darktable 1.2 darktable 1.2 Copyright © 2010-2012 P.H. Andersson Copyright © 2010-2011 Olivier Tribout Copyright © 2012-2013 Ulrich Pegelow The owner of the darktable project is Johannes Hanika. Main developers are Johannes Hanika, Henrik Andersson, Tobias Ellinghaus, Pascal de Bruijn and Ulrich Pegelow. darktable is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 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. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with darktable. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/ licenses/. The present user manual is under license cc by-sa , meaning Attribution Share Alike . You can visit http://creativecommons.org/ about/licenses/ to get more information. Table of Contents Preface to this manual ............................................................................................... v 1. Overview ............................................................................................................... 1 1.1. User interface ............................................................................................. 3 1.1.1. Views ............................................................................................... 3 1.1.2. Screen layout .................................................................................... 3 1.1.3. Filmstrip ........................................................................................... 4 1.1.4. Preferences ...................................................................................... 4 1.2. darktable basic workflow ............................................................................. 5 1.2.1. Importing images .............................................................................. 5 1.2.2. Basic development steps .................................................................. 5 1.2.3. Exporting images .............................................................................. 7 2. Lighttable .............................................................................................................. 9 2.1. Overview ................................................................................................... 10 2.1.1. Lighttable ....................................................................................... 10 2.1.2. Filtering and sort order ................................................................... 10 2.1.3. Image grouping ............................................................................... 10 2.2. Lighttable panels ....................................................................................... 12 2.2.1. Import ............................................................................................ 12 2.2.2. Collect images ................................................................................ 14 2.2.3. Keywords ........................................................................................ 14 2.2.4. Recently used collections ................................................................ 14 2.2.5. Image information .......................................................................... 14 2.2.6. Select ............................................................................................. 15 2.2.7. Selected image(s) ............................................................................ 15 2.2.8. History stack ................................................................................... 16 2.2.9. Styles .............................................................................................. 17 2.2.10. Geotagging ................................................................................... 18 2.2.11. Metadata editor ............................................................................ 18 2.2.12. Tagging ......................................................................................... 18 2.2.13. Export selected ............................................................................. 19 3. Darkroom ............................................................................................................. 23 3.1. Overview ................................................................................................... 24 3.2. Filmstrip .................................................................................................... 25 3.3. Darkroom panels ....................................................................................... 26 3.3.1. Navigation ...................................................................................... 26 3.3.2. Snapshots ....................................................................................... 26 3.3.3. History ............................................................................................ 26 3.3.4. Global color picker .......................................................................... 27 3.3.5. Histogram ....................................................................................... 28 3.3.6. Module groups ............................................................................... 28 3.3.7. More modules ................................................................................. 29 3.3.8. Bottom panel .................................................................................. 30 3.4. Modules .................................................................................................... 31 3.4.1. Interacting with modules ................................................................ 31 3.4.2. Blending operators ......................................................................... 32 3.4.3. Conditional blending ....................................................................... 34 3.4.4. Module presets ............................................................................... 37 3.4.5. Multiple instances ........................................................................... 37 3.4.6. Basic group ..................................................................................... 38 3.4.7. Tone group ..................................................................................... 46 3.4.8. Color group .................................................................................... 52 3.4.9. Correction group ............................................................................ 59 iii 3.4.10. Effect group ................................................................................. 67 3.5. Examples ................................................................................................... 82 3.5.1. Converting to black and white ......................................................... 82 3.5.2. Cross-processing ............................................................................. 83 3.5.3. Cyan toned image ........................................................................... 84 4. Tethering ............................................................................................................. 87 4.1. Overview ................................................................................................... 88 4.1.1. Tethering ........................................................................................ 88 4.2. Tethering panels ........................................................................................ 89 4.2.1. Session ........................................................................................... 89 4.2.2. Live view ........................................................................................ 89 4.2.3. Camera settings .............................................................................. 89 4.3. Examples ................................................................................................... 90 4.3.1. Studio setup with screening ............................................................ 90 4.3.2. Capturing a timelapse ..................................................................... 90 4.4. Troubleshoot ............................................................................................. 91 4.4.1. Verify that your camera is supported ............................................... 91 4.4.2. So, now what? ................................................................................. 91 5. Map ..................................................................................................................... 93 5.1. Overview ................................................................................................... 94 5.1.1. Center map view ............................................................................. 94 5.2. Map panels ................................................................................................ 95 5.2.1. Left panels ..................................................................................... 95 5.2.2. Find location ................................................................................... 95 5.2.3. Map settings ................................................................................... 95 5.2.4. Tagging ..........................................................................................