Hi, I’m a Lightroom user new to Darkroom. After some difficulty (resolved thru’ this Forum) I have managed to connect my card reader and can see thumbnails and open selected images in darkroom BUT I cannot discover a button to import the images collectively or selectively from the card. Please can someone give me a nudge towards a resolution of that.
I’m a fan of using multiple, complementary tools for specific tasks. As a Linux user, I use Rapid Photo Downloader (https://www.damonlynch.net/rapid/), which does an excellent job of managing photo and video import from removable media. I’m not familiar with Windows equivalents (assuming you’re using Microsoft or possibly Apple OS).
Oh, and welcome to pixls.us!
Did you see this?
This is in left top corner of lighttable view.
Have a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63LIr5OAlDs
I love darktable but I am not a big fan of the importing function. It was the one thing I really liked about Lightroom and no other DAM works quite like how I’m used to doing it in Lightroom…so for now, even though I no longer subscribe, I still use LR as my DAM for importing photos into my folder structure because the Library mode still works (just the Develop mode no longer works).
Once I sort and cull in LR, I then open darktable, under “Import” open the folder I want to work on, do edits, and color code finished and exported ones, delete anything I no longer need, then under “Collect Images” I choose “folder” and remove the folder. I had a couple of crashes when I had a ton of images imported at once so now I only do it one folder at a time.
digikam looked like the best alternative but I found it took a long time to load. It also doesn’t do my most favourite feature of LR’s Library mode which is ability to color code a folder (not just the images within the folder).
And keep checking out pixls.us - great advice and support for newbies like us throughout the site from some very dedicated people.
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Thanks all for the quick responses. I can see the value in using additional resources to import as this looks to be a Darktable weakness, and pretty fundamental! I’ll try the suggestions and work rounds but may have to go down this route although I prefer to keep life simple. I’ll let you know how I get on. I should have said I’m using a Mac on which I am running Lightroom 5 with no difficulty - including on my brand new MacBook Air, having been told by Adobe that this was not possible.
I never import directly from SD card. First I copy all files to my harddrive, mass-rename them and backup them to my second computer.
Then I import them into darktable on my main computer. Never had any problem with that.
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I like Keith Hunnifords’s tog tool:
If you check out his YouTube channel, he explains a bit about his workflows.