What’s clear though is the vast majority of what I like to do to pictures is readily available here, and actually some of the automation looks to be even more useful than what exists today in LR. The challenge I have is that I’m so used to the “Lightroom way” of doing things, that any deviation from this feels wrong somehow. Version 3.0.0 just came out so I had a quick poke around.
#DARKTABLE 2019 SOFTWARE#
Having such a healthy community around a piece of open source software is usually a good sign. Darktableĭarktable is both open source and apparently sworn-by for a lot of people who are a lot more serious about photography than me. Looking around, the obvious competitor that meets my needs of “don’t be locked in” is Darktable. So while I’m happy in general to give someone money for this problem, I’m much less happy about being locked in. Given Adobe’s not exactly got a brilliant history with screwing their paying customers over (they’re practically inviting people to pirate their stuff) it’s only a matter of time before they screw me over as well. The edits can be exported as XMP sidecars, sure, but the data is proprietary and the ability for another application to be able to faithfully reproduce those changes is essentially zero. On the other (and this bit is important), there’s no way to extract images and their edits accurately into a different application.
Now, on the one hand, £10pm for software to manage all my photos is a bargain. Adobe have also seemed to realise this and now it’s no longer possible to buy Lightroom as a one-off purchase, you must buy a “subscription” instead. Now that phone cameras are absurdly good, I’ve got multiple sources for photos as well - it’s not just stuff I’ve captured when I happen to be holding a big Canon thing.īut over the years, I’ve started to realise that locking such a valuable resource into a single application and vendor is probably not the best idea.
#DARKTABLE 2019 ARCHIVE#
For me (as I imagine it is for a lot of people), this photo archive is probably the best documentation of “what I’ve done”, “where I’ve been” and “who I’ve done those things with”. Over 13 years (!), Lightroom has been brilliantly useful in letting me catalogue, search, export and generally manage the collection. I got my first proper camera (a Canon 350D) back in 2006, and since then my photo collection has grown to ~45k images. It was a brilliant, slightly expensive piece of software to help manage and process RAW image files off cameras. Migrating Adobe Lightroom to Darktable 31 December 2019 Back in the olden days
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