
#DARKTABLE VS GIMP HOW TO#
One of these brought me up to speed: in a matter of half an hour, I knew how to give my photos a quality I never thought I could. If I couldn't find a getting-started guide from the darktable website, only more of a reference manual, I found that the community is sufficiently enthusiastic to provide video tutorials. They say darktable is the tool of choice for people who are familiar with Adobe Lightroom – which I wasn't either, but I did see what other people do with it and I liked it. My first serious experience with raw photo editing was darktable, and I was immediately impressed. I've got a hierarchical filesystem, where I can give files and directories names and which I can work with using convenient and standard UNIX commands. It shouldn't intrusively try to manage my pictures.


I was looking for a raw editor which could help me process and make use of my pictures quickly. A review of raw photo editors by somebody who doesn't know much about photos, for somebody who doesn't know much about photos, but does know their UNIX.
