Combining Drawn Masks
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In this video I demonstrate how to combine two drawn masks. Using darktable's Mask Manager module. I will combine a drawn path with a gradient to simulate a slightly shallower depth of field.
Now a I need to ask a favor. If you've come across any interesting Lightroom or Photoshop tutorial and you'd like to see me attempt to do the same thing in darktable please comment below or hit me up on any of my social media accounts.
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I've never paid attention to Photoshop tutorials thinking it was for blending and composite images that I rarely make... And I use GIMP for all of that anyhow. Recently, I discovered that a lot of photographers use
Harry Durgin does have a lot of great videos. He's one of my main go-to guys for darktable info. This video clarified the combining of masks (I'm using V 3.4) and has made me aware of a popup menu that I had missed (or HD covered it and I forgot it).
Thanks for this tutorial, it fit my need exactly and provided the exact info I needed. --Ross
Thanks for the vid!
I was looking how to do exactly this - combine path/gradient masks.
Thanks to you, I now know it's done in the MASK MANAGER !
I'm glad these videos are still helping people! darktable as advanced so much since I started making them I haven't been able to keep up.
exactly what i was looking how to do, thanks!
Am in the process of weaning myself off Lightroom/Photoshop and resources like this video are incredibly helpful to me. Thank you for taking the time to share!
Happy to help anyone get away from Adobe! Is there anything specific you need help in making the transition?
Thank you for the kind reply! I'm pretty far along in the process. I haven't booted my Windoze partition in months and am sorting out my workflow with a combination of Shotwell, Darktable, and GIMP. I experimented a bit with Pixeluvo and RawTherapee as well, but don't seem to find much need for them.
I'm finding TH-cam videos by Riley Brandt, Harry Durgin, David LaCivita, Robert Hutton, and now you to be just what I needed to finally cut the cord for good. I've been doing all of my video editing with Kdenlive, web coding with Brackets, and using OpenMediaVault in my NAS for quite a while now. Finding satisfactory photography tools was the very last thing keeping me from becoming a Linux only household! For a guy who is pushing 60 and only discovered Linux about 5 years ago, I'm feeling pretty good about working through all of the challenges to replace long familiar M$ tools.
To answer your question more directly, I'm really keen to improve my facility with layer masks and exposure blending. I feel fortunate to have worked through the (unfortunate) HDR phase pretty quickly, but I keep finding clues that exposure blending is the key to producing realistic dynamic range images.
Carl Miller for exposure blending you should check out Harry Durgin's video on a plug in that brings Enfuse to darktable. th-cam.com/video/H3q_LqVp00Q/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for a great tutorial. I'm slowly getting to grips with Darktable. I find it very difficult to learn off You tube because the icons in DT are so small. However I got the main gist of what you were doing.
I agree in the main with your comments about Darktable being able to achieve most of what others use LR & PS combined for. I used to teach PS at my local college but now use Gimp exclusively as all my computers are now open source and I hate the subscription model that Adobe have adopted.
I confess that I'm not a fan of the ND filter/long exposure landscape genre school as I think it's become a cliché but this example does show the mask intersection technique very well. Thanks again.
Berny M they are small, I've got to figure out a way to make it more obvious what I'm pointing at.
David, thank you for video! Could you give a link to LinkedIn set of videos (tutos) you mentioned at the end?
The one I found most useful was Ben Long's course on black and white: goo.gl/N5GYCz
I'm not sure how the link will work, they're behind a paywall but hopefully you can get a look. As I said, I thought all of Ben Long's courses were great so if you can get to them I'd start with any of his Foundations courses. Even if you think you know everything you might still pick something up.
David, what version of DT are you using? My Mask Manager (v. 2.2.5) does not have all that functionality.
I'm also on 2.2.5, stable. Are you using the nightlies or dev?
I'm using the stable 2.2.5 version of DT that I installed probably a month ago after updating my Ubuntu system to 16.04. BTW, this video is excellent.
Thanks!
Maybe reinstall?
Hi Jack. I'm on 2.4.0 I too struggled to find these . The mask modes (Union, Intersection, difference & exclusion) are revealed when you click the right pointing expansion arrow to the left of the group title which contains the paths (in the mask manager in the left pane). The arrow points downward and the contained paths are revealed. Right-click on any path within the group to reveal the modes. Hope this helps. :)
@@bernym4047 broo thank you so much!!