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It absolutely is, it is what I use for RAW developing and post. Does everything, does it good and is, above all else, non-destructive. It is, at least of I go by my dad who is a Photoshop veteran, quite different to what he used to. The only things I could see as, if I am really really critical, are: - sharpening, usually decent enough but SharpenAI from Topaz is another league. As I said, good enough for all except the edge cases - de-noising, same as sharpening, astro-denoise works like a charm so - masks, which I haven't really figure out yet, so my problem and not darktable's, Lightroom and Photoshop seem a tad more intuitive so One thing I'd love, but again maybe I just didn't find it yet, is the possibility to export the database of picture edits. For now, I have darktable create dedicated files once a photonis edited and I make back-ups of those. I did loose edits for around 100ish photos due to some unrelated issues which required reinstallation of darktable so, which again was on me for missing darktable stopped creating said files after an update. Being to just dump the darktable database of edit data would be really nice so. Summary, I can only recommend it. Especially for people starting post processing, the learing curve for each software is basically the same after all, and without prior knowledge they wont recognize any differences. |