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Darkroom
The core area of editing. The basis for fundamental development (AgX, exposure, white balance), details for fine-tuning (sharpening, noise reduction, retouching), and in-depth coverage of advanced techniques.
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Everything General about image management, collections, and efficient culling. Plus the Export & Styles section, where you learn how to save images and use presets.
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Customize your System to your needs – from backups to Lua scripts. Here you will also find our extensive database of Shortcuts and modern Themes for the interface.
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Thanks Todd for that good job!
I will follow your blog with great interest and share it with my photo club.
Great work on the site…this should really help new users… I didn’t see a section on the scopes. The waveform and vectorscope are really nice and powerful tools and probably should be part of a scopes topic also to show how you can show mark picker selections etc….or maybe a combined section on the color picker and scopes…if I missed it on the site my apologies….
Hello Todd,
Thank you for your messages and suggestions. We will take a closer look at them to see how we can best implement them.
Best regards, Chris
The ‘Other’ tab in darktable with ‘map’, ‘slideshow’ and ‘tethering’ is absent. Could be useful to add, providing an opportunity for others to assist.
This is a great project, providing extremely helpful advice.
Bold, “” and Italics seem to be used interchangeably. It might help the reader if this was more obviously systematic (p.s. I am having trouble with the usual techniques for obtaining bold and italics using Firefox in Windows 11.
Only ‘Home’ and ‘Getting started’ pages have comments sections. Is this intentional? It would be useful to have these sections on all the pages.
Thank you, I will adjust it!
Thanks for the rapid response
The blue and black background does not appear very readable when printing the web pages.
Hi Garry! I have tried with several printing options and when attempting to print I get black lettering on a white background. Have you checked the printing options on the print dialog that appears when first trying to print? Or possibly the printer defaults of your OS? Sometimes toggling either on or off a setting that is attempting to include the background is helpful. Or, have you tried “printing” it to a PDF file (most OS’s printing dialog has a way to print to PDF) and then printing to a printer from the PDF?
A section on the mechanics of submitting suggested edits, on either the help or FAQ pages, would be useful.
Also the Cloudflare robot check works on Chrome, but not Firefox with Windows 11
Hello everyone on this team.
I’ve been working with Linux since 2006 and with darktable on Linux Mint since 2013, and I must say it’s an extremely interesting piece of software.
What you’re doing here is a very good tool for further developing your skills with darktable.
It wasn’t always easy to get the hang of newer features; some videos were helpful, but what you’re providing here is truly excellent and simple! Congratulations!
I’ll definitely continue to follow your website in the future; the darktable documentation isn’t quite up to par for me.
I really appreciate this work, it’s incredibly helpful for novices like me! Thank you, and I look forward to seeing any necessary updates you make to the site.