Looking for linux workflow ideas (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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Linux photogs, help me out. What does your workflow look like? What apps do you use?

I've found that digikam is really good for managing my keywords and metadata, and organising photos post shoot, but the image editing is limited.

And using separate image editing software leads to problems, because my camera's raw files (.cr3) aren't very well supported.

I can make it work, by using Lightroom online, but it's not exactly an integrated system due to its cloud based design.

I've tried running Lightroom in a VM, but ran in to trouble giving the VM access to my GPU...

So those who have made it work, what does it look like for you?

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I import from card using my own C program that reads the EXIF timestamps and sorts them into directories using the timestamps for directory and filenames (e.g. "yyyy/yyyy-mm-dd/hhmmss.jpg").

Then I would typically use darktable if I want to postprocess. I shoot 99% JPEG. I'll use GIMP for quick edits.

If I want to share, I create an album in Lychee, which is a self-hosted PHP gallery on my web server.

I've never used Photoshop or LightRoom. I have no idea what they're like.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Darktable is great for "dark room" type things. I would put it into the category of non-destructive editing - yeah, you can crush shadows or whatever but the image is still pretty true to what the camera saw. Photoshop enables a lot more reality alteration. Remove/extend/edit backwards, touch up skin, change the color of clothing/objects, etc. I'm not a Linux user, and also am not aware of a great full featured alternative. For quick and dirty on windows, paint.net but that doesn't help anyone on Linux :(

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