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Glad you liked it!

Well spotted, thanks! Fixed it. I'm glad that you liked the video. 🙂

There are 3 presets for the order, you can access them in the bottom of the panel. You cannot manually change the order.

I'm really looking forward to testing it! Unfortunately, it seems like the user guide is not ready yet.

@@RawPhotographyTutorials I can't find it either. Looking at the parameters for Composite, I think is pretty easy to understand, but a few guidelines with a few examples from the creator would have been appropriate. I hope they are being processed as we speak.

@Eigil_Skovgaard yes, they are working on it.

Good to know - no idea why they changed it either.

@@RawPhotographyTutorials and it is really weird because if you type overlay, composite shows up right away.

@joaovtaveira lol, it's probably still the internal name

Much appreciated! Is there anything specific to the camera or in general that you''d like me to tackle?

@@RawPhotographyTutorials Apologies for the late response. I referred to darktable's own post, "Using X-Trans cameras with darktable", dated 2nd August 2014; and OneCameraOneLens blog for Fujifilm X-Trans cameras in general. Both contain pieces of information that are disjointed, in my opinion, and I prefer a tutorial video showing how to import and work on Fujifilm RAF files from import (using presets in darktable), to exporting for web/print. I'm specifically looking for guides on setting up the settings in the individual modules of darktable that are specific for Fujifilm X-Trans cameras, as its unique non-Bayer sensor means there are idiosyncracies that I have to watch out for, and cannot rely on other guides that are general to other cameras in the market.

Hi, that must be annoying! On which OS? You can ask for support in the forum. Maybe someone would have a solution.

@@RawPhotographyTutorials Spent my last 30mins debugging this and it is now resolved! This was caused by having read-only library.db and data.db database files. As long as I made them writable I am able to successfully upgrade to 4.8 without a problem! The reason I have read-only db files was because I re-used the auto-snapshotted db files created by darktable before upgrading and did not realizing these snapshotted version are marked as read-only.

@rotarynade great news! Enjoy 🙂

Indeed - that raises an interesting question. Can we use both at the same time (with masks)? A test for another time.

@@RawPhotographyTutorials In DT you can do what ever but they are global tone mappers and usually you would use one or the other... both will kill the details a bit in the extreme tonal range area due to the compression... esp sigmoid in the highlights. If you use sigmoid then a means to add detail and contrast masked to the highlights for this sort of image can help as it fades the image gradually towards white... with filmic you can move rel white and let the sky blow out more by dropping it or bring back some color by increasing it. I never use v7 or v6 of filmic. I don't like the way it manages gamut. I like to do that myself so I use v5 with no color preservation and then I control that myself. If you put safe shoulders on and tweak it you can get a more sigmoid like look if you want or keep the look and control of filmic... No matter what you land on images that will just visually please you using one or the other so its good to master both tools...

You're welcome Ray. Anything you found missing? Ideas for videos 😉

Hi - how many hot pixels are we talking about? What is the colour? Did you try using 'detect by three neighbours? Are they probably bigger than a pixel?

Hi - what are you trying to do with the channel mixer? Basically, it allows for colour grading by adding different colours to colour channels. e.g add some red to the green channel and so on. There are easier ways to colour grade. If you give me an example of what you are trying to achive, I can try to create a video on it.

@@RawPhotographyTutorials Hi, I'm not into "color grading". I want to develop my photos as near to my memorization of the scene as possible. For me the most useful scenario appears to be in correcting colors where the usual white balancing is not enough. Especially in indoor scenes with mixed light sources or the awful colors produced by modern LED-Lights (Yes they save power but are horrible for shooting photos). I love what @s7habo shows in his videos, but for me it's hard to adopt his technique to my workflow. I often tried it, in some rare cases with some success but most of the times it ended up with frustration and either accepting the foto as it is or converting to B&W. Maybe it's just that the channel mixer can't be used intuitively, but I still "hope to find the key" to this powerful and underestimated but very hard to master tool.

@ibinaobabaya I understand your frustration then, correcting by hand using the channel mixer is nitty obvious at all. With all respect to the creator you mentioned, I have never seen his videos but even the fine manual says that the channel mixer is there to perform cross-talk color-grading. If you often shoot under difficult light then I recommend that you invest in a color checker. You can get a passport size one and it makes the color correction process much easier. There is a video on the channel on how to use one.

Thanks!

You're welcome!

Hi, welcome to the channel. Which OS are you on?

Hi, thanks! I'm on Windows11 @@RawPhotographyTutorials

My pleasure Tony!

Thanks!

Hi Fred, do you mean opening eaw from gimp through darktable? If so then no, that is not possible. You can of course export to TIFF or any other format from darktable and then export to gimp. However, you should rarely have to do that, I only use darktable. Do you have a specific need for gimp?

It also seems to not have full support for the t3mujiinpaxk film sim styles (they work fine in Darktable 4.4.x). The color negative and color slides seem ok (very limited testing my me), however the B&W sims don't work. Applying on of the B&W film styles products a total black image

I haven't used rawrherapee in a few years tbh but I moved to darktable for a reason 🙂

Good question. I guess we'll see after in depth videos of both. There will be another comparison video as well

AFAIK the "primaries" part of sigmoid is equivalent to the "rgb primaries" module. The sliders in sigmoid primaries just go the opposite direction (more attenuation = less purity).

Ok,, stay tuned! 🙂

Alright! 👍

Glad to hear that you like the channel. Thanks for subbing.

Great to hear!

Glad it helped!

Yes by using the raster mask tab.

Thanks - it probably would help. However I wanted to keep the same cut to compare the two photos. In hindsight that was probably not really necessary.

Indeed! Thanks for pointing it out.

Sorry Eigil, I lust have misread your comment the first time. Do you mean that you can copy the shapes from one scale layer to another? If so, I didn't think that was possible. You can only cut and paste. Did I miss something?

@@RawPhotographyTutorials That's right, copy and paste, but it will only be available in the active layer, so it's a kind of transition.

Cut and paste, not copy and paste, right?

@@RawPhotographyTutorials Sorry for being imprecise - Yes, cut and paste indeed. A slip of the tongue ;O)

Hi Eigil, I am not sure if there is such a way. At least as far as I can tell. The vectorscope is there as a guide. It can help you choose a colour balance and color grade your image (or copy the colour grading of another photo) but only as a visual guide. Again, that is all in my personal understanding, so take it with a grain of salt. If you find what you are looking for, then please share it. I would be happy to expand my horizons as well :)

Glad you liked it!