For the greater part of my images, I am quite happy with Darktable, having used it on my Mac for more than five years. Only downside for me is, that it can’t handle raw images from my Hasselblad cameras (X2D and the older H3D39). I do a lot of analog photography, and it is amazing how well DT handles those images. I never regret leaving Adobe - like in totally. By the way I started using DT when on a Linux platform for around 3-4 years, so in total I have used DT for around 8 years. It handles well even though my database contains almost 150,000 images dating back to the 1970s.
That’s awesome! You have quite the history with it. I love it and see no reason to use anything else. That sucks about the Hasselblad files though. Thanks for watching and for your comment! I appreciate the support.
I am curious about your use case and flow with Digikam and Darktable? I also still have CaptureOne 12 on my mac and syncing tags, labels is a pain if you want to use xmp files (with or without extenstions like file.raf.xmp or file.xmp)
I’ll definitely have to dive into this more but right now I’m only using Darktable for my editing as well as catalog management. I wasn’t sure it would be able to handle my library as well as it did. I’m still learning all the ends and outs of it but it’s pretty great.
@@LinuxCreativeProjectPerhaps I need to dive deeper into Darktable too. Not only for editing but perhaps organization as well. I have over 120,000 photos and am not sure about performance. I know Darktable is worth the investment, it has a learning curve. Looking forward to your videos!
Really interested in color printing… I spent almost an entire day struggling to get some color photos printed and gave up and booted into windows to get what I needed… I have a Canon Pixma Pro 200 and have TurboPrint drivers.. I’m guessing I had something off with profiles
I'm using DT for processing my photos, and have created styles/presets for my basic processing, it speeds things up a lot and often it is enough, and can be applied already in light table
The editing looks good, but I would probably miss too much of what Lightroom offers in terms of organization. Lightroom can rate photos, flag photos, add colour labels, and add any number of nested tags. It can create collections with any random selection of photos from one or various folders. It can create automatic ('smart') collections which are effectively filters based on any of the things mentioned above. You can also just manually filter through different category filters as well. For example, you could display only photos shot at 50mm with a specific camera above 1600 ISO with wide open aperture, or (if you've tagged all your photos) show all photos of a specific person. I do wish Darktable could do more towards all of that, but it's a fairly steep ask.
"I would probably miss too much of what Lightroom offers in terms of organization" -- I'm not sure I understand what you're writing about. I didn't look at what Lightroom can do now, but Darktable has been able to do all of the above for a long time. In fact, we can describe Lightroom as a dumbed-down version of Darktable with much worse processing algorithms.
For the greater part of my images, I am quite happy with Darktable, having used it on my Mac for more than five years. Only downside for me is, that it can’t handle raw images from my Hasselblad cameras (X2D and the older H3D39). I do a lot of analog photography, and it is amazing how well DT handles those images. I never regret leaving Adobe - like in totally. By the way I started using DT when on a Linux platform for around 3-4 years, so in total I have used DT for around 8 years. It handles well even though my database contains almost 150,000 images dating back to the 1970s.
That’s awesome! You have quite the history with it. I love it and see no reason to use anything else. That sucks about the Hasselblad files though. Thanks for watching and for your comment! I appreciate the support.
I love a good alternative to Adobe. Very cool. Thanks for the video!
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
DT is an exceptional tool for editing.
Absolutely. I’m more impressed with it every day
I am curious about your use case and flow with Digikam and Darktable? I also still have CaptureOne 12 on my mac and syncing tags, labels is a pain if you want to use xmp files (with or without extenstions like file.raf.xmp or file.xmp)
I’ll definitely have to dive into this more but right now I’m only using Darktable for my editing as well as catalog management. I wasn’t sure it would be able to handle my library as well as it did. I’m still learning all the ends and outs of it but it’s pretty great.
@@LinuxCreativeProjectPerhaps I need to dive deeper into Darktable too. Not only for editing but perhaps organization as well. I have over 120,000 photos and am not sure about performance. I know Darktable is worth the investment, it has a learning curve. Looking forward to your videos!
Really interested in color printing… I spent almost an entire day struggling to get some color photos printed and gave up and booted into windows to get what I needed… I have a Canon Pixma Pro 200 and have TurboPrint drivers.. I’m guessing I had something off with profiles
I’ll definitely tackle that subject soon. Thanks for watching!!
I'm using DT for processing my photos, and have created styles/presets for my basic processing, it speeds things up a lot and often it is enough, and can be applied already in light table
Great point! I’ve been experimenting with some of that. Thanks for watching!
Do you have suggestions of a tutorial for beginners willing to get started with photography using darktable ? Or are you planning on doing some ?
I don’t have any specific suggestions right now but yes, I will definitely be making some in the near future.
The editing looks good, but I would probably miss too much of what Lightroom offers in terms of organization.
Lightroom can rate photos, flag photos, add colour labels, and add any number of nested tags.
It can create collections with any random selection of photos from one or various folders.
It can create automatic ('smart') collections which are effectively filters based on any of the things mentioned above. You can also just manually filter through different category filters as well.
For example, you could display only photos shot at 50mm with a specific camera above 1600 ISO with wide open aperture, or (if you've tagged all your photos) show all photos of a specific person.
I do wish Darktable could do more towards all of that, but it's a fairly steep ask.
DT can do most of those things, certainly your first and last points.
I've been playing around with color tags, ratings and metadata tags in Darktable and it seems extremely capable in this regard.
"I would probably miss too much of what Lightroom offers in terms of organization" -- I'm not sure I understand what you're writing about. I didn't look at what Lightroom can do now, but Darktable has been able to do all of the above for a long time. In fact, we can describe Lightroom as a dumbed-down version of Darktable with much worse processing algorithms.
Darktable is a treasure waiting to be found. I'll be following.
Agreed! And thanks for the follow!
Sounds like you need a pop filter for your microphone. Or at least try not to speak directly into the microphone.
I'll work on that. Thanks for watching!