It is really worth investing the time in learning DT. As an editing program it leaves LR for dead. Yes Adobe has made a very easy to use product. Rather than complicated modules just a few sliders and you have a good image. LR is like an automatic car. DT is a high performance sports car. Depends what you are happy to settle for. I have LR so my preference is not based on what I am willing to pay for, but which program is more capable. For me, Darktables drawn paths to localise adjustments leaves the adjustment brush in LR looking a little sad.
On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 17:08, Kneops <kne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Michael. I agree ofcourse with what you say, but 'After a month'... > is exactly what I mean. If it takes a month, something is not right. I > never used LR, but opening it and - like I said - I could edit 99% of my > images the way I want within 5 minutes. I even don't use Gimp anymore, > unless my sensor had become too dirty ;). > > > > Op 22-08-2020 om 22:04 schreef Mikael Ståldal: > > The filmic module can be a bit intimidating and unfamiliar if you are > > used to Lightroom. But if you just spend a few hours watching videos and > > reading instructions, and practice on a dozen of your own images, you > > can become effective faster than you think. And it just got easier with > > Darktable 3.2! > > > > After about a month of using Darktable, I feel that I can do about the > > same as I did in Lightroom. And I have the option to spend some > > additional learning effort and be able to do a lot more that was not > > possible with Lightroom. > > > > So I agree with the sentiment: great and impressive work by the > > development team! > > > > > > > > On 2020-08-20 09:38, Kneops wrote: > >> I agree, it is a marvellous piece of work, unbelievable really and I > >> love it but not use it as much as I would like to. And I would never > >> recommend it to friends :(. Even for me as a freelance photographer > >> (20+ years of experience) it feels like it is made for techies, not > >> (yet) intuitive enough. For example the filmic module is so full of > >> options and sliders and words that are not obvious/comprehensible for > >> most people and even I have much difficulty in understanding what they > >> do. I just start using the sliders and always slide in the wrong > >> direction at first ;). My feeling says that when I see a slider that > >> says 'White relative exposure' I want to drag it to the right to get > >> more white tones, but the opposite happens. > >> > >> I'm not a fan of Windows, Adobe and LR, but I still use the latter > >> because it is intuitive. With a few sliders I get almost exactly what > >> I want with 99% of my images and very fast (even though LR lacks speed > >> and I don't like the catalogs/collections system of it). That is why > >> most people still use LR I think. It has sliders that are called White > >> Tones, Black Tones, Highlights, Texture, all very clear in what they > >> do and how to use them. If DT wants to drag a lot of people to its > >> open source alternative, imho it needs to be simplified. LR lacks > >> power and options for more adjustments, but what it does it does quite > >> nicely. Highlight and shadow recovery always looks very natural, > >> whereas in DT highlight recovery is not good enough and shadow > >> recovery can look very harsh and artificial. > >> > >> But... I'm really a fan of DT and hope I can use it on a daily basis > >> and convert my newest pc back into a Linux machine, because LR is the > >> only reason I bought it (my other Linux computer is for webdesign > >> work). Could have been Capture One or one of the other options as well > >> by the way, what I'm trying to say is not LR specific. > >> > >> > >> So, a lot of love and admiration for DT, but some suggestions for the > >> future :). > >> > >> > >> Jack > >> > >> > >> > >> Op 19-08-2020 om 10:00 schreef Pascal Obry: > >>> > >>> Hi Jason, > >>> > >>>> Overall impressions: a worthy improvement (thanks, developers!). I am > >>>> going to adjust to a new workflow with darktable 3.2, but it is not a > >>>> big adjustment. I think overall darktable has come very far since the > >>>> early days, and it is hard to believe such a program is free > >>>> software. > >>> > >>> Nice to read such message among all the bug reports. This amazing piece > >>> of work is maintained by many talented people accros the planet. The > >>> best we can do to keep our freedom against the big players trying to > >>> lock us down in their world which ressemble to a golden jail. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> > >> > >> > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > >> > >> darktable user mailing list > >> to unsubscribe send a mail to > >> darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > >> > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > > > > darktable user mailing list > > to unsubscribe send a mail to > > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > > -- Dr Terry Pinfold Cytometry & Histology Lab Manager Lecturer in Flow Cytometry University of Tasmania 17 Liverpool St, Hobart, 7000 Ph 6226 4846 or 0408 699053 ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
