11/25/2023 0 Comments Darktable review 2018![]() So, in conclusion, the second group rankings are (1) ACDSee, (joint 2nd) Zoner, (joint 2nd) Pixelmator, (close 4th) Ashampoo, (5) Color Projects 6, (6) Pentax DCU, (7) Aurora HDR, (8) PhotoLine, (9) digiKam, and the rest unworthy of mention. However, it’s still a far cry behind Capture One! In my opinion, ACDSee looked crisper than Preview, making it the leader of the group. Ashampoo had much the same detail, but looked oversharpened – presumably a consequence of attempting to compensate for the effects of lens correction. Interestingly, although being a Windows program and so clearly not relying on the same engine, Zoner Photo Studio’s output was identical in sharpness – only tonality differed between those two (or three). Output from Pixelmator was identical to macOS Preview, so fairly good. Aurora HDR is a teensy weensy bit ahead of PhotoLine. Realising that, I thought that perhaps Pentax is really ahead of PhotoLine, although that was difficult to see in direct comparison because of the air of oversharpening of the Pentax image. So I would rate digiKam bottom of the three.Ĭolor Projects 6 Professional, the only upgraded version I included in the second group because the rendering had changed completely since version 5, performed clearly ahead of PhotoLine and probably just ahead of Pentax, although they might be neck-to-neck without Pentax’ lens correction. DigiKam might have genuinely lost some fine detail, so I’d rate that lowest of the group. PhotoLine has a certain matte look to it that I could see becoming someone’s signature style. Pentax DCU looks oversharpened and is a clear step behind Silkypix, although supposedly powered by the same engine (I feel like I’ve just disproved that), and both programs seemed to perform lens correction, so the difference in sharpness isn’t because of that. Luminar is also pretty awful.īetween Pentax, PhotoLine and digiKam, it was hard to decide. Do NOT use Polarr or Photolemur for RAW conversion. Of the second group, Polarr and Photolemur can fairly be described as garbage. Typically, center and edge sharpness suffer when lens corrections are applied, so before I go further, I should note that imo, Pentax DCU and Ashampoo Photo Commander performed lens correction. Some programs automatically applied lens correction. I need to give a small preamble before delving into the second group. ACDSee Photo Studio for Mac 5 (above) Ashampoo Photo Commander 15 (above) Color Projects 6 Professional (above) digiKam 6.2.0 (above) Pentax Digital Camera Utility 5.8.3 (above) PhotoLine 21.50 (above) Pixelmator 3.7.5 (above) Polarr Photo Editor 5.2.0 (above) Skylum Aurora 2018 with “Realistic” option (above) Skylum Luminar 2018 (1.3.2) (above) Skylum Photolemur 3 (1.1.0) (above) Zoner Photo Studio 17 (above) Affinity is a great Photoshop replacement, but not as strong yet on the demosaicking side.Īnd now for the second group. ![]() Those using Affinity Photo should use a dedicated RAW converter for that purpose. After that, it’s (12) Photo Ninja, (13) Photivo, and then I ran out of squinting energy, although I’m pretty sure that LightZone was left at the bottom of the pile. It’s very close between those latter six. If I had to rank them by sharpness, I’d say (1) Capture One Pro, (2) HDR Projects Professional, (3) Silkypix, (4) Cyberlink, (5) darktable, (6) macOS Preview, (6) Phocus (identical to Preview), (8) Iridient, (9) Aperture, (10) RPP, (11) On1 Photo RAW. Affinity Photo (above) AlienSkin Exposure X4 (above) Apple Aperture 3.6 (above) Capture One Pro 11 (above) Color Projects 5 (above) Corel AfterShot Pro 3 (above) Cyberlink PhotoDirector 10 (above) darktable 2.4.4 (above) DxO PhotoLab 2 (above) Hasselblad Phocus 3.3.7 (above) HDR Projects Professional 2018 (above) Iridient Developer 3.2.3 (above) LightZone 4.1.8 (above) Luminance HDR 2.5.1, Drago method (above) macOS Preview 10 (above) On1 Photo RAW 2018.5 (above) On1 Photo RAW 2019.0 (above) Photivo (above) Photo Ninja 1.3.6b (above) Picktorial 3.0.8 (above) Raw Photo Processor 4.8.0 (above) RAW Power 1.4 (above) RawTherapee 5.4 (above) Silkypix Developer Studio Pro 7 (above) Silkypix Developer Studio Pro 9 (above) If you are reading this without having read part 1, you’ve missed the methodology, so I suggest reading that first to understand under what constraints these images were rendered. The following are 100% close-ups of the images in part 1, most important ones presented first as a group.
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