True Terry, I think I can agree with everything you wrote :), including
the sometimes necessary combo DT + Gimp. Sometimes I was so involved
with an image in DT, editing much too long, that when I saw the exported
image I was not satisfied at all. Opening it in Gimp and applying auto
levels and the image was finished ;). Working too long on an image and
you can get detached from it and they don't feel 'real' anymore. That
can also be the danger of too many tools. A picture a lot of times
should not be 'perfect' to keep it alive and real.
Op 19-02-2021 om 15:28 schreef Terry Pinfold:
For me the ability to do localised adjustments with the drawn masks
using the paths tool and the ability to then feather this mask to get
invisible transitions is what wins me over to Darktable. I am really
impressed with Rawttherapee but the lack of localised adjustments is a
huge negative for me. I also never bag out Lightroom. Lightroom provides
a very fast and very good photo editing tool that is well suited to a
studio, wedding, portrait photographer who needs excellent results
quickly because time is money. On the other hand I find darktable is
more of an artist's tool giving so much control over the image
processing, but it takes effort to master and learn. The beauty of
Lightroom is a few simple sliders to apply effects such as brighten
shadows, clarity etc. I would never want Darktable to become this simple
a program, but Lightroom is what suits so many people well. For me it is
not a competition for which is the best program, but recognising what
each program excels at. I even find that I often have to finish off
images using GIMP after Darktable. I really like the way levels work in
GIMP and the healing tool in GIMP is excellent when restoring scanned
images with lots of spots. The retouch module in Darktable wins out when
you have huge damaged areas that need repairing, but can be slow when
you have numerous small spots. In my ideal universe I would love to see
the talent of the Rawtherapee developers combined with the talents of
Darktable developers. So many good ideas in both of those programs, but
as I said the localised adjustments is the big one for me and I am also
really impressed with how Filmic allows me to create the 'picture' or
'color' style of image that I want. I don't want to replicate the camera
JPG look or the Lightroom look. I want the look that I want.
On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 18:46, Kneops <kne...@gmail.com
<mailto:kne...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Funny, because when I used DT as my main raw editor I used drawn
masks a
lot (!), but since I have a LR license and noticed how well and fast
sharpness, detail, highlight and shadow recovery work, I have never
missed it. ;)
Op 18-02-2021 om 22:50 schreef Terry Pinfold:
> I own licences for Lightroom and the whole suite of Adobe
products. I
> choose Darktable as my preferred editing program because it is so
good.
> I especially love the drawn masks option using the path tool and
then
> the ability to feather the result after the fact to get invisible
> transitions.
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