Hi Warren, > 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.
Darktable has this, it is called spots. > 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? I'm about to move from Lightroom. > 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? I've been working on a Lightroom to Darktable import module as I'm in the same situation as you. This can't be generic as most tools have different rendering so every change in a tool must be "calibrated" to map in the other tool. Currently I have most of the Lightroom development data moved to Darktable. Back to your request. I've done that by reading the Lr .xmp sidecar. Is Aperture producing such files? Is the data there easily readable? If so, look at lightroom.c in Git master to see how this is done. Pascal. -- Pascal Obry / Magny Les Hameaux (78) The best way to travel is by means of imagination http://v2p.fr.eu.org http://www.obry.net gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key F949BD3B ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
