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Darktable 4.0

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Re: Darktable 4.0

#21

What's the reason behind this "As always, please don’t use the autogenerated tarball provided by github, but only our tar.xz file. The checksums are:"

The wording is a bit vague, but I presumed they meant to use the tar.xz if you intended to checksum the file.

Re: Darktable 4.0

#22
Does anyone use darktable for inverting color film? I currently use a plugin for Lightroom and while I love the plugin, it would be great to be able to get rid of the Lightroom subscription.

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post #22

Does anyone use darktable for inverting color film? I currently use a plugin for Lightroom and while I love the plugin, it would be great to be able to get rid of the Lightroom subscription.

I don’t but here’s some documentation https://darktable-org.github.io/dtdocs/en/module-reference/p...

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post #22

Does anyone use darktable for inverting color film? I currently use a plugin for Lightroom and while I love the plugin, it would be great to be able to get rid of the Lightroom subscription.

If you want a quick-and-dirty inversion, you can take a tone curve tool, set it to the XYZ color space and make it go top-left to bottom-right instead of the normal bottom-left to top-right. That should work afaik.

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#25
Building an open source software with a GUI and announcing that said GUI has been reworked in this release, and then not attaching screenshots of said changes :(

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#27

Really glad there's advanced open-source tools like darktable and RawTherapee. I've switched back and forth between RawTherapee and darktable for a few years now. I prefer the UI and workflow or RT, but dt has better performance on my machine. And RT has this strange longstanding bug where the image is extremely blurry during editing, and only becomes clear after exporting. According to a github issue, a workaround i…

Darktable is great! This year I restarted photography, ina serious manner, after quite some time. Serious as in I try to get beautiful pictures I could hang on a wall. I also started to do proper post processing, and darktable is quite handy.

My dad used to be a pro photographer, now retired, and gave me crash course in RAW processing. Besides some handling differences between lightroom and photoshop he nothing negative to say about darktable. And neither do I, it's not darktables fault that my photo library is a mess.

Re: Darktable 4.0

#28

Really glad there's advanced open-source tools like darktable and RawTherapee. I've switched back and forth between RawTherapee and darktable for a few years now. I prefer the UI and workflow or RT, but dt has better performance on my machine. And RT has this strange longstanding bug where the image is extremely blurry during editing, and only becomes clear after exporting. According to a github issue, a workaround i…

I'm also glad it exists but have never figured out how to use it on MacOS. I believe I somehow imported my entire /pictures folder at some point, producing many thousands of images in a film roll; I just downloaded 4.0.0 and have spent some time trying to figure out how to reset the film roll, or darktable altogether. Or how to create a new library. There's no typical top toolbar on MacOS. In clicking around, I've se…

  >I'm also glad it exists but have never figured out how to use it on MacOS
Same here. I just downloaded V4 to see if there was any improvement from last time I tried to use it

* Open app, Select 'Add to Library' --> spinning beachball of doom

delete the ~/.config/darktable directory, to give me a clean start...

* Open app. App opens in a weird window the full width of my screen but only half the depth. I try to resize the window. It won't rezise, even though I get resize arrows when hovering over the corner. Finally manage to make it usable by hitting the fullscreen widget.

* Try 'Add to Library' again. This time it allows me to select my photos archive folder. I see there's a tickbox marked 'Recursive' so I click on that as I have subfolders in my photos archive. I can't select the box. Then the spinning beachball of doom starts again...

* Force quit

* Delete app.

Life's just too short to mess about with an app that hangs twice, requiring a force quit, before I've even managed to do a single thing with it.

Re: Darktable 4.0

#29
I gave Darktable a try (never used Lightroom), and as an amateur, it is still kind of hard for me to achieve something better than the "out of camera" JPGs when post-processing RAW photos from my rather old Canon DSLR camera. 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. Saturation is maxed in OOC-JPGs anyways leading to clipping if it's increased more for the overall image. And what I almost forgot, lense correction and rotating towards drawable vertical or horizontal lines are great features.

So what it does for me is basically barely noticably adjusting the saturation/contrast values, fixing the horizon and applying lense correction.

Re: Darktable 4.0

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post #29

I gave Darktable a try (never used Lightroom), and as an amateur, it is still kind of hard for me to achieve something better than the "out of camera" JPGs when post-processing RAW photos from my rather old Canon DSLR camera. 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. Sat…

Lightroom user here.

It's over hyped. Yeah, it's cool and all but anything else would do the same thing. The only thing that I actually found is better in Lightroom is the AI detection features. Same can go with Photoshop and paint.net (or gimp if you're into that kinda thing.)

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