Yes your first method is what I wanted. It's not exactly the way I'm used
to, but I guess I'll live with it.
On 12 May 2013 16:19, Anocha yimsiriwattana <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi again :)
>
> Here is what I think we can do to comparing any two images using darktable
> now.
>
> (1) Switch to lighttable mode
> (2) Select first image, and assign a color to the images (assuming you
> have no use that color before in this collection) ... Say I assign "red"
> (3) Select the second image, and assign the same color ("red")
> (4) Open the collection images (left hand side)
> (5) Select - "color label"
> (6) Select "red"
>
> Now in the lighttable should have only two image you select. Then we can
> soom in to compare those two.
>
> Still a bit complicated, but this would work just fine.
>
> Cheer,
> :tom:
>
>
> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 4:11 AM, Anocha yimsiriwattana
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi Jiew
>>
>> There are two use cases that I try to propose how to do it in darktable
>> now without having to have two images side by side comparison.
>>
>> First use case:
>> We want to compare any series of similar images and select one by one,
>> side by side, until you get down to one image.
>>
>> I think you already have a way to do it. Just to make sure I understand
>> you, so here what I would do:
>> (1) Switch to lighttable.
>> (2) I use "file manager" instead of "zoomable lighttable", and set the
>> number of pictures to 2
>> (3) select view to "all except rejected"
>> (4) select the first image of the series.
>> (5) hit "tab", so I can close (or open) side borders tools. So I can see
>> both images in the largest possible size.
>> (6) then you can choose which on you want to keep/reject. When you hit
>> reject, the next image will show up for you to compare. You keep compare
>> until you get to the end of the series.
>>
>> The key idea is to use view "all except rejected", so when you reject an
>> image, it's take the image out of the view, and the next image will show
>> up.
>>
>> The second use case:
>> You want to compare any two image side by side.
>>
>> The closest thing is to use snapshots module. It's not exactly two image
>> side by side but very close. To do this,
>>
>> (1) Assume you already select the first image.
>> (2) Switch to darkroom
>> (3) open snapshots module (on the top left panel), and take snapshot
>> you should see a snapshot added ... in my case it show
>> "original(0)". It's could be any process step that you have done for the
>> image (see the history).
>> (4) now you can select the second image from the flimstrip (bottom of the
>> screen), or
>> other process step on the same image from the history
>> (5) Then you can select "original(0)" or any snapshoot that use create
>> before.
>>
>> You can see that image will split in two part, one from the snapshoot
>> another one from the second image you select (or other step).
>>
>> I think snapshoot is intend to use for comparing two process of the same
>> image, so you can see how the next step will effect your picture. But it's
>> can be use to compare any two images.
>>
>> It's not quite the same as compare two images side by side, because you
>> can see only half of each images ... and it's not the same half. So it's
>> might not really help much in the second use case.
>>
>> I agree with you, the feature that compare two images would simply
>> replace there two "complicated" workflow.
>>
>> Hopefully that help.
>>
>> Cheer,
>> :tom:
>>
>> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Jiew Peng Lim <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Another feature which is somewhat related that I'd like to suggest is a
>>> "compare images" mode where you select 2 or more images and it puts them
>>> side by side, and you can reject images from there. It's useful when you
>>> shoot in continuous burst (or any series of similar images) and you want to
>>> compare the images side by side and reject them one by one and end up with
>>> only one photo (like in Lightroom).
>>>
>>>
>>
>>> You can kind of do something similar by adjusting the grid size in the
>>> library module, but that's a bit clunky, because if you have a series of
>>> say, 6 images that look similar and you want to compare between the first
>>> and the last, you're getting a really small sized image unless you have a
>>> really large monitor.
>>>
>>>
>
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