Re: [darktable-user] DT & life on the road

2020-08-04 Thread Matt Maguire
Working with local files is very useful if you have just done a shoot and have uploaded the files to your main PC/library, and you want to grab a copy of those recent shots to edit on your laptop while you are on the road. However, in this case, the files are being uploaded to the remote laptop

Re: [darktable-user] DT & life on the road

2020-08-04 Thread Andrew Greig
I am late to this discussion, but I would like to recommend Bruce Williams "Understanding Darktable" series on YouTube Episode 008 "Working with local files" He describes the process for making and synching files, check it out. Regards Andrew Greig On 5/8/20 3:43 am,

Re: [darktable-user] DT & life on the road

2020-08-04 Thread darktable
On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 09:18:08 -0700 "I. Ivanov" wrote: > As long as you have the .xmp created - when you import it on the > home computer - it would be fine. There are few scenarios that are > a bit unclear > > - the large USB - are you going to copy the images or use it from > the USB? Either

Re: [darktable-user] DT & life on the road

2020-08-04 Thread I. Ivanov
I don't want to have to do the work twice. What do you suggest to pass the DT work done on the laptop to the desktop at home? As long as you have the .xmp created - when you import it on the home computer - it would be fine. There are few scenarios that are a bit unclear - the large USB -

Re: [darktable-user] DT & life on the road

2020-08-04 Thread Bernhard
Remco Viëtor schrieb am 04.08.20 um 17:23: If I'm not mistaken, OP also uses Digikam. My suggestion would be to do initial tagging and culling there, and adding titles/captions, with digikam set to write sidecars. Doing that once returned home means you will probably have forgotten some of

Re: [darktable-user] DT & life on the road

2020-08-04 Thread Remco Viëtor
On mardi 4 août 2020 16:53:57 CEST Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * darkta...@911networks.com [08-04-20 10:39]: > > Soon (I hope), I'll be going on the road with my laptop. DT is > > installed. My main DT is on my desktop at home. > > > > I wouldn't be surprised if I took around 5000 images. I will

Re: [darktable-user] DT & life on the road

2020-08-04 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* darkta...@911networks.com [08-04-20 10:39]: > Soon (I hope), I'll be going on the road with my laptop. DT is > installed. My main DT is on my desktop at home. > > I wouldn't be surprised if I took around 5000 images. I will have a > large external USB hard drive. > > I'd like to review the

Re: [darktable-user] DT & life on the road

2020-08-04 Thread Maurizio Paglia
Hi! I am sure you can find information you need in a specific section of the user manual. Thanks, Maurizio Il mar 4 ago 2020, 16:38 ha scritto: > Soon (I hope), I'll be going on the road with my laptop. DT is > installed. My main DT is on my desktop at home. > > I wouldn't be surprised if I

Re: [darktable-user] DT & life on the road

2020-08-04 Thread Guillermo Rozas
Make sure you have the "write sidecar file for each image" option activated on your laptop. Once back at your main computer, just copy the images with their respective xmp sidecar files and import them. Regards, Guillermo On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 11:37 AM wrote: > Soon (I hope), I'll be going on

[darktable-user] DT & life on the road

2020-08-04 Thread darktable
Soon (I hope), I'll be going on the road with my laptop. DT is installed. My main DT is on my desktop at home. I wouldn't be surprised if I took around 5000 images. I will have a large external USB hard drive. I'd like to review the images and do some "light processing" while on the road but

[darktable-user] invert tool manual film color entry

2020-08-04 Thread Miklós Müller
Hello, I'm mainly using darktable for processing my DSLR scanned analog film negatives. I do have a problem though with the invert tool. When I use the color picker within the tool I can usually come up with a reasonably good negative inversion. But when I try to enter the color value manually,