This is the software that enabled me to completely ditch Windows and Adobe. Thank you!
I tried rawtherapee but it never clicked.
Awesome!
While this release doesn’t seem to add a huge amount of new stuff on the surface, the devs focused more on usability, performance and smaller improvements, which were all much needed.
Please correct me if I’m wrong and I oversaw something huge.
I’m really excited to see how the performance will improve on my shitty laptop. While the program itself shouldn’t take too many resources to run, it always felt barely usable on that device, and on my gaming PC, it never used the GPU. I’ve often heard many complaints about how Lightroom or Rawtherapee for example run way smoother than Darktable.
What change are you the most exited about?
When I tried darktable as a complete begginer I was completely lost and ended up learning rawtherapee instead. Would you say it changed now?
Darktable seems more popular than rawtherapee, but is there a big difference feature-wise?
You do need to figure out which modules to use and how to use some of them, its not too difficult when you have all the right modules.
A lot of the modules are old/redundant/deprecated, but still there for legacy reasons. They really clutter up the ui
Darktable developers pride themselves for their non-destructive processing pipeline and use it as an excuse for how quirky and inflexible their UX is. I believe they are highly competent on the highly technical bits that ultimately very few people see or understand. Personally I can use it to an extent if I unlearn what other software have taught me over decades of UX conventions.
One of the developers got sick of the UX issues and forked DT.
I only use this stuff occasionally. Is there really a big improvement in ansel over darktable? Or is the ansel dev just super angry for no reason?
