Having one designer leading the project and managing priorities should hopefully prevent that.ĭeveloping it still takes an average of 45 h/week for not even minimal wage, and if you think open-source imaging options need to be made better, well it will not happen by itself ( and don’t expect the guys who created the problems to be the ones fixing them).You want your photos to look their best. The software is only a mean to an end and it infuriates me when it gets in the way of creativity and productivity. The design is based on the user feedback I gathered from giving individual editing/retouching lessons with Darktable over the past 3 years, and on the 2 user surveys I ran in 20. Things are done at a pace that ensures the quality of the code. Ansel development is driven by results and achieved by proper color science throughout the pixel pipeline.

I have given 4 years of my life to the Darktable project, only to see it destroyed by clueless geeks playing code stashing on their spare time, everyone pushing his own agenda with no sense of design, in a project where nobody is responsible for anything and where we work too fast on everything at the same time. Yet, you will find a lot of image editing applications and a lot of guys trying… You will find very few people with this kind of full-stack understanding of light and color able to also write efficient computer programs and read academic research papers on applied mathematics. On the following picture, I made the styling, the make-up, the lighting, the shot, the editing, the retouching, the software color filters, the documentation to use them, the website to talk about them in 2 languages, and even the colorspace used for saturation adjustment.

Darktable editor