what's so hard about darktable

[priort (Todd Prior)]

Take a look at this and have a play with it… if you haven’t already…

[RFC] [Builds available] Masking panel revamp and new masking possibilities

Why One of darktable’s strength is undeniably its super powerful and flexible masking system. However, there are some hardcoded limitations in the current system (in terms of mental model, UX and capabilities) that, to me, always felt arbitrary and introducing unnecessary friction. Among the main pain points: Disjoint mental models apply to shapes, parametric and raster masks The hard to understand include/exclude and positive/negative polarity used to combine drawn and parametric masks Parame…