New Features in Darktable 4.8

[@esb74]

Darktable is a very powerful program. But I have not found any videos on how to use darktable for focus stacking image. If you can do it, it would be very interesting to watch such a video.

[@cosmo0080]

well done

[@dicebeatsofficial2525]

Hello. Asking do you know of a way to unify skin tones in darktable??

[@LeanderHuttonPhoto]

I have never heard of that before. But I do not get heavy handed with corrections. I suspect a tool like RGB Curves could be used along with a parametric or drawn mask to accomplish adjusting skin tones like that. I usually just color correct with a ColorChecker and then go into color grading.

[@Eigil_Skovgaard]

In the Retouch module, the section 'Wavelets decompose' may be useful. I forget the functionality when I have been away from it for a while. You'll have to study the manual. Boris Hejducovik has a very good demonstration in his video Darktable Episode 59, starting at 20:00, about how to manage skin tones.

[@Eigil_Skovgaard]

Very good. Keep up the explanations of gut details in Darktable. But please kill the annoying mucisian in the background. Whats the idea of mudding up your interesting words with a looping piece of nonsense-sound?

[@LeanderHuttonPhoto]

Trust me you don't want to hear allergies, nose clearing and throat sounds. People say get rid of the music and don't know what they're asking for. Thanks for stopping by but frankly I'm probably not coming back to this. Didn't attract the audience I want.

[@sepp9876]

No offense, but every feature in this program is as far away from what we call user experience, convenience, and intuitive operation as the Earth is to Pluto. Hardly any app has been seen that attaches so much importance to never being used voluntarily by a larger number of users and to remain in the small circle of sworn nerds. But it's partly funny to watch because it's so weird.

[@LeanderHuttonPhoto]

I didn’t write the software and there’s none taken. I think it definitely requires one to know their craft beyond what most other RAW developers do. It’s more akin to something like Davinci Resolve (maybe Capture One, but even it’s not that close) than Lightroom. Video editors and colorists seem more comfortable with Darktable than photographers in my experience. Conversely, the control it gives you is far greater than Lightroom’s. But I see what you’re saying. 90% of the photography market is about speed and presets. Coming from the other direction I think it’s sad that few photographers have interest in the backbone of the editing and just want to one click and done. Editing and developing in the film world is at least 50% of the craft. The implementation isn’t perfect and I do find bugs somewhat often, but the more technical intent is a nice change from the “use this black box and just accept what it does” that the rest of the photo editing world takes.

[@JayJayYUP]

@@LeanderHuttonPhoto Makes sense given the fact that photographers are some of the most computer illiterate folks around these days. You see evidence of this fact seeing as how most of them who seek aid for issues they have, are incapable of asking coherent questions and certainly incapable of understanding basics like posting their device specifications and software configuration of any king. Totally unaware the questions they're asking answers to are beyond the scope of normal users and even some engineers. Most of them aren't concerned with things like color in reality either. None of them have the faintest of clues of what a color managed workflow even looks like, and are then sometimes baffled why their prints look nothing like what they saw on their uncalibrated TN-panel screens (for the 10% of them that printed any of their digital images ever). The majority in basically everything have accepted convenience-over-all-else. But I guess when your clientele will accept whatever - it somewhat makes sense.