Has anyone else tried to use this site recently? Went browsing for presets just now and none of the images are loading, is the site abandoned? Would love to know where I can get some presets for baseline adjustments and examples.
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@andabata is the owner
Just FYIā¦your using Lightroom speakā¦presets are use in DT for modules. It is a way to apply that module in a certain way that is not the default. Styles are groups of modules that are often used in the way I believe that you are searching for with DT.
Most of the styles on that website are massively out of date and use modules from older versions.
There is not a big pool of presets as you will find with lightroom. You can search the forum for topics here and grab sidecar files to apply.
You might find the odd style that is useful here and there.
I find DT is most useful with auto applied presets that you define for each module that you want applied when you open an image. But for an overall look you really have to come up with something that you find useful. I donāt personally find many styles of much use in scene referred editsā¦ with the big adjustments that get made with each image for exposure most just donāt really produce any sort of consistent lookā¦
Itās busy unbreaking it self. Seems i broke some parts, and darktable-cli broke the other half.
It seems i donāt really have the time / motivation to give it any love. If anyone wants to do a redesign of dtstyle.net / maintain it. I would be happy to let some else do it. I donāt have an issue with still hosting it / paying for the domain.
I think itās a shame that the site isnāt getting more āloveā at the moment. darktable styles have been a useful resource and inspiration, especially for beginners. I would take @andabata offer to take care of the site.
However, after the major changes to darktable, the styles are probably mostly outdated. If we could collect styles here in the forum and considerable number users would participate, it might make sense to revise the page.
What do you think?
There are always options 
Itās not that i was planning to shut it down or something. But it still runs the same code / design as when i made it in 2014. Apart from some bug fixes. As long it works, iāll keep it running. But if someone wants to do a redesign of it all iām happy to facilitate that.
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Thanks for keeping it running all those years. Latest outage seems prolonged. Iāll be happy to help migrating it to a new CMS and DB if needed.
Itās more then just broken, had a severe hdd crash (well 2 at almost the same time) and lost all data for dtstyle.net (and a from more things among raw.pixls.us and weblate.pixls.us). I donāt feel like working at dtstyle.net right now. I would happy pass it onwards to someone else. It does need a complete rewrite, and revamp.
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ok! thanks for the shocking post mortem!
If the content is somehow shareable from another disk Iāll be happy to take a look and ask around for anyone who might be interested helping keeping the flame alive.
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Hi, new member here. I am a software engineer and I am doing photography as hobby. Slowly I am migrating from Adobe software towards DarkTable. I see that dtstyle.net was a great resource in the community and due to some technical problems it is now shutdown.
If there are enough people interested on resuscitate it I may be able to help. Is there some repository about we can look at? Is there some data dump we can explore somewhere?
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Technical problems, as in a couple of harddrives decided to crash on a short time span, loosing all data. Being an IT professional, i only tell others that they should backup their data and doing it myself. So itās all lost now, and that might be for the better . I made some āinterestingā choices witch are better to be forgotten.
But in all what i did. Let users without logins upload the .dtstyle. I valided that if was a legit xml for darktable. And put it in a queue. With a cronjob i ran true that queue. Converted the .dtstyle to an .xmp and ran darktable-cli against the set of images and the newly created .xmp. That was all the magic
The script for converting .dtstyle to .xmp lives in the darktable repo.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/darktable-org/darktable/refs/heads/master/tools/dtstyle_to_xmp.py
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Hi, check out tutorials on YouTube, read the docs, learn from PlayRaw (itās one of the forum categories). The content at dtstyles is, as far as I know, severely outdated.
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I agree at this point most if not all of those will be more confusing than helpfulā¦
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Out of curiosity: was the data from raw.pixls.us also lost entirely?
If so wouldnāt it be better to put up an instance and start collecting files again? If the problem is lack of software, I could hack something up temporarily. Itās already been broken for a while and having a collection of multiple raw files on hand is very helpful for a number of people.
No, the data is fully intact.
And its back up, but uploads are disabled while the db is rebuilt.
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Hi Andabata,
I was browsing r/darktable, looking for dtstyles, and found that you lost your server in March 
I donāt know if itās any help to you, but I hav found that it still exists on the wayback machine:
This is the last remaining good copy
Kind regards
FT
Server crash happened in juli 2024. I wonāt be rebuilding the website. If anyone wants to build something darktable with that domain iām happy to redirect it to that. The general consensus is that it dtstyle.net has ran itās course.
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