😎Exploring DarkTable. Module Instances & Simple Masking - It's A Bit Like Photoshop in Some Ways 😎

Exploring DarkTable. Module Instances & Simple Masking - It's A Bit Like Photoshop in Some Ways
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In this video I want to demonstrate "the good stuff, some of the things I love about DarkTable"!
We'll be concentrating on using multiple instances of the exposure module, controlled with a parametric mask and a drawn mask, together with other powerful modules to create a good looking image from a Patreon members image of a Tawny Owl.
Other modules we'll use are:
Crop Module
Local Contrast Module
Denoise(profiled) Module
Chromatic Aberation Module
Sharpening Module
Masking in DarkTable is a little bit like luminosity masking in Photoshop because we can use parametric AND drawn masks together - if you can remember what bloomin' buttons to press!
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:12 THE SHOT - tech specs and 'a handy surprise' in the image info panel.
03:10 A bit more on default presets + Todd Prior's 'legacy' workaround for WB (big thanks to Todd for this!).
08:26 Let's Get Processing!
09:34 The Crop Module
10:40 Image Adjustments begin
12:00 Localised Exposure/Drawn Mask
15:00 Creating a Second Instance - how and why
16:36 Combine Parametric & Drawn Masks - like Lightroom, or the paint layer in Lumenzia inside Photoshop - but more fiddly!
18:51 Third Exposure Module instance for a custom vignette
21:14 Local Contrast Module + distribution mask
23:48 Denoise(profiled) Module + distribution mask
28:00 Sharpening Module + distribution mask
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[@badger67]

Superb job mate.

[@AndyAstbury]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@Eigil_Skovgaard]

Beautiful example. A practical tip with more than 1 instance of the same module is to give them a meaningful name: Ctrl + left mouse button on the number will open the writing field.

[@AndyAstbury]

Cheers Eigil - and there's another new thing I've learned!

[@davidjustice9036]

Cheers Andy, another very helpful video

[@AndyAstbury]

Cheers David 🍻

[@wegder]

Thanks ❤

[@alexgoriatchenkov]

Wow, great result with such edit. Not easy and even time confusing...all about masking. Thank you. Great video.

[@AndyAstbury]

Cheers!

[@deanhowarth2389]

Andy, I'm no expert, but I think you could do a comparison with RT, because you can use multiple instances of the modules in RT through the 'Local Adjustments' menu, each instance in a new 'spot', which can be a 'Full image' spot if so desired - according to RawPedia, it's like using 'Adjustment Layers' in PS. See if you think I'm understanding that right...

[@AndyAstbury]

I did videos on LA spots ages ago Dean, and yes they are useful. But you can't do what I did in DT without some difficulty due to the two excluding spots you'd need to use!. There would be a way around it, but it would be so tedious and time consumming, you'd be better off downloading DT and doing the fairly simple operation there anyway, even if your preferred processor was RT!

[@ifell3]

Are you going to do the same in RT to compare the results?

[@AndyAstbury]

That would be difficult to impossible due to the lack of masking and multiple instances, Denoise non-local is the same in both, but DT has slightly more control, and of course, the masking. If I had to do this shot in RT, I'd be relying on double processing and a rastor image editor like Photoshop.

[@Being_Joe]

@@AndyAstbury Have you tried the RT fork Art (Another RT)? They have some implementation of layers and masking. I think they even brought in some features from DT.

[@ifell3]

@@AndyAstbury Yes sorry, I was flicking through. Just watched this all the way through, you've done a great explanation of what you have done.