Photoshop vs Darktable

Photoshop is used by professionals everywhere in a wide variety of fields including photography, graphic design and digital art. It is the de facto standard for image manipulation. If you've seen a magazine ad featuring a model, you've probably seen the effects of Photoshop. You won't be alone when using Photoshop.

A wide variety of plugins that add new effects, improve existing functionality and simplify workflow are available.

There's a huge number of both free and paid tutorials available online. Websites like Lynda.com offer premium high-quality, in-depth tutorials, but there are plenty of free alternatives to be found on YouTube, blogs and specialized sites on the Internet.

A stripped down version of Photoshop, called Photoshop Elements can be bought as a standalone application for $100.

Photoshop includes content-aware tools such as content-aware fill that can fill in a select area based on what surrounds it.

Photoshop is the most fully featured image editing software available today allowing you to perform highly advanced image manipulation.

It has tools for RAW image adjustments, lens correction, retouching, image stitching, HDR, fixing framing. It supports most professional color modes and file formats. It includes extensive lists of filters, styles, effects, fonts as well as tools for painting, sketching and typography work. It understands both raster and vector graphics. It even includes tools for video editing, working with 3D objects and support for 3D printing.

You can save all projects directly to the Creative Cloud allowing you to access them from any device and with any relevant Adobe software.

Lightroom is another image editing software from Adobe that's specifically designed for photo editing and managing of large quantities of digital images.

There's a free mobile app available for iOS, Android & Windows Phone.

There are a lot of different modules.

A very well considered UI makes edits fast and fluid. You can redo or undo any step without disturbing any other part of your edit. The UI doesn't get in the way.

Darktable allows applying the same set of operations to multiple images and saving your history stack as a style (you can pick exactly which modules).

Original files are untouched by any edits. No worries on what was done before or if an accidental save occurs. All work is separate from the originals.

Darktable allows favoriting modules and remapping hotkeys.

Most modules, by default, affect the whole image, but have the option to only be applied to masked-off areas (be those drawn masks, parametric ones, or a combination of the two).

On the camera set it to use USB Remote. Open Darktable, on the left side under Import, click scan for devices. The camera should appear. Click on tethered shoot. Next on the right side look for the gear icon above the battery n/a and click it. go to the session options tab, and change the base directory to the location you want to save photos. close that settings window and try taking a picture. It should come right up.