DARKTABLE PLUGINS MAC OS
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It's not exactly designed for linux novices, though. If you're linux savvy, it's not a bad choice. It's what's called a 'rolling release'- I haven't done an official upgrade since I installed this system 3 years ago, but that was version 17, and I'm now running version 20 with newer kernel, drivers, packages, etc. Manjaro takes the excellent distro, and wraps it in a user-friendly installer, and pushed out 'curated' updates on a regular basis- to everything. You're expected to be a competent linux admin (which I am), but things can occasionally break unexpectedly.

DARKTABLE PLUGINS INSTALL

I switched over to a distro called Manjaro some time ago- it's based on Arch, which is a great linux distro, but since they emphasize 'choice', they don't want to crimp your style by providing things like an 'installer'- for Arch, you boot from a disk, and manually partition your system, and install your choice of packages.

Red Hat established a pattern that Debian followed, and since Ubuntu is based on Debian, they've followed as well- 'stable' means 'slow to update', and dependencies have never been handled well by Unix, Linux or Windows (or OS/2, if you want to go there). This video (and following videos) does a nice job introducing Darktable: Automatic works pretty well, but you can also tweak in semi-automatic or full manual mode. Negadoctor seeks to fill the same role as Negative Lab Pro- invert and correct for color cast.

DARKTABLE PLUGINS MAC OS

It's available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux- while it's part of most linux distributions, be aware you need at least version 3.1 (3.2 is better) for the negadoctor plugin, and many distributions lag behind the latest and greatest by a few months. This also makes it easy to apply those edits to other photos. It's also 'non-destructive'- all of your edits, adjustments, crops, rotates, etc., are stored in metadata files, rather than changing your source image. It's really designed for RAW development, batch processing, organization, culling, proofing, etc. So first, is an open source package that started as an alternative to Lightroom. Rather than continue to scatter vague references here and there, it was suggested I create a thread for it. I've mentioned Darktable a few times as a promising piece of open source software, especially with the recent addition of a module called 'negadoctor', which does a pretty fair job of inverting color film negatives.

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