darktable ep 047 - Exporting images

[@ryandreger5946]

Video is 4 years old and exactly what I needed!! Thanks, hope to see you again soon!

[@audio2u]

Glad it helped!

[@lylestavast7652]

LaTex is a markup language (versus WYSIWYG) from many, many years ago... still in use and viable :)

[@audio2u]

Thanks for the info! Clearly, I have no idea! 😃

[@wishingluck]

LaTeX is or was/is one of the most powerful tools for typesetting complex documents - at a time when MS Word crashed beyond 20 pages or 10 imported images, I could easily write my diploma and PhD thesis using MiKTeX, the LaTeX user environment for Windows. The graphics handling of Windows improved a lot - nevertheless, if you ever saw compund fractions including Greek letters printed via LaTeX - you will not want to use anything else.

[@TonySkraba]

@@audio2u it is still widely used in highly mathematic academic / research / journals. If you have pages of equations, there is still no substitute. It also takes care of formatting everything, so your entire work is consistent. very powerful, but kind of niche

[@fotowissen]

Thank you for your excellent videos, I do know how much work they are. The Export Video leaves me with some questions: 1) Exported Videos are not reimported? 2) relative paths, possible?

[@audio2u]

I cannot comment about videos, as I don't use darktable to manage videos. As for relative paths, I'm not sure what you mean?

[@fotowissen]

@@audio2u Sorry made a mistake: 1) Are exported photos (JPG / TIF /...) not reimported, or in other words: I cannot see the exported photos unless I import them? 2) Difficult to explain. In DxO PhotoLab you can export into the original folder, going up a path by saying ../ . There seems to be not option for that?

[@audio2u]

Correct. Expected images will need to be imported if you want them added to your library. As for the relative path option, I'm not sure about that one. Maybe not. It's not a feature I've ever gone searching for, so I'm not entirely sure!

[@fotowissen]

@@audio2u Thank you very much indeed!

[@ldj00]

Another great session, Bruce! Just FYI: LaTeX is an open source typesetting package for creating pretty much any type of document you can think of in publication-ready quality. The funny spelling is because TeX (Greek letter Tau, Epsilon, Chi) is the base-layer typesetting system for which Leslie Lamport (spelling?) wrote his macro language. (Thus the "La" prefix.) Waaay more information than you probably wanted (and way off topic), but open source software has to get its advertising where it can, right? Have a great day!

[@lylestavast7652]

I haven't printed a latex file for years - still use latex filename, then dvips -Pprinter to output it or xdvi to display it on screen ? (not on my linux instance right now...)

[@audio2u]

Wow. Shows how little I know! 😃

[@Viora2010]

You have helped me tremendously with this. Thank you very much. I would like to learn Darktable and your channel seems perfect for me. Thanks again for your good explanation. Greetings from Italy.

[@audio2u]

Thanks Rob! Glad you found it helpful.

[@fotografie-joerglang]

Thank you for this detailed video. I often use the Darktable plugin steghide to export the images.

[@audio2u]

No dramas! 😃

[@wudl83]

I hope your personal situation has become stable again. Thx 4 the vid

[@AlexandreMaster]

Great explanations, as always. I need you help, mate. I have to change the DPI settings but I can`t find it anywhere. Can you tell me where it is? Thanks in advance.

[@audio2u]

Not sure what you mean about changing the dpi settings. Do you mean for the export resolution? You would do that from the export module. You can choose to export in mm, cm, inches, pixels, etc.

[@AlexandreMaster]

That´s exactly my issue. I can change the size, quality, but I couldn`t find where I change the DPI value to export. I`ll keep on searching, mate. Thanks for your time.@@audio2u

[@audio2u]

I think you're overcomplicating things! If you export an image that is 3000 pixels on the long edge, you can it "10 inches at 300 dpi" or you can call it "20 inches at 150 dpi". It's the same thing.

[@AlexandreMaster]

@@audio2u thanks a lot, Bruce 🙏

[@johncarnahan4067]

Thank you for sharing your video Bruce very helpful I was just wondering what size would you recommend to save photos for printing that will give the best quality without taking up lots of storage. If it's left at 0 You mentioned the file size would be big enough

[@audio2u]

Basically, you need to ask yourself what size you expect to print the image. For your good ol' 8x10 inch, you only need 2400 x 3000 pixels. For a 10x16, you would want 3000 x 4200 pixels. Then of course, you can add in a factor for viewing distance. As the distance you would stand from the print when viewing it INCREASES, your pixels-pre-inch requirement DECREASES. You can google "viewing distance ppi" to find some guides.

[@johncarnahan4067]

@@audio2u Thank you Bruce for your reply this will be very helpful and thank you for sharing all your videos. Also wishing you and all yours a very Happy New Year for 2022 🎉

[@audio2u]

Cheers!

[@Michael_Lak]

Very informative. Thank you.

[@audio2u]

You are welcome!

[@ASHISH_KR_DUTTA]

Is there any way to keep the metadata details in the properties of the exported image?? Thanks in advance

[@audio2u]

There is. From memory, you need to click the hamburger on the export module and select "preferences".

[@ASHISH_KR_DUTTA]

@@audio2u Thank you so much Sir.

[@southernexposure123]

Thank you for the very helpful, detailed explanations for the options.

[@audio2u]

Glad it was helpful!

[@motos-passion42]

😎 well done 😉 great thanks

[@audio2u]

Thank you!

[@Ben-et8wh]

you made a comment about flickr, I still personally use flickr just for a web album. but it is getting less popular and more rules ect. I'm curious what is the new best place to post your pictures online in any type of album?

[@audio2u]

Good question! I don't really have a need for that kind of thing at the moment anyway. Occasionally, I get dedicated to the idea of backing everything up to Google photos, but that usually only lasts a week! Then I forget about it for another 12 months! 😃

[@BlissfullyIgnorant]

For image quality, why lower it if uploading it online? Shouldn't you always want it higher just because, ya know, higher quality better quality? Like whats the difference from 80 quality as apposed to 100?

[@audio2u]

I guess it depends on your internet connection speed, for some people. Lower quality setting means smaller file sizes. Doesn't really worry me greatly. But if I was hosting photos on my own site, I'd want them to load quickly for the end-user, so again, it's a trade-ff between quality vs page load times. Each to their own, I guess! :)

[@BlissfullyIgnorant]

@@audio2u so if I don't care for internet speed and want max quality, just crank it to 100?

[@audio2u]

Yeah, although from what I've read, there's no perceivable difference between 95 and 100.

[@BlissfullyIgnorant]

@@audio2u Yeah I don't see a ton of difference if any from 80-100. And it makes a huge difference in file size, which matters when so many sites have file size posting limits.

[@barbd8047]

Hi Bruce. Great video. Got the pic edited and downloaded to my desktop as a jpg but I can't open it. What's up with that?

[@audio2u]

No idea. What operating system? Is the file extension (jpeg) set correctly so the OS knows it's an image file?

[@barbd8047]

@@audio2u , I use Opera, Windows 10. I checked the file extension to jpeg per the above video. However, although the downloaded file on desktop says jpeg when I hover over it it says its an XMP file.

[@audio2u]

Ok, my guess is that somewhere else in your desktop, you'll find the actual jpeg! I'm also going to suggest that you have already imported that jpeg into darktable (or some other similar app which is also capable of generating an xmp file), and that's why there's an xmp sidecar file on your desktop. Just a hunch! 😃 Double check the files on your desktop, and see if there isn't a jpeg somewhere.

[@Background0618]

Hi I have a picture where the exportfile looks different to the picture in darktable in Version 4

[@michael-mvtd]

I was surprised you're a Gmail user and yet not a Google photos user! G photos is a fabulous free storage of photos especially for casually sharing with friends & family. I think it's used by throngs of people but Google also complains of DT being insecure (as you noted with FB too). I usually export to a file and drag from that file to the G photos page to upload.

[@audio2u]

Yeah, it's funny. I'm an Android guy through and through. Live inside the Google eco-system for everything... except Google Photos! Go figure. :) But I don't use Flickr or 500px either! I post to my own website, and/or instagram, and that's about it. I really should export hi-res jpegs to Google, just to cover by butt in the event of a house fire or something.

[@jacquesensink9045]

Thanx Bruce.

[@iannelson6062]

Thank you for your excellent and informative videos. I have been working my way through them after discovering Dark Table a couple of months ago. I have just revisited the export module (047) after photographing comet Neowise. Problem is the exported Jpegs are terrible with lots of noise and colour banding in the dark sky even though the processed RAW (CR2) image is clean. Is there something I am missing? Your examples of exported Jpegs always look fantastic. Mine always seem noisy. Any hints would be welcomed.

[@audio2u]

Are you definitely seeing banding in jpegs created from the raw files, or are they the in-camera jpegs? I've always found the jpegs out of desirable to be great. The only thing I would ask is what quality seeing are you using for the exports? I generally use at least 90.

[@iannelson6062]

@@audio2u Thanks for the prompt response. Definitely in exports. Camera CR2s and JPEgs are kept in separate folders, as are exports. Exported at 99 . I have just watched your video again and changed Intent from Image settings to Perceptual and things are looking much better. Don't know why it was set like that, probably me messing around with settings before finding your fine videos. Would this be the best setting to use for images to file on disk and only minimal processing?

[@audio2u]

Apologies for the late response. Didn't see your reply! To be honest, all my export presets have Image Settings as the intent. I don't think I've ever given that much thought, really! I certainly don't see any of the artefacts (in my images) that you cited. Don't know why that was happening for you.

[@FernandoPerez-tc5ry]

CMYK is an option for printing and press, not for display. What happens is that the CMYK profile differs based on the printing device and other factors (including temperature), while the RGB profile is used for display devices. You export the file for it to be viewed on other devices and then there's a "negotiation" between the color gamut of the display and the gamut for the printing device occurs. Color equivalents are calculated in the CMYK gamut and everything's sent to the printer where it gets printed. This is why there's no CMYK profile. You can get CMYK values should you like, but it's not actually practical.

[@audio2u]

Good info! Cheers!

[@FernandoPerez-tc5ry]

@@audio2u You're welcome. Thanks for the videos and greetings from Guatemala

[@audio2u]

Thanks! 😃

[@MassimoBelegni]

@Bruce Williams Photography Hi Bruce, I've two questiones. 1) have you ever exported in pdf format? 2) have you ever exported whit a different colour profile for example fogra39? Could you public a lesson about colour profile management in Darktable? Thanks

[@audio2u]

No to both. And yes, I'm hoping to create an episode in input and output profiles soon.

[@MassimoBelegni]

@@audio2u Thank you.

[@luciam3]

hi bruce, thank you for your amazing videos. I wonder how you export your photos when you want to print them. Personally, i send my photos to a printing store (since i dont have a photographic printer at home) so i need to make maths in order to calculate the pixels i need to print in 300dpi. I wonder if there is a easier way to export without calculating, like setting centimeters and resolution or something. Thank you again!!

[@audio2u]

Thanks! As for print resolution, no, I just do the maths! If I want a print 12 inches on the long side, that's 3600 pixels. It's just "inches multiplied by 300". At the moment, darktable doesn't offer an export option for cm or mm: only pixels.

[@luciam3]

​@@audio2u thank you very much for your answer. Here in Uruguay, we use the metric system, so there is a bit more math to do to calculate the pixels. I have no problem with that, just wanted to know if there was an easier way that i was not aware at. Thank you again!!

[@MarcelGerber]

Export for 2048x2048 (it will resize keeping the ratio) for facebook, because fb / whatsapp will not compress those for some reason.

[@audio2u]

Interesting!

[@martinoffenhauer7018]

I was hoping this video would describe how to add tags and metadata to the exported image. I am now beginning to use version 3 and tried to apply metadata and tags to exported images. However, even after clicking apply, the metadata and tags were not attached to the JPG image exported. What am I not doing ? Thanks for the great instruction - it's been really valuable. Keep up the good work

[@audio2u]

Sorry Martin. I will get to a video that covers that eventually! Not at home right now. Hopefully, someone else can chime in with an answer for you.

[@martinoffenhauer7018]

Thanks for the reply. I'll keep trying and wait for your video !

[@tommy8212]

can you tell me why is darktable not exporting the full image

[@audio2u]

If the crop/rotate module is NOT active, the entire image should be exported.

[@tommy8212]

@@audio2u thanks i will try that

[@armandaberlin2156]

When exporting a jpeg for printing purposes, why only set the quality at 95? Why not 100? Is there a reason for that? And thank you so much for these videos!!

[@audio2u]

Thanks Amanda! The "quality = 95" is a hangover from the days when everyone was sensitive of file sizes, when those files had to be moved across the interwebz! Q95 meant you got quality that was very high, but saved on quite a bit of data/space when compared with Q100.

[@markusy3410]

Hi, very good tut. I have a problem, my mode button on export is greyed out. I cannot append history. any suggestions? How do i delete the history and start over? Thanks in advance.

[@audio2u]

Sorry, the mode button? You mean the export button?

[@markusy3410]

@@audio2u it is the mode button just above the export button. it is greyed out. so when i go to export, it just saves the original.

[@audio2u]

I'm not in front of my machine right now. What does the mode button do?

[@markusy3410]

@@audio2u bottom line,,, it won't export my changed photo. it exports my original photo.

[@audio2u]

Mmm, that's weird. I don't know what to suggest, sorry.

[@jackthair8311]

Hi Bruce, I am trying to export images to a folder I created on the Desk Top. When I try to export nothing happens. What is the correct path to enter to get to the folder. I am computer illiterate, doing good if I can turn it on. Please help. Thanks

[@audio2u]

What operating system?

[@jackthair8311]

@@audio2u Windows 10

[@audio2u]

I would expect then, that it would be c:\users\(username)\desktop

[@jackthair8311]

@@audio2u Thanks for the help. I am able to export now. However it does not send it to the folder I want. It creates a new folder and sends them there. Once I found them I was able to move them where I want them.

[@earthgraduate726]

When you export a Raw image to JPEG file , does that JPEG contains the Darktable module's name that you used on that Raw image ? If yes how it can they be exported without those ?

[@audio2u]

I don't recall if that is the DEFAULT behaviour, or if it is something you need to activate. Either way, click on the hamburger in the Export module (either in lighttable or darkroom view). From there, you will find an option to modify exported metadata settings.

[@dmytromalevskyi400]

Thanks for another one!

[@audio2u]

No dramas! :)

[@itsspravinn8172]

Love and respect from Sri Lanka!

[@audio2u]

Thanks! I was in Sri Lanka in August 2019... Loved the place! 😃

[@GabrieleFuschini]

Hello, is possible to print direct to my printer canon cp1500 with darktable? i dont see print menu! My cp1500 support jpeg. Thanks

[@audio2u]

That depends on what operating system you are using. You can print from Mac or Linux, but not from windows (due to darktable using CUPS, which is not supported by windows).

[@GabrieleFuschini]

@@audio2u windows, ok thanks

[@abuthahirism]

For exporting alone it last 20min to explain and it worth it.

[@audio2u]

Cheers!

[@linndyz1871]

Personally I'm super confused. I just want to upload the pictures I edited in darktable to a file on my laptop and I can't seem to get it saved anywhere. I have no clue what I'm doing wrong.

[@audio2u]

Watch episode 047! 😃

[@linndyz1871]

@@audio2u this is episode 047 haha

[@audio2u]

D'oh! Sorry! So, did you use the export module? And did you set the output destination correctly?

[@linndyz1871]

@@audio2u I'm really sorry but I don't exactly understand what you're saying. Should I select local map if I want it in a picture file on my laptop? I'm really confused with what to do

[@audio2u]

If what you want to do is export an ima she, then you should be in the light table view. Select the "export image" module on the right hand side. Make sure destination is set to "file on disk". Enter a path (folder) to export to. Select a file format (most common is jpeg) Adjust compression (lower numbers mean smaller files but lower quality). Click export!

[@gustavtarankov3899]

This should have been a depth video about exporting settings, I just wanted to export, and I have been here for 18 minutes. and the export button at the bottom of Export selected is shaded and not letting me export

[@audio2u]

If the export button is not clickable, then it means that some value in one (or multiple) fields of your Export dialogue box are invalid or missing. Check to make sure you have: * set 'target sorage' to 'file on disk'. * set a path to output to * make sure that that path is a drive/folder your OS can write to As long as these criteria have been met, there is no reason that I am aware of which would prevent the button from being clickable.

[@javiernavio6066]

Hi, Bruce, Thank´s again for your work. Do you Know if it´s posible at the time of export to indicate the resolution (dpi), for example, in 300?

[@audio2u]

Good question. There are a lot of variables that can be used at export, but in not sure off the top of my head whether resolution is one of them. If you hover over the naming field in the export module, you'll see a pop up tool tip showing what you can use.

[@javiernavio6066]

Thank's. I've seen investigating that exporting tiff to gimp might be possible

[@ChrisDaleArt]

Add canvas to Darktable image square for Instagram where do you show that?

[@audio2u]

It would most likely have been the either the episode on the framing module, or the episode on the watermark module. Most likely framing, as that's the module I used for that.

[@ChrisDaleArt]

​@@audio2u I just figured once I found framing and I that there were more module under search eg: f. But can not find a way to make the border colour transparent for.png

[@BONLEV]

when exporting to jpeg the colors are not the same from darkroom and the jpeg. The blue color of water and sky is changed in the jpeg. I tried different settings. What's causing this?

[@audio2u]

Most likely a mismatch between the colour management of darktable, and the colour management of the software you're using to view the jpeg.

[@BONLEV]

@@audio2u thank you for helping me to search in the right direction to solve this! I downloaded irfanview and now the problem is gone! thank you!

[@hyperconga9145]

The new version don't show that export window. I really don't know where it is.

[@audio2u]

Which version number and which OS?

[@joaovtaveira]

As usual, congrets, great video!

[@dylansneed4974]

Hey Bruce. Thanks so much for these videos! I'm trying to export a large number (3,500+) of photos that will become a time lapse. I tried exporting, but it looks like DT only exported around 2,800 to my designated folder. I thought maybe the computer fell asleep during the process, so I turned off all the energy management settings so that the HD would stay on, but I ended up with the exact same results. I've exported plenty of other photos successfully before, even another time lapse. I think the previous time lapse was much smaller. Any thoughts? I'd love to figure out how to export the entire thing.

[@audio2u]

Wow! I've done some large exports before, but nothing like 3500 images at once! Maybe save an export preset, and then run two batches? Maybe run of the first 2000 images in one pass, and then the other 1500 in a second pass. Of course, that doesn't explain why darktable might be doing that. Not sure unfortunately.

[@dylansneed4974]

@@audio2u Thanks a lot! I'll give that a shot. I really appreciate the reply!

[@audio2u]

No worries! 😃

[@dylansneed4974]

@@audio2u Update: it appears one file was corrupted, so that kept messing up the export. When I exported every photo besides the naughty one, voila! Everything worked perfectly. Thank you again!

[@Reinavera73]

Muchas gracias por sus explicaciones. Un saludo!! Cuídese!!

[@audio2u]

No dramas! :)

[@cosmo0080]

very good maybe a lesson on getting a picture ready for Instagram and then export it out thanks

[@davidknowles5519]

Thanks Bruce your export is lightening fast compared to mine what spec of Hardware do you use best wishes

[@audio2u]

AMD Ryzen 2700x, 32GB DDR4, GTX 1050Ti, SSD for OS, spinning drives for data.

[@audio2u]

And I deliberately bought the a7iii instead of the a7riii because of the file size! A7iii is 24MP, where the riii is 42MP. I don't need that resolution, or the slower ingest and processing times that would come with that.

[@davidknowles5519]

@@audio2u cheers Bruce I have the NIkon D850 and only 8gb of RAM I guess that's the issue

[@christineblack4654]

cant find how to export to keep end photo? looked every were, do I have to pay? I tough this was a free software???

[@audio2u]

It IS free software, and the option to export an image is in the "export image" module. You might want to give the video another view, because I do cover all the necessary steps to exporting an image! 😃

[@christineblack4654]

@@audio2u it's ok I found that I can do all I need with windows live photo gallary. wow it is easy an does exactly what I wanted, I am all done with my favorite vacation pics. all these software are useless cause they have problem some even crash lol.

[@AStudio57]

Q: on another subject, I downloaded DT on my new laptop that comes w W11, it installs but won't open, everytime I click to open it wants to download all over again instead of opening... Any suggestions?

[@audio2u]

Urgh. Sorry. I've had no experience with windoze 11 yet. Hope you get it sorted out soon!

[@paragon456]

Hi Bruce can't seem to change replace history to append history in mode.....any recommendations?

[@audio2u]

If you mean using copy/paste via the History Stack module, it seems to be working for me. And the mode dropdown (which offers Append or Overwrite) seems to be working also.

[@saadaghabi8491]

what is the default Target storage, because I changed it and the exported jpeg file has no image data

[@audio2u]

The default would be whatever path appears in the PATH field of the export module. I'm not sure what it is off the top of my head. Did you watch the video? Because I do explain how to set an output path and filename. If you ended up with an exported jpeg file, but no image in it, then it sounds like something else is going on. It wouldn't appear to be a path issue, but rather some kind of issue with dt not generating the jpeg correctly. Not sure why that would be the case, unless the input file was corrupt?

[@kevlarV2rocketRSV]

I just tried to export a single image and it sent it to the correct folder but as a .jpg.xmp file. How do I get rid of the .xmp? I don't want to download Gimp again. I didn't like it. Thank You. I just subscribed and will watch your other videos.

[@audio2u]

The .xmp file has nothing to do with Gimp! It's what's called a sidecar file, and darktable uses it to keep track of any edits that you've made to that image. If you're seeing an .xmp file where you have exported images, it's because you've then imported those images back into darktable and done further editing. The originally exported version should also be there with it's .jpg exptension.

[@kevlarV2rocketRSV]

@@audio2u Ok. So editing a previously edited file will give me the .xmp extension? That's what I did. Still new to ANY editing program and don't want to pay for something that I will only be using occasionally. Thanks for the response!

[@Yanthungbemo]

Which profile and intent would you recommend if I were to export as a TIFF file (16 bit, uncompressed) for further editing in a software like GIMP?

[@audio2u]

Woah, dude, you give me way more credit than I deserve! 😃 Without being in front of darktable, I couldn't even tell you what profiles and intents are available! I usually have perceptual (that's "intent", right?), but honestly... I could not answer this with any authority.

[@terrybrooks395]

Thanks, very helpful, It would be fantastic if the creators of darktable would make it so we are able to select multiple Styles to export in the export module so we could create styles for numerous purposes and export multiple images to several different styles in one export process I'd like this so that I can export alternative processing for clients such as an "Orange-Teal" a "Monochrome" and a "Vivid" version of each file Thanks for all your great tutorials

[@audio2u]

This is, if you've already created the styles, you can then save 3 different export presets (export presets have the option to include a style at the time of export). This would certainly speed up your 3 export versions.

[@chaosloveBronson]

Hey Bruce. My history stack is disappearing every time I switch from darkroom to lighttable & I can't figure out why it's doing that all of a sudden. Have you ever heard of someone having that problem? It makes it pretty much unusable.

[@audio2u]

No, I've not heard of that. My suggestion would be to get over to the darktable page on github and log a bug report.

[@chaosloveBronson]

@@audio2u Ok, I'll do that. Thanks! Great channel btw.

[@ArunWithAView]

I can hardly see the video - it is blurry - and cannot find the export function

[@audio2u]

Not sure why the video should be blurry. Looks ok when I go to KZbin and watch it on my machine. What is the resolution of your monitor?

[@Bigjuergo]

does anyone can halp me pls: lens model data missing in jpg exif when exporting raw data although in darktable 3.4.0 (WIN10 64Bit) the information is available

[@audio2u]

Try clicking the cog icon (lower right corner of the export dialogue) and check the metadata options.

[@_chickenhead]

Thanks for the video Bruce! So, I am exporting a batch of files with this extension: $(FILE_FOLDER)/darktable_exported/$(YEAR)$(MONTH)$(DAY)$(HOUR)$(MINUTE)$(SECOND)$(FILE_NAME) However, Darktable just keeps the information of the first item, naming all of my files the same date and time. How do I fix this? Is this a darktable bug or just me?

[@audio2u]

Hmm, that's an interesting one. I'm on my phone right now so can't check, but I'm wondering... So the fields $year, $month, etc use the CURRENT tone instead of the date and time info from the EXIF metadata? That might be the cause.

[@_chickenhead]

@@audio2u I sorted it out! I wasn't using EXIF data... oops! So each part of the string should have EXIF_ in front of it! Took me WAY too long to realize that!

[@audio2u]

Haha! Oh well, at least you got there eventually! 😃

[@stefanol9272]

I really would like to know to know how to preset into a specific folder I can exort my finished photos. But how to

[@audio2u]

Set the output folder to the location in your hard drive that you want, then save that as a preset. That's why I have so many presets in my export dialogue box! It's a huge time saver!

[@stefanol9272]

@@audio2u Thank you veryvery much

[@briorr]

I leave the size values in zero and darktable cuts the left and right side when I export to jpg, someone knows why?

[@audio2u]

You're not changing the aspect ratio in any way, I assume?

[@briorr]

@@audio2u not, only lights if I export with any change the photograph appears on my full screen, if I move lights or any other parameter when export it appears with black spaces in both sides :(

[@audio2u]

Hmm, weird. Not sure what's going on there.

[@welfevans5678]

Thank You

[@audio2u]

No dramas! 😃

[@phillcom3]

Came to say what latex is and it's the first comment. It's brilliant

[@audio2u]

Remind me... What did I say?

[@phillcom3]

@@audio2u you were wondering what laTEx was, thinking it might be some publishing website. nop it's an open source word processor focusing on what you mean is what you get. It's great DT exports for it to use.

[@phillcom3]

@@audio2u question as i cant think of another way to ask, how do you find all SKULLS when you think its a smart idea to move files around in windows and realise Darktable is going to not know what its pointing at.???

[@audio2u]

There is a batch script apparently. I've never looked into that, myself. I assume it lives in the install directory. Why they can't include a single button click into the preferences, I'll never know. Maybe someone should log a feature request for that!

[@joaovtaveira]

7:00 actually _01, _02, etc..

[@captainkarma2974]

omg my fucking hero

[@DinarAndFriends]

Waffle stops at 1:30.

[@audio2u]

Harsh. One minute thirty? I reckon that must make me one of the least waffly KZbin creators around!

[@DinarAndFriends]

@@audio2u I'm sorry for the rude comment, Bruce. It's just that I was in a hurry and wanted to know how to export, not to sit through a long introduction and then hear why you hadn't got round to mentioning export in other videos, and then listen to an explanation of what 'export' meant. It would have been good if you had mentioned that you had to move back to the LightRoom section, because I still couldn't find it. among the other modules in DarkTable. I will check out your other videos, though. It's impressive that you've done so many.

[@rybolov]

Facebook broke the upload feature because of the permissions problem that they had with Cambridge Analytica and the Chinese and Russian comment bots. They shut off all external uploads and posts. Also broke Lightroom uploads and Twitter cross-posting. Wordpress posting works but only to a page and not to your own account timeline.

[@audio2u]

Ahhh, interesting! Thanks.

[@joaovtaveira]

I use Flickr!

[@audio2u]

So YOU'RE the one! 😃

[@KevinSaruwatari]

@@audio2u I'm the other one! It's not a great social platform but it is fantastic for lens research. If your not using Google Bruce, I suggest you have a look. Again not a great social platform but a very good semi-private platform. If you allow them to compress images over 20MP they offer unlimited free storage. For images 20MP or less, they don't compress (or used to, they may add gentle compression now, I'm not sure) so pictures look much nicer than Facebook and Instagram and the links can be used on Facebook. They let you create photo albums in a semi-private fashion: that is the pictures aren't accessible to search engines so they don't show up in public searches but are available to anyone who has the link to the album so perfect for family and friends only photos. I send albums around a lot and the prints I've seen people make with them are much better than FB and IG.

[@LizMcLellanStrategy]

I mean no offense but why is this 20 minutes? It seems really long if I am just looking how to export.

[@audio2u]

I try to explain all the variables!

[@alanfleck2342]

Crucial features buried. No help file. Half an hour to export a file and still unsuccessful. What a waste of effort by the developer.

[@audio2u]

Why did it take you half an hour to export an image?