AGX and non-geek user

[Valmy (philippe Delétrée)]

I’m discovering AGX in Darktable, it’s really good. I’m not a fan at all of having to add scripts myself into a program, I hope that one day we’ll have the pleasure of using AGX instead of log tone mapping in ART.

[priort (Todd Prior)]

It is available (not exactly DT but still a version) as are 7 others as CTL controls including sigmoid…You have access to the one tone mapper and the Michaelis Menton version which is also good…there is an aces one and ART has a simple odt that works great …turn off the tone curve and use one of these instead… I’ll dig up the link for them…

Tone Mapping Operators in ART - CTL Scripts

Hi, I’ve evaluated multiple TMOs I can use in ART, leveraging CTL scripting. As I’ve turned ART into my workhorse for RAW development, I wanted to give something back to the community. Here are some of the TMOs I’ve tested for my filmic pipeline. (Some creative shortcuts were taken for operators that required local/global adjustments or other complex math, as CTL is a pixel-level mechanic.) [Edit]: Please rename the files to .ctl extension and place them in your ARTctlscripts folder, making s…

You can also try opendrt…

[Valmy (philippe Delétrée)]

I don’t understand which of these files I need to install. I’m just a regular user who doesn’t know much about all this.

[priort (Todd Prior)]

The txt files are named that way because the forum doesnt support the ctl extension… So you would down load them and rename them and put them in the artscripts folder…in Windows its here…

C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\ART\ctlscripts

Subst your username…

Then in ART you can use them here…in color and tone…

Here is one example…

My list is like this…you can see the variety of controls available…and there are likely lots more floating around…

[sguyader (Sébastien Guyader)]

@Valmy you can find the CTL scripts here: GitHub - artraweditor/ART-ctlscripts: A collection of CTL scripts for the ART raw processor
Click on the the “Code” button and then “Download zip”.
Create a “ctlscripts” folder in ~/.config/ART (or wherever your ART config files are installed on your computer) and extract the content of the zip file in ~/.config/ART/ctlscripts.

[Valmy (philippe Delétrée)]

I’ve done everything, but the scripts aren’t showing up. I made a short video to show you what I did.

ART Scripts.mp4

[sguyader (Sébastien Guyader)]

How did you get ART installed? From which source?

(Fr : comment as-tu installé ART ? A partir de quelle source ?)

[priort (Todd Prior)]

I missed it…did you have

I think you need that …but it could still be something else… and if you get things working you will have to add most of those other tonemapper txt files but of course renamed to *.ctl to have those features

[sguyader (Sébastien Guyader)]

His video shows that _artlib.ctl is there. My guess is that either his ART installation looks elsewhere for the config files, or that it doesn’t have CTL and dependencies enabled.

@Valmy regarde aussi ceci au cas où : Compiler avec CTL [RÉSOLU] - Compilation - Forum de la communauté francophone de ART (Another RawTherapee)

[priort (Todd Prior)]

Thanks I only scan watched it the second time after thinking about it and I missed it…

[tankist02]

From the video .ctl sctipts are install correctly: /home/phillipe/.config/ART/ctlscripts.
I’m wondering if ART is built with CTL support? When I build ART from source code on Fedora Linux I first build and install CTL and then configure ART to enable CTL engine:

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DENABLE_CTL=1 -DCTL_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/include/CTL …

Maybe these steps are not required anymore, I’m not sure.

[Valmy (philippe Delétrée)]

https://forum.artherapee.fr/t/compilation-sous-ubuntu-22-04-et-debian-11-bullseye-en-cours-de-modif/1256
I followed this tutorial and everything went correctly.

[guynux]

Sorry, but as @tankist02 precisely said, this compilation did not include the CTL support. I made this before the CTL development. Have a test with Alberto’s binaries.

[Valmy (philippe Delétrée)]

Even Alberto’s binary doesn’t work for me. The first time I launch it, it asks me to create a launcher, which I accept. And then nothing. Fuck, If I may put it that way.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16BrZx35eK5QLmhtMybkfblkOKoxdGlfn/view?usp=drive_link

[sguyader (Sébastien Guyader)]

I don’t understand, you said in your previous post that

@Valmy

everything went correctly

[tankist02]

In this video I see ctlscripts in

/home/phillipe/ART

Correct location is

/home/phillipe/.config/ART/ctlscripts

I tried Alberto’s binary - it does include CTL support, I can see all my .ctl scripts available:

Can you please run the following command in terminal and show us the output? For me CLI is more descriptive and precise than GUI. On my machine I have:

$ find ~ -name \*.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/_artlib.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/_rel_col_filter.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/_tetrainterp.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/_wbchmix.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/bwmix.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/chmix.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/colorbalancergb.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/colormix.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/density.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/expcomp.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/gamma.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/gamutcompress.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/ght.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/hueeq.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/hueeqg.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/lumeq.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/lumeqg.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/posterize.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/relcolfilter_wb.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/sateq.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/sateqg.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/satlumcurve.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/shadowboost.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/softlight.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/splittone.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/submix.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/tetrahsl.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/tetrargb.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/tinteq.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/tonecurve.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/wbchmix.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/OpenDRT-full.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/OpenDRT.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/log.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/odt.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/totm.ctl
/home/andrew/.config/ART/ctlscripts/vibrance.ctl

[Valmy (philippe Delétrée)]

Oui. En suivant la méthode de mon post au dessus, c’est à dire une compilation, c’est facile de l’installer et il fonctionne.

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Yes. Following the method in my post above, which is to say a compilation, it’s easy to install and it works. Compilation sous ubuntu 22.04 et debian 11 bullseye (en cours de modif) - Compilation - Forum de la communauté francophone de ART (Another RawTherapee). But I don’t have CTL in this compilation. So I installed ART from Alberto’s binaries to get CTL, but I still can’t launch the software.

[tankist02]

Do you see any errors when trying to launch? If you launch from terminal you may see detailed error messages about what went wrong.

[tankist02]

@Valmy

The first time I launch it, it asks me to create a launcher, which I accept. And then nothing.

What does it mean - “nothing”? ART does not run at all or you do not see the CTL scripts? Some other errors?

[Valmy (philippe Delétrée)]

When I installed version 1.26, ART wouldn’t start. I uninstalled everything and installed version 1.25, and that version worked. I then overwrote the files from version 1.25 with those from 1.26, and that version worked as well. Everything is fine now except for sygmoid in CTL, which I can’t find.

Thank you so much for your help and patience. I’m using the latest version of Linux Mint LMDE.