Dag Hieke,
For your folders question: it is possible to tag with subdivisions. I do that
for my work for the photo art school versus my personal work. The tags may look
like this:
* school|cityscapes
* school|portraits
* projects|myfamily
* projects|street
You can assign multiple tags to a single picture. For instance a portrait of my
son my appear under school|portraits and projects|myfamily. Or the same picture
may appear in school|cityscapes and projects|street.
Bruce Williams has some youtube video’s on the use of the darktable database
and the lighttable. Some of them may be a bit confusing at this point in time
because explained for a former version. But the tagging works as he explains.
You may want to have a look at these.
Hope this helps,
met vriendelijke groet,
Marc.
Van: Terry Pinfold <tpinf...@gmail.com>
Verzonden: woensdag 1 december 2021 23:26
Aan: Hieke van Hoogdalem <hieke.vanhoogda...@gmail.com>
CC: darktable forum <darktable-user@lists.darktable.org>
Onderwerp: Re: [darktable-user] 3 different questions
Hi Hartelijke groet,
someone else may come with a better answer for your question.
Lightroom uses collections which can be very convenient. However, a possible
easy solution for you is to give the images a color or star rating so that you
can easily filter the view to see a selection of images.
As for histograms, I was teaching my students about this last night. The answer
I always give is to use either log or linear based upon which one gives the
best information. There is no hard and fast rule to which one is best. Many
average scenes may look great with linear, but with some scenes where there are
fewer bright or dark pixels these may be not obvious on a linear histogram but
become very obvious on a log histogram. Just switch between the two and decide
which is best for the individual image. I would also like to point out that
coming from an Adobe background for image editing I relied heavily upon
histograms for editing. Having watched numerous videos by the Aurelien who is
the developer of many Darktable modules I have come to view over dependence on
the histogram as painting by numbers. The look is the most important bit when
editing. When using the linear histogram you adjusted the image until it looked
good and there was no obvious clipping. That is great. However, the log
histogram detected a few extreme pixels which were clipped. These may have been
a small number of black or white pixels that were at the extremes and not
significant to the image. The log display histogram overstates their importance
for this single image. If you want to see some examples of what I mean, just
ask.
On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 at 08:19, <hieke.vanhoogda...@gmail.com
<mailto:hieke.vanhoogda...@gmail.com> > wrote:
Hi y’all,
I have 3 questions:
1. Is there a possibility to make folders in Darktable for subselections
of your work? Say I’m working on a series and I’m trying different
combinations, it would be handy if I had the option to create/save those series
somewhere, from within Darktable. I hear Lightroom has something like that and
I figure it’s very helpful. >> [1a] It would also be helpful if the order can
be changed, to see what order works best for that selection.
2. Can I select more than 2 pictures and show them as a series in a pop-up
or different screen? Like culling, but for more images. >> [2a: Again... It
would also be helpful if the order can be changed, to see what order works best
for that selection..]
3. I discovered that the histogram box shows 2 different kinds of
histograms. I don’t understand the difference. (Logarithmic/lineair.) What’s
the best option for newbies to histograms? I was looking at an image that
seemed great, but the histo was way clipped. Then I discoverd the lineair
version and nothing was clipped at al. Of course I look at the picture for the
results, but I also want to work with the histogram more. I understand the
basic idea, but I don’t know for wich version that goes :-)
Oh and culling doesn’t work well. Sometimes it’s okay, sometimes I see another
selection being enlarged. In that case 1 is from my selection and the other is
the one next to it, but something I selected. Since I’ll be working on a
Macbook Air next week I’m not diving into this too much now. At this point I’m
still working on a Windows 10 64 bit machine, don’t know if that’s helpful info.
Hartelijke groet,
Hieke van Hoogdalem
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