Darktable 4.6 Open-Source RAW Image Editor Released, Here's What's New

Axisential , 8 months ago

I really, really want to like Darktable, mostly because of the name lol. I must’ve tried it 8 or 10 times over the years, but I just can’t get my head around it. Something about the design language or the UI or something just doesn’t click for me and I can’t get decent images out of it. So I keep going back to Rawtherapee, even though I’d rather not…

manos_de_papel , 8 months ago

Have you read the basic editing section in the manual?

You can share a raw image at discuss.pixls.us and people will edit it and post the sidecar so you can see their edits.

RawTherapee is also good tho.

Axisential , 8 months ago

Yes, and I understand the process pretty well I think, as well as what I’m striving to output (long time Lightroom user). But the DT just doesn’t respond how I expect it to, with unexpected results. Frustrating.

Wasn’t aware of the pixls site though; I like that idea!

manos_de_papel , 8 months ago

If you expected to apply your lightroom workflow, then you will be frustrated, yes.

Sina , 8 months ago

Personally i’m okay with the UI, but the default rendering is often so bad that I have to “fix” every single image. To me it’s either Raw therapee or just reboot into Windows …

manos_de_papel , 8 months ago

You should make a style to apply that brings you (close) to what you want. Out of the box, dakrtable shows you a minimally processed image. Its your job to take it from there.

Sina , 8 months ago

It shows me a very wrongly processed image. It was better when I used Fuji, but even then it was never anywhere close to what an unprocessed bland raw file should like.

manos_de_papel , 8 months ago

This is too vague to provide any further guidance. Again, darktable shows you a minimally processed raw image by default. You can get a good looking rendering by adding a few more modules in a style and applying that style by default.