The "orientation" is intended to rotate the picture according to the orientation of the camera at shot time. Most of the cameras has a sensor which indicates the camera has been tilted 90° (to shoot in portrait mode instead of lanscape mode). And darktable, via the orientation module rotates the pictures 90 or 270° according to the way you get the picture.
The orientation is intended to correct an horizon that is not straight (for instance). Jean-Luc 2018-04-24 20:40 GMT+02:00 kneops <[email protected]>: > You know that song 'Too many puppies' by Primus? I was confused about how > to simply rotate an image in darkroom so I asked a question about it just a > few minutes ago. This has been explained to me. There is a seperate > Orientation panel next to Rotate and Crop. But why are orientation and > rotation split into two panels? DT has so many panels, and so many > functions and options that overlap, it is really hard for me to find it > easy to work with. It is something I bump into whenever I try to work with > DT again, and I have tried many times in the last few years. For some > people it is no problem to switch between editors, but for me it is, > because I need the software to also work als an image manager, so I prefer > only one editor. > > Just this week I did another test. I had trial versions running of > Lightroom and On1 in Windows (inside Virtualbox), and Darktable, Aftershot > Pro and RawTherapee in Linux. Then I edited one and the same image. I got a > very good result and very fast in LR and On1 (even when running inside > Virtualbox) which offer all the basic tools in one view. Almost everything > can be done with those simple tools. Aftershot Pro was fastest, but lacks > image quality and RawTherapee gave me a good image also, but not as crisp > as the others. I'm still working on the image in Darktable... [image: 😟] > > I can see that Darktable has a lot of power, but as a professional > photographer I also need it to be quick and intuitive. > > Just my thoughts at this moment. > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > [email protected] > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
