darktable - The process of taking a snapshot

Software darktable
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I love the snapshot function so much that I use it multiple times on many pictures I am working on. That said, I find the process a little bit tedious:

  • Select history step to be used in snapshot
  • Move mouse up to ‘take snapshot’ button and click it
  • Select the snapshot to make it ‘active’
  • Select the history step to compare the snapshot with

I think - and if even possible - I would like to right click a history step which at once takes the snapshot and activates it. Then I would only need to click the history step to compare with and I would be all set.

If in this forum we approve of this idea I will go to git hub and propose for this tiny improvement.

Kind regards, Jetze

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Sounds like a useful improvement. Part of your Problem can be solved by setting a keybinding for taking a snapshot.

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You can open a feature request whether people here seem to like the idea or not.

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I think someone already has, and the problem with right clicking in the history stack is that it creates another history entry, which if you’re not at the top of the stack will truncate the stack and then add the new entry.

This is a much safer solution

EDIT: There is also a script floating around somewhere in this forum that takes a screenshot automatically when you open an image in darkroom so you have a snapshot of your starting point for the current edit.

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Will do and see how much I benefit.

Will search for that one … I do not see this behavior, right click selects the clicked on history step.

Still feel it will be a useful and well used feature.

Thanks everybody! Jetze