For what it's worth ... I used to be an enthusiastic LR user. In fact, I used LR when it was a free program developed by a small band of enthusiasts. I can't even remember if it was called LR before Adobe bought it, but the point is that I'm a very long time user of LR in all its incarnations. Loved it. Then I switched to Linux and had to work with a box to accomodate Windows and LR. That became a hassle, so I looked for an alternative and guess what came on the scene. Tentatively, I downloaded DT and was amazed to find that it happily opened my LR files and more often than not they were as I had edited them. Not always, but you always get interesting results from translating a book, say, from one language to another. So that sometimes gave me an unexpected alternative edit to consider. Sometimes better, sometimes not.
I confess that I decided the best way to learn is to play. Just use it and see what happens. You can't break it, but you'll find out quickly what you can and can't do. Then if all else fails, read the instructions. So that's how I learned to use DT in a very short time. There's still a huge amount it can do that I don't use, and I'll work that out when I need it. In other words, for me DT is highly intuitive and easy to use, perhaps because I don't treat it as if it's LR and then feel disappointed when it doesn't behave like LR. I dropped LR some 6 years ago, maybe more. And I'm a professional photographer, recently retired now, specialising in architectural work where precise rendering is important, and images for book jackets where creativity and atmosphere are important. DT copes with both these extremes far better than LR ever did. So my heartfelt thanks and admiration to the amazing work and dedication of the individuals who create this wonderful program simply because they want to. Well done guys! Girts Gailans 2minty studio -------- Original Message -------- On 24 Aug 2020, 21:14, Jesus Arocho wrote: > Agreed. I have been using DT for several years. Last year I purchased LR for > several months and was lost; dropped the sub and continued on DT. I compile > from the latest dev branch on ubuntu and on a small Windows machine for > travel (laptop) is heavier. > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 12:55 PM Pascal Obry <pas...@obry.net> wrote: > >> Le lundi 24 août 2020 à 11:54 -0400, Jason Polak a écrit : >>> I wonder though if some of that is not the psychology of used first >>> vs. second, though. >> >> I think that's exactly that indeed. People don't want to change their >> mind and learn new things. >> >> On my side, I've been a Lr user for 5 years+ when I decided to switch >> to dt. I did develop only one picture with it for each batch developed >> with Lr. I was far more productive with Lr, found dt more difficult to >> grasp and I had too many pictures to develop to switch yet. But I had >> the strong motivation to leave Adobe product for good. After many >> months working this way I felt more confortable. >> >> Now what about my current edits in Lr? Okay, I decided to step in and >> do the Lr conversion module which is integrated in dt. All my tags, >> color labels, stars and some devs can be converted with it. >> >> Almost one year, yes one year, after trying dt for the first time I >> decided to fully switch to it. >> >> So people trying it, not reading manuals, not looking at the excellent >> Youtube tutorials around and wanting to prepare an exhibition or nice >> gallery won't switch at all. This has been said again and again, dt is >> not Lr and you cannot just switch to it without reviewing your full >> workflow and investing quite some time on it. >> >> My 2 cents! >> >> -- >> Pascal Obry / Magny Les Hameaux (78) >> >> The best way to travel is by means of imagination >> >> http://www.obry.net >> >> gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key F949BD3B >> >> ____________________________________________________________________________ >> darktable user mailing list >> to unsubscribe send a mail to >> [darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org](mailto:darktable-user%2bunsubscr...@lists.darktable.org) > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.or
