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I've been using darktable for a while to edit my RAW photos

I've been using darktable for a while to edit my RAW photos. The amount of features, viable workflows, and in general the quality of the software is baffling for a free product. I would happily pay 200 bucks or something per year to use this, it makes all other RAW editing software obsolete. I can only recommend it, and there's nothing missing for me, even for editing thousands of RAW photos with presets, different steps, color correction in various color spaces, it's simply fantastic and the documentation absolutely shines. Not only does the documentation explain how to use it in a way that non-professional photographers understand, it also explains edge cases, things to be careful about, and in general whoever wrote the documentation is sharing a lot of knowledge. I keep pushing this software and it just keeps doing it, I don't seem to stop finding features and little things that do what I wanted, and do it well. I learned more from reading darktable documentation than from any lightroom/draktable/davinci resolve tutorial. …

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I'm on Debian, which is of course behind. I tried installing the flatpak, which is up to date, but the packager removed the AI parts. The only option I have (short of moving to Arch or similar) is AppImage, which doesn't integrate well with the DE. I get being against AI, but Darktable is very responsible about it according to their release notes. Local only, opt-in only, no nagging. It's not like Adobe trying to push AI on you when you don't want it.

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Doesn't arch already package it ( https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/darktable/ ), I was using darktable on arch, but recently switched distros.

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I've used Darktable for almost a decade quite happily, but recently am moving off of it because they made one MASSIVE blunder with the new shitty color grading and white balancing tool that never gets any of my images right, and doesn't have sane defaults. It was way better a couple years ago with the vanilla "White Balance" and "Base Curve" tools. Darktable also cannot correctly color any of my DJI Mini Pro imagery. I'm currently starting to love RapidRAW ( https://github.com/cybertimon/rapidraw ); the developer is super active and releases new features every couple of weeks. I'm also able to add a few minor nitpick features I want quite easily with AI code tools.

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