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DaVinci Resolve 21 is Now a Lightroom Alternative: RAW Editing, Tethering, Masking, and More (petapixel.com)
submitted 15 hours ago by commander@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Why not just use Darktable?

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I desperately want to switch from lightroom but darktable isn't even close to being an efficient replacement for quickly sorting through, tagging and editing a day's shooting of 50mp raw files.

It's an order of magnitude slower and with way more clicks to do anything

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

DigiKam is more for cataloging and DarkTable is better for editing

[–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 1 points 17 minutes ago

Yeah I don't sort or tag with DarkTable I only edit.

[–] network_switch@lemmy.ml 7 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Another to try in my wheelhouse of free RAW editors. Now I’m mostly chill to just use RapidRAW. After that Darktable. Then RawTherapee. Still got to try ART (Another RawTherapee)

[–] noobface@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

DXO Photolab. Your time is worth money.

[–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 5 points 13 hours ago

Darktable is my go to.

[–] berty@feddit.org 2 points 13 hours ago

I like RawTherapee the best out of these.

[–] worhui@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I was surprised to see the camera tether feature.

Photoshop is much easer to use for photo editing. Still this might be free. There are typically resolution restriction on the free version of resolve. We’ll have to see if that applies to photos.

Resolve is notoriously bad with high resolution video. I wonder how well it will handle 40Mp and above images.

[–] Melonpoly@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Is it? I've had no problems with hi res video on resolve studio

[–] worhui@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

Depends on how deep your node graph gets. My friend who does video has a pair of beefy gpu’s(4090?). To get fully smooth and interactive video.

Resolve is the only application that I see 128gb or more of ram as actually making a difference.

[–] xSikes@feddit.online 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Sweet. Do they have a Linux version?

[–] Jobe@feddit.org 8 points 12 hours ago

Yes