Dark Table, Raw Therapee or Lightroom - Which is Better???

Dark Table, Raw Therapee or Lightroom - Which is Better???

In this video we will take a look at three SIMPLE and EASY workflows in DarkTable, Raw Therappe and Lightroom, using the same image (Cheers Gary!) to try and answer a question I'm always asked BUT struggle to answer when it comes to raw editing..
Time Stamps:
00:00 Why I've been absent!
01:18 What's in this video
03:35 The Lightroom Bit
10:07 The Raw Therapee Bit
15:34 The Dark Table Bit
21:36 Dodge & Burn - Emulating Lightroom Adjustment Brushes in Dark Table with Local Contrast Brush masks.
30:58 Lightroom Finishing
37:30 Conclusions???
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[diousin]

I like ART ("a derivative of RawTherapee"), particularly its Tone Equalizer.

[gerhardbotha]

I like DT because it does the film like behaviour process well, it has regular development work happening, camera meta data etc works and once you understand how it works, its very intuitive I feel

[mrNw]

Yeah, I like Darktable... quite powerful.
Just not very beginner friendly, there is a little bit of a learning curve with the software.

[ccoopify]

thank you for this demo Andy, I like DT best personally for a few reasons but primarily because of cost with LR and the flow of RT seems clunkier. Its great how you can achieve almost the same image using all three if you know how to.

[designer]

I've used all three and have settled on darktable - just a hobbyist :) Would be nice to have the squirrel photo raw to play with if the photographer was willing to share it?

[furiobisotti]

Just evaluating how to leave LR (I paid version 6 and lost all updates, not available to pay a subscription). Your vid helped me a lot, thanks. Darktable is attracting me a lot. Just need to wait an update because my new OM-1 mkII is not yet supported, cannot edit new pics now...

[Being_Joe]

Ok Andy, so I know you primarily from you RT tutorials. Yes great to use multiple tools but which would you pick between RT and DT? Why? I have primarily stuck with RT because I like the quality I get out of it as a raw processor.

[TweakMDS]

I've recently learned to love darktable for single file processing, as long as I'm able to spend the time on an image, and do some searching for all non-standard operations. I dislike it for editing down from 100's to 20 images. The workflow is clunky, shortcuts are meh, and it has annoying little things like if you rate an image the same twice, the second time it effectively rejects it (like; rate 3 stars by pressing 3; press 3 again and it removes the rating).
I also with the filmstrip worked the same between light and darkroom, and you could just zoom to 100% by double-clicking in lightmode.

[patrickwynne]

Awesome video, i am very surprise to see the free software Raw Therapee and Darktable doing a very good job compare to lightroom pay monthly. Well done. i will go ahead and use the darktable and get rid of lightroom to save my money. Do you have darktable video for beginner, i like to learn more aBOUT IT

[boredgrass]

Darktable allows you to make many pretty adjustments on your photos, but it doesn't allow you to save the result because it doesn't like that files have names... In 24 years I have used in 24 years I have used a lot of programs, some a lot more complex than this one, none fell so on the nose even leaving the door... The existence of file names shouldn't be a problem for a software. That makes we wonder what else problems darktable has, but I have no intention to find out...

[kenyongunnell]

You know I use a cheap camera when he says "Noise is creeping in at ONLY ISO 1000" and I cry internally a the fact that my camera has noise at ISO 800 sometimes.

[cacophonix]

I can’t get RT to read Sony raw files (.ARW). Any ideas how to fix this?

[Eigil_Skovgaard]

RawTherapee is generally good, but compared to Darktable it has no masking system. Also Darktable is more accessible imo and have more interesting tools.

[longingbydesign]

Does either DT or RT have AI masks, like mask subject, mask sky, mask object, mask persons? Wouldn't want to work without that at all, any more.