On mercredi 15 novembre 2017 15:03:58 CET Jason Verlen wrote: > Remco > > Yes thanks - I tried them. The Ellipse didn't really work for me. The Path > might to some degree ... but it appears to be quite buggy. I used it to > draw a thin rectangle around a scratch. It moved the rectangle to another > area somehow. I had to turn it off. When I try other smaller spot > removals on that image somehow the path that I turned off reappears. > > Generally speaking I think this area of DT needs tender loving care - a > significant upgrade. The rest of the product is outstanding - I much > prefer to LR.
While I agree that something like a clone brish would be nice, I'm not sure it would fit within the basic "philosophy" of darktable. Darktable is basically a parametric editor. That means that /in principle/ any edit action touches all pixels (drawn masks are a bit of an exception here). But, the original image stays untouched: with darktable you create a recipe, that's only applied to the image when you export it. In contrast, photoshop, GIMP, krita are pixel-based editors, allowing you to edit a selected area down to a single pixel. They also typically provide layers and more selection options. But any edit is immediately applied, after a save you cannot get the original image back (unless you have it on a separate layer). So a typical workflow is: import a series of images in Darktable, select, tag and class them, and do basic editing (WB, contrast, sharpen, etc.). For the few (for me <5%) that require more precise editing that Darktable can't handle well, export those to png or tiff, and work on them with a pixel editor (GIMP, photoshop, ...). In this precise case, I'd use the GIMP and work on a copy of the image (on a new layer within the GIMP): better control, and easy to compare before and after (switch the edited layer off and on). (In fact, I use another program, Digikam, to do the first selection, and to add captions, tags, etc.: I find the interface more to my liking for the DAM work, but I prefer the darktable editing. And darktable imports metadata for tags etc. through XMP sidecars without problems. So a full workflow is: Digikam -> Darktable -> Gimp, with some excursions to Hugin for panoramas *before* the GIMP). Remco ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
