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  • Darktable is basically the only software I use so I can’t really compare… it definitely does have a learning curve and it’s quite technical (designed for nerds, by nerds), but (being a nerd myself) I find it rather natural to use.

    In a sense darktable is more a collection of modules bound together in a framework than a monolithic/cohesive software. On one hand, this means you have to learn each module separately; on the other, it also means you can ignore most of the modules and only look at the handful you’ll actually use.

    Definitely do watch some tutorial to get started with darktable (if only, to understand the general workflow which modules you want to use).





  • messed up the colours in the process

    To me it looks like you may have applied some “vintage film” style, and that it doesn’t go too well with a photo that is mostly shades of brown.

    Brown is really dark, unsaturated orange and we perceive it as a separate color mostly based on what other colors are near it, so it’s not easy to work with in a photo where there aren’t many non-brown elements.

    Also, I am personally quite fed up with the (excessive and ubiquitous) “vintage film” photos… I think that’s not the issue with this photo, but, still, it’s a bias of mine so that might be part of it.

    I am slightly colour blind

    Even mild color blindness must be a real hassle for photography (well… for post-processing, mostly). I wish I had some suggestion to work around that, but I really can’t imagine how it must be.

    Anyway, don’t let that slow you down! Color shenanigans are really only a tiny part of photography, and (I must say!) they are often the most tacky part. There are lots of greatly influential photographers that even chose to ditch colors altogether and shoot in black&white.


  • Nice one!

    IMHO you might have gone a bit too far with the post-processing (or camera settings, if it’s a jpeg): to me there’s too high contrast, too much red, and the exposure doesn’t agree with the apparent lighting conditions (it seems like it’s been shot in broad daylight but it also seems underxposed).

    Do borrow your dad’s camera more often! :)



  • You got some great answers already :)

    Let me just add that, in general, it’s expected to have executable files inside your home directory.

    For example, ~/.local/bin is intended for user executables and usually added to the $PATH, and a lot of package managers (such as cargo, go, pip,…) will install applications under ~ (Steam also does that).