Wait is over... New UI for Darktable

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Hi !

As many of you know I’ve been using Lr before moving to Darktable. The later is free, sure but the UI is not easy as reported lot of time on this forum. Those last months I have been less involved in Darktable because I was working on a new UI layer looking like Lr. All this is coming together quite well now, the UI is very close except for the scope that I have keep as in Darktable as more advanced (vectorscope & waveform).

The sliders are the one from Lr, yes the same and I have trained the models with a specialized AI to match as much as possible the Lr result. This is almost working now. A preference can be used to the original or lr-like UI. I do expect a release of all this end of the week. For now just a screenshot for teasing:

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Have all a nice day.

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love it! :smiley: :rofl:

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Thanks a lot Pascal, we all have been waiting by far too long for this significant step :slight_smile: But - please bear in mind the environmental burdon when you train the model, energy costs can sum up quickly and darktable’s new monthly licence model is not finalized yet :innocent:

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For optimum performance, use a Carpediem version 0104 graphics card.

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That’s a great step forward! Just a minor thing: could you, with your AI, add an enhance slider, that would automatically tune the others? The low end could have the value meh, the high end wow. I suggest setting the default to wow, and then disabling/greying out the slider to avoid accidental modification.

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I was never very good with days or dates. As a retired person, it no longer matters anyway unless I have to be somewhere.

I don’t have to be anywhere today — and had to think three times about this one :laughing:

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Is this the water-cooled variant?

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Either that, or a red herring.

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I am by now used to the idiosyncratic UI of darktable, but this Lr UI will make darktable easier to adopt for many who would like an open source alternative. Great work!

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Yes, and its speed is self-regulated by the tides.

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I recommend we remove the image from the darkroom view. Instead just add big curve graph to edit the image. Also, let’s remove the d&s module. While it works really good, we don’t understand the sliders or their math. It’s unacceptable to have something working if we can’t explain it.

Thanks for the new UI for 5.2

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Monthly license model and cloud based, right?

If not I want my money back! :smiley:

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I’m a bit worried about fin noise.

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Don’t worry, it’s a peaceful sound, ideal for relieving stress.

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So long as it’s intuitive.

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This whole thread seems a bit fishy to me.

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Click-bait?

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Click-bait?

Yep. Quite likely. But, once a year, it is fine :slight_smile:

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Did you already reveal that with version DarkTable(R) 95[TM], the import of images will be removed and replaced by an image generation AI? This will save us so much time, we don’t have to go out and do photography anymore, we can just sit and wait what the AI gives us.

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Welcome to April …1st :joy:

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