I’ve been on Linux as my primary OS for around a year now. I’m still looking for a replacement for Lightroom and camera raw that doesn’t absolutely crush any image I’m working on.
I know this is unsolicited advice, so feel free to ignore me, but I am an expert on these things so here’s my take:
Before you switch to Linux, start switching your apps to ones that you know will work on Linux. It’ll make the process much easier for ya! :-)
thefartographer@lemm.ee 6 days ago
eatCasserole@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Have you tried raw therapee? At least for what I do I find it to be an excellent Lightroom replacement.
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 5 days ago
ART, a fork of RawTherapee, is also very good.
eatCasserole@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Terrible name for SEO but sounds cool! 🤪
It sounds like it might be closer to a 1:1 replacement for Lightroom than Raw therapee.
thefartographer@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I have, but with terrible results. Can you recommend some tutorials? The behavior of various tools always surprises me, coming from Adobe raw and Lightroom.
For example, reducing contrast in Adobe tones down highlights and shadows while doing that in dark table and rawtherapee turns everything washed out and grey.
eatCasserole@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Hmm, unfortunately I don’t have any good recommendations. I’ve just tinkered with it until stuff I like happens, and it’s been so long since I used Lightroom I can’t speak to specific differences.
With the contrast example it sounds like maybe the RT/DT tools are more literal, and Lightroom is more “smart” perhaps? I usually use the curves panel for this sort of thing, like if I want to bring down some highlights, I’ll find whereabouts they are on the histogram and target that area specifically. If I want a lower-contrast image in general I may compensate for some dullness with the local contrast and saturation tools, or if it’s the common scenario of a washed out sky, I’ll probably use a graduated filter to darken the sky without messing with the foreground.
I’m just guessing though, so I don’t know if this is helpful at all.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Since 2003 here.
msage@programming.dev 5 days ago
I’ve seen people on the internet suggesting Darktable as a solid Lightroom replacement… I don’t know anything about photo editing, but am curious - how bad is it?
noxypaws@pawb.social 5 days ago
From darktable’s FAQ:
Is darktable a free Lightroom alternative?
No. Other than both being raw editors with DAM features, and looking somewhat similar, they have very little in common. Darktable is a powerful and flexible raw processing toolbox, that leaves the user in charge of their workflow and provides a level of power and control that few others can match. This also means that the initial learning curve can be steep, since very little workflow and tool knowledge can be transferred from other programs.
In my personal experience it’s pretty good, but I’ve never used lightroom nor do I have nearly any idea what I’m doing with RAW processing, or photography in general, but I’ve been happy with the few photos I’ve put through it!
thefartographer@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Yeah, so here’s my general process batch-editing photos in Adobe Camera Raw:
- Drop the contrast
- Drop the highlights
- Punch up the shadows
- Boost whites and blacks
- Adjust white balance
- Adjust exposure
When I’m done, I have a stark, professional looking photo to export. In darktable, trying this leaves me with a grey mess. I’ve also tried rawtherapee, but with even worse results. I’m 96% sure that the problem is me, though.
Sneptaur@pawb.social 6 days ago
Best of luck in that case!
eatCasserole@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The only hurdle here is design software. I use Affinity mostly and it’s great, but they don’t have Linux apps. I did manage to get Affinity Designer running with Wine at one point, but it wasn’t particularly stable.
timewarp@lemmy.world 6 days ago
For sure. Linux has a lot of great apps but there are times where it’ll become incredibly frustrating. For example, file explorers can be basic & frustrating… The best you’ll prob get is Dolphin.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Linux has the best file manager I’ve found on any platform: Krusader. It has twin panels, and a lot of the functionality is bound to FKeys: F2 Rename, F3 View, F4 Edit, F5 Copy, etc. F9 will open a terminal in the current directory. You can edit text files from within Krusader. I’ve even done it on a remote filesystem over SSH.
helios@social.ggbox.fr 6 days ago
I tried this, it’s nice indeed. The layout will require some getting used to for me, but I like how it lets me add my remote server as sftp bookmark and open files from there pretty seamlessly, even videos.
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one [bot] 6 days ago
I’m have to give this a look!
SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Isn’t Windows File Explorer considered basic? It only just got tabs in 11 right? That and clicking on a disconnected network share would cause it to hang for a good few minutes.
timewarp@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It isn’t perfect by any means, but compared to Nautilus & many others, it still has a lot of benefits that make things quicker overall.
Sneptaur@pawb.social 6 days ago
I still contend that the best file browser ever made is the macOS Finder. When someone makes something that good for Linux, I’ll be very happy
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 days ago
What. What?? Finder is the fucking worst. It doesn’t have a sensible tree view, does it?
lightsblinken@lemmy.world 5 days ago
seems sensible to me? its not amazing but i dont mind it … what doesnt work for you?
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I used treesize once to clean up my computer. That’s what a file system should be like.
noxypaws@pawb.social 5 days ago
Genuine question, is this trolling or do you seriously believe this?
Sneptaur@pawb.social 1 day ago
Is it that outlandish that someone can appreciate a piece of closed-source software?
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 5 days ago
I’ve only used Nemo in Linux, but I can’t think of anything Windows file explorer can do that it can’t.