HDR landscapes (Darktable) Olympus Em1

There is the Play Raw category as well, where you can post a raw and people will edit it and share their sidecar file.

TBH the scene referred workflow is different, but now I use fewer modules, edit with greater speed and feel like I have better control than I ever did with any of the display referred tools.

I’d love to have a crack at editing one of your shots, they’re quite lovely.

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+1 :slightly_smiling_face:

I agree with Steven’s comment that the newer DT will have all the old features that you like, but will include some nice new ones. I feel the noise reduction has improved a lot and there are some nice sharpening presets in the new diffuse or sharpen module that work better than the old sharpen module (at least in my opinion).

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Again a very nice one :smiley:

I have been thrown off balance when the new workflow came since I was so used to the old one … but still decided to go with the flow. But sure it was a real break in continuity.

The HDR Merge LUA script is what I use. It can also align, so this is an advantage for situations where the tripod is not 100% stable.

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OMG, this is what I have been looking for because that was the one great feature I still use in Adobe’s Lightroom. Could you please direct me to the LUA script? Is it in the list already installed with 4.2.1 or do I need to import it?

Terry:

Yes, it is in the “Scripts” section once you have LUA script manager enabled. it’s been a while since I installed it, but I think you need to to give it the path to the HDRMerge executable the first time the script is launched. After it is installed, you just select the pictures you want to be merged in lighttable and run the script.

I am on windows DT V4.3 and I can not see the Lua script manager, yet at home on my Linux desktop I can find the Lua script manager. Any ideas what I am doing wrong. My searches in the forum , online and in the user manual have just left me confused.

There is a preference that might be set not to show it. Don’t remember what that is off the top of my head. You’ll also need git installed and on your system path, which is the default on Linux and a pain on windows.

I feel this is the problem. I have installed git on my work computer but I presume the path is wrong.

Hi Terry, might this help?

Darktable Lua Script Manager - Software / darktable - discuss.pixls.us

Thanks for the advice. I will follow up on this when at work with my Windows computer and I also have a Windows computer at home to check it out on. Script manager worked on my previous windows computer without having to play around, but sadly that computer suffered a terminal illness and I replaced it a couple of weeks ago. In the meantime I discovered how much I liked my linux desktop which had been just collecting dust.

I opened up my new Windows laptop with DT 4.3 weekly build installed and lua scripts installer is already available. I just have to install the scripts. Hopefully this will go smoothly.