heya, On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Lefty Ace <leftyga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for your reply, Johannes. > > I checked darktablerc and both of those options were the opposite of what > you listed. I changed them, so now I have: > > never_use_embedded_thumb=FALSE > plugins/lighttable/low_quality_thumbnails=TRUE
i hope that's the old configuration and not the new one, right? > After running darktable-generate-cache (which took a few hours for 4,000 > images), I now have high-quality previews, thank you! sounds good anyways. > I have two follow-up questions: > 1) Does darktable refer to everything on the lighttable as a "thumbnail"? In > other words, when I zoom in all the way in lighttable mode, what I see is > affected by any settings referring to "thumbnail," even though it's now > quite large on screen? If so, that probably means 1080p is the right setting > if I want to view images on the lighttable at full-screen, right? yes and yes. > 2) During darktable-generate-cache, I received the following set of errors > (repeated for a handful of images): > > TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, Unknown field with tag 18246 (0x4746) > encountered. > TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, Unknown field with tag 18249 (0x4749) > encountered. > TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, Unknown field with tag 36867 (0x9003) > encountered. > TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, Unknown field with tag 37398 (0x9216) > encountered. > TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, Unknown field with tag 18246 (0x4746) > encountered. > TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, Unknown field with tag 18249 (0x4749) > encountered. > TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, Unknown field with tag 36867 (0x9003) > encountered. > TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, Unknown field with tag 37398 (0x9216) > encountered. > > Any idea what that means? no but that should be relatively harmless (probably comes from non-standard tags in tiff that is actually a raw or similar). cheers, jo > > Thanks again for your help, > > -Owen > > On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 12:44 PM, johannes hanika <hana...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> hi, >> >> can you check your darktablerc for something similar to: >> >> never_use_embedded_thumb=true >> plugins/lighttable/low_quality_thumbnails=false >> >> ? >> >> the size 4k is not a good idea if you don't need the thumbnails this >> large. >> >> and yes, you need to recreate your cache (delete ~/.cache/darktable/ >> or wherever that is for you), and maybe you want to recreate them all >> at once from the command line (man darktable-generate-cache). >> >> -jo >> >> >> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 6:53 AM, Lefty Ace <leftyga...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hello Darktable users! >> > >> > I have a problem trying to use the lighttable view and I wonder if you >> > could >> > help. >> > >> > When I first import my raw files (Nikon NEFs), I can review them nicely >> > in >> > the lighttable. Zooming to full screen gives me a nice looking image, >> > and I >> > can use the left and right arrows to move through the current >> > collection. >> > >> > After I edit an image, however, the preview shown in lighttable view >> > looks >> > very bad. Even if I only change whitebalance, the preview is now very >> > low >> > resolution. If I crop the image, the preview becomes absolutely >> > terrible. It >> > is as though the preview is based on a VERY low resolution version of >> > the >> > image. >> > >> > I have tried changing the setting "High quality thumb processing from >> > size." >> > Originally it was 720p, I have set it to 4k, and I don't see a >> > difference. >> > My monitor is 1920x1080, so 4k is more than enough resolution for >> > full-screen. Do I need to do something to apply the new setting to files >> > already in my library? >> > >> > My solution for now is to always export my images and then view the JPG >> > files with another program. But this means I cannot enjoy darktable's >> > great >> > tagging and searching, since in order to see what the image actually >> > looks >> > like I must export it. >> > >> > The slideshow mode almost solves my problem, but I cannot go backwards, >> > only >> > forwards, and it is a little bit laggy since it is processing the full >> > image. >> > >> > Any suggestions or advice would be much appreciated! >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance >> > APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month >> > Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now >> > Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. 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