

Can someone compare it to Adobe Lightroom? Is it truly usable, is it quick enough?<p>I am stuck on classic dilemma &quot;apple fucked up, what should I do&quot;, so I am planning moving back to Linux, but Lightroom is the only application keeping me back (however, I thought of OSX in VM on Linux for running just LR).

I use Darktable daily since switching from iPhotos&#x2F;Photos. Re-organizing my Darktable library has been difficult, though, because it purposely doesn&#x27;t manage files. This user&#x27;s python script that updates file locations in the SQLite catalogue has helped (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrigl.de&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2011&#x2F;12&#x2F;28&#x2F;moving-around-darktable-managed-photos.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrigl.de&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2011&#x2F;12&#x2F;28&#x2F;moving-around-darktable-m...</a>).

I&#x27;m a huge fan - congrats on 2.2!<p>Here&#x27;s a tutorial I wrote up on trying out Darktable recently:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photography.tutsplus.com&#x2F;tutorials&#x2F;how-to-get-started-with-darktable-lightroom-alternative--cms-27702" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;photography.tutsplus.com&#x2F;tutorials&#x2F;how-to-get-starte...</a>

I am going to tentatively give this a go after ten years or so of Lightroom. The major problem apart from learning a new application is of course dealing with ten years of Lightroom catalogues and the metadata they contain. Further updates as events unfold ;)

Would be nice to add state of the art AI for auto tagging people, places, objects, etc.<p>And just to dream: Multimaster database exists local, cloud, other machines, etc. Optional auto cloud sync, or partial, or just proxies.

I use Darktable to do basic edits to RAW files from my Nikon D3100 and it&#x27;s incredibly satisfying to understand and adjust exposure, lens correction, perspective, and a few other things. Darktable has module presets for many cameras, which helps. I still don&#x27;t understand levels, color correction, and other more advanced modules, but there are many great videos on YouTube, and my final JPEGs often end up looking better than the camera&#x27;s (I shoot in RAW+JPEG just in case).

I&#x27;m looking into moving up from Photos.app to Darktable. One of the nice features of Photos.app is that through iCloud I can run Photos.app on my MBP which doesn&#x27;t have space for my whole library and it will automatically pull down and cache the parts of my library I&#x27;m using at the moment. Are there any sort of storage hooks in Darktable that would allow for building something like that with a homegrown photos server?

It&#x27;s a pity most compare it to Lightroom, whereas there are more sound competitors - take a look at RawTherapee, Capture One, ON1 Photo RAW or SilkyPix.<p>All of them have ups and downs, Rawtherapee is fast bug buggy as hell and has no adjustment layers, Capture One is marvellous but has political problems with supporting files from the medium-format Pentax, ON1 Photo RAW is a freshly released piece of software and it managed to crash on my images.

Can anyone compare DarkTable to RawTherapee ?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rawtherapee.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rawtherapee.com&#x2F;</a>

I&#x27;m not too familiar with Darktable, but one of my biggest Lightroom complaints is that it&#x27;s not readily usable with generic cloud storage providers. Does Darktable have a good answer for this? I&#x27;d very much like to be liberated from buying ever larger hard disks.

I tried Darktable but the lack of basic undo functionality kept me on Lightroom. Looks like this release has basic undo functionality. I&#x27;ll give this one another try.

does it have a lens profile database? these are tedious to do manually.