Gosh, the more I venture into DT the more I'm told about "Gotcha's" -
things that happen that I have no awareness of or preparedness for.
Makes me nervous about the results.
The latest is to learn that presets will survive the re-installation of
DT, even though I clear the DT cache and delete the .raw.xmp file and
replace the original file and its .xmp sidecar. The monochrome module
just happened to be somewhere I started to 'play' with DT. It bothers me
that it has a locked preset that I cannot delete - is that being applied
to every (matching) image that I newly open? As previously posted in
this 'forum', DT appears to be unable to find any matching image from
my portfolio when it comes to 'auto-apply' one of my own monochrome
presets, but that didn't stop the appearance of the monochrome module in
the history stack of every newly opened image and some changes to the
mage, without it being converted to black and white. That preset was
deleted because I was just unable to make it work as I expected but it
appears that its legacy lives on. Very unsettling..
On 25/07/2020 09:19, Remco Viëtor wrote:
On samedi 25 juillet 2020 09:15:21 CEST tony Hamilton wrote:
Correct, previously I was trying to get monochrome applied
automatically. But, aside from knowing that I was not trying to do that
in this case, please note that I have not said the whole image is in
monochrome; only a selection of pixels have turned a sort of 'polluted'
grey - with, apparently, some red in them.
When you have defined a preset to be auto-applied, it will be applied whenever
you open an image for the first time in the darkroom (provided the image
matches, of course)
I don't see how this can be
the result of some preset as, as part of this learning exercise, I have
performed a clean install of DT and all my test images, newly copied
from LightRoom.
A clean install means that you also removed the old database and configuration
files? Note that some of these can be hidden (~/.config/darktable/* under
linux, no idea where to find such files for MS-Windows).
None of this answers the question of how did the
monochrome module get into the history stack in the first place.
Well, that part *was* answered by Patrick Shanahan...
As you seemed to have set up a preset to be auto-applied to "matching images",
that preset will still exist, *and be applied*, when you just re-install the
program.
Btw, did you follow the suggestion from Patrick, starting darktable with
" darktable --library :memory: "?
Among other things, you won't get any preset applied on importing an image/
folder.
Of
course one valid explanation is that I am so intellectually stunted that
I do things without realising it or perform actions with no idea of
their consequences. If this were the case, would I be able to use DT at
all?
I'd rather not comment on this.
Remco
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