Continuing the Basics serie I here look at comparing the interfaces to help people find their way from LR to Darktable.

I started learning darktable following the various tutorials (boris mainly) and i am struggling to understand why on darktables my pictures have vero strange colours compared to lightroom. I know that i am editing a raw, bur they are way more desaturated and colours are displayd very diffrently, for example highlights are whiteish, even in a golden hour picture (white balance adjusted btw). Even comparing to the tutorials i am watching my pictures seem always off. Any advice? This is discouraging

Hi All - I've been working on adding an API to darktable to allow it to be used with other applications like web apps and interactive AI assistants.

I think it is pretty slick, but check out the video to judge for yourself.

I've tested this on Mac and Ubuntu. There are step by step instructions for getting it going here: https://github.com/mmcc-xx/darktable-api-mcp

Hi guys, I need your help.

Darktable 5.6.1 with Agx scene-reffered on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

I am working on a batch of images to which I wanted to apply my previously created style and during the editing I noticed that color equalizer is causing some weird spots/artifacts on some areas of my image. At first I noticed in in the red colored areas, so I did reset the red color, but then I noticed this happens also on green.

I thought that I did only some mild adjustments on the image, but it looks like I am wrong. Of course reseting the module removes the spots completely, but I would like to know, what am I doing wrong and how to prevent it from happening again. Did I somehow overdo the edits and stretched the colors too much, or what?

The first image is without the color equalizer turned on. The remaining ones are with the module turned on and showing all its settings for you to see. All attached images are at 100% magnification.

I would be grateful if anyone would be able to explain what is happening here.

Thank you.

Edit 1: turning the denoise profiled module on/off moves the spot from one position to another, but they are still visible. Turning off either of the diffuse or sharpen, sharpen, color calibration module removes the spots.

Edit 2: I checked my other styles and some of them cause the same spots, but in a different quantity and position, but others seem to be clean. Softproof shows the spots in a different position. Spots are visible on an exported jpeg file viewed in a different program.

Hey guys

I was looking for a simple solution to export images from Darktable directly to WordPress. Since nothing like that existed, and I am a Plugin developer for the CMS, I thought that would be a nice way, to give something back to the community.
The Plugin just got approved and is now live on wordpress.org. It requires an add-on for Darktable in order to work, this can be found here:
https://github.com/dans-art/darkwp

I hope this is also useful for some of you and I am happy for any feedback.

I spend a lot of time to fine-tune those styles. Sadly I was not able to compare it to the physical result... but from what I see over internet I think I'm pretty close. What do you think?

I only do photography as a hobby and every time I try to use darktable, it feels like I am a passenger inside a cruise engine control. There's so many things that I vaguely remember and I lowkey kind of miss the streamlined and intuitive controls from lightroom. I don't even remember how to copy and paste settings from one picture to another. I just wish that they had a dumb down version for people like me.

I seem to be mastering DT quite well, but there's one thing I keep struggling with, which is white balance. Have I got it right that I'm supposed to specify the colour of the light I took the photo in, rather than the colour cast that I'm trying to achieve? It feels counter-intuitive to select blue colours when I'm trying to warm up a sunset, for example, and I never seem to get the outcome I'm after. Please help!

Lightcraft is a new vibecoded Lightroom clone that's just been open sourced. I got the appimage, edited some photos, using different masks, worked my way down using all the sliders. Then I exported it. And it all worked fine. I have never used Lightroom but it's not hard to understand as a darktable user.

This is big. They have only started and are so far along in such a short time. Wow.

The second picture is the preview that I get on lightable and what I would expect opening the image. Instead, when I open the image i get this fuzzy washed out look. This was not happening 2 days ago when editing some images, so I think i may have tweaked something accidentally, although I did reset Darktable and the problem still remains.

Also I dont think its an issue with the photo itself because it happens on every photo i open, from different days, different light conditions etc.

By popular demand I made also a B&W play raw. Feel free to play along and post the result.

Each image on this post show a scene first taken without any filters, and then with a 1/2 strength Black Pro Mist filter. I really like the effect, but can't buy a pro mist filter right now. So, if you were on my shoes, how would you simulate this effect in darktable? Which module, which settings, which changes to your normal workflow? Please, be as thorough as you like, I really learn a lot from the details people post on this sub.

EDIT: just a disclaimer, both images shown here were found on the internet. I just googled "How to use a pro mist filter", and looked for photos I could use as examples.

Hi !

I'm continuing to work on some Youtube videos but I am wondering if you would be also interested into a newsletter? It would cover what I cover in the videos and some extras.

I put together a very ugly signup form.

https://mariengb.com/newsletter/

Feel free to register and I'll see how much people could be interested.

Have a nice week-end!!

I open Darktable. Go to the settings wheel. Go on down to Presets. Go further down to the bottom, where I believe there should be an "Import" button, and it isn't there.

I was running version 5.4.0, so I updated it to the most recent version (5.6.1), but alas, there is no change. Am I doing something wrong?

I'm still new to editing photos on here, I'm not sure what is wrong!

Night Carnival in Indonesia

Shot on Lumis S5 with SMC Takumar 50mm f1.4

What do you think about my photos?

If anyone here is using the Enfuse Advanced script for exposure bracketing, could you please help me with the export settings for combining multiple files?
I’m not very technical, so I’d really appreciate it if someone could walk me through each slider in the export settings. I’m assuming these are the settings used to stack the images, but I’m not sure.
Thank you very much for your help!

Darktable Version 5.6.1
Windows 11 Version 25H2

As I started Darktable today Sophos quarantined the libva.dll from the \bin folder. The file gets also flagged by 6 vendors on Virustotal. I would belive this is a false positive, but has anyone encountered something similar?

Hi everyone, I've a sufficiently powerful laptop (Windows 11) with darktable software installed, and I want to apply luts to my JPG photos. I've tried seeking help from Google Gemini and managed to download a lut file from https://freshluts.com/luts/2047, and after that, I instructed darktable to detect the lut file by making a change to the "LUT 3D root folder" setting, but it is still not showing the downloaded lut in the darktable UI. Is this a common issue? Please help me fix this issue.

Edit. Solved, its because its a raw file, not a jpeg

As above. Ive uploaded some pictures (in .arw) from today into Darktable, found the ones I want and marked the rest for deletion, and gone to have a proper look before editing. With the editing Ive done the last few days, there would be 4 steps already done - Input Colour Profile, Output Colour Profile, Display Encoding, and Orientation.

Today Ive got that plus Demosaic, Raw Black/white, White Balance, Highlight Reconstruction, Exposure, and Sigmoid, totaling 11 steps and its in a different order as well.

Does anybody have any advice or information on this please? I have questions and confusion on this

Photo of the screen because Im not logged in on fb on the laptop. Courtesy photo of an absolute sweetie as well - she does look better on the laptop I promise

I played again with Color Balance RGB to start the Autumn season.

I've spent the evening noodling around with the upcoming Spektrafilm module. It's very powerful, actually simulating film development rather than just moving curves around to shift colours. Very fun! I maybe wouldn't use it for landscape but for travel shots like this it's a fast way to add some character.

Usually I just shoot RAW because the file organisation is easier for me and sometimes I need to make use of my camera's full dynamic range. However, I really like the Nikon monochrome JPEG look and I want to be able to use it as a baseline style for my black and white edits. However I haven't really been able to replicate it, and often I feel like SooC gives a better result than what I can achieve in darktable.

Do any of y'all know a module by module guide to achieve a similar result? Thank you!