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Call for opinion: Your choice of Shotwell / DigiKam / Darktable (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Of course Darktable is not only a photo sorter, but also does a lot of photo touch up 'darkroom' work. Debian system with KDE desktop. i5 with some bargain basement NVIDIA gpu (No, really it does not even have it's own fan).

Which of the 3 do y'all like the best?

Edit - Update - More details:

I am dedicating a laptop to be my "portable darkroom"- My desktop machine is only an i5, this laptop is a nice Asus Vivobook with an i7 in it. I do have Rapid Photo Down Loader (which works well with my camera connected via USB C) Each photo drive or session goes in to a folder named by date 20250309 for today for example. These go inside a year folder. Inside the day folder I put the DCIM folder from the camera. I sort and grade on the computer. I have now tried Darkroom, and it seems to just pile every picture I have into one continuous unsorted stream of pictured with no grouping. I hope the other two do better in that regard.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What is photo sorting? I do not know what Shotwell or DigiKam is.

My workflow (Linux) is I open a file manager on my SD card and let it generate thumbnails. Then I quickly nuke all of the obviously unusable pictures. Then I do another pass where I actually open and look at the images and nuke the ones with flaws I don't want to or can't fix. Then I pull everything remaining into Darktable and play around with the most interesting pictures I took to get them done and finished while I'm motivated and then I'll look at the rest to see if I can make something interesting of them else they get deleted and the cycle begins anew.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I generally do the same, except I only nuke the ones that were technically bad, many of my pictures are taken from a moving car with little warning so I don't always get my subject anywhere near in frame - those go otherwise I want to really check the rest. They go in a folder that is named by the date the pictures were taken (20250309 for today's) Then if I need to do things I try Gimp first. I just recently got rapid photo downloader too.