darktable ep 069 - A newbie's introduction to darktable

[@antonc108]

Good introduction for people coming from Lightroom, much better than the other guy trying to burden and confuse new users into "Filmic RGB" when people are just trying to learn the basic interface, he nearly turned me away from darktable and your video brought me back. We are probably one of the countless customers Adobe had frustrated and looking for alternatives. Looking to try this on my 3rd computer so that I need not pay adobe for yet another license. As a busy photographer more than decade deepset into the Lightroom workflow I don't have time to relearn everything from scratch and change things, especially when still using the lightroom on the main editing computers. Thousands of images each week, culling, organization and simple basic edits AND the way to do them intuitively are way more important to me. Am sure there are many many like me, just looking for an alternative to continue our work, if we could make darktable do lightroom things without changing our established workflow, styles and habits, we will. I really like the part you highlighted about the modular modules, just keeping the module simple with basic, white balance and cropping, and maybe some localized brushes. Thats really all I need.

[@audio2u]

I feel (or should I say "felt") your pain. Back in 2016, I was in the same boat. Couldn't wait to turn my back on Adobe and their predatory pricing model. Never been happier. As for learning the workflow (and I realise you already do this for a job!), put aside an hour a night, and re-do the work you did in LR that day, but in dt. I promise you, you'll be up to speed in a week. If you haven't already, watch ep 091 (scene-referred vs display-referred) for a deeper understanding of how dt does stuff under the hood. Good luck with the transition!

[@bcelasun]

I have been using darktable for years and I like to watch your videos which are not only informative but also motivating. I believe it is, at least in part, due to seeing your enthusiasm in explaining the workings of it. No wonder, this video which was intended for newbies are also watched & enjoyed by many like me. Lucky us! Thank you.

[@audio2u]

Thanks for the kind words, Bulent!

[@Ma1ne2]

This video was immensely helpful! Photography is a hobby of mine, not doing it professionally, but after switching to Linux due to frustrations with Windows (and for easier work, I am a developer by day) together with ditching Adobe, I kinda stopped because I didn't find the time to learn Darktable. The application is very powerful and I learned some bits of it to develop some photos but my missing knowledge still stopped me from taking and developing photos more often. This video was incredibly helpful to understand the application better, find a structure to save my photos I am comfortable with and understand some of the frustrations I had with the application before today. Thank you!

[@audio2u]

Many thanks for the kind words. Yes, darktable IS incredibly powerful, but daunting for the new user to learn.

[@ianscott2068]

Wow, this was awesome! I just started with DarkTable a few days ago, and while I was starting to make my way around, watching your video was VERY worthwhile for me! I've watched a few other people's videos, and while I learned some things, this one has really helped create a solid foundation for learning more. Thank you so very much! Many video tutorials also have a lot of "fluff" in them and I'm trying to hope the presenter moves past their fluff talk - yours was not like that at all. I just had to keep pausing when I wanted to make some notes :). Thank you so very much once again! I appreciate all the effort and thought you put into this.

[@audio2u]

Thanks Ian. I do make a concerted effort NOT to let my videos stray off the beaten path... at least until the END of the video. I try to cover the main stuff first, and THEN, if I have anything else I want to talk about, I put it at the end so people are free to click away if they don't want to stay around. I've been burned on so many youtube videos and I hate it, so I'm guessing my audience would feel the same way. I once watched a 15 min video where the actual " content" (ie what the title indicated) didn't start 'til 12 minutes in!!

[@marunikusbakufu]

Thanks for this Bruce. A great introduction to Darktable. I started messing around in Darktable today to process some RAW photos. I look forward to watching more of your videos to improve my skills. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and Glynn Lavender and looking forward to more Shutters Inc. podcasts in 2024.

[@audio2u]

Thanks so much, and Merry Christmas to you!

[@FedericoIosue81]

Best introduction ever. I started using Darktable and experimenting collecting a lot of questions about its under-the-hood mechanisms and I got a lot of answers here!

[@audio2u]

Glad I could help!

[@williammaderasphotography]

Thank you so much for posting these tutorials! I'm currently making the switch from Adobe to open source. These tutorials are helping so much!

[@audio2u]

Glad they've been helpful!

[@ma3xiu1]

Hi Bruce, no need to remove images and reimport them to change between scene-referred and display-referred. Just go to history stack, select the first item "0. original" and then "compress stack", and your history will be replaced with a fresh stack including base curve or filmic, depdning on your preference setting.

[@audio2u]

Good to know! Cheers!

[@naomiwatters6145]

Bruce, were you a teacher in a past life? You have the talent! But seriously, thank you so much for doing these videos. I know it's time out of your day, and I for one am very appreciative of what you do. You make it seem so easy, so learnable, and makes educating myself on darktable much easier! I pass your videos on to others who will benefit too. I always had this feeling that Adobe wasn't for me, and watching these videos confirms it. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

[@audio2u]

Thanks Naomi! A teacher? Yes and no. I was, between 2006-2009, an author with lynda.com, where I recorded 5 different video training titles. Those titles were all about audio software though (I'm an audio engineer by profession). I'm glad you're finding them helpful! :)

[@nigelblanchard5571]

I have now watched the entire newbie series 1/5 and thoroughly enjoyed it as I tend to work on some of my Raw files along side yours as tutorial and also the 4 part new launch of 3.4 series but then thought it was ok to start out again at the beginning but realised that some eps are suited to earlier versions and wondered if you could recommend which I should concentrate on accordingly - looking for a route map and this time I have written down my comment ep 069 as there are a couple of other comments I have made but cant find them as youtube no longer send autonotes out to say reply has been made or if they do my youtube in chrome doesn't

[@audio2u]

As I mentioned in one of your earlier comments about this, I have playlists for each version of darktable, but that doesn't mean that a video made two years ago is necessarily irrelevant now... Many of them still are. I don't really have any suggestions for which ones should be avoided (other than the first video about filmic, because I made a new version of that when Aurélien upgraded it).

Thank you Bruce for this very informative video. I'm a new darktable user coming from LrC and I'm very happy with darktable. 👍👍. I'll be viewing more of your great videos. Thanks again from 🇨🇦.

[@audio2u]

Cheers!

[@TonySkraba]

@25:20 if you switch to new scene-referred method and want to use old images, I think that you don't need to remove image and import it again. Instead, AFAIK, you can go to the light table view and "discard history" which should delete/null the sidecar file but leave the image, prepping the image for a fresh filmic/expos method

[@audio2u]

Makes perfect sense! Cheers.

[@supermarkomarkomarko]

Or just click on original and then compress history. I'm not at my DT at the moment, so I can't be 100% sure, but IIRC that's how I do it

[@audio2u]

Now I don't even remember what the discussion was about! :)

[@Zuzzt]

Thanks! I look forward to watching more of your instructive videos. I think I've seen 50+ now and want to see more. :)

[@audio2u]

Many thanks!

[@StevePikePhoto]

Thanks man, very informative and a great structural overview. Getting increasingly dissatisfied with Adobe and tempted to migrate... Latest release on my PC and you have helped guide my evaluation. Thank you! ..and all the very best for 2021 🙏🏻

[@audio2u]

Glad I could help!

[@charleshacker765]

Mostly watched to keep up with your content. But I enjoyed your discussion of the advantages of darktable. The advantages you mentioned for darktable come down to open source-ness. Proprietary software must always protect itself first, even if the choice that is made is inconvenient to the user. Things must be kept hidden. Many of the points you mentioned had to do with everything being out there for everyone to see. It leaves one less confused, more educated, more empowered, and better able to find answers. Thank you so much for your support of that cause!

[@audio2u]

No worries!

[@europlatus]

For those on Windows that get bent out of shape about the XMP files, you can use "Group by > Type" in Windows Explorer to separate the image files from the sidecar files. You can then collapse the XMP files to hide them if you want, leaving you free to just browse through the image files.

[@audio2u]

Great tip! Cheers!

[@b.jammin]

Using Darktable for JPEG’s is one of the better ways to work with JPEG’s. Because Darktable edits are non-destructive, it doesn’t produce additional artifacts prior to export. The JPEG workflow is very similar to the RAW workflow. Another great video. Thanks for what you do.

[@audio2u]

No worries! Although I'm not sure I completely agree with that sentiment (about artifacts). Artifacts get introduced whenever you edit and re-save any digital file stored using lossy compression (jpeg images, mp3 audio, etc). I don't think the software (darktable or otherwise) is necessarily responsible for the quantity of visible artifacts. It all comes down to the LEVEL of compression being employed.

[@b.jammin]

@@audio2u Sorry for not being clear. Darktable only produces artifacts when exporting into a lossy format. This happens whether the "negative" is a RAW file or a JPG. The quality of a JPG "negative" from the camera might be less than the quality of a RAW "negative" from the camera. Darktable preserves the original either way.

[@duglessfren]

excellent video! I just got my first full frame camera and your videos are the perfect companion to my new hobby! Thanks!

[@audio2u]

No worries! Glad you're finding them helpful. Cheers.

[@MarkB-te3sj]

That was some amazing work! I really like the idea of "subset: no modules" for beginners. And btw, nice motorcycle!

[@audio2u]

Yep, and yep!

[@ambientform]

Thanks for the video! Your videos showed me how powerful this software is.

[@audio2u]

Thanks for that!

[@noeljohnson690]

Thank you. I’ve started using Darktable this week after years of using Canon’s DPP editor. I downloaded it to try it as I wanted something that was stable and would integrate with the GIMP, and being a Yamaha man... something drew me to this video!

[@audio2u]

Excellent! 😃

[@lokitomanny]

I subscribed and I liked the video more because I see your love and passion for image editing and for this particular software. After this video I can now better understand the purpose of existence and direction of this software, I still think it is way to cumbersome to quickly edit images, but at least I can make sense of what is going on here with the modules. I believe in an era of happy trigger digital cameras, volumes of images to be inspected, imported, catalogued and process, we are still looking for a software with an interface that is gear for speedy processing. Lightroom is pretty good, but now we have to rent it to use it and that kills it for me. Canon DPP 4 is another great attempt that needs more polishing. Darktable looks very potent but not stream lined enough to yield a speedy workflow. When I pull an SD card out of my camera and plug it into my computer, before I even think of moving any of those images, I want to be able to inspect the content right where it is. Be able to go through each one of the images inside the card, blow it to be able to check focus, exposure, composition, and color. If the image is not a keeper I want to eliminate it in an instance, just hit delete and not get any confirmation pop up. If I find an image that is not a favorite, but an image that I still would like to play with it to learn from, I want to rate it or flag it some how with 1 star, if I got lucky with an image that looks almost perfect, I want to rate it 5 star. Once I have gotten rid of all the bad ones, now I am ready to import, I can use file manager to move the files to a local folder on the internal library. Once all the images are inside the computer, now I want to bring them into the editing software. Now I need a friendly user interface with the modules that I like to use readily available, Crop, expose, white balance, color HSL, Sharpening. Once I am done with the image, I want to be able to export it quickly and easily. I need to have UNDO readily, if I make a change and I don't like it, I want to be able to digress and try a different way easily. To me that software doesn't exist yet.

[@audio2u]

Each to their own! :)

[@leythecg]

really awesome content and the way to present it! Many, many thanks!

[@audio2u]

Thank you so much for the kind words!

[@ms7165]

Haven’t used (but paying for) Adobe PS/LR for a couple of years. Maintaining metadata is crucial so slowly migrating to Darktable. Your vids are proving to be invaluable! Thanks.

[@audio2u]

Cheers!

[@omergulcu]

Amazing video! I loved the style you explain everything! Other things I liked: * You are a Linux user * Your voice 😄 One small suggestion: Although placing the face view at the bottom right covers the least content, I still would've preferred looking up than down all the time.

[@audio2u]

Thanks Őmer. Bottom right seems to be the general trend for PIP elements on youtube. Glad you found the video helpful. Happy new year.

[@omergulcu]

@@audio2u happy new year! 😄

[@emj2884]

Thank you! I love your instruction style!

[@audio2u]

Glad it was helpful!

[@JM-sn5eb]

Thank you for your work! Thumb up for "raw processing power" :D

[@audio2u]

Yep, raw is awesome.

[@NatalieRosellaBoonzaier]

Thanks for this Bruce. About to watch a bunch of your videos. Thinking of switching from Lr - thanks again.

[@audio2u]

No problem, Natalie! Welcome to the dark side! :)

[@terryspears2307]

Thanks for helping me get started with Darktable. I use Lightroom 6, Topaz, and some others. Darktable seems to be very powerful, and a good alternative to all of the pricey cloud versions. I am looking forward to watching your library of videos. Your are very well spoken, very important in the leaning process.

[@audio2u]

Thanks Terry!

[@GeirAtleStorhaug]

Great video! I was considering skipping this video since I have used Darktable for some time. I am glad I did not. The video contains valuable information that I was not aware of or had not fully appreciated, e.g. the implications of copying the sidecar files between computers.

[@audio2u]

Glad it was helpful!

[@sylvainricher4926]

Thank you very much, very well explain. New in Darktable.

[@audio2u]

Cheers! But if you're on 3.6, there's a new version of this video available now. You should check that out for the changes!

[@TheStanford01]

Another brilliant video. Thank you.

[@audio2u]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@jasondotj]

As someone who is getting back into photography, I was looking for a good program to edit photos besides what came with Windows. I have taken some very good pictures in JPG and did some minor adjustments in Windows. I wanted to switch to shooting with RAW + JPG. I am glad I found darktable. I am super happy to find your channel and your in-depth videos!

[@audio2u]

Thank you so much! The more time you spend in darktable, the more you will realise it really leaves everything else for dead, even if the learning curve is a little steeper.

[@joaoluizpvgalvao]

Amazing explanation! The best I've seen on KZbin. Congrats from Brazil.

[@audio2u]

Thank you! 😃

[@suricatadepapel5186]

You are AWESOOOMEEEE!!! Greetings from Colombia!

[@audio2u]

Thank you! 😃

[@uhadonejob]

Excellent video. Thank you.

[@audio2u]

You are welcome!

[@syteanric]

I'm an experienced DT user and i still watched!

[@audio2u]

Cool!

[@DalsPhotography-Daniela]

Thank you very much!!! Do you know if DT is working with the new Mac Big Sur? I use Capture 1 specially with my Fuji xt-4 camera. I have some questions, can I tag my photos after "...imported" ? And what does importing mean, I already have all my photos in a huge catalag, by year-month-day. Most of them raw photos. I wouldn't like 2 terabytes of photos imported double again... sorry I speak spanish, sometimes it comes a bit hard to understand english, though you speak so but so clearly!!! Thank you so much and best regards from Uruguay. PS, not every program uses xmp... for example, DxOptics uses a .DOP to save the side files...

[@audio2u]

Hi Daniela! First up, your Spanish is just fine! As for big sur, I don't really know, as I'm a Linux user. But I've heard that some people have had issues with the latest Mac os. As for umpiring, darktable does not duplicate your images. When you import photos, darktable leaves the image files where they were at the time of import (which is why I don't use desirable to import images from memory card!). So no need to worry about having 2TB of images being replicated!

[@DalsPhotography-Daniela]

@@audio2u Hi again Bruce :) Thanks for the prompt reply! I am still watching your videos, I love how you talk !!! So clear , you made me remember of our english teachers at school when I was just a teenager! :) I used to have DT on my mac laptop, and it kept just closing down, when I was working... May be now it got better ? Thanks again!!!

[@audio2u]

Thanks for the kind words. As for my diction, I have spent over 30 years as a commercial producer in radio, so I basically spend my whole time trying to help announcers sound coherent and fluent! 😃

[@terrybrooks395]

Minor critique, though I do appreciate your efforts, this has far too much defending darktable policies and functions instead of constructive teaching of the basics for newbies to darktable like me

[@audio2u]

Fair enough.

[@Ufftour]

First, thank you much for your work. I am probably on the way from lightroom to darktable, looking your (and others) videos and beeing testing around my needs. It's a hard way. But one thing concretely to this video: You are wondering about people who want that the RAW should look as near as possible the ooc-jpg. I am such a person. Why? I am normaly very happy with the JPGs of my fujis. And in the most cases i can leave them original. But sometimes i need raw-development (exp. heavy dynamic scene). My best way would be a mixed workflow in which i take mostly the JPGs and only the RAWs were i need them. The software should "see" the both files as "one image". But there is no software (or i did not found them) which can do this "on the fly". So with Lightroom i allways use the RAWs, but have more work, because i have to touch every RAW (at least with a preset) to get the "better look" which the JPGs have "automaticly". My dream would be: Shoting in JPG+RAW, taking both files to my imaging software (Lightroom or darktable), the imaging software should use and show only the JPG until i START EDITING an image. Then it should switch "automatic" to the raw file and from this moment show and work with this RAW file. Handling automaticly the metas (stars, colors, Collections, ...). This kind of behavior would save me (and i think a lot of others) tons of time.

[@audio2u]

Interesting concept! 😃

[@AncalimeNL]

Stumbled on this. This is nice. Bought a drone the other day, this enables me to make use of the raw functionality of the camera Still having this weird rainbow effect on white letters in darktable.... funky screen

[@audio2u]

What's a funky screen?

[@AncalimeNL]

An acer predator x34p which has a rainbowy hue on white text on black background. The kind of hue you can see when you get close to a tv. That's a funky screen.

[@AncalimeNL]

Btw, i subbed, i'd like to know more (starship troopers style)

[@bernym4047]

Very comprehensive (can "comprehensive" be qualified? 😂). Well worth a revisit and you covered nearly all my unknowns. Thanks for another superb video.

[@audio2u]

No worries! 😃

[@nigelblanchard5571]

How well does it deals with highlights, shadows and tonal range in general? I am a newbie and know that some are against sometimes opensource so wondered what this mini forum thought?

[@audio2u]

Well, I think it does a great job, but that's just me. Check out my Instagram for my images, all of which were processed in darktable.

[@nigelblanchard5571]

@@audio2u Thanks for the prompt response and love the bike as I started out with a small 600 Yamaha but am now too old well not too old just have a wife that has banned me from thinking about my bikes I used to have and love. Finished eventually on a Fatboy.

[@erdejo01]

K, so now I'm going through the 1 of the 3 videos you recommended. I want to set up the modules like you suggested for beginner darktable users... However, nothing looks like in the video. Keep in mind I am running 3.4.0... but the handover menu below only shows legacy or v3. I do see another hamburger menu at the top of the modules (to the right of them) that shows a bunch of presets and a preset manager. I get the feeling that will do what your explaining here somehow. Do you have a video on that manager? Also, do the modules only scroll with the wheel when I hover over the scrollbars on the side? Not when I hover over the actual module settings/parameters?

[@audio2u]

That floating window is new in v3.4 and I do cover it in one of those 3 videos (I thought it was the first one but maybe not). Correct, you need to use the right edge to scroll the module list. It certainly would be nice if the middle of the modules would scroll as well.

[@erdejo01]

@@audio2u yes, because if you're moving sliders or entering values and then want to move on to another module you have to move the mouse to the right and "aim" for the scrollbars.... Oh well. I'll look for the other video where the module manager is discussed.... Or I may just play with it. It seems pretty straightforward. I'll probably have to go back forth between old and new videos as I try to get familiar with it...

[@erdejo01]

@@audio2u also, trying to follow ep. 71, it seems that even the favorites option is no longer available (or even needed with the new manager, I guess...).

[@audio2u]

Correct.

[@erdejo01]

@@audio2u I just realized I was looking at and taking about the wrong set of videos... I have found ep. 77, 78, 79 and 80! That explains a lot. I did find that the export function in my case does not automatically fill the value for a selected image when choosing for instance the cm option. Both values remain "0", even though the ppi is set for 300. Is there another setting needed?

[@waldom.arguellesmonal5995]

Thank you so much for your videos, I highly appreciate them! Just a question... I am a newbie in DT, and I want to migrate from LR, so I am playing with the program, trying to understand and learn how it works. One question ... In the "Import module", the option "Scan for Device" does not appear, DT does not detect when I connect my camera, nor when I insert a card, what am I doing wrong? (DT 3.4.1; Windows 10; Sony A57).

[@audio2u]

Thanks for the kind words. As for the "scan for device" option, I've never used it, so I'd have to go and look it up. I generally use a different app (on linux) for copying images from memory card to pc), and then import into darktable from there. This is due to darktable's inability to COPY the images from an external location to your local HDD at the time of import. This will however, change with the next version of darktable (due in July).

[@mitjagaikin1275]

Hi Bruce,my Darktable 3.2 on Mac OS.after loading, the tab Darkroom worked great.After a while, the darkroom tab does not display the modules panel .Updated to version 3.4, but to no avail.No modules (histogram etc).Looks like I'm very dumb and can't solve a simple problem.Sorry about my English. Thanks for any answer.

[@audio2u]

Mitja, sorry for the late response. I've only just seen this comment. Sorry, I don't know why that should have been the case. Did you get it sorted?

[@jyrkiiivanainen5876]

Thank You for the best tutorial I have seen! I have tried several non -adobe software after Aperture´s catastrophy and now will go for DT. I intend to build a Linux PC for Dark Table, tried to find help in the net without success. Any recommendation as to where to go for specifications? Your video quality beats the others on KZbin.

[@audio2u]

Thank you so much for the kind words. For PC specs, you should look at tom's hardware.

[@dbstoryteller]

hi Bruce, can I import tags from my Lightroom library into Dark Table? I have so many tags I don't want to lose and this is making me hesitate shifting to Dark Table. Look forward to your advice. Thanks

[@audio2u]

I think it was episode 4 where I discussed moving from Lightroom. As long as you have the xmp sidecar files, you're laughing!

[@dbstoryteller]

@@audio2u Thank you so much

[@GreenhornPhototaker]

Bruce or Anyone - Have a question. I often choose my image crop in camera (3x2 vs 1x1 vs 16x9 for mine). I import into Darktable and the Lighttable view shows the crop, but when I open the image in Darkroom, the crop is removed. Additionally, lighttable now changes to the default raw image size of 3x2. If I am not paying careful attention I forget what my original intent was on location. Is this a darktable setting I changed, or maybe something in camera I goofed on, or perhaps i have lost my mind at it has always been this way.

[@audio2u]

I don't have an answer for that, sorry! 😃

[@GreenhornPhototaker]

@@audio2u Thanks for responding Bruce!

[@bcelasun]

@@GreenhornPhototaker Lou my "guess" is that your in-camera crops are intended for the display of in-camera jpeg files. Darktable is aware of that and displays those like you wanted (that is, cropped). However, when you start processing the "raw" image, darktable brings it in front of you in its native, uncropped form. As far as I know, no camera "crops" the raw file itself. As I said, this is just a guess.

[@GreenhornPhototaker]

@@bcelasun Thanks Bulent - I do believe you are correct. In hindsight, i recently updated to the latest Darktable version and I would bet at least one dollar that is when the import changed. It's unfortunate, i shoot landscapes almost exclusively and spend a painstaking amount of time choosing a composition to the crop. It is frustrating to lose it on import.

[@audio2u]

Maybe set your camera to shoot RAW+ jpg. That way, when you import all images into darktable, your jpg files will have the crop baked in. Then, you can use that as a reference for your RAW processing. And then, depending on your own thought process, you could discard the jpegs if you no longer need them.

[@jensbehrens6917]

Doh! 06:30 - First time I see there is an "ignore JPEG" option when you import a folder.

[@audio2u]

It's always been there! :)

[@jensbehrens6917]

@@audio2u It probably was. But once you know the move you don't really look what you are doing. I was searching on the lighttable view for a JPG filter a few times. No big bother though, most are raw anyway. So even if you use darktable for a long time it's good to watch newbie videos ;-)

[@pdenby.]

Perfect. Just what I wanted.

[@audio2u]

Cheers

[@GreyGhost-r4z]

I run Windows, Mac and multiple versions of Linux. Is there a way to export all my settings on one of the computers I use, and transfer those exact settings without having to do it on each computer ?

[@audio2u]

If I'm not mistaken, you SHOULD be able to take your data.db and library.db files (on linux, these usually live under $HOME/.config/darktable) and copy those to your other file system's comparable directories, and it should all work. I THINK! :)

[@GreyGhost-r4z]

@@audio2u I’ll do a TimeShift backup before I try 😉

[@sadowskylukasz]

what OS you use? it's looking nice. It's some Linux Distribution?

[@audio2u]

Back when this video was recorded, I would have been on Linux mint. These days, I'm using mx Linux.

[@ingograntsau1922]

Another nicel video, as always! Thank you very much for sharing so much content! I would like to ask you a question if it is not inconvenient! In the main window of Darktable I cannot see the "print" mode inside "Other". I only have the options "Map", "SlideShow" and "Tethering"! Could you tell me how to activate this mode? Thank you!

[@audio2u]

Are you on Windows by any chance?

[@ingograntsau1922]

@@audio2u Yes! Windows 7

[@TonySkraba]

@@ingograntsau1922 the Print module relies on GNU/Linux CUPS printing service. This is not available under Windows

[@audio2u]

That's what I was expecting.

[@ingograntsau1922]

@@audio2u Many thanks for the reply! I hope that this will be fixed in the next versions! Thank you for your help!

[@JudsonBorges]

Hello Bruce Williams, can you tell me what is the software that you use to capture the key pressed on top of the screen?

[@audio2u]

Keymon

[@JudsonBorges]

@@audio2u thanks!

[@asquared8399]

G'day Bruce, sorry, a bit late in catching up on this video (blame it on C-19 of course). Super video at a manageable pace, as usual, allowing me time to properly listen. But one really serious, indeed glaring, omission: you never discussed the bike, so I had to sit through all that raw processing guff, hoping to at least hear it running, and I got 0. Redeem yourself in the next video, please.

[@audio2u]

Haha! Apologies for that! The bike is awesome. Had it for 3 months now, and have just had the 10,000 km service done. I'll be doing about 38,000 per year on it. As for the sound, it's only running the stock pipes, but it is a silky smooth purr. I love it. I'll record some, and find a way to incorporate it into episode 81.

[@neuzeum9496]

Love your videos! Would it be better to export finals in PNG format?

[@audio2u]

Thanks! I guess it really depends on what your intended use is. Maybe it would be worth googling "jpeg vs png" to see if there's a difference. I'm not sure!

[@guilhermebotter]

Bruce, I'd like to know if you know some program like Darktable but for edit video?

[@audio2u]

I use davinci resolve

[@kenhalal375]

One of the issues with the darktable database is they embed the full path to the imported images. If a user wants to share that database across platforms such as Linux and MAC OS those paths will be different on each of those platforms. This is a huge plus for the Adobe Lighroom catalog in which I can share that same catalog between MAC OS and Microsoft Windows. Maybe there is a way around this with the darktable database. Just like the Adobe LRCAT file(s) you should also be backing up your darktable database and config file. This is especially important when darktable comes out with a new release and the database and/or xmp files need to be updated. A user can also choose to create a sub folder and move all the xmp files to that subfolder thus preserving them from any other photo editing applications that may change or corrupt them. You could even name the sub folder something like "darktable_xmp" versus "lightroom_xmp" or "ON1_xmp".

[@supermarkomarkomarko]

Is Basic adjustments module LAB or RGB workflow? Thank you

[@audio2u]

I THINK it's linear.

[@Shaikailash1]

Where can I learn what the different workflows are? Total newbie here :)

[@audio2u]

Workflow is subjective. It really comes down to learning what each module does and working with those modules that make the most sense to YOU. Check this channel. I've done a couple of different workflow videos.

[@ParanoidFactoid]

Is that a VStrom?

[@audio2u]

No! A Yamaha FJR1300! :)

[@ParanoidFactoid]

@@audio2u Ha! Enjoy your bike! Now back to Darktable training vids. Thanks for the good work.

[@joaovtaveira]

I know, I'm annoying, but it is the day after the Christmas, 26th December, Santa must be too busy to deliver darktable the day after.

[@audio2u]

Sorry. Did I miss something? It's still November where I am! 😃

[@joaovtaveira]

@@audio2u I think you didn't understand what I meant, I just said that new darktable versions are usually released on the December the 26th, the day after Christmas, nor on the December the 25th, the Christmas day.

[@audio2u]

Oh, right!

[@katewerk]

Well, this was easy until I tried to open my Canon's CR2 filename on Darktable.

[@audio2u]

I don't understand. Are you saying you wanted to rename your files?

[@katewerk]

@@audio2u My Canon T7 saves raw files in a .CR2 extension. I've just started playing with the program and did a search on the problem, it seems I have to find a way to convert them to ARW first.

[@audio2u]

You won't be saving them as .ARW, as that it Sony's file extension (Alpha RaW). But darktable should read .CR2 files ok. I know it can't read .CR3 files yet, but that's because of things external to darktable.

[@katewerk]

@@audio2u Thanks for your feedback, I'll keep working on it. Much appreciated!

[@rckeith]

Great video Bruce, still finding my way around DarkTable and this is a great introduction. Bike looks awesome what model is it. I'm an ex-biker and still droole over them.👍👍👍

[@audio2u]

Yamaha FJR1300!

[@bryantwalley]

Man you really shouldn't name it a newbies introduction and then assume we have used something else. When we search for newbie tutorials this comes up.

[@audio2u]

I guess I was thinking "new to darktable", not necessarily "new to image processing", but you raise a great point. Thanks!

[@bryantwalley]

@@audio2u seems like you got a lot of great content here. I subbed anyway. Maybe make a playlist for us that are true newbies?

[@audio2u]

That already exists. Has been there for more than a year now! :)

[@bryantwalley]

@@audio2u I just checked the playlist again and this is the only one I see. Starts with the video we are commenting on.

[@audio2u]

That's a playlist called "darktable new users". Did you find that one?

[@luismahieu]

Please record your videos in 60fps when on computer, it's quite a bit smoother. Thanks.