Masks are not stored in presets or styles?

[Timiambeing (Tim)]

Damn it I just couldn’t resist seeing what came next here…

@rvietor

And if you start claiming replies make no sense, and devs don’t consider photographers, I’m not surprised replies to that also get less friendly.

Well, really, that reply (not yours, yours was informative and made a valid point) did make no sense!!

“The darktable pixelpipe is built via processing modules, not via masks that are processed…”

??? in what way aren’t masks processed? and in what way are they not in the pixel pipeline?? and really what on earth does any of that sentence actually mean!

But hey, its true I didn’t understand the type of person that makes and uses free software - I was just coming from the perspective of a user talking to other users - I didn’t realise users of free software are a different bunch, and did things differently?

@paperdigits

please understand that “lightroom does this better” without any actual suggestion on how to improve our own UI/UX is not helpful at all

Of course it isn’t, that’s why I made the effort to explain how masks could work, to make things easier? In fact I went into some detail in my answer to @rvietor, perhaps @paperdigits didn’t scroll that far back to see? I was very positive about DT and still am, all I did here as to ask if a certain element worked a certain way and I was shot down immediately. This isn’t nice group behaviour, but again I admit I was treating this group just like any other software group, not taking into account what I now realise is a very different way of thinking about software development and how making suggestions or criticisms to this group isn’t very well received by some of its regular contributors.

Now can I express my appreciation to the comments that followed my exit, @priort that’s similar to what I have been doing, but I hadn’t thought of selective copy and paste, great idea thanks. Also @Aliks for a link to a very useful article, @Terry for a similar suggestion and because I have seen how nice it is in here mentioned elsewhere and wondered how in the world with just a few statements I had seemingly alienated the entire community - thankfully I can see this wasn’t the case. Thank you for the later useful tips and suggestions… just one last comment…

@paperdigits

We don’t have to praise the software every time we want to make a suggestion for improvement or offer some constructive criticism. That isn’t necessary. Nor does the praise buy you any leeway in your criticisms.

@paperdigits

We should also expect some resistance in our request, because if it was obvious and unanimously a good idea, then it’d probably already be done

What supreme arrogance… and to suggest someone is ‘sucking up’ to win leeway, and of course from an esteemed moderator with a little badge. Which is why I’m off, poor Terry offered up a sensible idea and had to be put in his place by the regulator.

Listen, it’s ok if we don’t like the feeling a place gives us isn’t it, we don’t have to stick around. I’ve been contributing to groups like this for decades, and I definitely don’t need to be told how to behave by ‘people who have been around here awhile’ - good grief the arrogance astounds me!

Thanks to those who actually understood what I was trying to achieve and helped.

[paperdigits (Mica)]

@Timiambeing

In fact I went into some detail in my answer to @rvietor,

Where? I don’t see “quite some detail” anywhere in this thread.

@Timiambeing

arrogance

Hmmm

1. Come to a new community
2. Make disparaging remarks about the developers and insinuate they’re not photographers too
3. Say “but I’ve also praised the software!!” multiple times
4. Wonder why you’re not getting positive replies…

@Timiambeing

Which is why I’m off

You’ve said this numerous times, yet here you are.

@Timiambeing

poor Terry offered up a sensible idea

Don’t push your woe-is-me plight on others.

@Timiambeing

Listen, it’s ok if we don’t like the feeling a place gives us isn’t it, we don’t have to stick around.

You keep saying you’re leaving, you should do it. Don’t be a tease.

[Christian-B (Christian Bouhon)]

I’m sorry, but I don’t think this discussion is bringing anything positive to the Darktable project. So much energy spent for nothing…

Greetings from Brussels
Christian

[Zeo14]

In my humble opinion, there is one case where it could be helpfull to store a drawn mask in a preset :
=> When you want to hide a sensor dust visible on a blank surface (for ex : blue sky)

In this case, the correction is always at the same place so the mask doesn’t change between different pictures.

For now I use the copy/paste functionnality which works well but I have first to find a corrected picture from which doing the initial ctrl+c.