Save picture sequence in lighttable

Hi all,

The lighttable view offers the option of custom ordering of the pictures. Is it possible to save this order, and restore it later?

I’m working on sequencing for a book, and I’d like to experiment with different picture orderings.

Thanks,

Zoltán

I dont use them but if you can get them filtered as you like then you should be able to save that as a preset…

There are a few built in ones…

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Hi,

Have a look to the section ‘collection filter’ here: collections - darktable.info – Mastering Darktable, it should help I guess.

My problem is not how I define a collection. The difficulty I have is that in any collection, you can arbitrarily re-shuffle the images, if you choose custom ordering. What I’d like to do is save the order.

Say, you filter out 100 images by defining some collection. I can save those rules as a preset, that’s clear. Now, I re-shuffle the once, and that sequence is then saved in the darkable data base, so next time darktable can recover the view. But what should I do, if I want to try out 10 of these orderings, and want to compare them? Where can I save the sequence?

Is this something that I should be able to do with scripting?