Questions tagged [darktable]
darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer. Apply this tag to questions about using darktable to process and enhance your image files. Do not use this tag to ask questions about general software support, such as how to install the software on a particular system.
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How to recover and load XMP from exported JPEG in darktable?
I've lost a XMP file for the edit, which I very much like...
Luckily, I've got the RAW for the photo and the exported JPEG for the edit. And, digiKam is showing a tab with XMP profile (for the JPEG of ...
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Can darktable auto enhance images, like MacOS Photos?
I am looking for an alternative to Mac Photos and have stumbled upon darktable. I've played around with it and sort of have the hang of how to select pictures in lighttable and how to edit them in ...
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darktable, how to see histogram relative to graph in filmic-rgb module
When using the filmic-rgb module with the graph in "Look only" mode, is there a way to relate the clipped region shown on the filmic-rgb graph to the histogram? The left and right edges of ...
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Difference between dashed line area and feathering radius in darktable
In darktable, when you make a selection, e.g. to increase the exposure of a specific area, there is the selection outline, and a dotted exterior line. The distance between the main selection and that ...
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darktable 4.0, favorites category missing?
Upgraded my OSs (FreeBSD and Ubuntu) and apps, now running darktable 4.0.
In darkroom, the only tabs I see on the right now are
quick-access
active
technical
grading
effects
Is there a way to get the ...
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Why am I losing the color profile when GIMP invokes Darktable?
When gimp 2.10.32 opens a raw file using darktable 4.0.1 via the plugins/file-darktable/file-darktable plugin, my image has the color profile assigned to it that I want. (I have a preset for the ...
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Darktable doesn't seem to render RAW consistently VS lightroom
I am running into an issue with working on RAW images in darktable where the images are not being rendered in the same way that Lightroom renders them. For example, the following is a crop from an ...
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Which module effects in Darktable don't permit masks?
In Darktable you can construct a mask by drawing shapes directly onto the image canvas so that effects like exposure and color LUTs are only applied to those masked areas you drew instead of the ...
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Darktable: How to edit the same image as multiple different edit versions?
In Darktable, you can only import the same image once as image.jpg for example. What if we would like to work on and make multiple edited versions of image.jpg instead, and produce multiple different ...
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Change image orientation in darktable from a lua script
I'm working on a lua script to import metadata from Shotwell to Darktable. Among other things I want to import the image orientation from the Shotwell database. But I can't seem to find an orientation ...
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How to locate a Darktable image on the filesystem?
Darktable does not have an "open in finder" or "open in explorer" option.
If I'm viewing an image and I want to locate the file in a file viewer, how do I do this?
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Darktable: How do I adjust the exposure on one half of an image?
I have some film scans from a half-frame camera, so each scan contains two pictures (side-by-side).
Some of the scans are consistently overexposed, but by different amounts. For example:
I'd like to ...
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Tethered shooting with gphoto2 works, but darktable does not find camera
I want to use my Canon 1300D and darktable 3.2.1 for my tethered photoshooting. I checked everything with gphoto2 on my Linux Mint Notebook, everything works fine, I can capture photos, but darktable ...
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Darktable: How to fix "Image .. is currently unavailable" (after having moved imaged to different (sub-)folder on drive)?
After having moved a bunch of photos to a (sub-)folder on the drive, darktable no longer finds them and when double-clicking the resp. thumbnail (in darktable's lighttable), the error message pops up: ...
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How to fix underexposed flash-lit portrait in darktable (and perhaps also in gimp), leaving background dark?
Shot a portrait with flash + umbrella (indoors at night, some artifial ambient light) - but it's underexposed.
In my first go at darktable I managed to properly expose the whole photo within 2 seconds ...
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Keep aspect ratio but rotate it in darktable
Is it possible to rotate the crop frame, i.e. crop a landscape photo to portrait and vice versa? I would like to keep the original aspect ratio of the photo, just change the orientation. And obviously,...
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How to save Darktable edits as a file?
Darktable is a non-destructive photo editor that exports to jpeg, png and .xcf (whatever that is, but seems to be the Gimp file format), but doesn't save a workfile containing all the individual ...
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Why does a 16 bit depth photograph export as 48 bit depth?
When exporting a PNG file of a photograph as 16 bit depth in Darktable, its Windows 10 file information ends up saying it has 48 bit depth!
Similarly, the default 8 bit depth when exported comes out ...
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Darktable disable auto correction
I am using darktable for editing my RAW photos and am really a newbie.
When I open a new photo, some corrections are already applied, for instance "base curve", "sharpen" etc
Is ...
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How to reorganize photos along with sidecar files?
I'm using darktable 3.6.0 and am still struggling to find a good workflow. I originally started out with a folder structure where my photos were grouped by "event", but this proved limiting. ...
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How can I copy only one change from history stack between pictures?
I think I must be doing something wrong. I took some sample pictures demonstrating an unusual lens filter. I also prepared a watermark to show the lens properties and camera settings, it looks like ...
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Publishing service in darktable
In Adobe Lightroom there is a concept of "publishing service". Its a collection that has a "publish" option, which exports just the images added to the collection after the "...
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Darktable discards all edits immediatelly as I edit a picture
When I open a picture (it's a JPEG, as I was shooting a timelapse and didn't want it to take too much space), any edits are discarded if I try to compress the history stack or if I leave the picture ...
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Camera JPG Post Processing [duplicate]
I was just reading the responses to a question as to why RAW images look different in lightable and darkroom in Darktable (due to the in camera post processing taking place for JPG files) and I would ...
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How to refresh a folder already in darktable when new photos are added?
I am photo documenting a little pet project I have, and when I have progress captured I put those images into a folder named after the project. However, when I run Dark table, the newly added pictures ...
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Why don't the values given by Argyll's scanin match what I see in darktable or Gimp
I'm trying to do a variation of the color profiling flow given in this post about color profiling
I take an image of a Wolf Faust it8 target, turn off a bunch of the default processing that darktable ...
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Darktable 3.4 module order does not match that of pixelpipe
Darktable 3.4 manual states here:
Note: The order in which processing modules are executed exactly matches the order in which the modules appear in darktable’s user interface.
I deleted the ~/....
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Darktable ignores embedded JPG for preview
I am using Darktable 3.2.1 and I can't get it to use the JPGs embedded in RAW files for preview within Lighttable. There is an option named don't use embedded preview JPG but half-size raw in the ...
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How to split my collection in Darktable?
I have a few pretty big collections in Darktable - 500-1000 photos per collection - from when I was starting with all this. Now I'd like to get at least some of them in order, split them up into ...
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How do I batch apply sidecar files to the corresponding photos by filename in darktable?
I have pretty much the opposite question to this one.
I recently needed to upgrade my computer. On my new computer, I still have all of the documents from my old computer, copied over in the same ...
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Why are thumbnails bad, when jpgs are good, with raw processed with darktable?
I'm using darktable to process my raw photos and save the final jpg's. I'm on ubuntu linux.
From some of the jpg's, gthumb gets thumbnails which are far lighter than the original jpg, and the same ...
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After exporting from Darktable, I continue getting a message stating, "IMG...CR2 file is currently unavailable"
I'm about 2 weeks new to darktable. I (almost) successfully imported, edited & exported my current project. When I was done editing in darktable, I noticed that about 32 photos didn't export into ...
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Where are these maze-like noise patterns coming from in this tit photo? [duplicate]
I was just editing some tit photos I made on our balcony, and I found really strange patterns of noise over the bird's feathers:
The photo is from Nikon D5600, settings 85mm F4.0 1/1000 ISO 160
These ...
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How to go back to a snapshot after moving elsewhere in history?
I was editing my photo in DarkTable.
I took a snapshot and then went back in the history and tried to use a different approach to editing my photo.
My new approach looked worse than the snapshot of my ...
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Darktable: zoom impacts exposure?
I just have observed a strange behavior in Darktable (Fedora 32, darktable-3.2.1-1.fc32.x86_64): when looking at the image with 'fit screen', it is much darker than the 100% view. After saving the ...
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Darktable film rolls — how to remove a film roll from 'collect images'?
darktable: I have begun using this app. One question, how are unwanted fill rolls removed from 'collect images'. There are several fill rolls I created from folders that I no longer want to keep in ...
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Why does darktable's shadows and highlights module invert this image?
I've recorded a screencast of the issue here.
I have a test image that I made so I could see how various modules in Darktable effected the histogram:
I import this image in darkable and switch on ...
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Problem with masks: why gradual decay shape always grows under Shift-scroll?
I have troubles understanding how to use masks in Darktable.
I'd like to adjust the difference between a mask and the corresponding gradual decay shape. However, when I Shift-scroll, the gradual ...
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Darktable : using a style to deactivate an operation when exporting a file
I usually set a watermark on my photos and I would like to be able to deactivate sometimes the watermark when I am exporting files from the light table.
Long ago, with an old version of Darktable, I ...
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Darktable : Module group icons from darkroom is missing! unable to get them back!
Darktable : Module group icons from darkroom is missing! Not sure if I pressed some shortcut...
Unable to get them back after many ties (tried deleting the dbs from the setting folder)
I am running ...
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Darktable : Compare before and after quickly
Is there a way to quickly compare before and after in Darktable?
I know how it can be done using the snapshot panel, but is there a way to do it faster?
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Colors consistency between RAW pictures for timelapse in Darktable
Why do I get different colors while applying the same exact history to every pictures in Darktable. It was my understanding that the white balance setting of the camera didn't matter to a RAW file and ...
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CR3 Format in darktable
Since I can't afford Lightroom, I figured I would use darktable. As I wanted to import my RAW - files (in CR3) I realized that darktable doesn't support them. Is there a way I can still get my RAW - ...
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How do sync a tree of photos in Darktable so it picks up additions/deletions?
I am new to Darktable and trying to use it to manage a large tree of RAW images.
I've recursively imported the root of the tree already. It's now displaying the directory names in the lighttable view ...
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Darktable: apply camera's filters, lens correction and crop by default in darkroom mode
I have a Sony Alpha mirrorless camera. When I preview my photos from the lighttable, they look like they do on the camera. But when I open in darkroom, the aspect ratio, lens correction and color ...
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Remove color range (to black) in Darktable
I'm quite new to DarkTable, I'm trying to learn but I can't spot how to do what I want and can't find it in the tutorials.
I have taken some light painting photos, there is an overcast night sky in ...
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Some darktable modules create hot pixel "sparkles". Is this a bug, or am I using it wrong?
I'm just getting started with Darktable 3.0.0 processing some RAW files out of my Canon 6D MkII.
One odd thing I noticed is that some of the modules seem to create hot pixel-like "sparkle" artifacts ...
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How do I open an older collection in Darktable?
I see a list of collections in the left sidebar in Darktable, and now I wanna open one of the older ones, but I don't see it in the list. How would I go about opening it?
Am I supposed to just "...
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How to check lensfun version on Fedora
I was just about to make calibration files for my Tamron 90mm SP but according to lensfun it was added in 1.613 (there is only one SP 90mm and it's the same as the one I have in EXIF). How can I check ...
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Workflow and colorspaces in Darktable and GIMP for printing images?
I have started to print out some of my photos, but this has lead me down a path where I do not know if I am doing things correctly, and are asked questions I do not know the answers to. Here goes:
I ...
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