Re: [darktable-user] Highlight Details

2018-04-11 Thread Peter Cripps
Thanks Bill, thats much better than I've been able to achieve with dt. I clearly need to spend time learning how to use the highlight reconstruction module! Before posting the inevitable Lightroom comparison, let me say that I really don't like using that software. I have a long list of

Re: [darktable-user] Highlight Details

2018-04-09 Thread Peter Cripps
On 04/09/2018 10:28 AM, Timur Irikovich Davletshin wrote: Well, did they look the same before reducing exposure? I wonder if basecurve is the same in both cases (two options are available in DT). Looks like LR does some sort of highlight reconstruction by default, if you enable LCh

Re: [darktable-user] Highlight Details

2018-04-09 Thread Peter Cripps
At risk of complicating this discussion, I processed an over-exposed RAW file in darktable and Lightroom. In both cases, I pulled the exposure back by 2ev. No other tweaks. The results are quite different, and seem to show that dt is losing some of the high intensity pixels. (I said 'seem

Re: [darktable-user] Highlight Details

2018-04-08 Thread Peter Cripps
And, 'for the sake of science', I downloaded the .dng and opened it in Lr and dt. The histograms are quite different, even allowing for log vs linear on the y-axes. Lr shows a bunch of high intensity pixels on the far right hand side; these are missing in dt. This is before applying any

Re: [darktable-user] Highlight Details

2018-04-08 Thread Peter Cripps
I've seen similar results to Chris. One of the (few) things that I've found Lightroom does better than darktable is highlight recovery. I have noticed that the darktable histogram doesn't seem to show content at the far right hand side that does show in the Lightroom histogram. Don't know if

Re: [darktable-user] Reinstalled, xmp files not being applied

2018-03-19 Thread Peter Cripps
Well, that's strange. I did as you suggest: removed an image and then reimported it. And, yes, the edits duly appeared. Then I tried another image, but before removing it, I noticed that the edits were there. And checked some other imported folders, all the edits appear. I had closed and

Re: [darktable-user] Reinstalled, xmp files not being applied

2018-03-19 Thread Peter Cripps
Patrick, I simply installed from the pmjdebruijin ppa. I don't know what that means as far as the db goes? On 03/19/2018 01:09 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Peter Cripps <pe...@petercripps.com> [03-19-18 13:23]: I've just reinstalled 2.4.1 on Linux Mint 18.3, kernel 4.13.0-37. But

[darktable-user] Reinstalled, xmp files not being applied

2018-03-19 Thread Peter Cripps
I've just reinstalled 2.4.1 on Linux Mint 18.3, kernel 4.13.0-37. But when I open an image, the develop setting stored in the xmp file are not applied. I have checked the option to "look for changed xmp files on import". I opened the same image (i.e. the same bits from the same storage) in

Re: [darktable-user] denoising problems

2018-03-11 Thread Peter Cripps
Bill, thanks for letting us try your noise profiles. I did some quick tests, and they seem to work very well, particularly for very noisy images. On 03/10/2018 07:35 PM, William Ferguson wrote: I usually shoot 1000-1500 images per game (football, soccer, basketball), and 600-800 for baseball

Re: [darktable-user] Transfer of edits from Windows to Linux

2018-02-25 Thread Peter Cripps
ahan wrote: * Peter Cripps <pe...@petercripps.com> [02-25-18 13:43]: I have darktable installed on two machines: 2.4.0rc0 on Windows, and 2.4.1 on Linux. If I make edits on the Windows machine, close darktable, and then open on Linux, the edits don't carry over. Same in the reverse direction,

[darktable-user] Transfer of edits from Windows to Linux

2018-02-25 Thread Peter Cripps
I have darktable installed on two machines: 2.4.0rc0 on Windows, and 2.4.1 on Linux. If I make edits on the Windows machine, close darktable, and then open on Linux, the edits don't carry over. Same in the reverse direction, Linux to Windows. This used to work at one point. If I open earlier

Re: [darktable-user] Re: Problem when I open raw files to edit on DARKTABLE

2018-02-01 Thread Peter Cripps
12 GMT-02:00 Peter Cripps <pe...@petercripps.com <mailto:pe...@petercripps.com>>: Can you post the .CR2 file for that picture? I saw the .CR2 that you posted earlier, but it was a different image; the roses weren't pure red like these. On 01/31/2018 01:56 PM, Dieg

Re: [darktable-user] Re: Problem when I open raw files to edit on DARKTABLE

2018-01-31 Thread Peter Cripps
Can you post the .CR2 file for that picture? I saw the .CR2 that you posted earlier, but it was a different image; the roses weren't pure red like these. On 01/31/2018 01:56 PM, Diego Queres wrote: See the pictures:

Re: [darktable-user] Fixing my color management workflow

2017-12-10 Thread Peter Cripps
I had a similar problem. Everything looked good on my local devices, but images in Google Photos came back looking washed out. The problem went away after I set display profile and export file format to sRGB (web safe). On 12/10/2017 11:28 AM, Andreas Mueller wrote: On 12/10/2017 02:03 PM,

Re: [darktable-user] Surface pen for creating drawn masks

2017-11-28 Thread Peter Cripps
Answering my own question ... Of course, it's left click that used to define control points for the 'path' shape. And the pen doesn't do left click. It does work with the brush, circle and ellipse shapes, although I don't see any way to alter sizes without a keyboard or mouse wheel. My 

[darktable-user] Surface pen for creating drawn masks

2017-11-28 Thread Peter Cripps
I have a Microsoft Surface pen that no longer pairs properly. But it does still work as a pointing device, and the right-click button opens folders, etc., as I would expect. However, when I try to use the pen to define a drawn mask, right-click doesn't define control points. I'm wondering if

Re: [darktable-user] Re: [darktable-dev] Hard edges with the tone mapping module

2017-11-01 Thread Peter Cripps
On 11/01/2017 10:11 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote: don't know about 2.4.0, there is no base curve blending module that I see in darktable-2.3.0~git1024.ec24c9282-25.1.x86_64 unless the module has a different name. I'm looking at 2.3.0+1021~ga917e5ecc. This came from the installer link on

Re: [darktable-user] Re: [darktable-dev] Hard edges with the tone mapping module

2017-11-01 Thread Peter Cripps
Hi Kofa, Thanks for mentioning the base curve blending feature in your reply to François. I was unaware that it existed, but it seems like a very useful way to compress overall contrast. In case anyone else is puzzled, as I was, base curve blending isn't included in 2.2.5. At least, I don't

[darktable-user] Darktable and Lensfun

2017-10-27 Thread Peter Cripps
It seems to me that the latest version of darktable (2.5.5) includes installation of lensfun. Here's an extract from the terminal readout during installation: The following NEW packages will be installed: darktable liblensfun-data liblensfun0 libopenjp2-7 Later on in the process, I see

Re: [darktable-user] borderless printing

2017-10-03 Thread Peter Cripps
Franjo, I should have said 'darkroom section' rather than 'develop section'. Too much time in the past using Lightroom! darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to

Re: [darktable-user] borderless printing

2017-10-03 Thread Peter Cripps
Hi Franjo, In addition to Robert's suggestions, you might also check settings in the 'framing' module, found under 'more modules' in the develop section. Peter On 10/3/2017 6:55 AM, Franjo wrote: Hi @all, I'm using LinuxMint 18 and Dt 2.2.5 today I wanted to print with Darktable for the