

There have been dozens of bug fixes, code rewrites and much more behind the UI to give you the best experience ever. In addition to these modules, other modules have been tweaked, the histogram option has further options plus it can be moved to the left of the display panel for more room on there right panel and the crop module has been adjusted to give a better workflow. The “blurs” module allows you to add physically accurate blurs such as lens blur, motion blur and gaussian blur. The new “Diffuse & Sharpen” module looks intimidating but is blessed with a host of presets to help you on your way. You can also give your images ratings and tags to ensure that if you have a lot of images, you can find what you need quickly and efficiently. It has advanced masking features that mean you can target the exact areas you need to adjust.Įvery tool you expect from an editing package is available, plus it has a light table view that allows you to see all your images in one place, and compare or cull images. It has many advanced features, and although quite daunting at first glance, the software is intuitive and has plenty of options to customise the layout and tools to your own needs.ĭarktable 3.8 features the most comprehensive tools to control the colour in your images, and includes everything you need for a complete workflow. Why pay for editing software when Darktable 3.8 is just so good?ĭarktable is a raw editor for the full control of editing your images (it will edit jpeg images also if you don’t use raw). In general I am finding DarkTable now rather slow when browsing through a larger number of photos.Darktable has had a new release, and with version 3.8 we see many refinements and extra features that make it even better than it’s been before. Strangely the timeline is also squeezed in the left hand corner. (yet?) I have photos from the last 10 years but the timeline at the bottom is just showing 2022, even when selecting a sub-folder (collection) containing exclusively photos from 2015 (and the metadata is correct). (A basic version is there in the darkroom view, I know) Well, may be I can live with the lighttable time-line.

In the Lighttable view I am missing the nice band im thumbnails which Lightroom had been providing for the complete collection at the bottom of the screen (very fast, smooth, flawless).

Most importantly I have difficulties with browsing through my photos. There are certainly various things which don't work well yet.

All photos are on a fast external Sandisk SSD Extreme Portable (USB C). Today I have generated metadata/sidecar files in Lightroom and imported all 24000 photos into Darkroom. I am just new to DarkTable, coming from Lightroom.
