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I'm growing more and more impressed with its capabilities the more I use it! Wrapping my head around its approach to masking, and its "scene referred pipeline" took some time, but now that I'm getting the hang of it, I think I can say I genuinely prefer it to Lightroom.

Combined with digiKam, which is excellent for photo collection management, I'm a very happy photographer :)

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[–] raunz@mander.xyz 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm seriously doubting the image quality bit

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

In terms of noise reduction which greatly affects image quality it is nowhere near the big commercial players.

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried the "Denoise (profiled)" feature? It applies auto de-noising per your camera model and metadata quite nicely. You can then fine tune it after enabling the feature.

[–] ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I usually leave it at chroma only as well. Luminance noise is far less unpleasant on the eyes.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've found the profiled noise reduction in Darkroom to do what I need. I've not noticed any significant difference between it and the results I was getting from Lightroom.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That may be so, but Lightroom is not the class leader in noise reduction. There are other programs out there that do a much better job

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago

Cool, but I don't need class leader... I need "works on my linux box without loss of functionality compared to my previous Windows workflow"

[–] jeeva@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

You're doubting that it's meeting or missing image quality?