How good is Darktable as a tool for a non professional simply looking to organize all their photos? Maybe apply some automated improvements, and do some deduping?
I copy the photos from my camera to my PC. I then use rapid-photo-downloader to bulk rename and move the files to where I store all my DT files. I then import the directory using DT.
DT does have some DAM capabilities (tagging, etc). Just don't use it to copy/rename/move.
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How good is Darktable as a tool for a non professional simply looking to organize all their photos? Maybe apply some automated improvements, and do some deduping?
Although I and many others use DT to organize photos, the developers are fairly open about not wanting DT to do too much of that.
https://www.darktable.org/about/faq/#faq-rename-files https://www.darktable.org/about/faq/#faq-filemanager
They even make it their April Fool's joke:
https://www.darktable.org/2011/04/file-management/
What do DT users use for file/digital asset management?
Can't speak for others, but what I do:
I copy the photos from my camera to my PC. I then use rapid-photo-downloader to bulk rename and move the files to where I store all my DT files. I then import the directory using DT.
DT does have some DAM capabilities (tagging, etc). Just don't use it to copy/rename/move.
This is pretty much my workflow too, manually copy from camera to PC, then import them into Darktable.
Edit and delete from within darktable.