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Darktable interface adjustment
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Darktable interface adjustment

saw a video where someone had their darktable looking like this. mine is all light gray and boring. how can i make mine look like this?

u/JJourneys44 — 6 hours ago
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I feel I'm too noob for editing this photo [Before / After ]

I feel a bit overwhelmed by darktable and the world of post-processing to be able to manage this photo properly.

It's not the best shot, and it may appear boring to you, but is a shot that I like.

However, I don't know if the "After" is going to the correct direction (or any direction...)

u/Haylight96_again — 11 hours ago
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Is there anything in the works for AI to do the whole editing process?

I really like the AI framework the devs created so we can easily add new engines when their released.

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u/Leading-Plastic5771 — 11 hours ago
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Color grading film scans (and inversion) - please help

Howdy,

I would love some tips and guidance on inverting + color grading my film scans. I am pretty new to film dev and color grading. I really enjoy darktable, but I am not a whiz at it yet by any stretch. I find getting "true-to-life" colors very difficult. I generally think my results are fine/pleasing to the eye, but not correct. I generally have some kind of color cast (usually blue).

My process is:

Orientation

Negadoctor (using dropper on film border)

Crop

Then some combination of: dynamic range adjust, rgb levels, color balance sliders (sometimes optimize luma)

Contrast adjust

I do raw scans with a Nikon Z50 and an ipad, for now - wondering if the ipad light is my source of the color casts

Open to any and all tips for how to do this better. I have seen videos on white balance, but negadoctor sets that for me, as I understand it, so when I follow the advice I have found on YouTube, Darktable gets very upset at me for setting multiple white balance points

Thanks!

p.s. shots not my finest work -- shots from a moving car through rural Florida

u/Leonardus-De-Utino — 2 days ago
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I have to give some credit to the new AI RAW Denoise

I had wanted to be hyper-critical of the AI RAW denoise in the new 5.6 release but then started using it and I'm pretty impressed. Took some night safari shots at Singapore Zoo at ISO 32,000 on my Sony A7RV, so not the best performing low-light body but no slouch with a full frame BSI sensor. Using profile denoise produced acceptable but still noisy results with a fair amount of detail loss. The RAW de-noise however was very good, retained detail like fur and whiskers well. For comparison I have the civet but using profiled denoise, which is still doing a pretty respectable job, but in my opinion the AI RAW denoise is better.

Apologies about the images, I have a bit to learn about low-light photography, but was fun to play around with the new denoise function and see that it is quite usable.

u/Idarubicin — 3 days ago
▲ 9 r/DarkTable

Trouble getting a blue sky without a foreground that is too dark

Before/After

This is the best I can get the foreground in this picture without blowing out the sky. Turned on shadows and highlights and turned up shadows brilliance 100%. Does anyone have any advice? I generally have trouble capturing a blue sky without getting a very dark foreground.

u/Melodic_Animal_2238 — 4 days ago
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Film simulation

What do do you think?

Look like film?

Taken with Sony a7r2

Editing in dark table

u/AB48user — 5 days ago
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Resources to learn from, videos are prefered

Hello, im learning to use darktable. Till now i only use some of them modules but i see there are many more but dont understand how to use them (attaching a photo i clicked and editted in darktable)

u/Most_Guarantee_1555 — 4 days ago
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Accidentally Overwriting History Stacks

Has this ever happened to you?

The UI (or maybe just the UX) isn't always very clear about which images are currently selected (Ctrl+A, multiple selection, etc.). A few times I've accidentally copied or pasted a history stack onto the wrong images.

I usually don't notice until export, when I realize that several photos have completely wrong edits applied to them.

Am I missing something, or is this a common mistake?

One thing I've often wished for is a timestamped history stack, or at least some kind of checkpoints, for example:

Portrait finished 18:42
Skin retouch 18:50
Color grading 19:00
Final export 19:15

That would make it much easier to recover after accidentally overwriting a history stack or to identify how far an image had been edited before a mistake.

Has anyone else run into this? How do you avoid it?

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u/cl3don — 3 days ago
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AI masking not available in Flatpak v5.6

I've always been installing darktable on my Fedora Linux machine via KDE's Discover from Flathub. However, I'm noticing that the AI features aren't available there. Is anyone else having this problem?

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u/Munzu — 4 days ago
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This is the most impressive release ever.

AGx in 5.4 was nice. Color equalizer in 4.8 was nice.

But man, 5.6 is game changer.

And the timing for me is perfect: There's zero justification to renew my Topaz subscription next week :)

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u/southern_ad_558 — 6 days ago
▲ 61 r/DarkTable

The new feature nobody is talking about

In my RSS feeds and on Reddit, when I read the news about darktable 5.6.0, the main topics are:

  • AI masking
  • AI denoising

I use Tumbleweed, and darktable is compiled by default without the AI features.

➜  ~ darktable -d ai
darktable 5.6.0
Copyright (C) 2012-2026 Johannes Hanika and other contributors.

Compile options:
  Bit depth              -> 64 bit
  Exiv2                  -> 0.28.8
  Lensfun                -> 0.3.4
  Debug                  -> DISABLED
  SSE2 optimizations     -> ENABLED
  OpenMP                 -> ENABLED
  OpenCL                 -> ENABLED
  Lua                    -> ENABLED  - API version 9.7.0
  Colord                 -> ENABLED
  gPhoto2                -> ENABLED  - Camera tethering is available
  OSMGpsMap              -> ENABLED  - Map view is available
  GMIC                   -> ENABLED  - Compressed LUTs are supported
  GraphicsMagick         -> DISABLED
  ImageMagick            -> DISABLED
  libavif                -> ENABLED
  libheif                -> ENABLED
  libjxl                 -> ENABLED
  LibRaw                 -> ENABLED  - Version 0.22.1-Release
  OpenJPEG               -> ENABLED
  OpenEXR                -> ENABLED
  WebP                   -> ENABLED
  AI                     -> DISABLED

See https://www.darktable.org/resources/ for detailed documentation.
See https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/issues/new/choose to report bugs.

I’ve had the chance to try out these features via AppImage, and although they work perfectly, masking and denoising are the last things I need because I hardly ever use them in my workflow.

But one thing that strikes me is how little discussion there is about a feature that really changes the way images stand out: the color harmoniser.

Just how useful is it to be able to manage colours like this?

Am I the only one who's in love with colours and this feature?

I really don't know how to thank you for this amazing feature, which rounds off a piece of software I absolutely adore <3

u/fpluss — 7 days ago
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OpenCL for AMD GPUs?

Hello

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I'm new to Darktable and I've noticed that it's terribly slow once I've lightly processed a few images (like 10). I check preferences and it says that "active OpenCL support" is not available. Some specifications are listed below

AMD Ryzen 7 7700

32GB DDR5-6000

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Windows 11

Is my GPU not supported for GPU acceleration on Darktable? Thank you! If you need more details to help figure this out, I'll do my best to provide.

Edit: Solved using this comment on a different thread https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkTable/s/ddIJHPkKlb

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u/teachmanfish — 6 days ago
▲ 66 r/DarkTable

AI masking is a game changer!

I've only dipped my toes in so far, running the 5.6 appimage on two Manjaro machines (a laptop with integrated graphics and a desktop with older Nvidia graphics card) and it already blew my socks off!

I'm still playing with the two masking engines and undecided which one is "better", most likely they both have their uses. I'll explore this as I go along.

The AI noise reduction is somewhat less essential/successful to me as I've been using NeatImage for so many years with great results and it does batch mode but I totally understand we are at the beginning of a long process and seeing the first steps.

Kudos to the team for keeping the AI disconnected from the cloud - for me that would potentially have been a deal-breaker.

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u/newmikey — 8 days ago
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copy &amp; import of multiple photos

I want to import multiple pictures from an SD card, but not all (so cmd + A is not useful), but there are too many pictures to individually select them with cmd + click. Naturally, I would "draw" (click + hold) along the list to select multiple photos, but this doesn't work. What am I missing here?

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u/multiint — 6 days ago
▲ 9 r/DarkTable

Tema(skin) "Oasis" para darktable 5.6

[ Custom theme for darktable 5.6 ]

Mas abajo dejo el enlace de descarga.

Sala oscura

Mesa de luz

Deslizadores

apartado de mascaras

aleta visual en botones de reinicio y módulos desactivados en el historial

Activación

Comparto el tema de darktable que he terminado de acomodar a mis necesidades.

Motivación:

"darktable.css" (67Kb) es el único tema completo que se incluye en distribución. Los restantes necesitan hacer un "import" y luego establecen algunas variaciones, pero sin cambios relevantes.

Entiendo la motivación de los temas oficiales, pero con los años se va perdiendo agudeza visual y se reduce el campo de visión.

Eso hace que la interfaz y paletas de colores de los temas incluidos oficialmente en darktable me generen bastante fatiga visual e interacciones no deseadas. Alargando el tiempo de edición y corrigiendo pasos en falso.

Esta es una opción para ese tipo de usuarios. En todo caso es fácil seleccionar un tema distinto que se ajuste a las necesidades de cada uno.

Objetivos:

  1. Reducir la fatiga visual.
  2. Agilidad en localizar elementos, agrupados en solapas y con colores específicos por áreas (por ejemplo para la sección de mascaras).
  3. Interacciones con el mouse mas destacadas.
  4. CSS único y que no ralentice la máquina.

Desarrollo:

Con Notepad++ y mucho prueba-y-error.

Descarga:

Instalación:

  1. El fichero descargado debe ubicarse en la carpeta donde se encuentran todos los temas de darktable.
  2. Abre darktable y selecciona en ajustes generales el nuevo tema.
  3. Desmarca la opción de utilizar cualquier texto que tengas como CSS adicional. No pulsar "Guardar y aplicar" (eso vuelve a marcarlo).

Compatibilidad:

En mi PC, que tiene 15 años, W10 y darktable 5.6, funciona correctamente. Desconozco en otros sistemas.

Utilizo algunas nuevas clases creadas en la versión 5.6. Versiones anteriores no las reconocerán y no funcionara correctamente.

Feedback:

Comenta tu experiencia de uso. Qué te gusta y qué cambiarias.

Cambios y redistribución:

Eres libre de adaptarlo a tus necesidades o gustos.

Si tu máquina tiene otros tipos de letra quizás tengas que editar las lineas "font-family".

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u/IntelligentAward1538 — 7 days ago
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How to best denoise in dark table?

My ISO 6400 shots taken with my a6700 don’t look nearly as good as many shots I see on Reddit photography subs with much higher ISO

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u/Melodic_Animal_2238 — 7 days ago
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Copy only specific effect to other photos

Ello, I am new to darktable, I just went through all my photos and adjusted the cropping, only to realise I wanted to apply some basic sharpening to them all, is there a way I can set up my sharpen effect and only copy that to all the rest of the images?

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u/PieBaron — 7 days ago