![]() The first thing I do each time I load a picture is to adjust the exposure histogram simply by pulling it left and right. In fairness, it may take with a pinch of salt the path to a specific file I'm giving it and will just satisfy itself loading all the pictures in the same directory as the last one I passed. I will be able to give it as argument a directory or a list of photos. While darktable offers a so-called lighttable to organise, tag, sort and filter my photos, it doesn't pretend to be an end-to-end photo manager. And that's possibly also thanks to the ease of use of darktable. One of these brought me up to speed: in a matter of half an hour, I knew how to give my photos a quality I never thought I could. ![]() If I couldn't find a getting-started guide from the darktable website, only more of a reference manual, I found that the community is sufficiently enthusiastic to provide video tutorials. They say darktable is the tool of choice for people who are familiar with Adobe Lightroom – which I wasn't either, but I did see what other people do with it and I liked it. My first serious experience with raw photo editing was darktable, and I was immediately impressed. I've got a hierarchical filesystem, where I can give files and directories names and which I can work with using convenient and standard UNIX commands.
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