When it comes to photo processing, I think everyone would be familiar with software called Lightroom. This Adobe software is considered by many to be the best RAW photo processing software and with good reason. It’s very powerful while being easy to use. But… that comes at a cost.
Don’t get me wrong, for professional photographers the cost is well worth it for the tools you get. However, what if you’re not a professional yet, or you just prefer something that doesn’t operate on a subscription cost basis.
There are a few decent freely available RAW photo editing applications and one of the best of them is called darktable.
darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.
Darktable is completely free, developed by photographers, for photographers and has many of the same features and functions that Lightroom has, plus some extras. It runs on the Linux operating system as well as Mac and Windows which means you can use it on whatever platform you’re using. (If free software is something you’re interested in it might be worth looking at Linux as a replacement to Windows or Mac)
