So, on watching @Bruce_Williams understading darktable Ep.130 I had a go and encountered the same, or similar, problem as in Ep. 131 - it didnt auto apply on import.
Well thats not entirely true…
up pops my preset.
All well and good but its not very auto.
Question - how do I untick that box for several images at once?
After a morning shooting exposure brackets it gets very painful unticking individually.
It would be even more painful if I had to remember to set my auto apply pixl workflow to none…
I haven’t seen the video by Bruce and I don’t auto apply presets so I am a bit in the dark. However, I do use (delete:presets) styles all the time and one of them includes exposure as shot in the camera to avoid the correction of exposure bracketing. The style includes other functions such as denoising, sharpening etc and I just click on this style as a starting point for the image. Literally two clicks and its done, so I don’t personally feel compelled to use the auto apply feature.
I look forward to seeing more informative replies in this thread and seeing if there is any advantage in me changing my habits of processing and using auto apply presets.
Edit: My bad that I originally wrote preset when I meant to write style.
Just a small point: such a “preset” would be called a style in dt. A preset as I understand it concerns the settings of one module. Also, a preset can be auto-applied to images that fulfill certain conditions, a style cannot be automatically applied.
But in the case of OP (a preset to be applied only in specific cases, but then to a group of images), a style seems perfect, as it can be applied to more than one image at a time: select in lighttable and use the “styles” module.
Personally, I also use a style to apply a basic set of modules, and I used a preset when the default raw white point wasn’t set correctly (and I know I want to use that preset on all images for that camera).
No, it does not get applied when you uncheck the checkbox.
Your preset’s name is shown because if no name is applied manually, if the current configuration of a module matches one of the saved presets, the name of that preset is shown as the name of the module. If the preset was created from a module instance that had a manually assigned name, that name (which you will normally not seen, it’s stored inside the preset) will be shown instead. This occurs if the corresponding preference is enabled:
Thanks for the replies (@Terry, @rvietor, @kofa), learn a little more every day.
I’ll put this down to a misalignment between how a module is intended to be used and my expectations how it should be used.
Same for me. That is why I follow this forum so closely. DT is really fast for my edits now. It took time for it to match Lightroom speed in my hands but now it is even faster thanks to styles, presets and just learning to work better. I also use presets for the export module so I don’t have to painfully set where the export is going and what format it is in such as tiff or jpg.
