DarkTable 2.2 RAW Digital Photography Program Released, Better OpenCL Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: DarkTable 2.2 RAW Digital Photography Program Released, Better OpenCL Support

This Christmas Eve if you have any RAW digital photographs you are looking to manage, the DarkTable 2.2.0 release is now available with many improvements since its 2.0 release...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DarkTable-2.2-Released

[BillT]

Darktable is an excellent program. I'm waiting for this release to arrive in the fedora update tesing repo. I believe it has already been submitted to bodhi.

[Redi44]

The best photo editing program out there.

[jktjkt]

The correct spelling of the SW's name is "darktable". Using "DarkTable" is just incorrect.

[BillBroadley]

Can anyone compare darktable to digikam?

[BillT]

darktable vs digikam isnt a valid comparison. You would want to compare it against raw therapee or adobe lightroom.

[kayosiii]

Digikam is much more geared towards being that application that can help you find that particular photo out of the 10,000 you have stored on disk.

Where the two applications overlap is in their ability to edit (raw) images.

Digikam is file based, you do edits sequentially, when you are done you save your changes as a new image if you want to tweak the edit after the fact you need to go and start the process from the closest saved version. Digikam will group all your edits into one logical entity.

Darkroom is metadata based and will store your edits as a sidecar file that describes the darkroom filters used. You can have multiple versions of the one image by duplicating the sidecar file. These will be displayed as seperate entities in Darkroom.

The batch workflow is pretty illustrative of the differences, with Digikam you select the images you want add them to the batch queue then either create or load a filter stack to run the images through then hit run button to create hard copies of your edited images. With Darkroom you take one image and do the edits on it then copy the edits you want to the other images you want to batch process then do an export to create the batch edited files.

The big advantage of Darkroom is that you can go back into the images after the batch export (tweek a few of them individually) and export again if a few images didn't batch export quite right.