I’m growing more and more impressed with its capabilities the more I use it! Wrapping my head around its approach to masking, and its “scene referred pipeline” took some time, but now that I’m getting the hang of it, I think I can say I genuinely prefer it to Lightroom.

Combined with digiKam, which is excellent for photo collection management, I’m a very happy photographer :)

  • @blackstratA
    -3•1 month ago

    I recently picked up photography a bit more seriously again having used Nikon Capture NX 2 for years. I tried all the linux and FOSS options but I ended up buying DXO Photolab 7 and found it far superior for my needs. I’ve had to setup a dual boot system to get it to work but it’s definitely worth it. Dark table is good, but it’s a long way off the commercial offerings in terms of ease of use and image quality.

      • @blackstratA
        1•1 month ago

        In terms of noise reduction which greatly affects image quality it is nowhere near the big commercial players.

        • @sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today
          4•1 month ago

          Have you tried the “Denoise (profiled)” feature? It applies auto de-noising per your camera model and metadata quite nicely. You can then fine tune it after enabling the feature.

        • AdaOP
          2•1 month ago

          I’ve found the profiled noise reduction in Darkroom to do what I need. I’ve not noticed any significant difference between it and the results I was getting from Lightroom.

          • @blackstratA
            1•1 month ago

            That may be so, but Lightroom is not the class leader in noise reduction. There are other programs out there that do a much better job

            • AdaOP
              1•1 month ago

              Cool, but I don’t need class leader… I need “works on my linux box without loss of functionality compared to my previous Windows workflow”