Also other softwares are offering solid solutions: DxO Photolab, Exposure X3, On1 Photo Raw, Luminar… Other programs moreover can offer something less (no layers or selective adjustments and brushes) but for free: Lightroom and the other software are certainly more powerful (in an absolute way) but are also expensive. Most of the photographers use Lightroom from Adobe to edit their own photos, which is indeed an incredibly powerful processing software. I hope this will make your first contact less shocking. Also the official Darktable forum is on, but it has an “unofficial” Reddit community with 2500+ members and a lot of useful posts. Please note that the official Rawtherapee forum is on, as said in the description of the subreddit community and mine is an UNOFFICIAL guide to use Rawtherapee. Now that I have found the Rawtherapee community on Reddit and I know some new tricks I wanna try to update the content, correct the mistakes and post it again, and I hope it would help. No hurry - first I need to learn the commands, before I worry about presets.Some time ago I posted a version of this guide series on Reddit but that time I didn’t know how to properly use Reddit so I didn’t post it in the right community making it easily forgettable lost in the thousand of posts of the site. (I used DarkTable before, but I've forgotten how to do things.)Īgain, if someone has created a Preset for a Leica M8.2, please post a link to it here. Eventually I'm sure it will become intuitive. I'm going to be watching the above video as I edit today's images from my M8.2 camera. I think I can do everything I need for my M8.2 dng images by editing in DarkTable. Also, I was going through all that work just to get the image into DxO PhotoLab, but I no longer see much point in doing so. DarkTable now seems like an infinitely better way to do this. (I won't be adding much more to that thread though, as it was started as way to get images from my M8.2 into DxO PhotoLab, including taking my 10 meg image from my M8.2 and converting it into a 80-meg TIFF file. To catch up to what I've been involved in, please go to this thread: Me, an "expert"? Gack!!!! I'll be glad to post what I learn, as I learn it. At the end of the day it is a personal preference. I totally agree but 'your mileage may vary'. But who cares about sharpness ("it doesn't matter" according to Ken Rockwell). Pixel peeper prefer probably RT because the sharpness algorithm is much better in RT and ART. dt is in many ways a technically advanced app compared to RT or ART. I am truly convinced that dt is everything I ever need in pp. It took me about 2-3 weeks to get the same results as with RT. Very basic stuff in the beginning and after a while few other specific videos to get used to masks, layers and LUTs etc. The rest is trial and error. So I went the exhausting way to learn it by youtube and manual (RTFM). There are no quick wins with new apps if you really want to use it instead of simply applying presets. In the meantime I tried darktable (dt) once and while and moved finally to this dark horse of postprocessing tools for raw files. I'll get it done when the storm subsides. We are in a pretty big storm and service is marginal. I guess I now need to find a video on how to use DarkTable, as I've forgotten what I knew about it a year ago - lack of use.Ĭurious - I like to add my own "watermark" on images - can DarkTable do that, or when I'm finished with editing, what is the best way to send my edited image to PhotoLab? (I installed the latest version of DarkTable a few days ago, but I can't find a tool within DarkTable to tell me which version I'm now using). Do I need to open an existing profile for images from my camera and my lens, or do I need to create a profile from them as I think you are suggesting up above? One of them is now open in my DarkTable screen. I opened DarkTable, got to view my folders, and selected a folder with eight image taken with my M8.2 and the new 7Artisans 35mm f/2 lens. The more pictures they get the better the profiles will be for us. I have uploaded pictures as directed for M8.2 and M240. It will help to up[load images as instructed on the darktable home page for the coders to create camera profiles for our cameras. I have a few other editors and GIMP and must settle on one of them.
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