![]() It’s likely that something was changed in Lightroom’s xmp files since this feature was introduced (back in 1.2, I think), but it’s still broken, and that’s half a day I burned trying to make this work and hunting for a solution.Įnds up, it was my fault all along. So that part of darktable appears to be broken. I wondered if this might be due to the old version of darktable in the Ubuntu Vivid repository (it gave me 1.4.3), so I added the darktable-release repository and updated to 1.6.7: no joy there either. and the develop settings are not read from Lightroom’s xmp files in Ubuntu (on VirtualBox) either. ![]() So reading Lightroom tags and settings doesn’t seem work on Mac, and after several frustrating hours spent reinstalling Ubuntu in Virtualbox and getting it all working again, I found find that ratings, colors, etc. Maybe, but maybe I’ll just try again with VirtualBox.)* I could replace the machine completely for close to that, so I’m not sure it’s worth it, really. (Off topic: I took the netbook apart-no easy task, that-and extracted the HD with plans to replace it… but a new HD is ~$60-100 and an SSD is about the same. One hard reset later, I heard the noise again and the computer booted into the pure BIOS system… no IDE master found, no USB drives connected.Īlhamdulillah and good times. Just as it finished loading the files into its memory, I heard a clicking and grinding noise from the netbook and the machine froze. So I loaded some files onto a flash drive, booted up the netbook, moved files over, and went to start up darktable. Sadly, I borked the VirtualBox install (actually, I didn’t, really, I just got fed up with trying to share folders-so very kludgy-and deleted it), so I booted up the little netbook on which I’ve been playing around some lately. I wondered if maybe it was due to something in the Mac build, or maybe the presence of Lightroom on the system, so I decided to try on Ubuntu. However, when these pictures came into darktable, they came in without any of that included.Īfter looking around, bewildered, for a bit, I noticed the ‘load sidecar file’ in the History stack:Ĭlicking that button opens a file browser, where you can pick the xmp file associated with your picture, but this did nothing either… I expected the info would just be there, given the information in darktable’s user guide, which suggests that tags, color labels, ratings, and GPS data is included on import. To test this, I applied some random colors and ratings and tags to a couple of images from another project (that I may never finish or share) in Lightroom. One thing that distinguishes darktable from its competition is its ability to pull the tags and colors and some settings from Lightroom. Importing images into the darktable database is easy, just point it to a folder and it does most of the rest. The deployment of the mouse scroll wheel to change sliders and manipulate most any control is a pleasure to use, and when I hopped back into Lightroom to make some comparisons, I kept hovering over sliders and spinning the scroll wheel to no avail. I think it’s something about the colors, maybe. There is a comprehensive user manual available, but I find it harder to navigate than RawTherapee’s rockstar manual. I’ll go into some of these later, In sha’Allah. I like darktable… I’ve reviewed it here before, and so I was somewhat familiar with it when I went in.ĭarktable is very powerful, and its unconventional methods of tweaking settings make some operations easy and fast. ![]() (and especially forgive me for going on and on about the xmp file business…) So forgive me if this is a bit briefer than you hoped, or if I don’t cover something important, or didn’t find the easy solution: I’m really just trying to get this over with. I’m also very ready to get back to shooting and I have something of a backlog of images to process and share now. It’s partly that Ramadan has come and I have much lower energy (even for sitting on the sofa and typing), but mostly that I’m tired of massaging the same images over and over again, and really tired of playing/fighting with computer software. To be honest, I’ve gotten a bit tired of this testing lately. Thankfully, I’m not trying for a comprehensive review here… I just want to see if darktable can replace Lightroom for me. With the exception of user-definable albums (they’re called Film Rolls in darktable, and they’re a bit strange to use), you can do everything in darktable that you can do in Lightroom, and more, most of it in a few different ways. Easy.ĭarktable is probably the closest to Lightroom that you’ll find in the open source space. Installation: normal download dmg & drag app to Applications folder (or wherever you like). Platforms Available Tested: Linux , Mac, Windows Program: darktable (1.6.3 updated to 1.6.7 late in the review process) ![]()
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