Luminar Neo was also fast and easy to use.Ĭapture one has almost as ridiculous of a gui and completely slowed down my workflow as much as Darktable. Polarr let me do the same thing in about the same amount of time. The free version of lightroom mobile does a better job and I can have a photo client ready in 5 minutes. I wasn't able to get close to the same results as other free photo editors and it took way way longer to get something even close to reasonable.Īm I doing something wrong? Am I just stupid? I am so confused because so many people recommended darktable to me. I don't understand why so many people love using this. Only when I was in the tool it no longer had my image cropped so I couldn't see what I was doing in relation to my crop. Then I realized I couldn't rotate or flip in the crop tool, so I had to go find a separate tool for that. Then it took way too long to crop the image where I wanted it. I had to google how to find the crop tool.

Instead of grouping similar or related adjustments together everything is broken into small confusing modules that make editing take way way longer than it should. The GUI is so low contrast that I can barely read what I'm looking at, the tools UI seems unnecessarily complicated and fragmented.

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