On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, at 11:40, kneops wrote: > 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?
These are really very distinct operations. Orientation is just that - determining whether this is a "landscape" or "portrait" orientation of the sensor data. Most modern cameras detect and include this information in images, and darktable will use this information when present, but every once in a while you need to manually change this. When this is the case for several images, it's generally easier to do it by selecting them in lighttable view and hitting the button once. Fine rotation is just that - getting horizons level, etc... unlike orientation, it always implies some cropping, so it's combined with the cropping module. > 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. Everyone has a different definition of "almost everything". Have you tried adding the modules you find most important to your workflow to the "favorites" group? https://www.darktable.org/usermanual/en/module_groups.html Darktable also allows for a large amount of custom automation based on camera, lens, ISO, etc... getting this set up the way you want it can greatly enhance workflow. https://www.darktable.org/usermanual/en/module_presets.html My thoughts. :) -- jys ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
