#Darktable tutorial for beginners how to

On the left you can filter by 'film roll', representing photos you imported together. after importing you're still in the 'lightroom' section, which is the gallery of all imported photos. Select it, import it, like you'd expect opening files to work importing a DNG into the application: in the top-left there's an 'import' button and a 'folder' button to import files and/or folders. I'd love to help but can you be more specific? Until then, taking a guess at what you mean exactly: I still wonder if I should give Lightroom a try just to see if that’s more user friendly. Personally I have gotten comfortable with it and now can do what I need to do but at the same time that learning curve was super steep.

#Darktable tutorial for beginners how to

I understand that there is a lot you can do with the software but for example it took like an hour of YouTube videos from random people for me to figure out how to add a soft focus effect (apparently I needed to invoke local contrast?) or how to darken a specific spot on a photo in a way that blended nicely with the rest of it. I am by no means an expert so when I start reading about how a specific module does it’s transforms at some specific phase in the pipeline and in this specific color space I don’t actually get what the effect of that will have on the photo. The docs are written in a way that seem to assume you know a whole lot of details of the software and the theory behind image processing. These kinds of things would be great to not happen.īut I think my biggest struggle with it is documentation. Minor adjustments for any slider with a right click on the tiny slider knob we’re super broken for a while. Duplicating the exposure module to touch up a specific area means the histogram now controls the duplicate and not the original. Tool tips not being a huge thing means you have to learn what all the tiny greyscale icons mean by heart. Throughout the versions I’ve run into a large number of quirks. I do wish the UI was a little more friendly. I use darktable for my photography and really appreciate how powerful it is.