Darktable 5.0.0

Since no one mentioned it yet. There is a darktable fork called ansel <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aurelienpierreeng&#x2F;ansel">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aurelienpierreeng&#x2F;ansel</a> that tries to remove bloat and make darktable more user friendly.<p>It&#x27;s rather opinionated and done by Aurélien Pierre.<p>For those interested in the why <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ansel.photos&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;darktable-dans-le-mur-au-ralenti&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ansel.photos&#x2F;en&#x2F;news&#x2F;darktable-dans-le-mur-au-ralent...</a> there is also a YouTube video with strong language. There is an appimage so I recommend people to at least try it.

I’ve switched to Linux, and one of the hardest things was to find photo organization software. Adobe Lightroom was good this. I’m still sorting it out on Linux.<p>I tried Darktable and found it really useful for editing raw files. Once you figure out the filters they’re powerful and professional.<p>Darktable really opionated about how it stores files&#x2F; libraries however. It really wants you to have one library for all your photos, where I used separate libraries for various events I’ve photographed. Also going through and ranking photos wasn’t as straight forward (is it applying the rank to the image on the strip on the bottom vs the image in the main window?)<p>So I’m sorting with digikam, though it’s editing features don’t seem as powerful. It’s a process.

Congratulations to the Darktable team on their latest release.<p>I tried and tried with Darktable, but found the UI and features extremely frustrating. This [1] post, about a year ago, convinced me to stop inflicting pain on myself and move on. I use Capture One Pro now and am happy with the decision.<p>But I&#x27;m glad that DT exists as a FOSS solution for those who want that.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38412582">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38412582</a>

I&#x27;ve used Darktable for quite a few years now, casually, because seriously I&#x27;m not paying 100+ euros a year as a casual to edit my photographs in lightroom. Darktable&#x27;s flaw has _always_ been its UX as well as performance (at least on MacOS it was pretty laggy on maxed out Intel 2019 Macbook back in the day, but it runs like butter on Apple Silicone macs). They really should consider adding a beginner mode with the most common filters and hide everything else. The learning curve can be quite steep having to learn about things that are par for the course in Darktable such as Filmic RGB etc.

I want to use this program, but the lack of support for RAW formats that are at this point 3+ years old (RW2 and ORF) is a bummer.<p>I don&#x27;t know where the gap is (DT, or the libraries, or some licensing problem) but the end result is that this app doesn&#x27;t support the RAW formats I use, and I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m using anything particularly exotic.<p>I&#x27;ll keep checking in on each new release though..

I&#x27;m a darktable user (which fascinates my photography friends, because I&#x27;m the only semi-serious photographer they know who uses it), and think it&#x27;s time to switch to something better. What non-adobe tools are other people using?

Unrelated, but wondering if anyone here could recommend a Darktable-ish web-based photo organization app, less focused on editing but supporting tagging, starring, etc.?

Darktable may make you better understand the technicalities of editing, but I don&#x27;t think most photographers want to spend their time learning the minutiae of what specific image processing algorithms get used to achieve their desired effect.

It&#x27;s already available on flathub; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flathub.org&#x2F;apps&#x2F;org.darktable.Darktable" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flathub.org&#x2F;apps&#x2F;org.darktable.Darktable</a>

I only use Darktable because of Negadoctor. I don&#x27;t want to pay for Negative Lab Pro, so does anyone have any suggestions?

I’ve just recently started with a real camera and editing raw files. Darktable has so many modules and options it’s quite intimidating. After a month of tinkering and trying it out I still don’t really have a solid handle of what module i need for the outcome I want which I think maybe just comes to experience?<p>I still don’t fully grok what filmic is supposed to do, it seems like several things in one.

I&#x27;m very interested in DarkTable, but I have years on photography in Adobe Lightroom. I&#x27;m growing tired of LightRoom, but I feel like I&#x27;m now locked into that ecosystem. Is there some kind of migration to move my LightRoom edits out of there and into something like DarkTable?

Is there any open source software that has stable diffusion-based denoising for RAW files?

I remember there is also the ansel.photos project, which is a fork of Darktable, aiming to remove architectural debt. I wonder how they&#x27;re doing.

can anyone recommend a tutorial for some of the basic features that that is more for the engineer audience? There are many videos on YouTube but many are very out of date.

From the landing page:<p><pre><code> darktable is (...) a virtual lighttable and darkroom </code></pre> Quite an interesting way to say that is a Lightroom alternative :)

&gt; <i>darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.</i>