My goal is to regularly come up with new in depth darktable tutorials on specific concepts and functionalities and slowly work towards an accessible, but quality reference on darktable. This article is the start of my new tutorial series on darktable. Why this new tutorial series on darktable Why this new tutorial series on darktable.

In this first article in hopefully an extensive series, I will give a first introduction into darktable, as a general background and guidance for all upcoming more in-depth articles about specific darktable functionalities.

And in my opinion the fulfillment of those needs is offered to us in the form of the powerful open source solution darktable. But we do have similar needs when it comes to serious editing of RAW photo files and associated workflow support. But as lovers of Linux and open source software, we do not have Lightroom. And I still think that Lightroom is a great and robust software solution to organize and edit RAW photo files on your macOS or Windows system, next to products like Capture One Pro or ON1 Photo RAW. Adobe’s Lightroom has been the de facto standard for professional and serious RAW processing for Windows and macOS for years.

Before I came into contact with Linux, as a lifelong passionate landscape, and later portrait and wedding photographer, I had been using Adobe Lightroom on an Apple based system already for a long time.

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