Yes, I tick the boxes for those modules that I added in darkroom/history stack.
Most show up in the Style.
What’s frustrating is:
a) some don’t show up;
b) those that are in the Style show up in a different order than in the darkroom’s history stack in LHS or module order (RHS).
Why is that ordering important? Because, in one/some of Boris’s videos, he shows how to prep an image via Color Balance RGB before it is converted to grayscale in Color Calibration. So he moved Color Bal RGB to precede Color Calibration (and this was done by creating a new instance of Color Calib and moving it ABOVE Color Bal RGB).
I try the same thing in processing an image, it works fine.
To eliminate that effort for every image where I want to do the same I try to create a Style…only to end up tearing my hair out! Voila, a new (hair)Style!
The history stack is pointless. Darktable does not use the history stack to process the images. It uses the module order (right side of darktable) going from the bottom towards the top. The module at the bottom is used first, then the next until you reach the top (output profile).
he knows exactly what he does - and in those cases he uses them for a different purpose (and explains that in his videos) so it’s ok.
If you’re learning, then first learn how to proper use the tools …
darktable by default just supports a proper workflow so defining defaults that are useful to shoot yourself in your foot is not that easy in darktable (and no developer is interested in making that easy )
Could you record a screencast and share it here?
And/or, show a screenshot of the window where you create the style (so we can see what is checked/unchecked), show a screenshot of how you apply it, show the resulting stack when applied to the image, as well as upload the style, so we can have a look?
The setting in the module group sort of presents a hybrid of this… you can enable it so that all modules in the history stack are shown in the active module tab so this will keep all modules that you have used in the history available in that one tab… so what you have is essentially the compressed history stack shown in pipeline order… I didn’t have that checked but I have done it now and i am going to see if I make use of it or not… I think this is what the poster needs to have that list of active and inactive modules applied by the style showing in one place…
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