They don't really hold your hand, but in the end you benefit from that. But when you start to get under the hood and work out what they do and why they do it, your processing skills will improve measurably. It's a common complaint about all of them that they take too long to learn and are not always "intuitive". They reward patience and lots of research. They will all offer varying levels of frustration at first because they work differently from what you're used to. The key for all of these programs though is to give them time. I might go as far as saying it's the easiest to transition to for a Lightroom user. I would also recommend ART, which is a fork of RawTherapee and offers a more streamlined experience. My suggestion is to keep trying both darkroom and RT for a month or two each and decide for yourself which one you prefer after processing lots and lots of photos. I have tried almost all the major FOSS photography applications and they all have their strengths and weaknesses. But I cancelled my subscription for various reasons and will probably never resubscribe. I was a Lightroom user for many years and I still really like it for what it does. My comment isn't a comparison, since I don't use rawtherapee or lightroom, I am just an enthusiast darktable user.
(See this one for an example of what darktable can do )Īpart from that, on r/darktable you find a post with collected resources. I suggest to look Bruce Williams series of video tutorials on youtube, imo is the quickest way to learn. One difficulty, especially at the beginning, is that it gives you the choice between A LOT of different modules and often you can obtain similar results using different ways. For example, you can enhance the exposure of a certain local zone, or tell it to apply the module only on the pixels with a value above a certain threshold. Every module can be applied using a mask. A thing very important in the darktable workflow is the possibility to use masks. It is a very powerful software for RAW developing, but it also gives you the possibility to just develop photos in a quick way. I like it very much, especially the new version 3.0.2. I will add my opinion as a darktable user.
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