@jason and @pascal,
I agree, it is a marvellous piece of work, unbelievable really and I
love it but not use it as much as I would like to. And I would never
recommend it to friends :(. Even for me as a freelance photographer (20+
years of experience) it feels like it is made for techies, not (yet)
intuitive enough. For example the filmic module is so full of options
and sliders and words that are not obvious/comprehensible for most
people and even I have much difficulty in understanding what they do. I
just start using the sliders and always slide in the wrong direction at
first ;). My feeling says that when I see a slider that says 'White
relative exposure' I want to drag it to the right to get more white
tones, but the opposite happens.
I'm not a fan of Windows, Adobe and LR, but I still use the latter
because it is intuitive. With a few sliders I get almost exactly what I
want with 99% of my images and very fast (even though LR lacks speed and
I don't like the catalogs/collections system of it). That is why most
people still use LR I think. It has sliders that are called White Tones,
Black Tones, Highlights, Texture, all very clear in what they do and how
to use them. If DT wants to drag a lot of people to its open source
alternative, imho it needs to be simplified. LR lacks power and options
for more adjustments, but what it does it does quite nicely. Highlight
and shadow recovery always looks very natural, whereas in DT highlight
recovery is not good enough and shadow recovery can look very harsh and
artificial.
But... I'm really a fan of DT and hope I can use it on a daily basis and
convert my newest pc back into a Linux machine, because LR is the only
reason I bought it (my other Linux computer is for webdesign work).
Could have been Capture One or one of the other options as well by the
way, what I'm trying to say is not LR specific.
So, a lot of love and admiration for DT, but some suggestions for the
future :).
Jack
Op 19-08-2020 om 10:00 schreef Pascal Obry:
Hi Jason,
Overall impressions: a worthy improvement (thanks, developers!). I am
going to adjust to a new workflow with darktable 3.2, but it is not a
big adjustment. I think overall darktable has come very far since the
early days, and it is hard to believe such a program is free
software.
Nice to read such message among all the bug reports. This amazing piece
of work is maintained by many talented people accros the planet. The
best we can do to keep our freedom against the big players trying to
lock us down in their world which ressemble to a golden jail.
Cheers,
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