Heya,
I cant seem to find a way to set a keyboard shortcut for the exposure-eyedropper - neither via the graphical “picker” nor the list in the options.
Is there another way?
Thanks!
Welcome… I think this is it…then you just work through adding a sequence for it…
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It’s preprogrammed to e
When I hit e its says not assigned…and the e used to select the slider did it not and then you held e and used the scroll wheel??
Anyway all good if it should be e… I just added it as such changing the options to button and toggle…for simplicity mapped to esc…
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I’m not sure of your setup…
The tooltip shows the e…
and if I press the e in the darkroom… it performs an auto adjustment.
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ohhh you can CLICK the items in the lower table. Mind blown. Thank you!
And I am also impressed with the amount of help for my simple beginner question. Thanks a lot!
Thanks, there was a simpler solution though. but someday I may have to look into lua scripting. Really longing for that “paste settings from previous selected image” from lightroom…
Ya not sure but its unassigned for me… should that be one that is listed in the H key list as well I dont’ think it is…
Ctrl C then Ctrl V ??
sure that does the job. But that requires remembering to copy the settings while still at the source image ;-). Lightroom had it, it is engrained into my muscle memory and there is no reason not to have it if I can pull it off with scripting.
Ya I guess…for me that settings in DT if taken globally for an image will really only work on an image that is fairly similar which is usually within easy reach in the film strip but I get the muscle memory…you could put in a feature request…I think you can program in the short cuts to use an effect which can be something like Ctrl C so there could perhaps be a way to define those ie Ctrl V and Ctrl C to a click modifier and then you could apply that in the film strip or other view to copy and paste… I could fiddle later if I have some time…maybe a full blown script is more feasible…
The filmstrip works a bit differently now with the mouse (like standard file window selection) and I think I just did a quick test and it seems to hold but you can try this… So single click on any image in the film strip “selects” and you have to double click to load it in the main preview but the single click selects it for a copy and paste, so if you select that image from any in the filmstrip with a single click and hit ctrl c and ctrl v right after that, ie in succession it will apply those settings to the current image in the main preview…you can do the same using the selective copy and paste as well…so at least you don’t need to go back preview and copy the settings and then go to the image you need to change… so its single click on a source image and then ctrl C then Ctrl V…
Hi Mino, welcome to the forum. Not trying to do everything Adobe’s way and learning to reset your mind to DT ways is easy enough to do with a little time. DT is so superior to LR in my view as an ex-LR user.
The keyboard shortcut e doesn’t work for me on DT V5.1. But using a couple of clicks to expand the exposure module, hit the eyedropper then has the advantage of letting you draw the area to be read. This can be an advantage. Also read the manual and make sure you have an idea of how area exposure mapping works. It makes the eyedropper more powerful. For instance if you are doing a series of images and the target value being set to the default 50% is too bright you can lower it to a different value to get your first edit looking great. Then this slider is sticky so when you move on to the next image the eyedropper is using the value you set. In the sample shown here I have set the eyedropper to a target value of 37% which is much darker than 50%.
The use of Ctrl Shift C allows you to select just the editing items you want to copy from one image to the next. This system is superior to LR’s default copy and paste option, but you just have to rewire your brain for it. With LR it would only copy the very last image and that becomes a problem if you start clicking through a series of images and decide not to edit one and skip it. The next Ctrl V will have lost the corrections you want to copy. Trust me DT has set this option up better than LR. I use it all the time, but I only set the minimum number of modules that I actually touched myself. Many of the early modules in the history stack are auto applied based on exif data in the image file and are best not copied from image to image or at the least unnecessary to copy from image to image.
Here is a screen shot from a series of images being prepared for panorama stitching that would be undertaken in Microsoft Image Composite Editor. I wanted to match many factors to do with color, exposure, shadows etc and this works so well.
Good luck with your DT journey.
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You can just assign it… I just used esc above as I thought e was tied to the scroll wheel to move the slider… as shown above if I hit esc I will get the auto exposure…
Not trying to do everything Adobe’s way and learning to reset your mind to DT ways is easy enough to do with a little time. DT is so superior to LR in my view as an ex-LR user.
I agree that DT is superior and with a handful of keyboard shorcuts (key+scroll / mouse movement is a godsend) I have now almost caught up to my previous lightroom-editing-turnover. But still there is no reason not to have the shortcut 
. But I have also now discovered that I can copy settings from previous and not currently selected images by just mouseover+STRG+V which is awesome. The Copy and especially selective copy dialog from lightroom is still superior in my opinion as darktable presents you with a bland list while LR groups things thematically.
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You can always go back to that image. Or go to the lighttable and (shift)-Ctrl-C it there. You can use the copy/paste keys or the buttons in the ‘History Stack’ panel in the lighttable.
You can ctrl-C from one image and copy to multiple images.
I was not an LR user, so don’t know this all compares, but I’m pretty sure that dt has your needs covered on this copy/paste issue.