On Wed, 2021-02-17 at 09:34 +0100, Kneops wrote: > I started this topic/conversation about the GUI, but at first it was > just a question, if the order could be changed to make it feel more > logical and pleasant to me to work with. I now understand the > reasoning > behind this and that it should not be changed. But underneath there > is > more I must admit. > > Many friends who are photographers, amateur and professional, I have > pointed towards Linux because I love it and never want to go back to > Windows and Apple. They have mastered Gimp and love that program too, > so > they never use Photoshop anymore. But they never mastered any raw > editor > on Linux. All admit DT is extremely powerfull and the best one > available > for Linux, but all stick to one of the (payed) alternatives on > Windows > or Apple because they find them more intuitive and quicker and very > visual. They (and I) don't think in numbers, ranges and curves, but > in > light, shadow, sharpness, blur, color, contrast, texture. LR for > example > works as an extension of that mind and it named all tools to resemble > what the user 'feels' that has to be done to create a good image. I > think that is why it is so popular. > > I don't want to say LR is better than DT, absolutely not (!), but I'm > a > trained photographer and after working with DT on and off for about 3 > years now, I still don't manage to get the results I want, and if I > do > it takes much more work. 'Then pick another tool and stop > complaining' > is a reply I sometimes get, and that is true too ;). The thing is I > regret that there is no real alternative to all the Windows/Apple > programs that could move more people over to Linux. So for now my > friends keep working on their Windows machines and I still have two > computers I have to switch between. One with LR and Capture One, and > my > Linux pc for everything else. Meanwhile I hope for some other open > source raw editor emerging on the Linux platform and I bravely keep > on > trying to master DT because I want to get rid of that Windows machine > :). > > > > > > > > Op 16-02-2021 om 23:31 schreef Andrew Greig: > > > > In a similar fashion if you learn the order of progression of the > > tools > > in Darktable, your work will become more efficient and more > > pleasant. I > > have seen edits presented on YouTube which involve around 30 > > modules, > > apparently common in landscape photography, whereas I use around 6 > > modules as a rule, I am a studio photographer and I work on getting > > as > > much right as I can through metering and exposing correctly. Is > > there > > more I could do? Sure, and I do learn incrementally, but just what > > I need. > _____________________________________________________________________ > _______ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org >
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