I personally use Rawtherapee which seems more advanced(but a little more difficult to use for beginners) than Darktable. Ιs there any reason to use Darktable apart from ease of use?
I haven't used Rawtherapee much. I liked the creative opportunities it offered.
Darktable's workflow better met my needs at the time I was picking between them. In particular, Darktable was better for processing a few hundred images in a couple of hours right after shooting. Darktable's integrated image management was the key difference. Darktable's ability to offload processing onto GPU's was also a factor. GPU's make Darktable much much faster than without.
Rawtherapee is what I use too. I like tools that I can just point at a random directory, and get to work on. There are a lot of photography/image-management tools which insist on importing images into a "library", which ruins my filing-system.
I've got a photoshoot booked for tomorrow, so I'll try this out and see how it compares. (An average shoot for me results in 200-400 CR2 images to examine/reject/process.)
Just based on looking at the sites, Rawtherapee appears to focus on RAW "developing", while Darktable appears to also do photo management and Lightroom-style non-destructive editing.
RawTherapee does photo management and is non-destructive as well.
Darktable supports masks and parametric masks for almost all operations. RawTherapee on the other hand has a wider range of tools and support for profiles and raw formats.
RawPedia's "Features" page (http://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/Features) doesn't mention photo management, and I didn't find anything by searching for "catalog" (Lightroom's name for a collection of managed photos), etc. It'd be great if the site had more info about that aspect of the app.
The equivalent functionality is the File Browser tab when you open RawTherape. You can filter images, assign ranks/color labels, create queues, do batch edits, assign a dark frame, etc etc.
It doesn't have "collections" or "catalogs" per se, if that's what you're specifically looking for.
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I personally use Rawtherapee which seems more advanced(but a little more difficult to use for beginners) than Darktable. Ιs there any reason to use Darktable apart from ease of use?
I haven't used Rawtherapee much. I liked the creative opportunities it offered.
Darktable's workflow better met my needs at the time I was picking between them. In particular, Darktable was better for processing a few hundred images in a couple of hours right after shooting. Darktable's integrated image management was the key difference. Darktable's ability to offload processing onto GPU's was also a factor. GPU's make Darktable much much faster than without.
Rawtherapee is what I use too. I like tools that I can just point at a random directory, and get to work on. There are a lot of photography/image-management tools which insist on importing images into a "library", which ruins my filing-system.
I've got a photoshoot booked for tomorrow, so I'll try this out and see how it compares. (An average shoot for me results in 200-400 CR2 images to examine/reject/process.)
Just based on looking at the sites, Rawtherapee appears to focus on RAW "developing", while Darktable appears to also do photo management and Lightroom-style non-destructive editing.
RawTherapee does photo management and is non-destructive as well.
Darktable supports masks and parametric masks for almost all operations. RawTherapee on the other hand has a wider range of tools and support for profiles and raw formats.
Helpful, thanks!
RawPedia's "Features" page (http://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/Features) doesn't mention photo management, and I didn't find anything by searching for "catalog" (Lightroom's name for a collection of managed photos), etc. It'd be great if the site had more info about that aspect of the app.
The equivalent functionality is the File Browser tab when you open RawTherape. You can filter images, assign ranks/color labels, create queues, do batch edits, assign a dark frame, etc etc.
It doesn't have "collections" or "catalogs" per se, if that's what you're specifically looking for.