10-15-2021, 04:51 PM
(10-15-2021, 06:58 AM)zeuspaul Wrote: I did a little reading on Darktable and Lightzone. Many of the reviews are based on using the program for just a few hours. My first impression was they are not good for file management. I use Lightroom to move files from one folder to another, also for renaming. I didn't get the feeling that this was even possible with these two programs.
I wouldn't use either. Because I use the file explorer, or the terminal. I want to know exactly what happens to my files, and this is the only way. Whys is it important? Because I do backups and I want to make sure the files are in the backups and are recoverable from the backups. I don't want to discover that the file is unusable because it is not also in some database used by the application.
(10-15-2021, 06:58 AM)zeuspaul Wrote: They do seem to have some good editing features. I find the shadow slider in Lightroom has a different curve than Gimp. Gimp seems to have a lower cut off being useful for deeper shadows. I use both. From my brief review of these programs it seemed at least one of them has good highlight and shadow control.
You can likely do everything on only one of the two, if you try to master it. These are two diffferent power drills but they drill the same holes, no need to have both.