MASSIVE Darkroom Update - This Is a Game Changer!

Great video David! This Darkroom update is insane and much-needed. Interestingly, it also shows how complex color science is, full of shady concepts which lack a precise definition. I can only imagine the gigantic efforts made by the team! Not only to implement these changes but to research and find the right algorithms to get to these results.

What a great video! Really high quality, very informative, deep but not to the point you won't understand. You really captured every detail. I couldn't help but comment on how well your videos gives viewers deep perspectives on the reviews you put out. Cheers! Also What glasses are you wearing? I really like the wooden texture of the frame.

So I have a question, I know the highlight recovery slider on a bright bright image is not perfect yet, but will darkroom and affinity photo 2 in conjunction with each other work for recovering highlights ?

Are you able to merge bracketed exposures in DR yet?

Speaking of “switching“, do you have any suggestions about what to switch to from Focos? It still works on iPhone, but almost all the functionality has been stripped out of the iPad version. All that’s left is choosing the aperture and bokeh shape. Everything else is gone, even though they haven’t taken the missing features out of the description. Super frustrating.

I have am working with INFFINITE 2.0, Will Dark Room work with it? How will the work flow look like?

Excellent practical examples. I will now look at Darkroom on my journey to find an editor WITHOUT a subscription. I had to leave Lightroom. It's great but the subscription cost over the years is insane!

After years of using darkroom I decided to switch to android.. to my horror darkrooms not available on android and there's no equivalent app! I'm seriously considering going back to apple just to use this silly app 😢

Are there any brush tools like Snapseed? How do I brush a mask?

I just purchased the APP (Darkroom). Is there a manual or some resources that instruct how to use the APP? Thanks. je

i like the darkroom UI a lot more than lightroom classic, which I feel is really bloated and old fashioned at times. so far so good, its done everything I have needed it to do, and produced some nice looking photos!

I "recently" switched to a Mac and iPhone 13 Mini and started getting back into mobile photography, so I wanted to try and move my workflow to Halide + Darkroom but I have a question: does Darkroom finally have some "spot removal"(or whatever is called in english) tool to remove small imperfections and objects from the scene? I'd like to have one app to shoot and one to edit, but if I'm not mistaken they didn't use to have this function

Do you get updates with the lifetime purschase?

Hi David, very informative content! Do you know if Darkroom or any good alternative let you edit raw file from external ssd on IPAD? Can't find this information. BR

I thought you meant a real darkroom, not this computer nonsense.

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Wow it's good to have you back. I'm no professional photo editor for sure but I always had issues with Darkroom and never subsced to it. I'd be willing to give it a go on your recommendation. Thanks David

Great video! And BTW, could it be that you lost a lot of weight. Either way, you look great in the video 👍

This is interesting David. Love ❤️

Darkroom 🖤

David, that seems amazing. What definitely draws me away from Darkroom is that, in Brazilian currency, lifetime purchase is more than R$ 400, which is about £77, whereas it’s about £43 in UK. I’ve contacted Darkroom team about it, and they basically said “too bad, well, we’re a small with bills to pay, unlike Adobe, so we’ve got to charge”. Signature also doesn’t work for me, same reasons. So I’ll stick to Lightroom Mobile until Darkroom understands us that have to pay in weaker currency.

Thanks for the video. I don’t edit my photos often enough. I have LR mobile only but hardly use it. This video was very helpful I think I’ll buy into Darkroom

Thanks for the super in depth review David!

Another brilliant review video David. Look forward to your upcoming interview with Majd :)

Haha! I definitely won't be abandoning Lightroom, even though DR has improved a lot and appears to be a very good alternative. It'll take me a lot to learn yet another editor.

I rarely comment on videos, but I really enjoy your videos and your presentation style. It was really a joy to see your smile too!

On your comparison on Light vs Dark (pun intended), Darkroom has an option for one-off purchase for lifetime vs Light's perpetual sub
(For those who might want to think about monthly sub sustainability)

Anyway, hope to see more of your wonderful work!

does this apply for the mobile version as well? I just bought the lightroom mobile subscription like a month ago 🤔

Great to see you David, & as usual fantastic content/video......

so happy to watch your new video!!!!

Excellent! I had already disgorged myself of Lightroom and switched to Darkroom for most edits, with Pixelmator Photo for its healing function and RAW Power for its handling of tone mapping. I paused your video and updated my Darkroom. Back to finish the video and write this. Now back to Darkroom!

Always great to see you here David 👍 your reviews are superb and unique.

Hard to get excited about a subscription app when you’ve paid the one-time purchase option already. Companies should stick to their commitments.

Glad you did this one, David. It reaffirms everything I was thinking about the new version. I'm beginning to think I can delete some of the editing apps I no longer need... like Snapseed maybe. Now I'm going to try an edit on an old RAW file I took with ReeXpose that I had to grossly underexpose.

Excellent! Can't wait until you next one last video!

I will definitely revisit. Thanks David!!!

David, good to see you. I sure miss your content.

ahhh David and Darkroom..what a lovely day!

Yes, he is back!
Looking fit and with some good content again :)