Photography Apps for iPad
Darkroom Catches up With Adobe Lightroom at a Fraction of the Price.
You can finally make selective adjustments using Darkroom, so is it time to select Darkroom?
Adobe Lightroom is brilliant, but it’s not cheap, and Adobe really does want to tie you into their cloud platform. I don’t know about you, but I already have too many cloud platforms.
I’d really like to get the capabilities of Lightroom without getting sucked into Adobe’s world. The trouble is that there’s nothing quite like Lightroom, especially on mobile.
Darkroom came close. Just look at the features:
The trouble was that it could only work its magic on the whole image, which was a showstopper for me. I spend most of my time trying to resolve issues due to the limited dynamic range of most cameras.
The dynamic range is the difference in brightness between the shadows and highlights in a photo. Put crudely, a camera has to choose either to capture the bright or the dark areas of a scene, but often can’t do both. (The human eye is generally…
