Darktable 3.8 Released For This Great Open-Source Alternative To Adobe Lightroom

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Darktable 3.8 Released For This Great Open-Source Alternative To Adobe Lightroom

Just in time for dealing with any holiday photos, Darktable 3.8 is out today as the latest shiny feature update to this open-source RAW photography post-production software...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Darktable-3.8-Released

[rene]

updated: https://t2sde.org/packages/darktable

[Hans Bull]

Great release. Diffuse & Sharpen is is a really nice Christmas gift.

[direc85]

I just now learned that Darktable exists..! It looks great, can't wait to try it out!

[PublicNuisance]

For those that enjoy the software and want to support it you may want to consider donating to Aurélien Pierre. He contributes to Darktable full-time and relies on donations to do so.

https://liberapay.com/aurelienpierre/

[MadeUpName]

CR3 support is huge since Canon cameras have been using it for years. I stopped using Darktable because it didn't support any of my newer cameras. There seem to be a number of other good changes coming as well. I can't wait for the distros to package it so I can try it out. Congrats to the devs for getting it out.

[caligula]

CR3 support is huge since Canon cameras have been using it for years. I stopped using Darktable because it didn't support any of my newer cameras. There seem to be a number of other good changes coming as well. I can't wait for the distros to package it so I can try it out. Congrats to the devs for getting it out.

Might not be sufficient. Lightroom and other commercial products are 10 years ahead open source alternatives.

[MadeUpName]

Might not be sufficient. Lightroom and other commercial products are 10 years ahead open source alternatives.

They were on CR3 support. But other than that where is their 10 year lead. I have tried the all mighty lightroom and find it inferior to Darktable. To put it another way I am a professional photographer and there is nothing I need to do that can not be done using open source software. At this point any issues aren't with the tools, they are with the the artist.

[ServerGarbage]

I didn't knew Darktable existed. Just in time for the purchase of my Sony Nex-5 for botanical photography. I will look at giving Aurelien Pierre some money, i think full time indie open source developers are a fundamental pillar for open source. That open source enormous companies benefit from...

[bug77]

They were on CR3 support. But other than that where is their 10 year lead. I have tried the all mighty lightroom and find it inferior to Darktable. To put it another way I am a professional photographer and there is nothing I need to do that can not be done using open source software. At this point any issues aren't with the tools, they are with the the artist.

There's U-Point. But that's about patents, not about open vs closed source. I know you can do what U-Point does in Darktable, but with U-Point it's just so much easier.
Since Nikon killed of NX2, when I won;t be able to use it, I'll probably go Darktable. I did a comparison of NX2 vs Lightroom once and I got better results in NX2. (Doesn't mean Lightroom sucks, there must be a reason why so many people use it, it means I was better served elsewhere.)