Darktable Workflow - 8 simple steps to catalogue, edit and publish your photos

[@alanshiell4244]

I'm just making the transition from Lightroom to darktable + Affinity, so was very pleased to find this clear and concise description of your workflow. Thank you.

[@StefanoFerro]

No worries 👍🏻👍🏻

[@jgrossnicklaus]

Thank you for making this video. It has helped me a lot in learning how to use Darktable!

[@stephenward5133]

Step 2 is going to make my process so much quicker! Thanks.

[@StefanoFerro]

No worries Stephen. Enjoy darktable 👍 cheers

[@doghouse7]

Very clear and well structured.

[@StefanoFerro]

Thanks buddy, appreciated 😁

[@liquidribs]

Wonderful video. Is there a keyboard shortcut in darkroom window that moves to the next image, like the light table window?

[@rosleinrot5322]

Thank you so much for this helpful description! It's gonna improve my work, thanks a lot😊

[@eriklouie2703]

Thank you so much! There's no guide, despite it being a decent program.

[@StefanoFerro]

Sorry Erik for the late reply. I somehow missed your comment. darktable is a great program in my opinion. It has a few things that can be probably improved (a more standardized interface is one of them) but overall I find it more powerful then LR (to mention a famous sw). It takes time to get used to the workflow and interface, but I believe it's time well invested If you are looking for documentation and videos, I have built a month ago a darktable Tutorials Hub that collects all I write and publish on YT. You may want to have a look there. mel365.com/darktable-tutorials/

[@paco_b_v]

very helpfull for beginners. Thanks a lot!

[@StefanoFerro]

You're very welcome!

[@kenphused]

Excellent video! I like that you add tags before you edit. Keep up the good work!

[@StefanoFerro]

Thanks Ken. Really appreciated 👍 👍 🙏🙏

[@JamesTait]

Thank you for this, I learned about a couple of features. Your video starts with Step #1 - Import, but the files are already on your hard drive. Am I correct in thinking there's an implicit Step #0 - Move the files from the SD Card then? I've historically used Darktable's built-in Import From Device, but I'm never quite sure whether I've created a copy of the source file in doing so, or if I'm editing the files in their original location.

[@InteressanteFilmes]

Also something I'm unclear about, especially as the pre-editing stage seems significantly different to Lightroom.

[@terrybrooks395]

Thanks for this

[@StefanoFerro]

No worries 😁

[@Zizos]

I see all your styles also move the image around. Is there a way to have a style that doesn't mess with cropping and lens profiling while keeping auto lens profiling enabled?

[@Felipemelazzi]

I noticed (and mildly disliked) that too. That's probably the "Lens Correction" being applied so we're safe if we disable or don't include that to a style

[@aleksmn566]

Great tutorial!

[@StefanoFerro]

Thanks buddy. Really appreciated 👍 👍

[@dhdarr]

Excellent introduction! Love seeing somebody's personal editing process

[@StefanoFerro]

Thanks Darren. Great feedback

[@garresg]

Great video! Thank you Stefano. Ho una domanda. All'importazione delle foto in formato NEF/RAW vengono applicate tutta una serie di modifiche direttamente da darktable, visibili nella cronologia. Come è possibile modificare questi preset automatici?

[@StefanoFerro]

Grazie Marcello. Troppo buono :) Per la domanda, vai al settaggio del "auto-apply pixel workflow defaults". Lo trovi nella pagina delle "preferences" (clicca sulla rotellina in alto a destra sopra le foto nella vista lighttable) e poi seleziona "processing" e lo vedi tra le varie opzioni. Se metti "none" non viene applicato nulla, altrimenti hai due opzioni: scene-referred o display-referred. Puoi leggere la differenza tra le due qui www.darktable.org/usermanual/en/darkroom/processing-modules-and-pixelpipe/the-pixelpipe-and-module-order/ Un saluto all'Italia :)

[@garresg]

@@StefanoFerro grazie mille della risposta. Seguo con interesse i tuoi video. Davvero utilissimi e di buon livello. Per curiosità, tu che impostazione usi? Display o scene?

[@StefanoFerro]

Grazie ancora Marcello. Scene-referred e' la mia opzione

[@emrg777]

Great Video.....

[@StefanoFerro]

Thanks Todd👍

[@jesseolson307]

dope, ty!

[@accolon24]

Wow, amazing stuff Stefano, the more I look at your tutorials the more I love them :D thanks for your work! Edit: I'm having some troubles downloading your styles, could you please help me out? (I left a couple of coffees paid for you ;))

[@StefanoFerro]

Cheers buddy👍👍No worries. I love doing these videos. Thanks for your feedback. Really appreciated it 🙏🙏

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[@bobbyelian630]

@Terrence Lukas Instablaster :)

[@terrencelukas1035]

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[@terrencelukas1035]

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