Digital photo development with Darktable Manage and develop your digital images with Darktable v0.8. Stefano Fornari, Mario Latronico, Nicholas Manea 2 Copyright and License Copyright © 2011 Stefano Fornari, Mario Latronico, Nicholas Manea This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The book Darktable is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 3 Table of Contents Digital photo development with Darktable..........................................................................................2 Copyright and License.....................................................................................................................3 Preface.............................................................................................................................................7 Credits.........................................................................................................................................7 Who should read this book..........................................................................................................7 Conventions................................................................................................................................7 A simple tutorial...................................................................................................................................8 Starting darktable.............................................................................................................................8 Lighttable mode..........................................................................................................................8 Importing a film roll........................................................................................................................9 Developing one (or more) photo(s)...............................................................................................10 Rotating.....................................................................................................................................10 Darkroom mode....................................................................................................................11 Darkroom mode.........................................................................................................................11 Cropping....................................................................................................................................13 Correcting colors.......................................................................................................................14 Exporting images......................................................................................................................15 Darktable user interface......................................................................................................................17 Darktable views.............................................................................................................................17 Lighttable view..............................................................................................................................17 The light table...........................................................................................................................18 Bottom bar.................................................................................................................................19 Top bar......................................................................................................................................19 Left and right panels.................................................................................................................20 Darkroom view..............................................................................................................................21 Darkroom modules....................................................................................................................22 Navigation............................................................................................................................22 Snapshots..............................................................................................................................22 Metadata...............................................................................................................................23 History..................................................................................................................................24 Histogram.............................................................................................................................24 Plugins..................................................................................................................................24 More plugins.........................................................................................................................25 Lighttable............................................................................................................................................26 Importing.......................................................................................................................................26 Working with collections...............................................................................................................30 Image information..........................................................................................................................31 Working with selections.................................................................................................................31 Exporting.......................................................................................................................................33 Exporting to a web album.........................................................................................................33 Exporting to disk.......................................................................................................................34 File formats...............................................................................................................................35 Global options...........................................................................................................................36 Styles..............................................................................................................................................37 Tagging..........................................................................................................................................38 Metadata.........................................................................................................................................39 Darkroom............................................................................................................................................40 RAW image format........................................................................................................................40 4 Basic workflow..............................................................................................................................40 White balance............................................................................................................................40 Color temperature.................................................................................................................41 White balance with red, green, blue adjustments.................................................................42 White balance with red, green, blue adjustments.................................................................43 White balance with preset values.........................................................................................44 The grey card........................................................................................................................45 White balance many pictures at the same time................................................................45 Composition enhancing workflow.................................................................................................46 Photographic composition.........................................................................................................46 Center of interest..................................................................................................................47 Placement of the subject.......................................................................................................47 Simplicity.............................................................................................................................49 Balance.................................................................................................................................49 Shapes and lines...................................................................................................................50 Patterns.................................................................................................................................51 Lighting................................................................................................................................52 Framing................................................................................................................................52