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| - | Chapter 1. Darktable | ||
| - | Strengths | ||
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| - | Photo Management | ||
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| - | Digital photography has left most people with thousands of photos that they | ||
| - | never look at because they cannot begin to organise them all. Darktable is | ||
| - | a sensible organisational environment. Yes, you could just organise photos | ||
| - | in your file manager, but Darktable makes more sense. | ||
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| - | Non-Destructive Editing | ||
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| - | Darktable creates a stack of filters through which you may view and export | ||
| - | your images. Filters can be modified or removed independently of the source | ||
| - | image and of one another. | ||
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| - | Weaknesses | ||
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| - | Complex | ||
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| - | This is an application filled with advanced, professional-level | ||
| - | photographic features, so it takes time to learn it entirely and to master | ||
| - | it. | ||
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| - | Non-Destructive Editing | ||
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| - | The non-destructive, non-linear workflow is not for everyone. There are | ||
| - | those who prefer to make a manual backup of an image, and then experiment | ||
| - | with effects and hands-on bitmap tools. Darktable is not the best solution | ||
| - | for that style of work. | ||
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| - | See Also | ||
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| - | Digikam | ||
| - | GIMP | ||
| - | Shotwell | ||
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| - | Darktable takes a new approach to the digital darkroom paradigm. Digikam and | ||
| - | GIMP, for example, both make changes to the data that you load into them; when | ||
| - | you change the colour balance of a photograph, these applications re-write | ||
| - | pixels to reflect the change (assuming you save the image; otherwise it's done | ||
| - | in RAM only). If you want multiple versions of the same image, such as a colour | ||
| - | version of a photograph as well as a black-and-white version, then you must | ||
| - | copy the source data and maintain, literally, two files (or two layers in one | ||
| - | file, at best). Darktable uses filters only. | ||
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| - | Think of Darktable as a lens that you place over a photograph; one filter might | ||
| - | make a colour photograph black-and-white, while another might make the colours | ||
| - | brighter and more vivid. One filter might sharpen an image and another might | ||
| - | diffuse or blur it. In fact, a Darktable lens can also rotate or crop, balance | ||
| - | colours, stylize, and much more. | ||
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| - | Because the filters are filters, they do not change the source file itself. You | ||
| - | can re-order the filters, modify their properties, remove a few, and so on, all | ||
| - | without the need to undo the filters that you already applied. The workflow is | ||
| - | non-linear because the data from the source photo is exactly the same through | ||
| - | the entire process. | ||
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| - | There is a build script available on Slackbuilds.org which should suit most | ||
| - | people's needs. | ||