Even the latest Luminance and Color Range masking in Lr Classic, while great, pales in comparison with this, not to mention that you still can't apply Hue or Curves adjustments locally in Lr Powerful localized edits - most modules can be used as layers (with multiple instances of the same module), with a lot of blending modes (with RGB, Lab and HSV colour models), parametric masks that can operate on RGB, HSL, HSV, LCh and Lab channels, and can be combined, feathered, applied locally.Better Lens Corrections (for my lenses).A number of canned camera profiles to choose from.The Alt-slide visualization for sliders like Sharpening Masking, Blacks, Whites, etc.Better Healing/Spot Removal (with spots visualization).Smart Highlights and Shadows sliders, and the highlight protection philosophy of PV2012.Web and Book modules (does anybody use them?).A better Print module (the Windows version of dt doesn't have it).Subjectively, it's easier to cull in Lr (Compare/Survey mode), but still I do that in my photo viewer before ingesting into a catalogue.Smart Collections and a faster keywording/tagging experience And most importantly for me, there's the lack of localized edits in NX-D.ĭarktable vs Lightroom is more difficult because I feel they are more evenly matched. It also has what I feel is better resizing algorithm and it's possible in dt to minimize sharpening halos when compared with the rather blunt USM sharpening of NX-D. Another advantage of dt over NX-D for basic raw conversion is that the demosaicing gives me greater detail, and there's colour reconstruction for clipped highlights (both important for landscape photography). However, I don't like the default skin tones NX-D gives me and its orangey reds, but if I did, I could also use a temporary ICM profile generated by NX-D as an input profile in dt (unbreak settings that work for me are linear: 0, gamma: 0.4500 plus a base curve tweak for the shadows contrast). I have a Nikon camera and NX-D has a couple of advantages for it over darktable (mainly auto vignetting correction and auto moire removal). I think that both Lr and dt are great for the intended bracketing/merging/tonemapping purposes, right from raw data. ![]() You lose nothing if you try darktable yourself to see if it suits you. Basically I don't need lens correction or camera profiles because I always open NEFs with Capture NX-D, apply settings and export as a 16-bit TIFF. Can someone post a summary of major differences between these two? I really want to move away from Lightroom and I mostly process high contrast landscape photos which are often bracketed and then merged with Enfuse to a 48-bit (64-bit?) TIFF.
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