I like to keep the workflow to a bare minimum. I like to reduce my steps to the bare minimum so I stopped renaming them a while back when I did not even think about any other tool than Lightroom. I did it for a few years in the past but I noticed that it did not improve or speed up my process. In my workflow, I do not rename the files. Honestly, I have all I need to work on filesĭarktable imports the files where they are, it does not really create or move files around and you can’t rename files. You can import from an SD card, easily move photos around with drag&drop operations and much more. Lightroom performs some file management tasks that Darkroom can not. Lightroom has AI People tagging which works well but it’s not perfect and I find myself going through all the photos again to check if all the people were tagged correctly which defeats the purpose.ĭarktable works better for my workflow thanks to the focus points preview Importing files

The few differences would not make me decide to go for Darkroom or Lightroom.ĭarktable has the Focus-Points tool (Alt-W) that can be quite handy during the screening of the photos to understand if I correctly set my focusing points.Īssigning Colours to photos works better in Darktable as you can associate multiple colours to a single photo, something you can’t do in Lightroom. The photo grid is pretty similar in both software.

Let’s get started with the way you organise and retrieve your photos with both Darktable vs Lightroom.

Darkatble Lighttable View vs Lightroom Library Window

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