Robert, these videos continue to really open up my understanding of DarkTable. Whilst colour popping isn't to my taste, the ability to mask/blend multiple exposures could be one of the last "GIMP tasks" that I can now move into my DarkTable workflow. Thanks so much for your time :-)
Thanks. A lot of people have requested I make the videos shorter, and I do try to keep that in mind. The reason I don't pretty much boils down to: I find it really hard to demonstrate and explain at the same time, so what you're seeing is the maximum speed at which my brain can go. ;) I think the only way I could make them shorter is by scripting what I'm going to do before hand but I think that'd take more time than I'm willing to spend.
Thanks Robert, this really helped me to understand masks and how to use/combine them. RawTherapee doesn't have masks and I think this one feature is going to have me switching to Darktable.
Many thanks for a good intro to parametric and drawn masks. Just the right length for my purposes. One of the features I saw you use but not demonstrate was the ability to drag points on the fade-off ring outside the drawn path: That looks handy to me, so you can have the fade-off tight in one area and graduated in another. Looking forward to getting more out of DT as I learn to use these more advanced modules.
Hi Robert, thanks for the video! I learned exactly what I needed to know. I think that using drawn+parametric mask again in the exposure module would have easily eliminated most of the tedious work on the drawn mask (except near the sign), and would have given better results (as it is the edges aren't perfect).
Good tutorial for Darktable masks. Thanks a lot! The only thing I'm a bit missing is the explanation of the "output" slider in the parametric mask. Do you maybe have some other video explaining it?
I don't think so. But let me see if I can explain it. You can think of each module as being in a pipeline, with the pixel information from the output of the previous module being fed into the input of this module, and the (somehow changed) pixel information going out of the output to be fed to the next. That's what the "input" and "output" sliders are applied to. So the "output" slider works the same as the "input" slider but with the property that the mask is derived from the pixels *after they have been changed* by the current module. I find it much harder to envisage the resulting mask, so I stick to the "input" slider. ;)
Robert Hutton Thank you. I do understand what you mean. But cannot imagine yet a practical use of it. Where would the power of the output masks find its use?
No point in waggling the bloody sliders if you can't be arsed to explain what exactly they do. Four sliders on the input - all of which remained a mystery before I got fed up with waiting for you to actually say something!
Robert, these videos continue to really open up my understanding of DarkTable. Whilst colour popping isn't to my taste, the ability to mask/blend multiple exposures could be one of the last "GIMP tasks" that I can now move into my DarkTable workflow. Thanks so much for your time :-)
This is a very good tutorial on Darktable's mask feature. Thank you for your great work, Bob!
Thanks. A lot of people have requested I make the videos shorter, and I do try to keep that in mind. The reason I don't pretty much boils down to: I find it really hard to demonstrate and explain at the same time, so what you're seeing is the maximum speed at which my brain can go. ;) I think the only way I could make them shorter is by scripting what I'm going to do before hand but I think that'd take more time than I'm willing to spend.
Thanks Robert, this really helped me to understand masks and how to use/combine them. RawTherapee doesn't have masks and I think this one feature is going to have me switching to Darktable.
Many thanks for a good intro to parametric and drawn masks. Just the right length for my purposes.
One of the features I saw you use but not demonstrate was the ability to drag points on the fade-off ring outside the drawn path: That looks handy to me, so you can have the fade-off tight in one area and graduated in another.
Looking forward to getting more out of DT as I learn to use these more advanced modules.
Hi Dunstan, good point about dragging those outer points. I'm learning along with you, this is what makes making these videos fun. :)
Good videos! Thanks for putting the time into them. I've already put the info from this video to use on a couple of photos.
many thanks, Robert, it is a very useful Darketable tutorial.
You're welcome!
Hi Robert, thanks for the video! I learned exactly what I needed to know. I think that using drawn+parametric mask again in the exposure module would have easily eliminated most of the tedious work on the drawn mask (except near the sign), and would have given better results (as it is the edges aren't perfect).
Good tutorial for Darktable masks. Thanks a lot! The only thing I'm a bit missing is the explanation of the "output" slider in the parametric mask. Do you maybe have some other video explaining it?
I don't think so. But let me see if I can explain it. You can think of each module as being in a pipeline, with the pixel information from the output of the previous module being fed into the input of this module, and the (somehow changed) pixel information going out of the output to be fed to the next.
That's what the "input" and "output" sliders are applied to. So the "output" slider works the same as the "input" slider but with the property that the mask is derived from the pixels *after they have been changed* by the current module.
I find it much harder to envisage the resulting mask, so I stick to the "input" slider. ;)
Robert Hutton Thank you. I do understand what you mean. But cannot imagine yet a practical use of it. Where would the power of the output masks find its use?
good stuff. id imagine things have changed in dark table since this video?
The Happy Hour Hound no
Still the same in 2020 too
Great video, these features looks promising. IMHO you should make your videos a little bit shorter
Alright, just keep up the good work then :)
No point in waggling the bloody sliders if you can't be arsed to explain what exactly they do. Four sliders on the input - all of which remained a mystery before I got fed up with waiting for you to actually say something!
First half ok, but then it starts getting rather 'sloppy' (confusing, not clear, not well prepared or outlined) :-(