Hi all,
I have a fairly large collection of images stored in Aperture 3 today, and
am contemplating moving to Darktable. Mainly because I don't like being
locked into an Apple tool, and I'm excited to see an open source tool that
looks like it should work for 'real' photo mgmt.
I'd consider myself at the 'Pro' end of the hobbyist spectrum - I'm a
photographer and digital artist who has had a number of shows and sold
various pieces (You can see my work at synergisticimages.ca).
My workflow is relatively simple - I need tags/labels/folders, ratings,
adjustments, etc. It looks like Darktable provides most of what I need
--- although I see that it doesn't yet have a 'healing brush' adjustment.
I use that to fix minor issues, dust on the sensor, that kind of thing
occasionally --- although I can probably work around that.
My bigger concern is that I have a pretty large library of images -
probably 50,000 images across two Aperture libraries. A fairly large
number of those images are raw images that I've adjusted with Apertures
tools - exposure and levels will be the most common, but I occasionally
tweak other things like white balance, etc.
Sorry for all the exposition, but I wanted to give the background for 2
questions:
1: Has anyone out there moved from using Aperture in a serious way to
Darktable? If so, what was the experience like?
2: Any thoughts on how to move my aperture 3 photo libraries to Darktable?
I'm guessing that the images themselves should translate easily enough -
but my big concern is the existing adjustments I have in aperture.
Assuming I can get the adjustment info out of Aperture (I haven't confirmed
that yet), is there anyway to build a similar adjustment in Darktable via
APIs?
Any other advice or thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks
Warren
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Warren Baird - Photographer and Digital Artist
http://www.synergisticimages.ca
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