Hello, trying to understand ART 1.10.1 (official version, not an alpha build). I have some questions and would like to ask if you can verify or falsify me? Please note, what I write below is no criticism or feature request, just me trying to understand what’s there. Just comprehension questions. I’m a “consumer” with current Windows 10 and with no coding-ability, no Linux ability. Thanks!
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Editing a JPG file : after a re-start, all edits are lost, including history list and snapshots. To keep edits, I need to “Save”. Right?
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Editing a RAW file : after a re-start, edits are still there, snapshots are there, but “History” panel is empty. Right? Are there other differences in the treatment of RAWs and JPGs?
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UI only in English, info only in English and French. No German UI avaible, right?
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Resetting a file to original : Is there one button to reset ALL changes from all panels and tools? (Aware of 1st state “Photo loaded” in History panel, that’s “Reset” in a way.)
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Collections : I take it there are no “collections”/“virtual folders” where you collect pics from different folders without physically duplicating them, say for presentation or printing. Right?
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Virtual copies : I believe there are no virtual copies? (Darktable can store several XMP files per pic and thus allow several versions of a file that hasn’t physically been duplicated.) Am aware of multiple snapshots, but they don’t show the variations side by side and the variations can get confused.
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In the File Browser in Inspect Mode, I can compare two pics even in 100%. That’s good to compare sharpness. But I can’t pan/scroll the pics independantly of each other, right? They always move together. (Am aware of Focus Mask and Loupe overlay.)
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Crop Tool: “Lock ratio” is on with every new use. Needs to be turned off for each new pic. Right?
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HSB changes to overall colour: I think I cannot just drag left/right on a desired colour in the photo to change the clicked value range’s hue/saturation/brightness? (Aware of Colour Equalizer, RGB Curves and Lab* Adjustments, but they don’t let you pick a colour range by clicking into the image and change it by dragging in the image, or am I wrong? With ART it’s a more technical approach, you need to decide on a colour range and drag a slider.)
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There is the right-side Panel “Transform/Lens-Geometry/Perspective Correction” AND above the image there is the tool “Perspective Correction”. Is it the same function? In both cases obviously I can draw “control lines” – but I never see them on pic, I am always just panning the image (as with the hand tool (arrow symbol)) (i have the “Perspective Correction” panel switched-on) . How to draw control lines, how to distinguish “Perspectiv correction” tool and panel? (I take it that “Select Straight Lines” from the Rotate panel is something different, merely to rotate, but not to correct perspectives such as converging lines.)
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Individual Masks per Tool: Each Local Editing tool has its own mask. If I wanted to apply local “Color/Tone Correction” and local “Texture Boost” to the same area, I need to create TWO masks, that’s why each Local Editing tool has its own Mask panel. Right? But I can copy-paste the masks, no need to create them anew from scratch.
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Can the masking brush follow object contours (as in “auto masking”)? Aware that parametric mask is a good help, too.
“The image of the building is reasonably well exposed, but the near face is in shade, so we’ll lighten the shadows a little. Click and drag the Shadows control to the left and right to see the effect.”
– To LIGHTEN the shadows, you would drag to the RIGHT, or not? You also settle on “+30”, obv. dragged to the right?