I’m more or less half a year working with dt. I must confess that I’ve listened for hours and hours to video’s mostly Boris Hajdukovic’s (@s7habo) and want to express my gratitude for them. And happily I still have a lot more to watch and learn. Together with reading a lot in the manual, set to the processing modules, I started to feel very much at ease with dt quite swiftly.
What I experience is with darktable I feel much more ‘at the helm’ then I did with previous software used. Changes to a picture come more natural / intuitive so it feels to me. So kudos too for the developers and everyone thinking about how to bring dt further.
Here is an old picture I just developed. Feel free to do with it as you please and show how you see this scene.
I just want to echo your sentiments: darktable does indeed make you feel more at the helm, because it really exposes everything rather than just the basic higher-level adjustments.
I’d say it’s in my top five user-end software programs of all time in the history of computing. (By user-end I mean not OS or some low level thing.)
@Jetze I have several other image editing software programs, and most of the times it takes a few minutes less to use them to accomplish a look, but there is something about darktable that keeps me using it instead. I definitely like the feeling of being in charge and making purposeful edits (even though they might not be perfect edits) that I don’t get with other software.
No, no fire, just bare ground, I do like your contrasty bluish interpretation.
Somehow I cannot believe you were lost … I very much like the ways you develop pictures though. Quite often a very nice twist and going just a bit further. Inspiring! Thanks for joining.
Exactly that, thanks for playing along. This picture was only an excuse for conveying my thankfulness for dt and all persons - like you - involved.
Exactly that, it is a pleasure to combine all tools - always having a choice which module to use and how to use it.
Yes! Joy is key!
Thanks for that one, I still have to find out about those presets.
Very nice!
Yes. For learning purposes I have re-developed a lot of my pictures in dt. And I have to confess they come out much nicer… That is not because the ‘old’ software can’t do good development. It is partly because I have changed over time but much more because dt invites to do it yourself and thus connect to your own feeling about a photo.
Given the strong L shape of thee root, I focused on a more graphic B&W version (unfortunately, the most prominent, bright part of the root seems slightly out-of-focus). To offset the heavy draw of the image towards the lower right, I created a bright spot in the upper left (thinking of Kandinsky’s ‘Point and Line to Plane’)
I very much like the ways you develop pictures though. Quite often a very nice twist and going just a bit further. Inspiring! Thanks for joining.
