Darktable Episode 69: Advanced masking part 3: mask manager

[@l.968]

You are the lionel messi of darktable. Your videos are on a league of their own. Please keep them coming, this community learns so much from them!

[@mihapece7005]

As a kid i was standing in the long line to buy tickets for James Bond. Now is the same impatience from one to the other Boris' episodes of photo editing. I'm not a beginner, but it's still informative. And live editing is damn mesmerizing!

[@cliffnieuwenhuis8638]

Excellent! I've only seen one other person go over the mask manager but that was for a really old version of darktable. Once again your clear and thorough explanation wins the day. I cannot wait for the color adjustment episodes you teased because that's where I struggle the most. Thank you so much for producing these videos.

[@stefanbuchner8710]

Thank you so much for taking your time to show us, what's able to do in Darktable. I'm waiting for every episode because of my actual interest of finding my way of color grading 😂

[@DaveChips]

Hvala puno na svim tutorialima i uloženom vremenu 😊😁

[@Eigil_Skovgaard]

👍👍 After my third loop through this content I feel confident with most of the demonstrated 'tricks'. Why three times? - Well, I am getting older (not because of Darktable, to the contrary, the complexity is keeping the stiffening braincells flexible).

[@door-hinge]

Thanks so much, I just found the channel, and I can already tell this is what I've been searching for a long time.

[@ruud9767]

Wonderful edits and a great episode on masking. I also appreciated the particularly nice bonus at the end on how to use colour harmonies with the channel mixer. Many thanks to you, Boris!

[@AnglerAdventure77]

Thank you for your insight. You made editing enjoyable.

[@huubdegroot]

Sooooo nice Boris. I didn't used the mask manager, but this is new to me! Thank you soooo much !!!!

[@csatirofotografia]

Thank you so much to theses videos. I'm from Brazil and you inspire me to create a videos series in my language about Darktable.

[@wegder]

Thanks for explaining in a logical manner.

[@bartylobethal8089]

Thank you for these demonstrations/tutorials Boris.

[@arnaudm.7404]

Thanks a lot Boris for this episode. It's very interresting.

[@thomaswirtl4446]

Thank you, these three Episodes are quite useful, especially your explanation of the mask manager. I'm looking forward to the nest episodes.

[@Eigil_Skovgaard]

Very confirming. Thank you, Boris.

[@emmypuss4533]

Another super series - thanks Boris

[@adampytlak1529]

Thank you for all your work Boris! Amazing tutorials, keep going!

[@vho2010]

Great tutorial video as usual. I have a lot to learn in using masks. Thank you.

[@ArminHirmer]

wow that was amazing! Thanks for that

[@TheNikidaki]

thanks !really appreciated !

[@bernym4047]

An excellent demonstration of Boolean operators . I have been using masks for some time but you showed me some new elements. Many thanks. I very much look forward to your quick demo of the upcoming video. The adjustment you made resulted in a very 'clean' feel to the colours of the image and reminded me of Kodak colour transparency film. I would very much like to buy you a coffee. You deserve some recompense for producing some of the very best tutorial videos on You Tube.

[@thomaswilde9923]

Mask management is very powerful. Still the concept of using references to the same path across modules leaves some confusion or uncertainty: if you adjust the feathering to suit the purpose of this instance, how can you be sure not to break the results of other modules using the same mask, that need a different feathering? Or is mask manager only managing the paths and the mask parameters are module (instance) specific?

[@bernym4047]

@@thomaswilde9923 I can't imagine a situation where you would need to change the feathering on a drawn mask for use in a different module. However, you need to regard a created mask as a unique entity complete with all of its adjustments (feathering, contrast, blurring etc). If you use a mask in another module and change any of its parameters, it's no longer suitable for the module for which it was originally created . If you want to re-use a drawn mask and just retain its shape but change its parameters, you can make a copy of the original (using mask manager) and rename it. That way the original mask will not be changed and you will not be confused as to which mask you are currently working with. Hope that clarifies it for you.

[@thomaswilde9923]

@@bernym4047 Thanks, that makes sense. The question occurred to me during Boris’ editing in this video, where he frequently reused existing masks and changed the feathering for the particular module. Admittedly, I did not pay close attention when he used a copy and when a reference.

[@cadasurt]

Hello Boris. May be that color Harmony is not present in darktable for Windows? I can't find it. Thanks

[@s7habo]

Color harmony guide will be integrated in the next stable version of darktable 4.4, coming end of June. I use development version of darktable, so I have this option already.

[@cadasurt]

@@s7habo thanks!

[@rafilewin4644]

pure magic

[@digwillhachi]

amazing stuff as always !

[@pascalallard3006]

Hello, congratulations for your videos. Thanks to you, I learned many functions of the Darktable software. I have a quick question: how were you able to change the color of a path in the masks (as standard it's grey and you set it to green)? Many thanks for your tutorials !

[@s7habo]

In the bottom right in the darkroom where you have icon to "toggle guidelines", with right mouse click you can change color of guidelines witch also changes color of shapes.

[@pascalallard3006]

@@s7habo Thanks you very much for this tip !!!

[@The_Monkey_King]

Boris, sir, please do a focused episode on the tone equalizer

[@angelojones4330]

Have you tried Ansel Boris? If so what are your thoughts? (maybe a video post idea :)

[@s7habo]

I have not tested Anselm, as darktable satisfies my needs. So I can't say much about it.

[@angelojones4330]

@@s7habo Thanks, since you studied Aurelian's videos I was curious. I have tested Anselm from curiosity but did not change. BTW: your videos are great, thanks for making them.

[@digwillhachi]

i can not get these color harmonies to show. Any idea why?

[@s7habo]

Color harmony guide will be integrated in the next stable version of darktable 4.4, coming end of June. I use development version of darktable, so I have this option already.

[@digwillhachi]

@@s7habo i see. thanks for the reply.

[@murlidhr]

please make a video on highlight recovery! with the new options i am having a tough time in understanding the module. also if possible let us know how to work on highlight recovery using filmic rgb and highlight recovery module together.

[@emrg777]

In the past I believe it was often recommended to disable hlr when doing it with filmic but maybe not now

[@Background0618]

Hi Boris I have a difficult picture for edit and I get better results with Luminar Neo than Darktable. Can I send you that pictures may be you can make a tutorial for edit this

[@s7habo]

Yes. Please send me your file and your result with Luminar on: [e-mail]

[@lxhk3595]

I would love to see this edit.

[@Background0618]

@@s7habo sorry I dont saw your result Message from youtube for your answer. I sended you a link

[@Background0618]

@@lxhk3595 I can send you a link to an email

[@s7habo]

@@Background0618 Now i have your raw file but not your luminar edit. Can you send me your Luminar edit, please?