When comparing Photopea vs Darktable, the Slant community recommends Darktable for most people. In the question“What is the best photo editing software?” Darktable is ranked 6th while Photopea is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose Darktable is:
There are a lot of different modules.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Drag and drop support
Photopea allows dragging & dropping images in to the browser window to upload them and add to the scene.
Pro Very reactive on feedbacks
Pro Fast to load
Pro Can save as PSD
This means you can open these files in Photoshop, so if you don't have Photoshop on one device, you can still export your Photopea project and continue editing on Photoshop on another device
Pro Photoshop Like Interface
It has a Photoshop-like interface with most of its features for basic editing.
Pro Has many features
Pro Uses Photoshop standard shortcuts
Pro Requires no browser plugin
As it is an HTML5 application, running it requires no additional plugins on modern browsers.
Pro Feature rich
There are a lot of different modules.
Pro Fast and Flexible
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.
Pro Good batch editing capabilities
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).
Pro Edits are saved to a separate file
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.
Pro Customizable
Darktable allows favoriting modules and remapping hotkeys.
Pro Allows for local adjustments
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).
Pro Supports tethered capture
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.
Cons
Con Hard to get used to it at first
However, you'll get used to it later!
Con Has only basic filters and operations
Con Can be overwhelming
There are a lot of different modules. You're going to need some time watching tutorials to understand how to get the best out of it.
Con For tethered capture on Linux you may need additional software installed that is not a dependency for Darktable
First make sure you have gphoto2 and libgphoto2.
Con No official Windows version
Whilst official builds exist for Linux and OSX, this isn't the case for Windows (though unofficial versions do exist).
