I started this topic/conversation about the GUI, but at first it was
just a question, if the order could be changed to make it feel more
logical and pleasant to me to work with. I now understand the reasoning
behind this and that it should not be changed. But underneath there is
more I must admit.
Many friends who are photographers, amateur and professional, I have
pointed towards Linux because I love it and never want to go back to
Windows and Apple. They have mastered Gimp and love that program too, so
they never use Photoshop anymore. But they never mastered any raw editor
on Linux. All admit DT is extremely powerfull and the best one available
for Linux, but all stick to one of the (payed) alternatives on Windows
or Apple because they find them more intuitive and quicker and very
visual. They (and I) don't think in numbers, ranges and curves, but in
light, shadow, sharpness, blur, color, contrast, texture. LR for example
works as an extension of that mind and it named all tools to resemble
what the user 'feels' that has to be done to create a good image. I
think that is why it is so popular.
I don't want to say LR is better than DT, absolutely not (!), but I'm a
trained photographer and after working with DT on and off for about 3
years now, I still don't manage to get the results I want, and if I do
it takes much more work. 'Then pick another tool and stop complaining'
is a reply I sometimes get, and that is true too ;). The thing is I
regret that there is no real alternative to all the Windows/Apple
programs that could move more people over to Linux. So for now my
friends keep working on their Windows machines and I still have two
computers I have to switch between. One with LR and Capture One, and my
Linux pc for everything else. Meanwhile I hope for some other open
source raw editor emerging on the Linux platform and I bravely keep on
trying to master DT because I want to get rid of that Windows machine :).
Op 16-02-2021 om 23:31 schreef Andrew Greig:
In a similar fashion if you learn the order of progression of the tools
in Darktable, your work will become more efficient and more pleasant. I
have seen edits presented on YouTube which involve around 30 modules,
apparently common in landscape photography, whereas I use around 6
modules as a rule, I am a studio photographer and I work on getting as
much right as I can through metering and exposing correctly. Is there
more I could do? Sure, and I do learn incrementally, but just what I need.
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