The smartphone has become, for many, the only tool to take photos and videos at any time, being the most used tool to immortalize a large number of events with the convenience of not having to carry a dedicated camera whose only function is this. if you don’t like it organize and share photos In addition to editing them, Windows offers us the Photos application, a tool with very few functions and with which we can hardly do anything.
Google Photos is an excellent tool, however, it is necessary to have storage space to be able to store all the photos and use the large number of functions that it offers us. If Google Photos is not an option for us, and we want to organize, edit and know all the information about our photos, the best application that we can currently find on the market is Darktable, an application for open source translated into Spanish and completely free. In addition, it is available for Windows, Linux and macOS, so we have no excuse not to use it, or at least give it a try.
What can we do with Darktable
Darktable is, we could say, the free version of Adobe’s Lightroom to organize all our photos in a simple and free way. Like Adobe’s solution, this It is not an easy application to use and it has a somewhat steep learning curve, so if we want to get the most out of it, we’ll have to dedicate some time to it.
The first time we open the application, a small tutorial is shown where we are shown the basic operation of the application so that we have a base on which to start working. The first thing we must do is import the photos to the application through the Import option located in the upper left corner of the interface. Once imported, a thumbnail of all photos will be displayed.
By clicking on each one of them, in the panel on the right, all the photographic information is shown, such as the EXIF data with the possibility of editing the data, the histogram, the levels, lights and shadows, the RGB curve, balance and color calibration among others. We can modify all these values to edit the image as we want it to be displayed.
It also allows us to modify chromatic and lens aberration, reduce image noise, blur texture, rotate the image, change perspective, exposure, and orientation, among many other options. It also allows us to add a watermark, remove or emphasize and vignetting, focus and blur, liquefy based on the image grid.
Regarding the organization, Darktable allows us to rate each of the photographs from 1 to 5 stars and classify them by color tones, so that it is much easier to find the type of photographs we are looking for. If you are looking for one free alternative to Lightroom From Adobe, Darktable is the best option currently available on the market both for functions and for being completely free. Regarding the configuration options, Darktable has nothing to send, once again, to Lightroom from Adobe and we can customize the operation of the application as we want.
Can download Darktable directly from their website through the following link.
