Thanks - I was fixated on the images at the bottom, thinking this worked like my other editor. Solved.
As to the images moving back and forth, once I did the first thing you suggested, apparently when I click on any image down in the bottom of “darkroom” mode, it places that thumbnail directly below the larger image that opens up in the main screen.
Apparently DarkTable expects me to select an image to edit in “lighttable” mode, and then select “darkroom” mode. If I have a lot of images, some of them may be well off to the right or left at the bottom of the “darktable” screen, and to find them I need to go back to “lighttable” mode, rather than moving all those thumbnails one way or the other. It’s different than what I’m used to, but perfectly logical.
Thank you once again. No more questions for a while.
The more I understand, the more I enjoy the program.
- I currently use DxO PhotoLab 5 for processing all images from my Nikons, my Fuji X100f, and my Leica M10.
- I use DarkTable for processing images from my Leica M8.2
- I also still have Lightroom, Affinity Photo, Raw Therapee, Luminar 4, Color Efex Pro 4, Photomatix Pro 6, and others I’ve forgotten about (such as free editors provided by Fuji and Nikon), but I don’t use them.
Anything worthwhile requires a lot of effort, and I guess I’ve only gotten used to “the basics”. To me, that is a huge start. I suspect DarkTable is doing a lot more for me automatically than PhotoLab, or I have suddenly become a much better photographer, along with my old Leica M8.2 suddenly working better than before. I’m pleasantly surprised by how well those images look when first opened in DarkTable. I wasn’t expecting that.