darktable 3.2 will be released in August

Soupy · May 29, 2020, 11:29pm

Exciting news! Will image doctor be ready?

anon41087856 · May 30, 2020, 12:12am

No, there is a lot of work ahead to finish image doctor into something not-awfully-slow.

anon41087856 · May 30, 2020, 12:26am

I have completed the project home Readme with many elements about how to compile and run an unstable test version alongside a stable one.

guille2306 · May 30, 2020, 1:33am

Will there be a branch tracking the proposed 3.2 version to test independently of master, maybe once there is a ‘feature freeze’?

Brian_Innes · May 30, 2020, 9:55am

I’m really looking forward to the 3.2 release!
Keep up the good work coders

elstoc · May 30, 2020, 10:39am

I think the way this works is that the maintainers just hold off merging anything destined for 3.4 until after 3.2 has been released - so master and 3.2 will be identical at the point that 3.2 is released. Then a separate branch is created for the 3.2.x bug fix releases and the 3.4 stuff is merged to master.

guille2306 · May 30, 2020, 11:13am

Thanks. It would be great if one of the maintainers could confirm this. I’d like to test/use this version but I’d prefer not to end up with editions incompatible with 3.2 once it’s released.

elstoc · May 30, 2020, 11:15am

I think there’s always some danger of that with testing an unstable version. For safety you might be better testing in a separate installation with a separate database. There are some brief instructions earlier in this thread but @anon41087856 has recently updated the main darktable github page with more detailed instructions for doing this.

Rico · May 30, 2020, 2:36pm

A great thing to make available with a future release is the addition of being able to export LUTS. Right now, we can only “export” styles and import LUTS. How awesome would it be if we could create our own LUTs, export them, make them available for everyone and interchangeable with other programs. That way darktable will be more accessible to the public.

darix · May 30, 2020, 3:08pm

You can create your own luts outside of darktable.

MStraeten · May 30, 2020, 3:34pm

there a thread on this at 3dLUT import and Export Feature · Issue #4166 · darktable-org/darktable · GitHub
you can do it already in three steps:
Just save your edit as a style, apply it to a haldclut png and then use this to convert it into the lut format you need …
but it doesn’t make sense if more than just plain color- or toneadjustments were made

wpferguson · May 30, 2020, 5:42pm

There is a PR, Add an exporthaldcut lighttable module, submitted against the darktable lua-scripts repository. It takes a style and creates a LUT from it and stores it with the existing LUTs. The script just needs a few finishing touches prior to merging.

Rico · May 30, 2020, 10:20pm

Here’s the thing, 99% of the users aren’t developers or know how to code. Including myself. On top of that, I don’t have the time to learn it nor the desire to due to the way my life is organized right now . I’m talking about something that works “straight out of the box”. A simple: “Export style as .cube file” for instance. Something that is accessible for the mass.

So as much as I appreciate the answers, they are not the answer to my request.

MStraeten · May 30, 2020, 10:40pm

Life is all about learning and discovering new things
Since there isn’t any activity on the mentioned pull request you might need a lot of patience otherwise …

wpferguson · May 30, 2020, 11:56pm

The author is back in school, so it may be a little while until he gets to it.

wpferguson · May 31, 2020, 12:22am

You don’t have to be a developer or know how to code to use the lua scripts. The lua scripts are to darktable what plug-ins are to lightroom.

Let’s say you’ve edited an image in darktable and need to take it to GIMP to finish it. There’s a lua scrpt for that. If you have it enabled, you select the image in lighttable, then go to the exporter and select ‘Edit with GIMP’. You export it, GIMP starts and imports the image. You finish your edit, overwrite the file, and exit. The edited file is automatically imported into darktable and grouped with the original image.

Do you want to stitch a panorama in hugin? There’s a script for that. Combine images into an HDR? There’s several scripts for that. Automatically sharpen an image after it’s exported? You guessed it, there’s a script for that.

And, if you’re looking for subjects for darktable videos, there’s 40+ scripts in the official and contrib sections.

You can check out darktable lua-scripts repository for more information.

xyzzy · May 31, 2020, 12:42am

From reading these forums, I’m not sure that’s true! darktable probably has a higher dev to non-dev ratio than any piece of non-dev software I use.

Nathan_Crabtree · May 31, 2020, 11:58am

You can create LUTs from any editing program with a few clicks using a LUT generator. It’s like falling off a log, no knowledge of coding required.

noahwc · June 1, 2020, 4:47am

The exporthaldclut script is coming soon™. Since there seems to be a good bit of interest in it I’ll do my best to prioritise it!

anon41087856 · June 2, 2020, 7:24pm

That’s because these forums are used by devs to communicate too, whereas most forums are users only and devs communicate elsewhere.

What you see is not what you get.