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Why is there no good photo app? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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Since some time I've searched photos related apps, to edit and take pictures but I've not found anything interesting in open source... Does someone has an explaination?

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[–] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Does someone has an explanation?

companies that have the most money and resources to improve image processing don't want to disclose their findings in order to keep their advantage over the competition.

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I recently discovered Image Toolbox, it has the best editing capabilities of any FOSS Android app I've seen so far. That being said, if developing RAWs is something you need as well, I don't think there exists anything besides Google's Snapseed and Lightroom mobile.

    As for taking pictures, I quite enjoy OpenCamera, but there's not much else than that.

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    • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Editing photos on a phone is painful. Better to use a desktop editor of which they're are plenty.

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Darktable is pretty powerful, though it's not as easy to use as Lightroom

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    It’s the same UX. Not sure how one would be less easy to use than the other just for different nomenclature & things being in slightly different locations.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    It's very different. They used to be similar years ago, but now darkroom is its own thing.

    Scene referred processing, parametric masks and many other modules that have no equivalent in Light room.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Well yes, you can do professional photo work in either, but darktable is not as easy to use. Masking in darktable for example, is incredibly configurable and powerful, but it's also quite technical, and nothing at all like the AI driven object detection masking that Lightroom uses.

    The ability to overlay masks to add or subtract from each other on a per module basis isn't something that Lightroom does, so working out how to make the most of it in darktable is a process.

    The scene referred pipeline workflow changes the way many of the modules work compared to similar functionality in Lightroom, and scene referred worklows in general is not the way most photo editing and management software works, so it's a whole process to learn as well.

    I'm finding darktable better and more powerful than Lightroom, but it is absolutely harder to use, and takes time and patience to understand.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    They don’t have to be exact. They follow the same design language for editing & you can do professional photo work in either.. it took me a couple of weeks to get comfortable in darkroom, but this was over a decade ago. When I oversee folks using Adobe software, it looks close enough.

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    • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    GrapheneOS has a camera app called "secure camera". It's avaliable through Aurora store. It's not feature packed but does take a decent shot.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    Even they would tell you that using sandboxed google play and the g cam app is a better experience if your looking for more then just snapping a photo on your phone though. As obnoxious as they can be on mastodon they are pretty honest with the limitations of their apps due to it not being as high of a priority.

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    • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Avariy was pretty good. Then Adobe bought and killed it. It's still possible to download it, but a lot of the free stuff, filters and etc are missing because they shut down the servers.

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    [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I don't think there is any good one. For privacy, you can install Google Gallery then disable network access to it.

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