Cheers Hans

Out of curiosity, what did you delete it in favour of ?

@@AndyAstbury well I never really used it, used rawtherapy a little bit more and watched more of your videos on it. So I guess it seemed more intuitive. I opened up darktable and the interface/panels just looked flat.

Rawtherapee is very good, but in all honesty, the multiple module instance and module masking capabilities of Darktable, make DT the vastly more flexible application. As a Rawtherapee fan for about 5 years, no one was more sceptical of DT than me. But it only took me a few days to realise that DT offered me A LOT of answers to the many shortcomings of RT. I still bemoan Darktables absence of a capture sharpening module a la the one in RT - which to me is the best in the business. I also dislike DT's lack of ability to use dcp profiles. But I learned to use DT to get around these problems, one way or another, and if I had to dump one of my FOSS editors it would be RT if I'm honest.

@@AndyAstbury I'm thinking I should new start watching your 101 videos on DT. I know you can plug RT and DT into gimp, I'm wondering if you could almost do the same with plugging them into each other. But I would highly doubt it. I guess with your videos the DT Devs might get the hint.

Thanks Todd, much appreciated, as I always seem to forget about the details slider. I really have problems visualizing the CZ masking if that's what you are meaning.

What is fake about exposure blending, when it just reproduces, what the eye could see on location?

I said DOUBLE EXPOSURE - that's not exposure blending. But I'm not actually sure the module is working as intended on my mac installation; so hopefully the module documentation will clear the question up - once it arrives.

I can see a couple uses for this, but GIMP actually does this better - though if the module is improved it may be easier to use this than going over to GIMP.

It's the placement of the adjustment spot itself that defines the colour range that will be selected. The transition and shape detection controls take care of the edges, and the graduation controls define the gradient area. When you consider that other software approaches graduated filters in a much simpler manner, the RT method is complicated and far less obvious - this is what happens when 'coders' go mad and there is no oversight of their work by people who live in the real world!!!

Have you actually POWERED UP/TURNED ON the Colour Toning module itself?

Even harder for them now I've stopped using their filters!!

You are welcome!

Hi Robert. With regard to jpeg resolution, my installation is saving at 300ppi (not dpi, as dpi a print resolution), so I'm struggling to answer your question.

Glad you like them!

No worries!

It's the software that comes with Sekonic meters.

@@AndyAstbury Thanks!

I think Hugin does a focus stack plugin that will work in DT for windows and linux - it slso does exposure blending and panoramas too, but doesn't play nice on Mac (at least on mine!).

Sadly, no. It's a frustration I know! Leaving cropping right to the end of your process, and moving around the image with the navigator is the only real answer that I know of.

Use the crop tool to change the aspect ratio to 16:9 and Lanczos to upsize the shot if needed.

Hi Alan, I sub to stock sites, always jpeg, and always in the sRGB colour space, which is the correct colour space for jpegs. AdobeRGB1998 has a gamma curve of 2.2, which is better for for 16bit files but is too contrasty in the shadows and highlight for 8bit images with only 256 levels per channel. The sRGB native gamma is a hybrid gamma curve that only AVERAGES 2.2. This way, your jpegs look better, basically.

@@AndyAstbury Thanks for your time to reply Andy. I supply to only two agencies, one in Germany and the other here in SA. Both their submit guidelines stipulate 8bit and Adobe RGB and in photoshop, as u know it's listed as that. I'm trying to use darktable but it's listed as "compatible" and I wondered why. Anyway thanks again Andy 👍 best Alan.

Good point, but the Film Negative tool will not reveal them all, as it doesn't move contrast around. Using it with a small to medium curve shift would do the job a bit better.

You mean repositioning the Crop? Easy, I can't believe I didn't show it in the video! Hold down SHIFT and left mouse button - this should give you a hand tool, so you can move the crop around the image to get the best composition.

@@AndyAstbury thnak you so much....working flawless