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Darktable 5.0.0 released (github.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Darktable is WAY better than RawTherapee. Like, lightyears ahead.

I don't want to talk badly about RT, but it's just trash imo. Development of RT has pretty much stopped, while DT has a huge community and many developers. It has become the only FOSS alternative to stuff like Lightroom.

The only issue I have with DT is that:

There's way too much stuff going on for a beginner, and even with some experience, most features are too hidden due to clutter.
Some defaults are just badly set imo. For example, why do you not want lens correction and some other (neutral) stuff applied automatically?
Many modules are just redundant and should never be touched. There is soo much niche and legacy stuff nobody wants or needs, like 3 different white balance modules for example.

Great news, this preset fixes both of these issues!

It "removes" many of those unnecessary modules from your UI and applies some stuff already for you, which you would anyways, like said lens correction, so you can focus on the important stuff, like adjusting colors, contrasts, and more.

This preset should be the default imo, and it makes DT simple enough to use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thanks a lot for the presets, I'll give this another try.

But yeah you could have stopped at darktable being better without the "shit" part 😅