Why I Use Darktable Instead of Adobe and Others: Five Reasons

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Thanks for mentioning bloat. Nobody seems to notice these days. I think Photoshop has been a bloat fest since about 2004.

I might look at Darktable thoroughly now. I installed it a few months back and played with it, but being used to Lightroom it felt a bit scary, so I uninstalled it. Listening to you makes me consider this software again....and yes, I fully agree with you on your take on AI.....I seriously hate it too!

fully agree :) never invested in adobe system, just LR on my phone. I was using Marketable for my IR photos and soon after a loooooong learning curve, I started liking it more and more and use it now for my norma photos too

My one issue with darktable is the UI. Where things that should take 1 click end up taking 3 or 4. This adds up over time and I don't have the patience for it. There's a reason LR is king. It's just fast to work with. If they can streamline the UI, sure. I tried it a year ago, and I just don't have the patience for clicking through endless menus just to accomplish what I could in LR in one click.

This is excellent information, thank you.

Thanks a lot, I will

Thank you!

Thanks Jason. All this is very true. So I hope that more than only dt users watch your video.

I agree with you. Right things! ❤

I try to use it from time to time - but I usually have the same hiccup, reducing noise fast and efficiently, and getting my colors to come out as I want them --- the colors in DT I can probably work out actually so scrap that, so I guess just a good way with working with noise that does not just go and dull the whole image. I will check out another video of yours I can see on the right - as like you, I would like to not have to pay a subscription.

I tested the latest version of Darktable today, it now displays and exports ARW files correctly, doesn't downscale them. But there's a bug where enabling lens correction a color calibration, color contrast, color balance, lut 3d adds magenta to the highlights. So Darktable is useless for me with pictures with bright highlights. Only good in darker more even scenes. I've reported this issue.I've not tested previous version. And forgot which version the resolution issue was in.

Amen, bro.

Point 3 (open source) may not seem relevant to most users but for me it's currently essential since I switched to a camera which is not supported yet (and cannot be until there will be a libraw release or snapshot with support). So I've been using a patched version of both libraw and darktable since February and don't have to wait.

I might try it again, especially since it supports OM1-II camera. AI has its place in editing tools and yes some companies get carried away.

I with you and all points expect AI. Here's my stance on it though. I'm totally against artificially generated photos however I think there is a place for in it photography and editing that can benefit everyone. AI can help speed up a lot of the tedious processes when it comes to photo editing. For example if you want to mask quickly mask out your subject from a complex background. AI will save you hours for work even if you still finetune that mask manually after. Even in cameras. Sony for example has an AI chip in the A6700 that has incredible subject recognition. Many times you only have moments to land a shot and it means the difference get stack sharp focus or struggling to shoot through those pesky branches as that rare bird flies off.

Does Darktable work with Pentax cameras and lenses ?

Do you need to delete photos only within the program in Darktable (like in Lightroom)? Please tell me.

I can't really agree with the AI argument.. sure it has the potential to infringe on creativity, but it offers many features that are simply time savers. Like the oppurtinity to perfectly auto mask my images very fast. It's just a time saver, i did the same thing before AI features came, just a bit worse (no perfect edges in lightroom, just radial or brush masking) and it took me a lot longer and wasn't able to sync it across similar images. I will try darktable nevertheless. I would like them to bring auto masking capabilities with option to sync.

2:12 Interesting, I've not experienced this issue.But when I used Rawtherapee my photos were mostly JPG and some were DNG. But looked the same in editing page as it did after the edit. but So did Sony ARW when I tried it, but back then it was issues with right pixels being stretched. But I see the image is slightly wider. But has been fixed, but ARW files are still being upscaled, but look correct, but exported image will be larger than it should be, Darktable did the opposite last year, it downscaled it massively. But it's been fixed. I just tested it today.