Hey there,

 

I have a question / bug report for Windows 10, dt version 3.2.1.

 

So... I just got darktable after reading a lot of positive reviews and
comparisons. I started yesterday and I was happy with it (rating, view only
X stars in the viewport etc.), until my first real editing started. My first
step is always the cropping. (BTW: I have loads of experience with several
editors for both photos and films, I use Photoshop Elements for almost 15
years now, alongside other editors. I also developed websites, so I'm quite
computer savvy. I'm not a programmer though.)

So here's the issue. MAIN PROBLEM: the crop function behaves differently
every time. (I read the manual on this, but it doesn't help.)

When cropping an image, several problems occur:

1.      no cropping grid/handles are being shown
2.      automatic crop yes/no doesn't accept no as an answer
3.      the chosen grid (in my case: rule of thirds) doesn't show

The software isn't stable. When I retry, it's always different: sometimes
the rule of thirds shows up, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes I can crop and
it's being saved (after waiting several minutes) but most of the time the
crop isn't applied. It shows in the history stack though...

Most of the time I get the grid and handles to be shown when I go to
Lighttable > back to Darkroom > select square > select freehand. Then I can
finally do what I want, but nothing is being saved.

I tried several times on the same photo. And on others too.

Is there anything I can do to make it work? Looking into other functions and
learning DT doesn't make sense to me if I can't crop firrst. I really hope
you can help me out! I started a thread on it on Github too:
https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/issues/6448. I thought that was
the forum for DT (but I guess I'm wrong).

 

Thanks in advance!

Hieke

 



 


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