I haven't used either of these personally but darktable and Raw Therapee are two open-source options that seem to get recommended a lot. Source: 12 months ago

Some closing links to edit images, just because I dislike Adobe as a company :P. Https://krita.org/en/ - a great and free image editing tool, focused on painting but very much funtional in many ways you would also find in Photoshop. Https://www.photopea.com/ - an online alternative of Photoshop. Https://www.darktable.org/ - A free lightroom alternative to edit raw photos with. Http://rawtherapee.com/ - Dito for... Source: about 1 year ago

Is GIMP not an option? Raw Therapee? Darktable? Source: about 1 year ago

Darktable and RawTherapee for editing raw photos. Source: over 1 year ago

I use digikam to organise my photos and rawtherapee to edit. Both free and open source, more than enough capability for non-pro use. Source: over 1 year ago

I'd also (re-)add: film is just one part of a transmission process. Film has to be developed into something. And that's a chemical process, which is non-linear. Developer, the bath you put film in to activate the still blank but exposed reel, to turn the grains into actual "developed" photo, is a complex analog process. "Developer" is expended while developing film & becomes less effective at developing, creating... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

How does this compare to my Filmulator, which basically runs a simulation of stand development? https://filmulator.org (I've been too busy on another project to dedicate too much time to it the past year, and dealing with Windows CI sucks the fun out of everything, so it hasn't been updated in a while…). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

She's Got The Look! Many people spend so much time trying to make their digital photos look like film (and massive props to /u/CarVac for his development of Filmulator because it's awesome), but with film that's effortless and automatic. Want to make your photos look like they were shot on Ektar? Use Ektar. Portra? Use Portra. And Velvia, and Provia and Cinestill, and so on. Source: almost 2 years ago

> I don't want to do elaborate stuff like working with masks / applying filters to sections of the photo only. Only thing I usually do is increase saturation, and, rarely, brightness/aperture. I don't think you're the intended audience for darktable. Try https://filmulator.org/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

There's a list in the FAQ. I try to stick to free and open-source software. Darktable, RawTherapee, and Filmulator have varying levels of complexity. Source: over 2 years ago