https://imgur.com/a/Zlkma2H running darktable-git

My understanding is that I can leave LrC installed and view and export from it as needed even after my subscription ends, but I wanted to hear from others how the deal with it.

Did anyone resolved the issue with open cl grayed in darktable on fedora? Still no gpu open cl after updated to v5. I have it installed from flatpak. Tried from all sources and still nothing. I have also tried to change the permission for flatpaks with flatseal. Nothing seems to working. Thank you.

TLDR: Windows machine seems that modules are working better. Linux machine some modules seem to not preform as optimal.

Love Darktable will always use it . Small thing I started noticing was small differences in the Linux version to the Windows version. Granted at first the issue was DT version was different. Brought them both up to latest manually . Just noticing that some modules just support more on the windows version , especially the likes of the lens compensation and using the latest lensfun database while the linux version seems to hace depreciated ( still figuring out how to update the database on linux myself) . Of course my linux machine feels snappier but i was putting that down to the OS and internals . Just for anyone else that works across OS if they noticed any other differences?

Specs : Laptop , Windows , i5 , gtx 1650 Desktop, Linux Mint , Ryzen 5 , 1050ti

I am thinking of using #darktable on the latest version of #Ubuntu. Does the latest version of Ubuntu get along well with this laptop? Thinking of installing Linux on day one.

HPOMEN Transcend with  Intel Core Ultra 7 155H (up to 4.8 GHz, 24 MB L3 cache, 16 cores, 22 threads) + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU (6 GB) + 16 GB(Onboard) Please share your experience and thoughts.

I will change how I do photography, if that's what I need to do to leave. I love my HDR and HDR pano features, but not this much. My efforts to learn DT just got all the more serious.

Can I afford it? Yes. Is it their right? Yes. Is it simply corporate greed? Absolutely.

Thank you, DT creators, for making an alternative.

1. Darktable version: 5.0.0
2. Operating system and its version: Kubuntu 24.04 / KDE Plasma 5.27.11
3. OpenCL status: disabled

Export is on default settings. I've managed to export 27 out of a batch of 45. Then it crashed. Now it's crashing even when trying one file. Multiple reboots. Same issue.

Edit. With help (see below.. thanks all) I seemed to have solved the issue. I managed to increase the swap file size to 6GB. Here is a link to an easy solution which worked for me.

https://linuxhandbook.com/increase-swap-ubuntu/

My conclusion is that you need a lot of RAM for good performance. Not exactly a revelation but maybe this will help someone in the future.

So I tried installing the app on my Air with M2 processor but ended up with the error message "it might not be secure etc etc". I know I can fix this but come to think that I guess a lot of people that don't know much about computers will end up not installing the app

How much would it cost to have Darktable on the App Store so this would not happen to people and why don't the developers do it?

Sunsets can have many fantastic colors, but they may not be very visible on the initial edit of an image. Let's explore how to bring sunset colors to life with this beautiful tropical silhouette:
https://avidandrew.com/palm-trees-sunset.html

It no longer works for me and I can't see how to contact anyone.

rsync -avL rsync://raw.pixls.us/data/ raw-pixls-us-data/

rsync: [Receiver] failed to connect to raw.pixls.us (145.24.145.156): Connection refused (111)

rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(137) [Receiver=3.2.3]

I've always taken pictures but they fall into the "snapshot" category. I want to up my game because you folks here are awesome. I don't know that I can express my question exactly but I'll try. I would appreciate and value any advice. By the way, yes I have read through the resources available here and watched many of the videos. This just made things more confusing for me.

I am fairly technology literate and not against learning new things but I still feel like I am missing something.

I can watch someone improve a photo using DT and I can follow written instructions as well. I can even repeat the steps on my own pictures without a problem.

My difficulty comes in recognizing exactly WHAT needs to be done to improve my pictures. I can "white balance" adjust like a demon; I know to use "lens correct"; I even understand "denoise" (I think); but color correction is a mystery, contrast and shadow adjustments make hunting for bigfoot seem like a game.

Is there content that falls between "Click here, here, and here" and "A spline interpolation of a sigmoid curve used to compress dynamic range in a logarithmic space?"

I think I am missing the WHY we are applying certain effects as opposed to other effects and it may be because I don't have a good grasp of what the end goal is, other than make the picture pretty/interesting/insert favorite adjective here.

The docs, say that the bloom module is no longer recommended and instead recommend using the tone equalizer or exposure module with a parametric mask.

Can anybody tell me how to do that? Or do you know of another way to create bloom?

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

for me, the side panels in darkroom are too small. It is possible to make it smaller and bigger to a certrain amount, but it is not enough for me. Is there are possibillity to get it even bigger? A setting, or a variable in a config file?

Thx

Dan

I am considering purchasing a ThinkPad P14s Gen 5 AMD (14 ) Mobile Workstation -AMD Ryzen™ 7 PRO 8840HS Processor (3.30 GHz up to 5.10 GHz) I am not sure how it handles photo editing tasks in darktable. Appreciate your thoughts/advice. Than you!

Hi there

I know that the question has been asked multiple times, but I still cannot find a proper answer ...

I'm willing to use pre-defined styles for Darktable, just like the ones that exist on Instagram. I'm pretty sure it exists somewhere on the web, but where ??

Thanks !

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I am using a Macbook Pro with a M1 Pro chip and Sonomoa 14.3.1. I have been trying to install Darktable according to the instructions on the official website but no matter what I try I cannot open it. I used the 2nd download link for my installation of darktable. I have tried the different finder ways to open it as suggested on the website: https://www.darktable.org/install/#macos However none of the suggestions finder or terminal commands have helped me open Darktable. Can someone help me out?

Hi guys, I’m enjoying Darktable in the past few months experimenting the gorgeous and immense world of this software and trying to build a consistent and decent fast workflow at the same time.

As an ex-Lightroom user I’m trying to find the corrisponding tools that I need for Street Photos so I’ve created a custom ‘quick access’ pannel with the main tools ( Detail - Sigmoid - Filmic RGB - Color Balance RGB - Sharpen - Contrast Equalizer - Color Calibration - Exposure - Haze Removal ) and another pannel dedicated to Color Grading.

I pretty much found everything I was looking for and the workflow is slightly getting closer to the previous one with Lr but what it still makes me clumsy is ‘White Balance’. I heard that is suggested to use Color Calbrition to do that and it’s fine with temperature but there’s no tint on it ( D-daylight ) so I switch to custom. What I get mostly is a sort of color grading effect and it’s so difficult to find the right neutrality and even when I catch it most of the time it doesn’t fit with the next photos of the same scene and I throw precious time to reach the same look.

Once I’ll find the right pace and method of WB in DT I think I’ll not miss Lr anymore. What do y’all use for White Balance ?

Thank you so much! I started using the program a couple of days ago and I'm making much more interesting edits. Really enjoy the software - really lends itself to the cinematic. Cheers!

As I posted earlier, I am now making a major effort to use Darktable for my primary photo editing software. Prior to this I was all on Mac and mostly used Photos for just basic editing along with the majority of my photos were taken with my iPhone. As a result I have a large number of HEIC ie Pro Raw photos that Darktable does not like.

I have the jpgs for all of them but I would very much like to raw edit for some of them.

I have seen RawTherapee mentioned as a way to convert them. I assume this would be on Mac since on Linux it does not seem to have the necessary licensing. Is there any way, staying in Linux, to convert these to DNG or some other compatible raw format? TIA.

I've been using Darktable for some years now, as well as Flickr for many years, and I've tried a few prints recently. So this thread is a question or two, along with something like a review.

First, a quick review of Flickr printing: I have to say that the Flickr paper prints I ordered are pretty good. The colors are nice, the matte finish is nice, and the paper has some weight to it like real photographic paper quality and feel. I have yet to try canvas or any other type of print, but for standard paper printing, I think Flickr has done a good job. The UI for ordering the prints is lacking some... creativity... You can only select, size, and order one image at a time. And the ability to add a border, or to crop, is missing, or I missed these features somehow. The mailed package was in a stiff cardboard envelope with cardboard backing on the inside, and the prints were all in good condition when I go them.

Now my questions about using Darktable to prep for printing:
I can't seem to find any profiles for Flickr, is this just not a thing?
Also, if I do have a specific printer profile, my searches for like, "How to use a printing profile export darktable" turns up nothing that seems to answer my question. Any help? I'm probably missing something very obvious.

Because I am editing specifically to print, and not simply exporting to just post to Flickr, I've taken a good look at the prints vs. the Darktable export, and I'm noticing that my edited images are very different than my exported images. Again, the difference is not really enough to worry about until I think I want to print, then I want it as close as can get it. I've been exporting in sRGB. But then Adobe and ProRGB are both looking very different than what I've edited -- loss of shadows, especially.

So I'd like to do more! I've started an album on my Flickr account that is just for prints to make it easy to sort and select. But now I just need to figure out how to get the profile/export to better match the edited version on the screen. Thanks.

I'm using the lens correction module with rectilinear target geometry but have found that the known straight lines in my image are more curved after correction. I've double checked all the parameters, but will add here for context:

• Fujifilm X-T30
• Fujifilm XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 R LM OIS
• 18 mm
• f/10

is this to be expected or am I missing something? I was trying to remove distortion so I could have a more aligned image for perspective detection in fSpy and for use in 3D graphics compositing, but I've found the corrected image to be less usable than the original

i suppose this is color calibration's job but i have yet to know how to do it.

I am researching on buying a laptop for everyday use and for photo editing on darktable. I am now inclined to System 76 Pangolin latest version with following specs. Please let me now your thoughts and advice. Price with some upgrade is $$1417 before taxes.

Operating System: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS

Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 9 8945HS: 4.0 up to 5.2 GHz - 8 Cores - 16 Threads

Display: 16.1 2560x1600, Matte Finish, 120 Hz, 100% sRGB

Graphics: AMD Radeon™ 780M

Memory: 32 GB dual-channel DDR5 @ 5600 MHz

OS Drive!: 1TB PCle4 M. 2 SSD

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Hi, I'm new to darktable. Before I was using capture one to edit my photos. (Right) and don't edit photos often so looked for a free photosoftware, but noticed my RAW photo as soon as I opened it in Darktable looked washed out. I tried messing around with different modules and no matter what I did, couldn't match the colors to the one I edited in capture one. The left is the photo from Darkroom I know the brightness arent matching but the colors if you look at the reds and blues are very washed out but very vivid on the left. Any help?

A question for those of you doing semipro or pro work using darktable on 'which ever' linuxdistro.
What kind of hardware are you using (like cpu, gpu, ram and disks) ?

And if there's anyone who recently upgraded your hardware, and it felt like it actually made an improvement to your workflow.
Which hardware did you upgrade and what kind of improvements in using darktable did experience ?