

Plus, you'll mitigate other sharpening artifacts. Also, noise in the sky and water won't be as obvious. (The sky and water look sharpened.) In Lightroom, if you apply a mask to limit sharpening only to the land, the detail rendering will be improved. Looking at the two images, it appears sharpening was globally applied to both. It's a gorgeous scene and must've been fun to photograph. It seems like an ongoing process to get the best Fuji RAW converter. Your example to me though with Darktable looks quite unnatural almost HDR like. The first image was developed with Lightroom 6.6.1 and the second one with Darktable 2.4.0. If you want a free alternative to Lightroom, this is definitely the one to go for. It takes advantage of your graphics card if you have one, and it has a huge range of features.
#LIGHTROOM VS DARKTABLE FOR FREE#
How does Darktable match up to Lightroom If you’re looking for free Lightroom alternatives, Darktable and RawTherapee both have excellent alternative capabilities. Blending the two programs could be a better use of your time. I doesn't affect the quality of the details though. Layer support is possible for applying edits, but not for multiple images, although this is the same as Lightroom. Batch edit in Darktable vs RawTherapee, when you need to dig into the color options of your photos. I tried to somewhat mimic the Lightroom processing of the file, but since I've never used Darktable before, the output is a bit off, especially regarding the colors. Here is a comparison with Lightroom of an image shot with a Fuji X-T1. I have to say I'm very impressed by its demosaicing of Fuji X-Trans files!Īfter having tried Capture One, Luminar, Iridient X-Transformer and RawTherapee, I find Darktable to give the best details and overall quality.

In my quest of finding a Lightroom replacement, I just gave Darktable a shot without really considering it as a viable alternative.
