On 21/3/22 07:25, Marco DE BOOIJ wrote:
If I understand well you copy/paste the watermark from the 'first'
iamge into the other ones. This changes your xmp file when you export
your images. I also add a watermark to some of my images. I created a
style with only the watermark inside. It does not matter if I append
or replace this style during the export, the xmp file is unchanged. I
use this with cli-darktable and with the darktable export. Perhaps you
could try to use a style to add your watermark to the pictures. This
might be a bit more work but it saves you a lot of time and effort in
case something goes wrong.
Regards,
Msrco
Op 20/03/2022 om 00:20 schreef Andrew Greig:
Hi All,
I have read the manual on xmp files, and scrolled through the emails
around my issues of over-written xmp files. But I have not found a
clear process to follow. Last night after exporting a set of 259
images at full -size jpg I added a watermark using the selective copy
and paste but when I looked at the results of copying a single image
with a watermark added, the resulting 258 images went dark (back to
an out of camera condition). I had this happen before and I checked
the "Overwrite" and "Append" switches and found that somehow it had
changed from Append to Overwrite. Prior to my former disaster,
through several versions of Darktable I had never altered the Append
to Overwrite, never given it a thought. But now, twice in a couple of
months something, maybe a power failure overnight , has seen DT
choose "Overwrite". So when selecting just the watermark to copy to
the 258 files, with the setting at "overwrite" everything els has
been zeroed and the watermark remains. I hate that overwrite button,
can't imagine who would use it, maybe we could lose it . But I digress.
I have been told that I can recover the xmp files from my exported
(and correct) jpgs. So I need to discover the process. I imagine
that I would need to load my jpg files into Darktable instead of my
RAW files with their ovewritten xmp files. But what is next, please?
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Thanks Msrco
I had never used styles before, but faced with this rework, I decided to
leave some things until Export time. So I re-watched Bruce Williams'
excellent episode of Understanding Darktable and I decided to create a
style which had Watermark, Framing and Sharpening at 1.0. The export is
running as I write this.
I use the light-table to determine sets of images which are close their
exposure and then I work on the first of the set and set exposure, then
Filmic (I work in a low key mostly, so I shove the Black correction off
to the right)and then tweak Contrast and adjust saturation to 3.5% as
the models like a healthy glow, but nothing garish. Then I crop. I then
use the Selective Copy and the selective paste on the set of images. Any
skin corrections are addressed one at a time. My problem was that
somehow the Append state of the history stack had been changed to
Overwrite. I think I understand what happened. I think I may have
scrolled in that area, tired, and didn't grab the scroll bar properly,
the setting scrolled to Overwrite and I did not notice.
Cheers
Andrew
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