Re: [darktable-user] exiftool cannot be found

2020-01-28 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2020-01-28 5:17 a.m., Subhash Fotografie wrote: > [Matt Maguire schrieb am 28.1.2020 um 8:27 Uhr:] > >> So, easiest way around this is to define the location of exiftool in your >> preferences file … > > OK, very fine, this did it for the error message to disappear! Thank you > again! > > B

Re: [darktable-user] Old requeested feature

2020-02-08 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2020-02-08 8:50 a.m., Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Jean-Luc CECCOLI [02-08-20 08:40]: >> Hello, >> >>   >> >> Any chance this could be implemented some day ? >> >> https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/issues/2452#issue-437401374 > > cannot you add copywrite notice inside your camera? >

Re: [darktable-user] Fontsize with darktable 3.0.0~git325.4538201be

2020-02-09 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2020-02-08 6:06 p.m., Аl Воgnеr wrote: > Is there a possibility to make scrollbars a little bit broader? Which scroll bars do you mean?I'm using Linux and I found that the scroll bars of the window are part of the window manager setup. To that end I have In $HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css :- =

[darktable-user] OFF LIST The difference between folder and directory,

2020-02-09 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2020-02-09 7:39 p.m., Аl Воgnеr wrote: > BTW, can you explain the difference between folder and directory, for a > non-native English speaker I cannot see a difference. I've always taken it as a the Real Thing(tm) is a 'directory' but Microsoft, since they had to have a different nomenclature f

Re: [darktable-user] Importing, How do you do it?

2020-03-12 Thread Anton Aylward
On 12/03/2020 10:48, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > copy or move your images from camers/sd card/... to a physical drive and > then import to dt. Indeed. The reality is as an overall process of workflow, using the PC's ability to read the card to the hard drive is !faster! than trying to do this via DT

Re: [darktable-user] Can I invoke an external programme from DarkTable

2020-06-20 Thread Anton Aylward
On 19/06/2020 07:03, Guillermo Rozas wrote: > > I find a frequent need to invoke Photoshop as part of my workflow when > using LightRoom and assume this requirement might still exist if I > switch to DarkTable. Is there a way to invoke any 'external' programme > while working in DT

Re: [darktable-user] Change to Linux

2020-08-07 Thread Anton Aylward
On 06/08/2020 03:36, Peter Schlaufer wrote: > When I now would change to Linux I would have to reformat the SSD drive to > fat32 > that it can be read and written in Linux. Linux can read and write a large number of file systems that are faster and more reliable than FAT32. The only reason I can

Re: [darktable-user] Change to Linux

2020-08-08 Thread Anton Aylward
On 07/08/2020 10:18, August Schwerdfeger wrote: > As I understand it, the reason that cameras still use FAT32 / exFAT is the > simplicity of the implementation, since cameras have limited onboard > processing > power. But at least with the manufacturers all using FAT32, there is no > hodgepodge >

Re: Fwd: Fwd: [darktable-user] Linux question

2020-11-24 Thread Anton Aylward
On 24/11/2020 12:09, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Sakke K [11-24-20 12:01]: locate is a faster command than find. For example, locate _A250256.ORF.xmp yes, find actively scans your file structure while locate just look into its database. but the database must be up-to-date or your locate will f

Re: [darktable-user] Issue with opening these image files

2020-12-07 Thread Anton Aylward
On 07/12/2020 15:40, Justin Abonce wrote:     I've been having an issue with opening these image files into your software and I'm not really sure what the problem is. I hope you can get back to me soon, as I want to experiment with the program itself. Your post says little to nothing ab

Re: [darktable-user] Fwd: Issue with opening these image files

2020-12-07 Thread Anton Aylward
On 07/12/2020 16:01, Justin Abonce wrote: I just want to know why I'm unable to select my image to work on, because the only explaintion I'm getting is that JPEG and other files work, yet my JPEG isn't working. I Now that's a really confusing statement. One of the reasons I don't like Windo

Re: [darktable-user] dt 3.4 - a mighty tool!!

2020-12-30 Thread Anton Aylward
On 29/12/2020 10:16, Dr. A. Krebs wrote: dt seems to require quite a bit studies to find out the appropriate steps to image processing. As we can see, there are people searching for a beginners-type GUI. For me some type of such "beginners workflow" helped a lot; however, there should be

Re: [darktable-user] Importing from camera

2020-12-31 Thread Anton Aylward
On 31/12/2020 06:10, Tom Whale wrote: Hello Users, I'm new to darktable (3.4.0), just doing my first steps with it. > At the moment, I'm struggling with importing photos from my camera (Canon EOS600D). After connecting the camera to my PC (Windows10) via USB, Windows finds the camera and asks

Re: [darktable-user] Where are Collections stored?

2021-01-16 Thread Anton Aylward
On 16/01/2021 01:01, Bruce Williams wrote: Hi all! I THOUGHT I'd found a limit to the number of Collections that could be saved. But it looks more and more like wherever my Collections are stored, darktable can no longer write/execute on that location, as not only can I not store any NEW Collec

Re: Fwd: [darktable-user] Where are Collections stored?

2021-01-17 Thread Anton Aylward
On 16/01/2021 21:33, Bruce Williams wrote: Anton, No, I meant the collections that you create and save through the "collect images" module. I create collections based on shoot date (mostly) so I can quickly get back to a certain batch of images. Ah. But yes, I achieve the same end by a differ

Re: [darktable-user] Still no GUI module order possible?

2021-02-15 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2021-02-15 8:07 a.m., Kneops wrote: I'm sorry, I do understand why this is important and cannot and should not be changed! But what I do not understand is why the visual order in the Darkroom cannot be changed. As I see it from a visual/users point of view is that they are like menu items, i

Re: [darktable-user] Not seeing replies to my posts

2021-02-22 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2021-02-22 1:44 p.m., Niranjan Rao wrote: Are you using thunderbird by any chance? I have seen similar behavior when using thunderbird and mailing lists. My postings do not show up in the list, but responses do. indeed. I don't see it on this but I do on another one. For some reason thin

Re: [darktable-user] Not seeing replies to my posts

2021-02-22 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2021-02-22 2:21 p.m., Michael wrote: I found the problem to be that people are not replying- all. Thank you but please, no, I don't want two copies in reply to what I send. You do "all" and it goes to the the sender AND the list. If anything you need to do a 'reply-to-list'. The headers make

Re: [darktable-user] Upgrding from 2.6 to 3.4: Will I lose my modules adjustments?

2021-03-06 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2021-03-06 5:27 a.m., Nikolaos Pantazis wrote: Reading darktable 3.0.0 release notes: "When updating from the currently stable 2.6.x series, please bear in mind that your edits will be preserved during this process, but the new library and configuration will not be usable with 2.6.x any mor

Re: [darktable-user] OT ( Completely ) - reg ex advice

2021-05-24 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2021-05-23 2:20 p.m., Francesco Scaglioni wrote: FName SName - Month D,   ( Then names and dates vary ) I wish to change these to : -mm-dd - FName SName As others point out, if all you want is to re-order fields then shell or AWK can do that, but it supposes that all the lines

Re: [darktable-user] Adding a browser

2021-10-07 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2021-10-06 11:58, Lorenzo Fontanella wrote: What do you think. Please, let's not. I'm not advocate of the 1960s model of 'one process' that was DOS, CICS, CP/M. I run Linux, perhaps you run Windows or MacOS. Those are all multi-tasking, multiprocessing operating systems. You can switch co

Re: [darktable-user] problem installing darktable

2021-10-13 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2021-10-13 13:44, Jan Minekus wrote: I have the new darktable installed in a seperate directory, so I could continue work with the old one. Well there you have it - D*I*S*A*S*T*E*R You've updated the database. You've updated the ~/.config/darktable/ config files, etc But you're trying

Re: [darktable-user] Module Menu Layout

2021-11-13 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2021-11-11 19:20, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * David Vincent-Jones [11-11-21 19:02]: I did not look in that file ... SKLite and all that ... not easily read. If dt is closed can data.db be simply copied across from one machine to another? David On 2021-11-11 15:34, Patrick Shanahan wrote: *

Re: [darktable-user] Re: Darktable not running, nor can I build from tar. Please help

2016-03-28 Thread Anton Aylward
On 03/28/2016 07:25 AM, Alan Ansell wrote: > Have done. Warning!! This is a VERY long list. I realise not all of it will > be relevant. I ran it under standard user "$" so if you need to see results > for the "permission denied" I can run it again under "#". As a windows user you may not be aware

[darktable-user] Please help

2016-03-28 Thread Anton Aylward
On 03/28/2016 08:32 AM, Alan Ansell wrote: > However, it had never really occurred to me that it might matter whether I > install from standard user with elevated privileges (sudo) or from root > itself. Maybe it doesn't. Maybe it does. It depends. If you are installing a system package, library,

Re: [darktable-user] Black & White in the darkroom

2016-04-01 Thread Anton Aylward
A variation on this: I have a colour image (as RAW, but I don't think that should matter) Is there a simple way to "flip" it into B&W or flip it in "sepia" (or possible some other such effect, posterization, solarization) And hopefully flip it back? Thanks. ___

Re: [darktable-user] Black & White in the darkroom

2016-04-01 Thread Anton Aylward
On 04/01/2016 11:00 AM, Owen Mays wrote: > I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "flip it back." Everything in > darktable is non-destructive, so you can always undo a change. I understand 'snapshot. (Though I'm not sure how to restore from that.) I'm trying to drop one or two or more elemen

Re: [darktable-user] focus stacking / HDR in DT

2016-04-17 Thread Anton Aylward
On 04/17/2016 07:10 AM, Stefan Sieben wrote: > Hi all, > > it would be very nice, if there would be a focus stacking / HDR modul in > Darktable, so that it would be possible to make focus stacking / HDR > direct from RAWs in Darktable, without the necessity to convert the RAWs > first in Darktable

Re: [darktable-user] 360 degree panoramas

2016-09-14 Thread Anton Aylward
On 09/14/2016 07:08 AM, Michael wrote: > Sorry about having a broad question but I am just starting out with this so I > must start broad. And my broad question led to (what I suppose) are broad > answers which is just what I need as a starting point. > So, I suppose I will start with some specific

[darktable-user] Black on Black

2016-11-17 Thread Anton Aylward
I'm running 2.2rc Somewhere in the last few changes my carefully crafted colour scheme has been ignored. Years ago I set up a nice pale green and turquoise scheme, Its still there in -rw-r--r-- 1 anton users 8.4K Mar 22 2014 darktable.gtkrc in the /.config/darktable directory Now it's all black

Re: [darktable-user] Black on Black

2016-11-18 Thread Anton Aylward
On 11/18/2016 07:40 AM, Roman Lebedev wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 4:57 AM, Anton Aylward wrote: >> >> Years ago I set up a nice pale green and turquoise scheme, >> Its still there in >> -rw-r--r-- 1 anton users 8.4K Mar 22 2014 darktable.gtkrc > That is gtk2

Re: [darktable-user] Black on Black

2016-11-18 Thread Anton Aylward
On 11/18/2016 09:23 AM, Roman Lebedev wrote: Please don't CC me, I subscribe to the list and by cc'ing me I end up with duplicates. > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 5:17 PM, Anton Aylward wrote: >> >>> Gtk3 uses css theming. >>> Since dt 2.0.x, we use gtk3. >

Re: [darktable-user] Black on Black

2016-11-18 Thread Anton Aylward
On 11/18/2016 11:25 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote: >> > >> > Even so, it seems the scroll bars are narrow, or are, if the comments >> > inline are >> > true, very wide. They also lack end arrows. > panels too narrow ??? > Not the panels. the vertical scroll bars beside the list of plugins, for ex

Re: [darktable-user] Black on Black

2016-11-18 Thread Anton Aylward
On 11/18/2016 11:25 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote: >> > >> > But its still a bit rough and I have no idea what the various CSS stanzas >> > correspond to. That makes it difficult to fine tune. > doesn't make much diff, as it will break with the next gtk3 update :( > Perhaps that's why there is th

Re: [darktable-user] Black on Black

2016-11-18 Thread Anton Aylward
On 11/18/2016 02:10 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Anton Aylward [11-18-16 12:48]: >> On 11/18/2016 11:25 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote: >>>>> >>>>> But its still a bit rough and I have no idea what the various CSS stanzas >>>>> correspond to.

Re: [darktable-user] Black on Black

2016-11-18 Thread Anton Aylward
On 11/18/2016 03:05 PM, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote: >> > Even so, it seems the scroll bars are narrow, or are, if the comments >> > inline >> > are true, very wide. They also lack end arrows. >> > Perhaps there's no cross-browser CSS for end arrows, but there is the >> > GT3-theme-engine so perhap

Re: [darktable-user] darktable 2.2.0 released

2016-12-26 Thread Anton Aylward
On 12/24/2016 11:50 AM, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote: > we're proud to finally announce the new feature release of darktable, 2.2.0! WOW! Thank you. I'm overwhelmed. -- In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. Dwight D. Eisenhower ___

[darktable-user] One color + b&W ? How to ?

2017-01-16 Thread Anton Aylward
My Sony camera has a "picture" setting that produces an image that brings out one primary color and makes the rest of the scene B&W.You've probably seen this kind of effect in advertising. The downside of using this in-camera option is that it (a) only works for the 3 primary colours and (b) o

[darktable-user] How to fix overblown white?

2017-02-03 Thread Anton Aylward
I have a picture of a white barrel cactus (Cleistocactus icosagonus) which was taken in strong light, bringing out the white 'leafs'. The illumination is along one edge, rather like a crescent moon. The crescent is overblown whenever I convert to JPEG, and I can't figure out how to manipulate it

[darktable-user] A Droolable screen

2017-11-02 Thread Anton Aylward
I note that BenQ have just release a 27" 4K monitor: http://www.benq.us/product/monitor/sw271 This is targeted at the photographer. Color corrected etc etc etc. 3840 x 2160 resolution DROOL! What would be really nice is to have one of those with a version of Darktable that works much like GIMP do

Re: [darktable-user] Workflow when shooting RAW+JPG

2017-11-09 Thread Anton Aylward
On 09/11/17 07:36 AM, Ole Barnkob Kaas wrote: > As a side note Canon (at least on my 7D M2) saves a “thumbnail” inside the RAW > photo and can easily be extracted with e.g. exiftool. > > The “thumbnail” is a full resolution JPG with corrections. So theres actually > no > need to shoot RAW+JPG -

Re: [darktable-user] Workflow when shooting RAW+JPG

2017-11-09 Thread Anton Aylward
On 09/11/17 08:48 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > if you are wanting to check the raw files for your camera(s), you can: > exiftool -a -b -W %d%f_%t%-c.%s -preview:all Thank you for that. The results are interesting. This is how things worked out. My 16M Fuji camera saves: 25M Sep 2 09:45 201

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

2017-11-13 Thread Anton Aylward
On 13/11/17 04:42 AM, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote: > Am Sonntag, 12. November 2017, 20:11:41 CET schrieb Michael: >> Hello ladies and gentleman. Well darktable seems to be causing my system to >> reboot and on a rare occasion to crash. I think it is the video card (it >> only reboots when I am running

Re: [darktable-user] PTI patch impact on DT performance = 0,5 %

2018-01-04 Thread Anton Aylward
On 04/01/18 03:58 AM, Pascal Obry wrote: > Le jeudi 04 janvier 2018 à 09:27 +0100, Matthias Bodenbinder a écrit : >> with PTI= avg. 14,2581 s >> without PTI = avg. 14,1835 s >> Difference = 0,5 % >> >> The differnce is neglectable. It looks like DT performance is not >> affected by the PTI pat

[darktable-user] Single colour +B&W ?

2018-02-17 Thread Anton Aylward
This question is in two parts. Context: my camera has the ability, while working in JPG mode, to take a B&W photograph except for one colour. I can select red, blue, green, yellow. Check your own DSLR, you may have something similar. Imagine taking a oblique view of a parking lot, the cars all

Re: [darktable-user] Blacks and whites

2018-03-27 Thread Anton Aylward
On 27/03/18 02:09 PM, komodo wrote: > Hi, > > is there any option to do something like Blacks and Whites in LR ? > > I saw some videos where this adjustments do a great improvements. > > I don't mean B&W convertion, i mean sliders. Not a video and not for DT, but ... There are excellent couple

Re: [darktable-user] DT & Exif data (ex : Vacations)

2018-04-06 Thread Anton Aylward
On 06/04/18 03:45 PM, William Ferguson wrote: > As a further test, I modified the image again and subtracted another hour from > the time.  I removed the image from darktable, then imported it again and it > showed 03:29:14 PM.  So, it works correctly on my system with Canon raws.  I > looked aroun

Re: [darktable-user] DT & Exif data (ex : Vacations)

2018-04-07 Thread Anton Aylward
On 07/04/18 07:24 AM, Jean-Luc CECCOLI wrote: > > Message du 07/04/18 04:37 > > De : "Anton Aylward" > > > > You might use 'exif -l' to find *all* the tags that involve data and > time for > > the various file formats

Re: [darktable-user] DT & Exif data (ex : Vacations)

2018-04-07 Thread Anton Aylward
On 07/04/18 03:22 PM, Jean-Luc CECCOLI wrote: > wonder why you feel offended by my first question - attempted you really read > and understood it -. "Offended"? I think you are attributing an emotion to me unjustly. > I am long from being able to undedrstand DT's code. > > I just meant to ask :

Re: [darktable-user] DT & Exif data (ex : Vacations)

2018-04-08 Thread Anton Aylward
PLEASE! Send only to the list. Co not send an extra copy to me. I don't want to get two copies. On 08/04/18 03:51 PM, Jean-Luc CECCOLI wrote: > > I don't know about your flow, but I set the DateTime on my camera so > that the > > value is 'correct'. perhaps your problem lies in your cam

Re: [darktable-user] Move slides panel

2018-04-17 Thread Anton Aylward
On 17/04/18 02:23 PM, kneops wrote: > Is there a way to move the bottom panel with the thumbnails to the left side > of > the screen? > That would create so much more space. Hmm. While we're about it, why can't we take this a stage further. it's easy these days to get alternative physical displa

Re: [darktable-user] Can't find module Lens Correction

2018-04-19 Thread Anton Aylward
On 18/04/18 07:40 PM, André Felipe Carvalho wrote: > > That's Linux. That's the world we live in. One must know about everything, > must compile things, must deal with compilations and installations of > libraries and installations of installations of libraries ;-)) "Must"? what's with this "mus

Re: [darktable-user] SDXC Card not detected

2018-05-08 Thread Anton Aylward
On 07/05/18 07:10 PM, junkyardspar...@yepmail.net wrote: > whereas exFAT currently *does* present some obstacle And what obstacle is that? You are only going to need exFAT if your card is over 32G. I'm not saying that 32G is the new version of 640k, just that I don't see a problem with using exFAT

Re: [darktable-user] Posting large files to mailing lists

2018-05-08 Thread Anton Aylward
On 07/05/18 08:26 PM, Michael wrote: > I never knew that "top posting" was a problem. Maybe I'm just used to it, but > I > prefer to have the reply at the top so I don't have to scroll thru all the > messages in the chain to find the latest post. Then at least trim what's not relevant, such as fo

Re: [darktable-user] Posting large files to mailing lists

2018-05-08 Thread Anton Aylward
On 07/05/18 10:30 PM, Mark Heieis wrote: > I agree. I find it frustrating to scroll  to the bottom to find a response. No its not. This response illustrates why its not. A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is

Re: [darktable-user] Posting large files to mailing lists

2018-05-08 Thread Anton Aylward
On 07/05/18 07:14 PM, I. Ivanov wrote: > Is it an European practice not to top post? No. It is how it always "used to be" before such things as GMail > I deal with quite a bit of email and everyone (that I have worked with in > North > America) top posts when they reply to email. I've been deal

Re: [darktable-user] Posting large files to mailing lists

2018-05-08 Thread Anton Aylward
On 08/05/18 01:44 PM, I. Ivanov wrote: > > On 2018-05-08 07:38 AM, Anton Aylward wrote: >> On 07/05/18 07:14 PM, I. Ivanov wrote: >>> Is it an European practice not to top post? >> No. >> It is how it always "used to be" before such things as GMa

Re: [darktable-user] darktable on multihead in portrait mode

2018-05-14 Thread Anton Aylward
On 13/05/18 05:36 AM, ternaryd wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using darktable with three monitors, but > have one of them rotated. After some time now > moving the window from one monitor to another > depending on the format of the image, I was > asking myself, if there is a way to have > darktable do that

Re: [darktable-user] How to export JPEG for web browsers correctly?

2018-05-15 Thread Anton Aylward
On 15/05/18 01:57 AM, Yuri wrote: > Hello, > it's really frustrating but I can't get any usable export to JPEG. > > I got Sony RAWs shot in sRGB, I wanna simply convert them straight to JPEG. No > module tweaking, etc. So I check the image in the 'darkroom' mode - colors and > saturation are perfe

Re: [darktable-user] export to gimp

2018-08-04 Thread Anton Aylward
On 01/08/18 01:46 PM, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote: > > You have 2 ways to proceed: If I recall correctly, there is a third way, I seem to recall seeing a pluin for GIMP that lets it read (some) RAW images. I think it is a UFRaw plugin. HOWEVER, if you are exporting for GIMP you are better to

Re: [darktable-user] lighttable navigation

2018-08-06 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2018-08-06 6:56 a.m., Patrick Shanahan wrote: > indeed, working by group one of which is filmstrip is much more contained > that the entire database. look at dt's collections/groups. they can be > quite specific or not as you desire. "I'm a bear of very little brain and long words confuse me"

Re: [darktable-user] Printing - a different problem

2018-09-12 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2018-09-12 2:53 a.m., Anders Lund wrote: > Hello, > > I just tried the printing functionality in dt. I tried it some while ago and was both impressed (with the work that had been done) and frustrated )in that it seemed to suffer from tunnel vision). > First, I did not get presented with print

Re: [darktable-user] a7r2 freezes darktable

2018-09-18 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2018-09-17 8:31 p.m., Michael wrote: > I got an a7r2 and I start darktable and it says working until I get tired > of > and so 'x'ed out. T which the computer responds  > " > darktable is not responding. > You may choose to wait a short while for it to continue or force the > application >

Re: [darktable-user] Re: a7r2 freezes darktable

2018-09-18 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2018-09-18 6:33 a.m., Michael wrote: > oh I see. the lens comp. is set to auto and that is why there is no > need > for the lens profile. buy if that were correct wouldn't turning 'lens > correction' on make it screwy? so please what file do I put the lens > profiles in? The answer

Re: [darktable-user] Re: a7r2 freezes darktable

2018-09-18 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2018-09-18 10:11 a.m., Michael wrote: > lens comp works in jpg. I shoot raw I shoot exclusively RAW with all my cameras and I have no problems with lens compensation on any of them or any of the lenses. I asked what version, what platform, what libnrries you were running and how you were uploa

Re: [darktable-user] No Lens Correction

2018-11-07 Thread Anton Aylward
On 07/11/18 01:38 AM, Jean-Luc Lacroix wrote: > As Pascal said below the reason might be that the Manjaro maintainer didn't > enable lensfun suport in the build whereas the default compile options file > from > git does. HMM. Running 'darktable --version' shows the compile options. Oddly, mine

Re: [darktable-user] Batch renaming software?

2018-11-09 Thread Anton Aylward
On 09/11/18 03:46 AM, dt-l...@stefan-klinger.de wrote: > August Schwerdfeger (2018-Nov-08, excerpt): >> Can anybody recommend any good batch-renaming packages? > > The most flexible tool to do this on Linux is your shell. +1 Well actually +BIGNUM This is the most general, most flexible, most pow

Re: [darktable-user] Batch renaming software?

2018-11-09 Thread Anton Aylward
On 09/11/18 09:57 AM, Sakke K wrote: > KDE dolphin can rename multiple files - press F2. Or any file browser, not just Dolphin. But the problem with doing renaming with a GUI is that it is going to be step-and-repeat. The point many of are making about command line, the exif tools, or even the Py

Re: Rename XMP and fix reference inside XMP (Re: [darktable-user] Batch renaming software?)

2018-11-09 Thread Anton Aylward
On 09/11/18 06:59 PM, Stéphane Gourichon wrote: > Le 09/11/2018 à 23.49, Bernhard a écrit : >> >> Anton Aylward schrieb am 09.11.18 um 16:42: >>>> How i can rename xmp-files? with sed? >>> You can't on the face of it. >>> Sed is a file CONTENT edit

Re: [darktable-user] Is Darktable for "multi-image moved-object removal"?

2018-12-02 Thread Anton Aylward
On 02/12/18 04:06 AM, Joachim Durchholz wrote: > not sure what the right terminology is. > What I want to do is this: > - I have multiple images of the same scene. > - All are at the same settings. > - There might be small translations/rotations between images. > - I want anything removed that's p

Re: [darktable-user] Is Darktable for "multi-image moved-object removal"?

2018-12-07 Thread Anton Aylward
On 06/12/18 02:38 AM, Joachim Durchholz wrote: > Sorry for responsing late, it took me a while to get around to checking what > came of the advice. > > Am 02.12.18 um 14:59 schrieb Anton Aylward: >>> Q2: Is Darktable the right tool for the job? >> >> I would not t

Re: [darktable-user] Exporting tags → JPEG keywords

2019-01-01 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2019-01-01 1:46 p.m., Timur Irikovich Davletshin wrote: > On Tue, 2019-01-01 at 13:25 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: >> >> more complexity ??? >> >> the images I export *only* have the tags I intended. >> >> maybe better answers will come if you explain what you want to have >> happen.  really,

Re: [darktable-user] Exporting tags → JPEG keywords

2019-01-01 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2019-01-01 12:51 p.m., Timur Irikovich Davletshin wrote: > Perhaps it is more logical to give user opportunity to choose during > export. Not to my logic. To my logic this merely adds to the complexity of the export, which is complicated enough as it is! -- Perilous to all of us are the devic

Re: [darktable-user] Change interface color

2019-01-01 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2019-01-01 4:00 p.m., Carlos Arigós wrote: > I want to change the dark gray of the interface, for a lighter gray Then modify the CSS. For linux it is in ~/.config/darktable/darktable.css I have... @define-color bg_color #212121; @define-color plugin_bg_color #252525; @define-color fg_color #c

Re: [darktable-user] Change interface color

2019-01-02 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2019-01-02 6:45 a.m., Carlos Arigós wrote: > I made the change, but the result is, basically the same as the previous on If you look at the file in question and if you are familiar with HTML/CSS you will see the 'how' of its working. The best advice I can give is to check the log files of start

Re: [darktable-user] Retouch problem

2019-03-03 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2019-03-02 8:21 p.m., David Vincent-Jones wrote: > I am having a problem with retouch If I use heal on the master layer > using > any of the tools it works correctly (the blemish is removed) but when I > do > exactly the same heal on any layer the blemish remains. The problem remains

Re: Fwd: [darktable-user] 2.6 Manual

2019-03-10 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2019-03-10 7:35 a.m., Bruce Williams wrote: > As for dark areas being recoverable, my experience is that when it comes to > digital, darks recover much better than highlights. Quite so, Bruce. Mine too. To make a point with a pixel-count obsessed friend (who is currently drooling over the the L

Re: [darktable-user] Tethering issues

2019-03-17 Thread Anton Aylward
My experiences with tethering using Linux openSuse, and with my Sony and my Canon and my Fuji, and not just with DT but with other applications left me unsatisfied. I find it is slow and drains the batter something awful! I've completely given up on tethering. Now I just pop the card into the PC'

Re: [darktable-user] Tethering issues

2019-03-17 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2019-03-17 11:05 a.m., Patrick Shanahan wrote: > In this case I believe "tethering" refers to controlling the camera using > the computer screen/controls rather than "just" to transfer images. Ah, thank you Patrick. So 'tethering-for-control-in-real-time' as opposed to 'tethering-for-upload'.

Re: [darktable-user] Tethering issues vs mounting SD card

2019-03-18 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2019-03-17 12:31 p.m., darkta...@911networks.com wrote: > Removing the SD card is a bad option, because I want to see the image > large so I can keep on working to make it look right and removing the > sd card every couple of photos is not a viable option. Maybe we are talking at cross purposes

Re: [darktable-user] A way to redeem myself

2019-04-07 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2019-04-07 11:45 a.m., Niranjan Rao wrote: > > > At this point, except from camera being on Av mode, I don't remember any other > settings such as exposure changed from default. I did turn on the flash as > camera prompted me to turn on the flash even if there was plenty of light in > the > r

Re: [darktable-user] Images order in db

2019-04-15 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2019-04-14 3:58 p.m., Jean-Luc CECCOLI wrote: > When applying a style to many pictures, having the prog reading the files to > and fro must necessarily be slower than accessing them in a row. perhaps but I don't think that is likely. Unless the images were added in order to a virgin, otherwis

Re: [darktable-user] What is the min ize for screens.

2019-05-05 Thread Anton Aylward
On 2019-05-05 1:13 p.m., Postmaster wrote: > using darktable on a 17" laptop is a bit of an issue. > The letter size is small ( too small really ), as my cursor is larger that > most > of the letters. > Hard to click on anything. > > Cannot make the screen brighter, everything just seems dark. >

Re: [darktable-user] What about adding more IPTC fields to the metadata editor?

2019-05-13 Thread Anton Aylward
On 13/05/2019 07:06, mick crane wrote: > windows there's > https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/   exiftools > http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/~bogdan/   GUI for exiftools > > linux looks like exiv2 will do it. There's a lot of artificially generated umbrage here. The UNIX principle of "each t

Re: [darktable-user] Equivalence between Photoshop commands and Darktable modules

2019-05-17 Thread Anton Aylward
On 17/05/2019 17:57, jys wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2019, at 14:06, Victor wrote: > >> My simple question is: is there anything in the web about the >> correspondence among Photoshop commands and DDT modules? > > It's a simple question for a search engine, maybe. :) > > You might have a better ch

Re: [darktable-user] Complete history stack seems to be exported into jpegs metadata

2019-05-19 Thread Anton Aylward
On 19/05/2019 06:05, dt-l...@stefan-klinger.de wrote: > Kneops (2019-May-19, excerpt): >> I just noticed this and I wonder how I can prevent this, or perhaps their is >> a good reason for this? It will probably not make the size of a jpeg much >> larger, but it just doesn't seem to be information t

Re: [darktable-user] Complete history stack seems to be exported into jpegs metadata

2019-05-19 Thread Anton Aylward
On 19/05/2019 08:42, Kneops wrote: > Hi Anton, > > I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. Do you mean it is a good thing > DT > adds every editing step into the Exif, or that it is normal to do post > processing after editing in DT? The latter. Although I don't have your 'business' deman

Re: [darktable-user] Complete history stack seems to be exported into jpegs metadata

2019-05-19 Thread Anton Aylward
On 19/05/2019 11:04, Kneops wrote: > So your point is that it is a good thing that DT does not offer more > metadata fields? No I did not say that. I did not say anything about good or bad. You are putting words into my mouth and that annoys me. I said that there are mechanisms that render it unn

Re: [darktable-user] Collect Images, geotagging: anyone have example query syntax that will select images based on range of GPS location?

2019-06-05 Thread Anton Aylward
On 04/06/2019 12:04, Shawn wrote: > new user here, though I have already scoured the web and turned up nothing. > > First I thought the Map view would help me, but I don't see any way to create > a > Collection of all images shown on a given Map display. > > Next I learned about Collect Images. 

Re: [darktable-user] Problems when Opening Fujifilm X-T30 raw files

2019-08-19 Thread Anton Aylward
On 18/08/2019 13:18, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > I would suggest saving your expensive camera battery and change to > removing the memory card and utilizing a card reader to transfer your > images. +1 Except when you've damaged the card reader ... But if you're that clack-handed, there's a lot more

Re: [darktable-user] Slider cursor size

2019-11-01 Thread Anton Aylward
On 01/11/2019 12:47, Jean-Luc Lacroix wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a way to increase the size of the triangle shaped cursor in the > sliders? I find it difficult to grab sometimes. > > I have been looking through the darktable.css but couldn't find anything > relevant. Is that css file documente

Re: [darktable-user] Are there Ubuntu-19.10-Users with manual added lenses?

2019-12-08 Thread Anton Aylward
On 07/12/2019 21:14, William Ferguson wrote: > There is a way to work around the mis or non identification of lenses. > > I've written a lua script to correct the lens information in the image > database. Oh WOW! This might be a route to soling a problem I have. I favour using 'antique' lenses.