You are very wise to try and settle on a good development program and stick with it rather than jumping to the 'program of the month'. The amount of time invested in learning a program FAR exceeds any monetary expense. What are your goals? What are you looking to achieve? How many images are you expecting to process? How many images do you have in your archive? What do you plan on doing with them? It might seem like I am prying but those are questions you should be asking yourself before settling on a program. A simple free program should be fine for a few images a month or week. But if you plan on doing a lot of volume, perhaps sell images or print them then a more sophisticated program might be in order. Like Lightroom, we can edit any image without destructing the original design. Not that long ago I would have said just bite the bullet, buy Lightroom and be done with fooling around with wanna-be software. With Darktable software, we can edit the RAW files from over 400 cameras. Unfortunately with the current subscription only model and cloud focused development I can no longer recommend Lightroom to anyone unless they are handling (and selling) a significant number of images. So I no longer have any recommendation except to carefully think about what you want to achieve. Really learning how to use a program well takes months of study and learning, not something to lightly toss off and move on. Others will be along shortly with lots of good suggestions I am sure. and I am kind of struggling with not asking this before learning a post processing software. I got my hands early on Pentax DCU worked like a charm but was cumbersome on a volume of images. so I switched to the Photodirector (got it free at that time on a rebate) and then learned it pretty quickly as it was quiet intuitive and fast. But then I thought may be I should use light room for the work that I sell and then jump shipped again to LR version that apparently does not support K-1 (PEF). So I had resistance but then I started using DNG and now struggling with LR interface quiet a bit. Apart from cloudified offering LR is a little clumsy to use. Also I found out eventually that I could do everything in PhotoDirector that I could do in LightRoom (Per my daily needs) so I keep using PD often despite having LR. Parametry uytkownik zmienia do momentu uzyskania odpowiedniego efektu. Now I do not know about the JPEG rendering engine intricacies between the 2, so someone needs to shed some light on that. darktable przypomina bardziej Lighrooma, opiera si na okrelonym sposobie pracy.
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