It is interesting that this topic generated so much conversation and even stirred up so much emotion. Darktable is an alternative program created generously by unpaid developers. They have taken a revolutionary approach to develop a creative method of processing and editing not only Raw files, but also Tiff files and Jpgs. As a user I have chosen to invest my time in learning how this program works and many of its nuances that may at first seem strange to a user coming from commercial software such as Adobe's Lightroom. But that was time well invested by me because I now have a program that that is so much more powerful and under my control. It is only in version 3.4 that I have started to realise the importance of altering the pixel pipeline for some of my images to achieve the required results, but Darktable gives me this ability. Programs like GIMP and Photoshop and Lightroom don't give me this option. Sure in GIMP and Photoshop I can choose the order to apply edits, but each of these is destructive and if I get near the end of processing and realise I made a mistake I have to go back to the beginning and start again. In darktable, I can reorder the pipeline, turn off a instance of a module or make a new instance. No need to start from scratch. And don't get me started on how great the mask options are for each module to localise the edits. The developers have done an incredible job. Changing the GUI is just not a priority to improve Darktable. Users have to be willing to invest time and learn the UI and they will be rewarded. Kudos to the developers.
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 at 00:55, Ricardo Kozmate.Net <rica...@kozmate.net> wrote: > Em 16/02/2021 01:20, Guillermo Rozas escreveu: > > > > This list can be a good first step to explore an idea > > Agreed, I thank you, and some others, for explainig and discussing the > ideia, but I also I note the first 3 out of 4 replies: > > «If you want to use darktable "intuitively" you need to learn about > darktables pipeline...» > (i.e., the users' intuition is wrong, DT's way is the only right way. > Also the person replying "knows" the user has not learnt about the > pipeline) > > «Then use another tool.» > «No, but people who understand what they do.» > (i.e. people asking for something are clueless) > > «why don't you make a feature request accompanied with your explanation > so it is understood?» > (i.e. shut up, don't discuss it here) > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > 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
