Les #photographe et #libriste : vous conseillé quoi comme logiciel libre de traitement de RAW ?
Darktable c'est bien mais c'est assez incompréhensible ( après si vous avez des tuto efficaces pour ne plus y être perdu entre les 12000 modules je suis aussi preneur)

Merci  

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Serif Re-Engineers Affinity Photo for ‘Massive Performance Improvements’

Serif has released its latest 1.10 update to its image editor suite, Affinity Photo, alongside Affinity Designer and Publisher, which claims to bring "superpowered performance" with a completely re-engineered architecture.

The new major update is available today, with a free upgrade to all existing Affinity app users across all operating systems. The company says that the new update brings "a remarkably smoother, faster workflow and pretty outstanding speed increases" across all three apps.

"We’re proud that the Affinity apps already offer class-leading speeds in many tasks, and for our latest update we wanted to take a step back and really see what further levels of performance we could achieve," says Ashley Hewson, Managing Director of Affinity developer Serif about the 1.10 update.

Overall, the majority of the improvements for Affinity Photo -- which was listed as one of PetaPixel 's best Adobe Photoshop Alternatives -- are identical across macOS and Windows versions and bring improved GPU rendering for a more efficient workflow when handling a large volume of layers and files.

Serif Labs RAW engine, PDF import and export, and Lens Correction for Canon, Tamron, and Sigma lenses have also been improved with the addition of CR3 file support for Canon EOS 850D (known as the T8i in the United States).

For astrophotography in particular, the latest update allows users to edit stacked image names for better organization and to stack images for different filters simultaneously using file groups, opens FITS files directly in Photo Persona, and provides support for Fujifilm X-Trans sensor images. For portrait and fashion photographers, the new "Median Blur" mode for the Frequency Separation filter brings new capabilities for editing skin texture.

The Affinity Photo update also brings improved performance with Panorama stitching, de-fringing, and increased maximum radius, multiple placed Info page samplers, adjustments layers when hardware acceleration is disabled, heavily layered documents -- for faster rendering during panning and text reflow -- and more. Performance has also been improved with placed images, embedded documents, and low-memory situations.

IME text editing for Japanese and Simplified Chinese languages has been improved alongside support for most emoji. In addition to tool and feature upgrades, Serif has also added various stability improvements and assorted other fixes.

Although this update heavily focuses on optimizing the workflow and is Serif's biggest performance update ever -- not just for Affinity Photo but also for Affinity Designer and Publisher users -- the company does not state exactly how much of a performance boost photographers can expect compared to the previous version. In an earlier beta sneak peek, Serif demonstrated the performance working with 600,000 object layers in Affinity Designer, with a similar performance boost expected in Affinity Photo.

Full Affinity Photo update patch notes are available in macOS and Windows forum posts. Existing Affinity app users can install updates for free, with a guide available here.

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Darktable Update Makes The Free Lightroom Alternative Easier To Use

Darktable -- a popular and free open-source Adobe Lightroom alternative -- has released version 3.6 and adds a rework of the export and import module which makes the application easier overall to use.

The update also brings with it several other key improvements including a general speed performance upgrade, a better user interface and control, the addition of the "Quick Access" Panel that has several new quick-edit tools, and a new demosaicing algorithm.

This summer update is the first of two major updates planned by the development team in 2021 with the next one planned to release towards the end of the year. One of the biggest improvements in the 3.6 release is the addition of a Quick Access Panel which will replace the existing "basic adjustments" module and adds much more functionality. The new layout brings a refreshed interface to the existing processing modules and bundles them into a single unified layout.

Users will be able to add controls from any module in the application to the new Quick Access Panel and customize it to their liking for what Darktable hopes will help increase productivity. The company says that with this update, modules can also be added or removed from a group in the maintenance window, and the ability to auto-apply module group presets has been added.

The company has also stated that it has made large improvements to the import module, and it now allows users to see thumbnails of their images before the import and makes it easier to handle multiple import tasks. Images that are already included in the Darktable library are now also flagged and can be automatically excluded from the import to prevent any accidental duplicates.

The app also has a new section that has been added to the Color Calibration module that allows users use a color checker chart and a vector-scope has been added to "complement the current histogram, waveform, and parade views." Additionally, the ability to create and display an opacity mask based on the details or sharpness of an image has been added. Darktable says the feature uses a similar algorithm to the one used in the dual demosaic feature.

The latest (3.6) release of the Darktable photo editor can be downloaded on the Darktable website or via the project's GitHub. Those looking for a "quick start" guide on the application can find relevent resources here.

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