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It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop and enhance your raw images.

Its ease of working with groups of pictures and the database features work well for me.Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer - a virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. There are other Photo Management apps out there that have similar features but I have used LR for so long that it isn’t worth my while to switch. It also has a feature to create slide shows in which you can include the Title on the picture selected. It is not as complete as Photoshop but it is sufficient for my purposes. Lightroom also has pretty full suite of adjustment features that Adobe seems to improve on a regular basis. You can also create regular collections that you maintain by selecting and adding individual or groups of photos.

Bees found in my yard in the month of August. Using Tags allows me to create Smart Collections of pictures that meet certain criteria - e.g. For identified subjects I add the Taxa name in the Title (one at a time or at a group level).For photos of identified subjects that are not added to iNat use a different colour and yet another colour for pictures of my grandkids For photos of things that are identified in iNat, I apply a colour code.Fly, Bee, Cricket, etc.) as well as possibly the behaviour of the subject Add keywords to individual or groups of photos based on the a category of observation (e.g.Review the copied photos and rate them based on picture quality flagging the good, the OK and the really bad.Apply some general adjustments such as lens correction and Input Sharpening on the initial intake.

Apply tags to all inbound photos including location and sometimes subjects.

Copy files from camera or SD Card into Lightroom allowing it to place the photos in folders by year and date based on the capture date.

I use Adobe Lightroom for managing my photos and for doing most of their post-processing.

How to use darktable software