On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Warren Baird <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a fairly large collection of images stored in Aperture 3 today, and > am contemplating moving to Darktable. Mainly because I don't like being > locked into an Apple tool, and I'm excited to see an open source tool that > looks like it should work for 'real' photo mgmt. > > I'd consider myself at the 'Pro' end of the hobbyist spectrum - I'm a > photographer and digital artist who has had a number of shows and sold > various pieces (You can see my work at synergisticimages.ca). > > 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. > > 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? > > 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?
All RAW converters use fundamentally different ways to process the image data (including basic RAW tonality/color interpretation, so "edits" simply don't transfer 1:1. So getting near pixel perfect imports is pretty much infeasible. Working up code to get even ballpark matches for most images is a boatload of work. The recommended approach would be the export all of your edits from Aperture to high quality JPEGs, and keep those around. After importing your RAWs into Darktable, and you want to edit an image you've previously processed, you can either do any edits off of the Aperture exported JPEG, _OR_ re-do all the work on the RAW in Darktable using the exported JPEG as a reference. Regards, Pascal de Bruijn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
