Comment by 🚀 lars_the_bear
Re: "DaVinci resolve, but for photos"
I really miss Lightroom :/ I stopped using it when Adobe started charging rent for it, but I've struggled to find an open-source alternative for the kinds of tasks you mention.
I've come to the conclusion there isn't one. Not if you want to batch-edit hundreds of photos, and index tens of thousands. I'm trying to learn to love Darktable, but it's hard, hard, hard.
I badly miss Lightroom.
Apr 16 · 3 weeks ago
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Never found a tool that really works for me. They’re slow and I don’t like the UI. I also want the filesystem as the source of truth, not a database.
Been thinking for years about a DAM that works more like Vim with simple commands, command palette and filesystem backend.
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DaVinci resolve, but for photos — I've never used Lightroom, I've never touched the Adobe Creative Cloud after seeing my friend struggling to rid their machine of it, and I largely used Affinity and Pixelmator, but they're not exactly easiest or simplest tools that also require a ton of hand movements for basic edits, and my main game is basic edits (curvess shadows, contrast, sharpness, occasional warm/cold split contrast and some denoise). But now I see that DaVinci Resolve exists for photo…