Then do I have to make sure that my win7 sys drive is mounted before importing into darktable? Since My images are not imported to same drive as to where Lightroom is installed. Thanks for taking the time to add much needed for darktable. Me too!! :) I love Darktable (forgot xp and 'pirate' LR under VirtualBox)!!! Now just use Darktable, for me the result is much more satisfying and do not need more of those virtual machines that swallowed all my memory and processor. I used Lightroom and NX2 before meeting Darktable.

Rodnei Reis Fotografia Sacramento/MG/BR says: We're not selling it, so we're really not commercial :) You probably mean darktable vs proprietary software. The newer versions have lots of improvements! :)įYI, darktable is a perfectly commercial software too. (Lightroom running on the same hardware was quite stable.) Luckily my edits have never been lost because of darktable's real-time saving but it is still a significant southstreetphoto I highly recommend updating. Stability: On my system (64bit) darktable is quite unstable with very frequent crashes. Innovative Develop tools: Though I am not really one for heavy post processing it seems that darktable has many unique develop tools (like the equalizer) which lightroom lacks.Ĥ. metadata editing and light-table tools: lightroom is significantly better in this area in my opinion, with more options that are much faster to use than darktable.ģ. OS compatibility and open/cosed source: This seems like the critical difference between the two programs.Ģ. I have used Lightroom extensively and there are too many differences to list here but I would say the main ones that I have noticed are:ġ.

Nonstop attraction edited this topic ages ago. I haven't upgraded from Darktable 1.0 though. I've heard that Lightroom doesn't have the equalizer plugin. But with Darktable you can only apply one gradient and you have to toy with the coordinates as opposed to dragging with the mouse, which seems a little faster in Lightroom. I've seen in videos that the graduated neutral density plugin in lightroom lets you apply multiple gradients, and with a drag of the mouse. Has anyone used both Darktable and Lightroom? What are the main differences between them besides the fact that Darktable is free software and not available for MS Windows and that Lightroom is commercial software and not available for Linux? What are the relative strengths of each software? Thank you in advance.

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