[diekhans]

Darktable is an interesting project and an impressive effort. However, serious photographers tend to use Lightroom. It is just eons beyond Darktable.

Sometimes even those of us who love programing want to use software rather than develop it.

[graphe]

I disagree. Capture one is always used and only amateurs who watch YouTube for premade settings use LR.

[busyant]

> Capture one is always used and only amateurs who watch YouTube for premade settings use LR.

I use C1 (in fact, I just purchased the yearly subscription today for 50% off) and my personal impression is that my images look better in C1 than with LR.

But I was always under the impression that many many many "pros" use LR simply because it has a lot of bells and whistles (including that somewhat recent "AI" content fill).

Also, C1's layer adjustment paradigm makes the most sense to me compared to everything else I've tried.

I'm not a pro by the way.

[graphe]

Those bells and whistles are for amateurs that can't take a good photo and are pushing it to make it look good. Professionals often have worst equipment than amateurs in photography.