This is especially important if you’re stepping up your photography from a hobby into a job.

If you’re sharing your photos around, you may want to indicate who took each photo.

More options will appear, asking how you want to name your file, where you wish to save it, and in what format.Įven if you do precisely zero editing, Darktable is worth having around to convert RAW files into JPGs that you can send to family members or upload to the web. To do this, select the Export Selected dropdown. I'll mention two more anyway though, the HSL sliders from LR exist in a different form in the color zones module in dt, and the best noise reduction module to start with is denoise (profiled).The most important option is exporting your RAW photo into a format that you can share. If there are any other Lightroom features that are used in your presets let me know and I'd be happy to suggest more modules. These are two massive features that might make you wonder what Adobe was actually doing with your monthly subscription fee! I would recommend the tone equalizer for adjusting the highlights and shadows, and trying levels, tone curve or color balance to adjust black and white points.Īnother big tip is that you can duplicate modules and you should definitely check out the parametric masking - which used together could for example allow you to create multiple exposure modules that are masked to target the exact shadow or highlight regions you want to manipulate. Doesn't really work the way you would expect coming from Lightroom. One big tip is to avoid the shadows and highlights module IMO. I tried darktable on at least two separate occasions before I really felt comfortable jumping over full-time with v3.0, and the key really was to just to just abandon the idea of trying to port my workflow across from Lightroom.Īs it turns out (unsurprisingly?) I can do everything I used to do in Lightroom and more in darktable, but there isn't really a one-to-one relationship between modules so there was some trial and error as I went through different modules to figure out how they behave.

Lightroom to darktable