On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 at 20:29, tony Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Are you saying that ALL images in a folder are processed > according to the preset, but I just can't see the results - until I > enter the darkroom?
I'm saying you should read the manual section I sought out for you. Darktable tries to avoid useless processing. Therefore, it will not generate the updated image, unless you ask for it. Ways to ask for it: - open in darkroom - export - tell darktable, via the settings, not to use the JPG preview embedded in the raw file (which is the normal, cheap behaviour), but do the processing straight ahead, on a half-size preview rendering of the raw file. > This makes me feel quite uncomfortable because I > start to ask 'are all other preset effects not visible here on the light > table for this reason, or are they not visible because they haven't been > applied, for some reason? Once you check it and accept it, you won't worry about that. > For existing images, one has to enter the darkroom and turn on > the monochrome module for every image, individually. Select one image that has the module in its history stack, Ctrl+C, select the others you want to copy the effect to, press Ctrl+Shift+V, from the pop-up, select to paste the monochrome module only. > To my mind that seems like a manual operation , not an example of 'auto > apply'. Or am I > still failing to understand when presets - like my monochrome one - are > applied? Where is that 'timing' defined? https://darktable.gitlab.io/doc/en/module_presets.html#module_presets_new 'you can define a filter used to decide if the preset should be automatically applied >>>>>> when opening other similar images in darkroom for the first time <<<<<' This is what I actually see. 1. I opened a Nikon NEF file 2. In exposure, I applied a large positive exposure adjustment. The image turned white. 3. Saved that as a preset, to auto-apply to all raw files. 4. Opened another unprocessed NEF. It turned white. Thus, the preset is applied to any unprocessed file, as stated by the manual. It won't be applied for images that I opened in the darkroom previously. This behaviour is the same as what the docs describe. Turning on the half-size raw and importing images also auto-applies this preset, and all my thumbnails turned white on import. Please read the manual, and experiment a bit before asking. Kofa ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
