Some months ago, I (DL) downloaded Darktable Version 2.4.4, installed and have used it on a limited basis primarily due to lack of time to devote to learning it well enough to "comfortably" use it. Some people need tools only available in Photoshop, so for them there is no real choice. With the upcoming 1.7 updates all Affinity products can do things Adobe can only dream of.īut still Adobe has it's merrits too.although being sluggish. Since when did Adobe implement user input?! Serif wants to make the best product possible, helped by the community giving hints and tips wich they implement. They should completey rewrite Photoshop from the ground up, but that is costing time and money, but never yields in the best product if you don't. I read that Serif had rewritten several modules because it didn't perform as it should. Instead of Serif or other competition rewriting stuff if it's not up to notch they implement/re-use old code wich is slow. But you have to pay for the whole suite, for 60 percent of the tools I don't use.Īdobe has a problem with it's old code. I try to do more with GIMP, Affinity Trinity(thus Photo, Designer and Publisher) and darktable.Now if Adobe was offering these 3 products for a decent price I might reconsider Also using Adobe products. I stopped buying Adobe products after cs6. Yes, i read alot about that on this forum. Yup, it makes sense to purchase at least a good mid-range or top end graphics card as it speeds up things considerably in certain cases. The PC forum is constantly full of belly-aching about poor Lightroom performance and the general lack of GPU support in Adobe photo software.īut yeah, if I had known about darktable when I bought my laptop, I would have paid extra for GTX 1060 instead of 1050. Most editors have decent graphics cards in their setup and helps in speeding up these tasks.Most modern editors use both CPU and GPU power. Also I'm not sure about the performance of big edits like cloning out power lines. Maybe it already was, but Lightroom sharpening isn't as complete as Photoshop. It's getting to the point where a bitmap editor is unnecessary. It really is now turning into a serious competitor to Lightroom and a great companion for Affinity photo, for example. The ability to guide the blurring of the blend mask, to select an object precisely with minimal effort.A complete rework of the color balance module, which can now be seen as a color-aware variant of levels, and can do most adjustments automatically thanks to new color picker buttons.A new filmic module, able to manage most aspects of the tone of an image in a single module.A new retouch module, similar to the spot removal module with smart cloning (“heal”) and ability to act on each level of detail individually.The announcement and release notes for this new release can be found here. 2018 has been a year of renewal for darktable, with many major features introduced by recent contributors. Following the tradition, darktable 2.6 was released for Christmas.
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