For me the ability to do localised adjustments with the drawn masks using the paths tool and the ability to then feather this mask to get invisible transitions is what wins me over to Darktable. I am really impressed with Rawttherapee but the lack of localised adjustments is a huge negative for me. I also never bag out Lightroom. Lightroom provides a very fast and very good photo editing tool that is well suited to a studio, wedding, portrait photographer who needs excellent results quickly because time is money. On the other hand I find darktable is more of an artist's tool giving so much control over the image processing, but it takes effort to master and learn. The beauty of Lightroom is a few simple sliders to apply effects such as brighten shadows, clarity etc. I would never want Darktable to become this simple a program, but Lightroom is what suits so many people well. For me it is not a competition for which is the best program, but recognising what each program excels at. I even find that I often have to finish off images using GIMP after Darktable. I really like the way levels work in GIMP and the healing tool in GIMP is excellent when restoring scanned images with lots of spots. The retouch module in Darktable wins out when you have huge damaged areas that need repairing, but can be slow when you have numerous small spots. In my ideal universe I would love to see the talent of the Rawtherapee developers combined with the talents of Darktable developers. So many good ideas in both of those programs, but as I said the localised adjustments is the big one for me and I am also really impressed with how Filmic allows me to create the 'picture' or 'color' style of image that I want. I don't want to replicate the camera JPG look or the Lightroom look. I want the look that I want.
On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 18:46, Kneops <[email protected]> wrote: > Funny, because when I used DT as my main raw editor I used drawn masks a > lot (!), but since I have a LR license and noticed how well and fast > sharpness, detail, highlight and shadow recovery work, I have never > missed it. ;) > > > Op 18-02-2021 om 22:50 schreef Terry Pinfold: > > I own licences for Lightroom and the whole suite of Adobe products. I > > choose Darktable as my preferred editing program because it is so good. > > I especially love the drawn masks option using the path tool and then > > the ability to feather the result after the fact to get invisible > > transitions. > -- ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
