

In some cases, the results may be similar but often, further adjustment will be required in darktable. The underlying processing engines are very different from application to application, and depend a lot on the individual image. It is important to understand that the import process will never give identical results to other software. The aim here is not to make darktable a drop-in replacement for any other software, but rather to help you to recover part of the work you have already invested into your image. In addition, darktable has been designed to help migrate some image operations from other specific applications. Once the image has been imported, darktable will generate an additional XMP file using its own naming convention.Īt present, darktable is able to load the following metadata from Lightroom-generated sidecar files during the import process:

Files with the latter naming format will be read by darktable but will not be written to. xmp (the naming format for Lighroom’s XMP sidecar files). xmp and _nn.xmp (darktable’s XMP file naming formats) darktable also checks for the presence of a file in the form. When importing an image, darktable automatically checks if it is accompanied by a sidecar file. Importing sidecar files generated by other applications
