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Darktable statt Lightroom

Letzte Woche fragte Holger, wie er aus seinem Adobe Abo mit Lightroom und Photoshop rauskommt. Die spontane Lösung für Lightroom ist Darktable.

darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.

Die Lösung für Photoshop ist Affinity Photo von Serif.

Die Motivation für den Wechsel ist vor allem Geld. Adobe nimmt es von den Lebenden. Lightroom kostet (inklusive 1 TB Cloudspeicher) jährlich über 140 Euro, wobei es deutlich reduzierte Angebote gibt, aktuell um 40%. Zusammen mit Photoshop liegt der Listenpreis bereits bei 250 Euro, für die ganze Suite sind es dann über 750 Euro, wobei es auch dort immer befristete Angebote gibt, die man nutzen sollte. (#reklame)

Die Herausforderung beim Beenden des Adobe Abos ist die Migration der bestehenden Photos und ihrer Bearbeitungen.

Two great Adobe audio tools

Mic Check helps you with your microphone setup to make you podcast-ready. And Enhance Speech makes your voice recordings sound as if they were recorded in a professional studio.

Here are two samples spoken in German. The first one is recorded with just the laptop microphones of a Lenovo ThinkPad Z13. You will notice the room reverb and if you wear headphones, you might even hear a Dyson vacuum behind the next door.

Before enhancement

I uploaded this mp3 file to the Adobe website where it was processed and made available for download as a wav file. Even without headphones you should be able to hear a stark difference. These are not two recordings with two microphones. The second sample is just enhanced from the first sample.

The same recording after enhancement

Adobe is beta-testing a podcast suite for live recording on their website and these tools are both free to use. You have to have a registered Adobe account.