I’m almost done moving from Lightroom to Darktable. Lightroom is amazing but I don’t edit enough these days to justify $20/mo.

If the straw that broke the camel's back is the nagging Adobe subscription, why not just learn Darktable or Raw Therappee?

I believe if you put photos out on the WEB, at the very least use exiv2 to add a some kind of copyright and strip out telemetry if any exists. Who knows any company pays attention to this, but at least I know it is "protected" :)

This is the file I used for exiv2:

    #
    # To apply to a Pic do:
    #    $ exiv2 -m copyright.txt <file>
    #
    # This should blank personal id info
    #
    set Exif.Image.Model " "
    set Exif.Image.Make " "
    add Exif.Image.Copyright Ascii "Copyright (c) 2026 MYNAME MYEMAIL"
    set Exif.Photo.UserComment "Can be shared using Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"

The development I'm most excited about these days is AI restoration; I can denoise and upscale my pictures to my satisfaction. The next developments I'd like to see are refocusing (with depth maps) and retiming (with video) in post.

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