Re: [darktable-user] GPU advice 2GB or 4GB RAM.

2018-04-17 Thread Robert William Hutton
More memory is good because it allows you to process images through opencl without tiling them, which is a lot faster. Of course this depends on the resolution of the images you need to process, but I'd always try to get the most video ram possible. I think you can do darktable -d opencl to

Re: [darktable-user] Darktable on Windows

2018-02-20 Thread Robert William Hutton
Hi André, I'm in a very similar situation to what you describe: I have an AMD R9 280 with an i5-4690 CPU @ 3.50GHz, and am running Ubuntu 17.10 as my daily OS. I have stuffed around with the new AMDGPU-PRO and open source equivalents to try to get opencl under modern Ubuntu, but although

Re: [darktable-user] Install on MAC OS

2017-11-13 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 14/11/17 11:56, Paul Deverson wrote: This shouldn’t be complicated, Bob. I have a Mac and I just downloaded the .dmg file and installed it in the usual way. Hi Bob, The DMG is here: https://www.darktable.org/install/#osx Regarding whether it's compatible with OS X 12.13, that page says:

Re: [darktable-user] Sharpening after resize

2017-11-13 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 14/11/17 12:22, darkta...@911networks.com wrote: What are you doing/using for sharpening after export? My export sizes are around 900px jpegs for web with a quality of 70% for my 20Mpx and 24Mpx cameras. Isn't this what export styles are for?

Re: [darktable-user] finding out what is failing

2017-11-12 Thread Robert William Hutton
+5.250 VDC +5VSB ± 5% +4.750 VDC +5.250 VDC -5VDC (if used) ± 10% -4.500 VDC -5.500 VDC +12VDC ± 5% +11.400 VDC +12.600 VDC -12VDC ± 10% -10.800 VDC -13.200 VDC Regards, Rob On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 8:23 PM, Robert William

Re: [darktable-user] Re: The new look......

2017-11-05 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 06/11/17 10:30, Robert William Hutton wrote: On 06/11/17 09:49, Michael wrote: I installed from the PPA via apt. How do you reenable the PPA? OK, so I assume you're on Ubuntu, as you don't say. Ah, you say you're on Linux Mint, so xenial (rather than artful) is the release you want. I

Re: [darktable-user] Re: The new look......

2017-11-05 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 06/11/17 10:23, Michael wrote: The distro I run is Mint and I installed via a PPA. I would love to do a build-from-scratch but apparently I don't know what I'm doing:) The darktable page says: [snip] For a more complete set of instructions for different distributions have a look at our

Re: [darktable-user] Re: The new look......

2017-11-05 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 06/11/17 09:49, Michael wrote: I installed from the PPA via apt. How do you reenable the PPA? OK, so I assume you're on Ubuntu, as you don't say. GUI way: * open Software & Services * click the Other Software tab * select the darktable PPA from the list, click Edit... * ensure the

Re: [darktable-user] Re: The new look......

2017-11-05 Thread Robert William Hutton
Those symptoms occur when GTK3 has been updated without darktable being updated to match. The red areas indicate that there's a problem with the layout, so CSS might be involved, but I more often see this when I update the OS from one release to the next (say, Ubuntu 17.04 to Ubuntu 17.10)

Re: Aw: Re: [darktable-user] Exported JPG vs. Camera JPG

2017-10-24 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 23/10/17 18:10, Thomas Werzmirzowsky wrote: Gesendet: Montag, 23. Oktober 2017 um 07:47 Uhr Von: "Robert William Hutton" <r...@helms-deep.net> I found creating my own matrix from a Wolf Faust target worked really well, Tim Rolph also mentioned the Wolf Faust target but

Re: [darktable-user] Exported JPG vs. Camera JPG

2017-10-22 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 22/10/17 20:27, Thomas Werzmirzowsky wrote: I shot a portrait with my Canon EOS 60D and noticed that the JPG from the Canon in portrait image mode looks significantly better than the one exported from Darktable. Especially the blue color looks much more natural in the camera JPG. I have a

Re: Re : [darktable-user] OpenCL in Ubuntu 17.10 with NVidia and Wayland?

2017-10-22 Thread Robert William Hutton
I run darktable (from git) on Ubuntu 17.10 (vanilla GNOME shell) and have done for some weeks. On my machine with AMD hardware I run the wayland session, and on my machines with nvidia hardware, I run the xorg session. It certainly works under both, though its stability isn't necessarily

Re: [darktable-user] Centos 6.8 and darktable

2017-08-29 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 30/08/17 01:55, F L wrote: It's a regular Dell laptop. I got a little further with 2.0.7, but that one was complaining about GTK3 not being there. I guess the one that comes with teh RHEL/Centos 6.8 distro (darktable-1.0.5) is probably the only one that will work. gphoto2 seems to work

Re: [darktable-user] Automatic exposure adjustment with style

2017-05-15 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 16/05/17 04:48, Andreas Mueller wrote: Thanks, that's definitely an option. Though I prefer using the exposure module. Using levels or curves I usually end up with an oversaturated or undersaturated image, depending on which direction I moved the grey point. Not sure if there's an easy way

Re: [darktable-user] Darktable fonts too big, and red outline, since upgrade to Kubuntu 17.04

2017-04-24 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 19/04/17 13:22, Shane Simmons wrote: I didn't build from source, no. I installed it via Pascal de Bruijn's PPA. The problem occurred when I upgraded, even though it didn't change the version number... Should I try a complete removal and re-installation? I think you have the yakkety

Re: [darktable-user] Darktable fonts too big, and red outline, since upgrade to Kubuntu 17.04

2017-04-18 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 19/04/17 13:22, Shane Simmons wrote: I didn't build from source, no. I installed it via Pascal de Bruijn's PPA. The problem occurred when I upgraded, even though it didn't change the version number... Should I try a complete removal and re-installation? I think you have the yakkety

Re: [darktable-user] Darktable fonts too big, and red outline, since upgrade to Kubuntu 17.04

2017-04-18 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 19/04/17 12:48, Shane Simmons wrote: After I upgraded to Kubuntu 17.04, from 16.10, I've had quite a few problems. One of them is with Darktable -- the upgrade seemed to have done something with my darktable.css file, and now the program's interface is all screwed up. That normally

Re: [darktable-user] Can't expand modules by using the little triangle

2017-04-17 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 17/04/17 19:46, Bernhard wrote: Robert William Hutton schrieb am 17.04.2017 um 11:40: On 17/04/17 19:28, Bernhard wrote: I updated from LM17 to LM18.1 and thus dt2.0.x to dt2.2.4 from Pascal's PPA. Now I notice that it's not possible to use those little triangles to expand a module any

Re: [darktable-user] Can't expand modules by using the little triangle

2017-04-17 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 17/04/17 19:28, Bernhard wrote: I updated from LM17 to LM18.1 and thus dt2.0.x to dt2.2.4 from Pascal's PPA. Now I notice that it's not possible to use those little triangles to expand a module any more since they are covered by the scrollbar when I hover on them with the mouse. Expanding IS

Re: [darktable-user] Does OpenCL require the AMDGPU-PRO driver? Yes, but does not require installation, just some libs

2017-03-28 Thread Robert William Hutton
Well, ultimately you'll be able to run darktable with opencl support with all-opensource drivers on AMD. That might be worth the pain. Meanwhile I've got a second install of Ubuntu on my machine (15.10, the last one with fglrx support) and I'm trying to get an install of 17.04 to work with

Re: [darktable-user] Is there anyway to fix this?

2017-01-24 Thread Robert William Hutton
Try the shadows and highlights module, or just pulling down the exposure slightly. But I'd say you've probably blown those highlights, especially if that's a JPG. -R On 25/01/17 09:32, Michael wrote: I can't control the camera as it is from a cheap drone. Inline image 1 -- :-)~MIKE~(-:

Re: [darktable-user] Start Darktable in "Test" Mode

2016-12-20 Thread Robert William Hutton
I've attached my startup script (based on one by LebedevRI) that does this, at least approximately. -R On 20/12/16 15:54, Scott wrote: Hello. I'd like to write a few lua scripts. Is there an easy way to start darktable as a "fresh" install (no database but also no other configurations).

Re: [darktable-user] Nikon D5 white balance presets support

2016-12-01 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 01/12/16 21:51, Roman Lebedev wrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 2:55 AM, Robert William Hutton for file in *; do ~/wd/darktable/tools/extract_wb "$file" >> ~/white_balance.txt ; echo >> ~/white_balance.txt ; done Uh, oh, s/is the tool/can work on multiple raw files at

Re: [darktable-user] Nikon D5 white balance presets support

2016-11-30 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 30/11/16 22:52, Roman Lebedev wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 2:31 AM, Robert William Hutton <r...@helms-deep.net> wrote: On 30/11/16 09:58, Jimmy Gowrisanker wrote: git clone https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable.git cd rm -rf ~/white_balance.txt for file in *; do ~/wd/darktable

Re: [darktable-user] Nikon D5 white balance presets support

2016-11-29 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 30/11/16 10:31, Robert William Hutton wrote: sudo apt-get install git ruby ruby-nokogiri Sorry, I missed a dependency: sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl -R darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe

Re: [darktable-user] Nikon D5 white balance presets support

2016-11-29 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 30/11/16 09:58, Jimmy Gowrisanker wrote: Based on the instructions here http://www.darktable.org/2012/10/whats-involved-with-adding-support-for-new-cameras/ , I took 9 shots (auto0:Keep white-reduce warm colours, auto1:normal, auto1: keep warm colours, Incan, FL, Sunlight, flash, cloudy

Re: [darktable-user] ppa

2016-10-26 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 27/10/16 08:29, Michael wrote: I know someone asked this a couple of days ago but the responses to his question where not open to everyone. What is the current ppa for darktable? https://launchpad.net/~pmjdebruijn/+archive/ubuntu/darktable-release Rob

Re: [darktable-user] Print tab absent

2016-10-24 Thread Robert William Hutton
Hi Normand, How did you install darktable? On what linux system? Instructions on how to install all of the necessary dependencies and build from source are here: https://redmine.darktable.org/projects/darktable/wiki/Building_darktable_20 Although that appears to be down for me atm, so try

Re: [darktable-user] Lesson request

2016-07-28 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 29/07/16 12:22, Michael wrote: Riley, I would like to see a lesson on using masks and dodge if you could. Maybe post one of the RAW files (on Dropbox or similar) as an example to be worked on in the video? -R

Re: [darktable-user] B are too cold

2016-07-10 Thread Robert William Hutton
I'd use the color correction module for this. There are even a couple of presets for warming: warm tone and warming filter. Of course you can drag the two circles (white for highlights, black for lowlights) until you get what you want. Cheers, Rob On 09/07/16 10:03,

Re: [darktable-user] I love darktable

2016-06-22 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 22/06/16 09:28, Michael wrote: My camera takes braketed images but only saves as JPG. What would make What camera is that? Seems somewhat self-defeating to not be able to save bracketed images as RAW. -R

Re: [darktable-user] Re: Support for Canon EOS 80D

2016-06-17 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 17/06/16 16:11, Robert William Hutton wrote: On 16/06/16 18:41, Edward Kamau wrote: I don't know if this is still wanted, but I did the Noise profiling shots as per instructions in the 2012 blog post. two shots for each ISO. Set1 exposed -1/3rd stop, set2 -2/3rd stop. All uploaded to my

Re: [darktable-user] color conversion issue

2016-06-14 Thread Robert William Hutton
Try this: In the input color profile module, in the gamut clipping dropdown list, select linear Rec2020 RGB. See: https://www.darktable.org/usermanual/ch03s04s03.html.php#input_color_profile Regards, Rob On 14/06/16 15:42, I. Ivanov wrote: Hi, Not sure if this is the proper channel. I

Re: [darktable-user] OpenCLwith Radeon driver possible?

2016-06-04 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 05/06/16 08:44, David Farmer wrote: As the subject suggests, is it possible to use darktable with OpenCL support with the open source radeon driver? No. You need the binary driver (which isn't available yet for Ubuntu 16.04 incidentally). -R

Re: [darktable-user] REQ: Feature

2016-06-01 Thread Robert William Hutton
On 31/05/16 12:34, Krishnan Srinivasan wrote: With Graduated Density we can add a gradient area from dark to light to the image. Can we add a Hue saturation or color wheel to that module which can help people to change the sky color in certain images. Ofcourse we can add a mask and do the