I’m familiar with how to combine drawn and parametric masks so I can exclude a portion of the parametric mask. But now I have a situation where I want to do the same thing with two drawn masks instead of a parametric mask, and I can’t figure out how. My use case is a bird with a branch crossing part of it. I’ve drawn a mask around the bird, but now I want to exclude the branch. Is there a way to do that? This is darktable 4.8.0.
Look at the mask manager…you can do exclusion, union etc…so you can select how shapes interact…
https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/4.8/en/module-reference/utility-modules/darkroom/mask-manager/
Thanks. I was looking for the mask manager but that module doesn’t seem to be installed. At least it doesn’t show up in a search for “mask”. Is there something I need to do to install that module?
Darktable works with a fixed, hard-coded list of default modules. Mask manager is definitely part of it; on the left side of the darkroom view, near the bottom.
https://darktable-org.github.io/dtdocs/en/darkroom/darkroom-view-layout/#left-panel
https://darktable-org.github.io/dtdocs/en/module-reference/utility-modules/darkroom/mask-manager/
Doh! I never look over on that side. I was looking over on the right with all of the other modules! I see it now. Thanks!
(But I’ll say that positioning over there on the left is not very intuitive. If there’s a reason for having it over there, maybe the manual should mention that. )
Processing modules are on the right. Utility (history stack, duplicate manager, colour picker, mask manager, export) on the left.
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