@Terry, I use star ratings indeed, but this still is a rating or collection/selection within a certain folder on my harddisk. It would be great if I can mix ‘m up. To give an idea: I have images from several vacations that I’m going to split up to new selections. The original folders are based on the vacations, the new selections on categories like ‘architecture’ and ‘nature/landscapes’. Those categories aren’t limited to the original folders anymore.
About the histograms: I don’t rely on them heavily either and (fortunately?) I don’t have an Adobe background. Well, except for the use of Photoshop Elements. I would indeed like to see some examples of the different histograms with explanation. And is there a short and clear explanation on the differences of these histograms? @Marc, Thanks for your answer. This might actually work for question 1. @all: I’m still looking for an option that helps me show a selection. Example: I have a selection of 20 photos in – say – my category ‘Architecture’. All photos are good enough, the have enough stars or the right color given to them. Now I want to minimize the selection to a series of 12. Therefore I want to try several combinations without having to tag (and detag) them all the time. I know that Lightroom has the option to select images and press some button to see the selection. That makes it easy to quickly decide what works. I’d really like something like this. I could really use that! Hartelijke groet, Hieke van Hoogdalem Van: [email protected] <[email protected]> Verzonden: woensdag 1 december 2021 23:54 Aan: 'Terry Pinfold' <[email protected]>; 'Hieke van Hoogdalem' <[email protected]> CC: 'darktable forum' <[email protected]> Onderwerp: RE: [darktable-user] 3 different questions Dag Hieke, For your folders question: it is possible to tag with subdivisions. I do that for my work for the photo art school versus my personal work. The tags may look like this: * school|cityscapes * school|portraits * projects|myfamily * projects|street You can assign multiple tags to a single picture. For instance a portrait of my son my appear under school|portraits and projects|myfamily. Or the same picture may appear in school|cityscapes and projects|street. Bruce Williams has some youtube video’s on the use of the darktable database and the lighttable. Some of them may be a bit confusing at this point in time because explained for a former version. But the tagging works as he explains. You may want to have a look at these. Hope this helps, met vriendelijke groet, Marc. Van: Terry Pinfold <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Verzonden: woensdag 1 december 2021 23:26 Aan: Hieke van Hoogdalem <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > CC: darktable forum <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Onderwerp: Re: [darktable-user] 3 different questions Hi Hartelijke groet, someone else may come with a better answer for your question. Lightroom uses collections which can be very convenient. However, a possible easy solution for you is to give the images a color or star rating so that you can easily filter the view to see a selection of images. As for histograms, I was teaching my students about this last night. The answer I always give is to use either log or linear based upon which one gives the best information. There is no hard and fast rule to which one is best. Many average scenes may look great with linear, but with some scenes where there are fewer bright or dark pixels these may be not obvious on a linear histogram but become very obvious on a log histogram. Just switch between the two and decide which is best for the individual image. I would also like to point out that coming from an Adobe background for image editing I relied heavily upon histograms for editing. Having watched numerous videos by the Aurelien who is the developer of many Darktable modules I have come to view over dependence on the histogram as painting by numbers. The look is the most important bit when editing. When using the linear histogram you adjusted the image until it looked good and there was no obvious clipping. That is great. However, the log histogram detected a few extreme pixels which were clipped. These may have been a small number of black or white pixels that were at the extremes and not significant to the image. The log display histogram overstates their importance for this single image. If you want to see some examples of what I mean, just ask. On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 at 08:19, <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Hi y’all, I have 3 questions: 1. Is there a possibility to make folders in Darktable for subselections of your work? Say I’m working on a series and I’m trying different combinations, it would be handy if I had the option to create/save those series somewhere, from within Darktable. I hear Lightroom has something like that and I figure it’s very helpful. >> [1a] It would also be helpful if the order can be changed, to see what order works best for that selection. 2. Can I select more than 2 pictures and show them as a series in a pop-up or different screen? Like culling, but for more images. >> [2a: Again... It would also be helpful if the order can be changed, to see what order works best for that selection..] 3. I discovered that the histogram box shows 2 different kinds of histograms. I don’t understand the difference. (Logarithmic/lineair.) What’s the best option for newbies to histograms? I was looking at an image that seemed great, but the histo was way clipped. Then I discoverd the lineair version and nothing was clipped at al. Of course I look at the picture for the results, but I also want to work with the histogram more. I understand the basic idea, but I don’t know for wich version that goes :-) Oh and culling doesn’t work well. Sometimes it’s okay, sometimes I see another selection being enlarged. In that case 1 is from my selection and the other is the one next to it, but something I selected. Since I’ll be working on a Macbook Air next week I’m not diving into this too much now. At this point I’m still working on a Windows 10 64 bit machine, don’t know if that’s helpful info. 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