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Awesome explanation. Simply the easiest and simplest methodology I've seen so far! Thanks!

Nice video. Thank you.

Best tutorial for masking in darktable that i have seen. Simple to follow and well explained! Thank you.

the power of this tool is ridiculous!

You can toggle between the overlay colors with ctrl+o. I was trying to find this shortcut forever today and I finally found it again!

Denoise profiled can be combined with contrast equalizer denoising in the luma-tab.

In contrast Equalizer you can use the "difference" blend-mode to identify the splines for the desired detail level.

For clarity you can also use the preset of that name in the local contrast module.

I don't usually comment on videos I watch but I wanted to take a couple of minutes to comment and say a massive thank you. This video has answered loads of my questions on Darktable, especially as I have just moved over from Lightroom. Top man - Thank you!

Thanks! This was a great overview for managing photo's with darktable. Tip: you can save the import parameters so you don't need to set the initial rating to zero with every new import.

Thanks! Around 19:38 you added to the mask with the color picker. I'm having trouble doing that. Did you simply click on the picker or do something else that I missed in order to add that color range to the mask? Mike

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I have learned so much in these 13 minutes thank you so much!

I looked for something like this video when I first started with Darktable, but never found one. Your explanations and panel-by-panel diagrams are great and very helpful. Subscribed!

Thank you very much for this presentation of the potential of the color balance RGB module. Do you know how I could perform focus stacking ? Cheers and Happy New Year !

I was having issues with skin tones for my friend's images and this really allowed me to see things differently ! Cheers for this <3

An added tip: when grading, hide the left and right menus to maximise screen real estate. Excellent process. Thanks!

0:25 that is in fact not true, it is in the left panel that you have hidden.

This is just what I needed. Thank you very much!

Oh my gosh this tutorial is great. Thanks a ton for creating this video, it gives me hope in being able to learn how to use darktable. I just left Lightroom Classic, and to be honest, darktable seems daunting yet insanely powerful.

Muchas gracias.

vlog does exactly what it says. I now have a much better understanding of masking in DT

You provide great tutorials, thank you very much. For the landscape from 9:26, your parametric mask is based on light intensities but you remove the part of the mask within the lake, yet I would have thought that the light intensity of the sky reflection in the lake should have been corrected similarly to that of the sky for a more natural look. Did I miss a point there?

I noticed for your recent videos you were in Windows 11. Have you left Linux? Just curious.

I have worked with both - Lightroom about 5 years ago for I think one year. When I discovered Darktable (and Rawtherapee around the same time), I was pretty intimidated, but after watching some videos of how to use it, I was amazed at its power compared to what I had in Lightroom. Darktable is such a superb tool for processing RAW images. You have a great channel!

Excellent tutorial on this very powerful tool in Darktable!

Just a brilliant tutorial - thank you so much for this! Darktable is very powerful.

Fantastic video, thanks for taking the time to make it and help us out.

I cannot thank you enough for your channel. You give the most clear and to the point walkthroughs without the inane rambling found on all the other channels. Just clear and straight to the point. Thank you thank you thank you

Wow, great video and great software!! Thank you so much!

Nice way to introduce masking to people with Darktable-fear. If I got your question right about the color of the drawn string, it can be set globally with "g" which opens the "grid"-option in the lower panel. Right-click on the small window to get "overlay color". You can also just left-click on the grid icon to activate it. When I select an object with an edge to be sharply separated from the background using a drawn mask, I let the line with the dots cover the outline and select the blur-distance very narrow (shift+scroll inside the mask) to allow just a small amount of blending with the feathering slider. I have actually masked butterfly antennaes in this way - invisibly, i.e. traceless. Darktable allows these operations at high zoom levels, so there are practically no limits. You can also scroll-zoom into the total image with a mask active, as long as you keep the cursor outside the mask (to avoid pressing "a"). Obviously the colored outline of a drawn mask can be toggled on/off by left-clicking the small mask-icon with the dotted line. I don't know (yet) how 5.0 acts with complex masks and details at high zoom levels - but to avoid crashes it's a good idea in such complex cases to activate the mask by pressing Ctrl+left-click on the mask icon. I am looking forward to "Darktable 5.0 Masking Tutorial - Demystifying set theory" from you ;O)

Great video - super helpful.

Thank you for such easy to understand tutorials.

It's always a pleasure to watch your tutorials! Beautifully explained and excellently presented! Thank you!

Great video. Just on drawn masks. If you draw it so the edge of the object comes between the drawn line and the feather line the darktable algorithm does a fantastic job of detecting the edge of the object and makes the mask that much better and easier to do.

You really worked through all the options of masking. If you should be making another video on the topic, you might still want to add combination of parameters to refine the selection or the use of masking modes to use combined drawn masks. I really enjoy your post processing videos, especially because I much identify with your editing style.

very clear and informative tutorials! looking forward to continuing my learning journey with you in 2025 🎉

Good instruction video! Thank you very much.

Very helpful and just what I was looking for. Also great pronunciation of loch - it's a tough one 😃

Great content and presentation! Thanks a lot!

Thanks a lot for your tutorials on darktable. They are extremely well done 🙂

Thanks for the very well explained video. To change the color of the mask lines I use (Mac) command+O. Easy.

Nicely done video...one point to share that I think many DT users are unaware of is the Jz channel. It will almost always need mask boost. The slider only goes from 0 to 1 whereas the max value could be up to 10000 . Using the single picker on tne brightest part will show tbe actual max Jz value for your image and to set the slider range correctly you need to boost the mask ev....esp important if you want ti mask something like a sky

Very well explained without making it overly complicated. Thanks for the tip on holding down the "A" key to zoom in and out. 👍

Oh “deer”, nice work, another great video. Thanks mate.

One of the best if not the best demonstrations of dt masking. I like the improvements of version 5 - good tip on the independent node handles. May I add a useful tip: When using drawn masks, you can edit the shape and opacity of the mask whilst locking the position of the mask. To do this, 1st deselect the 'show & edit mask elements'. Now press Ctrl and click the icon. You can now adjust the nodes of the mask and the nodes of the feathering without any danger of moving or resizing the mask. So you can zoom in and pan around to do fine mask adjustments without disturbing the position or size of the mask. Another useful facility with multiple drawn masks is that you can reduce the opacity of any individual mask by holding Ctrl and scrolling - very useful for dodging and burning. Thanks for some tips I had not realised. Super video. I will be recommending it for newbies to dt. ... and a very happy & prosperous new year. 😀

well done, a good explanation of masking without getting too technical. Been looking for something like this for awhile.

I think the speed you go through these things are pretty much spot on! Gives us the how to use the tools, why they work, where they break and options when they do. Please keep these videos coming :)

You can change the colour of the overlay lines without using the crop tool. Just right click on the grid icon at the lower right corner, just to the left of where it says "module order" and you'll have access to the same settings.

Great explanation of mask on DT. You have made it so easy to understand. This channel is becoming my go to for any DT questions I have.