Darktable has liberated me from the the threat of Adobe's subscription model. I had a two month period of bereavement recently and did not take any new photos. We all like to have a clear idea how much something is going to cost, rather than a never ending rental, which continues even if I do not use a product for several months. The key value for me is, for thousands of people, for whom taking and editing photos is a hobby, its difficult to justify the subscription only model of Adobe. In spite of this, I wish there was some way to give feedback to the developers of darktable, and thank them for making such a great tool available. In a way it was a painful lesson, so in future I will do a thorough backup before any such "upgrades", so I can rollback successfully if this is needed. Was a bit frustrating cos I seem to have lost a fair number of picture edits, cos after upgrading to 3.2.1 and making changes, when I went back to 3.0.2, that version did not recognise the new version xmp's which had been created via edits using 3.2.1. So when I faced the issues with 3.2.1 I reverted to the VGA and the integrated Intel GPU, but do not recall any improvements.
What's so interesting is that about the time, I upgraded to version 3.2.1, I also installed the latest NVidia drivers, and switched my monitor from the integrated Intel GPU connected via VGA, to reconnect with my monitor via a DVI cable, through an NVIDIA Quadro K600, which had been lying there unused.
there seems to be no competition in payware, to the Adobe kingdom. I do recall in the old days Coreldraw for graphics, which was such a great tool, but it seems to have disappeared into oblivion. Kind unfortunate that in the commercial category - Photoshop and Lightroom are a bit of a monpoly. So the work flow would be do your primary transforms from RAW in darktable (which was what brought me to darktable in the 1st place) and then export as tiff in the highest quality, and then edit further in Gimp.
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cutting into territory that is the preserve of Photoshop, with the inclusion of all manner of masks, which can be used in almost every module.Īnd for anyon eneeding more extensive edits, maybe Gimp would be the next place to go, and this would really only be for professional proto-retouchers, who want an open source alternative to Photoshop, not that I have attempted to use Gimp. IMHO, its already far more advanced than Lightroom, far more. I am ok with the darktable 3.0.2, it gives me far more power to transform images than what I need.
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