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Darktable 1.1

Darktable 1.1

Posted Dec 5, 2012 18:17 UTC (Wed) by gidoca (subscriber, #62438)
Parent article: Darktable 1.1

> Order is important in Darktable's approach; if you desaturate an image then try to adjust its color balance, you will not have much to play with.
I don't think this is the case. As far as I know, the order in which the plugins are applied to an image is fixed, independent from the order in which they are activated. http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/split-toning-wit... seems to confirm this.


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Darktable 1.1

Posted Dec 6, 2012 12:14 UTC (Thu) by boucman2 (subscriber, #81743) [Link]

(darktab dev speaking here)

indeed, the order in which the modules are applied is fixed, this is done to maximize the final quality by minimizing the number of change in colorspace and resulting quantification artifacts

you can see the complete order by clicking on the selected group tab (thus unselecting it) the modules will all be displayed in the order in which they are applied (bottom to top)

Darktable 1.1

Posted Dec 6, 2012 20:54 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

This is very interesting. So DarkTable feautures non-destructive editing? You can deactivate any filter and you get back the original result, as opposed to Gimp? This seems incredibly useful. I just installed it, thanks!

Darktable 1.1

Posted Dec 7, 2012 5:02 UTC (Fri) by rgmoore (subscriber, #75) [Link]

As I understand it, this is one of the key features of GEGL, which the article says is the technology underpinning Darktable and should be coming soon to a GIMP near you. The idea is that picture edits are treated as a directed acyclic graph, where the vertices are images and the edges are transformations. It can cache intermediate images to speed up processing, but the basic approach is to store the original image and the transformations rather than the final image.

Darktable 1.1

Posted Dec 7, 2012 16:22 UTC (Fri) by boucman2 (subscriber, #81743) [Link]

No, there was some experimenting with GEGL, but darktable isn't using GEGL yet.

your analysis of GEGL is correct, though

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