It then keeps a log of the changes you have made in a text file Secondly, some of us (me) are stuck in our ways when it comes to our methods of organisation and our workflow,Īnd we (I) don't like it when software wants to manage all of it.īetter yet, when you import images into Darktable's library (a big deal for those of us with tens or hundreds of thousands of photographs). First, it makes it much easier and faster to get started with it It'll happily work on a single folder, or even on a single photograph. It fits just fine into your current workflow, which is very important to me It doesn't insist that you use it to import and manage your entire photo library. If you wanted it to look like the camera thinks it should, you'd be shooting JPEGs! Might not exist for your camera, or they might not.ĭon't worry about the enhanced support too much just play with the colour until you get the results you want. "Enhanced support", which is to say with custom colour matrices to match the colour rendition of the camera, I haven't tried Darktable on either of these systems,īut it probably does not work as well on those systems as it does on Linux,ĭarktable should support raw files from just about every camera, from 1999's Nikon D1 on up.Īs with commercial software, it won't necessarily support it with the very latest cameras until Darktable has had a chance to catch up, unless your camera supports DNG.īlame the camera manufacturers for their silly protectionism, not Darktable. It allegedly works on Windows and on Macs. Oh well, it still performs well enough without GPU acceleration, Which doesn't support OpenCL as far as I know. My junk desktop's graphics card is a NVIDIA GT 710, Of course, the more RAM and processor horsepower you have, the better. or, indeed, even junky 2013 processors like mine which were far from top-of-the-range when new. Which is any processor that any sensible person today would be using The only absolute requirement is that your processor supports SSE2 instructions, I'm running Darktable on an i5-3350P junk desktop from hell with 8 gigabytes of RAM. It is the finest raw processing software anywhere in Linux-land.
Over the years, it has gone from a merely excellent piece of free softwareĪs I'm rewriting this, I've had to wipe out several screenfuls of complaints I used to have about it! I'm rewriting it in late 2021, and I am using version 3.8.0. Which is when I first wrote the page you are reading. I've been using it since version 1.0.4 (in the Year of our Lord 2012), I have loved Darktable for nine years now!
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