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The ND filter is a bad joke and the only local adjustment you can make at the moment. That's not the best foundation for developing a full-day wedding shoot. After several adjustments, the program will take its time to render your latest shift of a slider. Yes, it’s only a raw developer, but I also need to find my raw files.įinally, the biggest downside of Rawtherapee is its speed. I also miss the ability to organize and tag my photographs within the software. In my last article, I stated that there are some hints that local adjustments are probably coming soon, but they are not ready to be published yet. Well done, RawTherapee.Īs much as I like shifting sliders or adjusting my overall exposure and contrast settings, I do miss the ability to apply local adjustments. It doesn’t matter if we are talking about open source or commercial products. User experience and intuitive interfaces are the key features for any software, at least to me. Instead of taking days to understand the program, most of its basic functions were clear at first sight.
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The histogram and buttons work well, but they need an update in my opinion. I have the feeling that wherever I shifted one slider in Lightroom, I need to shift three sliders in Darktable: make an adjustment, counterbalance it, and soften the effect. Still, there are far too many panels and sliders.
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Once you find a suitable workflow, however, this program will help you gain full control of your image.
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There is simply too much going on in the software - too much to discover, too much to consider. Still, I found the program really hard to understand. Of course, a few sessions of editing with Darktable couldn’t replace my years of experience with Adobe. With little or no expectations, my first impression still was disappointing. But as I wanted to write a fair review of the program, I had to be patient. In the beginning, it was really hard to deal with new concepts of editing and to not have all those shortcuts which are written deeply into my muscle memory. I really like the path tools in Darktable.ĭarktable was the first software I used after a decade of experience with Adobe. However, you can get a month's free trial.Great design and full control. You can't rent Lightroom for a month - you can pay monthly, but the minimum contract is a year. I suggest Victoria's free ebook from here: Personally, I found learning Lightroom easy - but you have to understand how it hangs together. I use mine a lot when sharing photos on the fly. I would also look at the in camera RAW converters, especially when on vacation. However, the UI is a very personal preference and varies significantly.for example, most people think Silkypix has a terrible UI, but I like it a lot. Personally, in terms of ease of use, I would rank the RAW converters I have tried as follows:Ģ through 5 allow local adjustments, which I consider to be a significant advantage, but other than that, I find them pretty equally capable. Lightroom will by far have the most resources but I would pick the RAW converter you enjoy using the most.you will want to use it and will become good at it quicker. The user interfaces of the different converters is very different.
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I would download a free trial of a few and see which one you like to "play" in the best.
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I've spent the past year trying out different RAW converters.they are all capable provided you know how to use them. Or maybe I just need to pay for a month of Lightroom and decide if I want to make the investment. You can essentially write programs in Excel, do all sorts of modeling, etc. I can write formulas to get the results I want, etc. It is a straightforward for working with data. However I would like to be able to get a decent improvement out of my pictures without having to spend 40+ hours to get down the basics. Certainly not expecting to become an expert without putting in the time. I am going to the Galapagos Islands and Ecuador for vacation and I was looking for a relatively easy to use package to get the most out of my photos.
Then I saw RawTherapee mentioned on this forum and thought I would give it a try. I wanted to see what I could do with Lightroom Mobile. I was simply using the picture from my mobile phone as something to play with. Post processing will for pictures taken on my DSLR and my Sony RX100v.