2/20/2023 0 Comments Darktable portable![]() ![]() ![]() There are two labeling systems available in darkroom that can be used for sorting through your photos in a folder, star ratings and color labels. Usually I don’t bother unless I’ve already culled my photos and selected the ones to publish online. Of course, you would usually only apply this to photos individually. You can also add titles and descriptions to the metadata editor. This is another reason it’s wise to shoot in RAW, if copyright issue ever comes up, it is much easier to prove you are the photographer if you are the only one with the RAW image file. This is one of the main reasons that I don’t share full-size images and often watermark images I share to social media. Be aware that many social media platforms, including Facebook, strip all photos of metadata. Additionally, you can add tags keywords to photos individually, or all in a folder if relevant with the “select all” or ctrl+a.Īdding the metadata to all photos during or immediately after importing ensures that I don’t miss anything I post to my website later. If I’m publishing on my blog, I’ll use my own name as creator and publisher and explicitly write “All Rights Reserved – Copyright Lee Petersen” for rights. Any metadata changes that you will apply to photos in the library, or “lightable” are located on the right window tabs, including the metadata editor (title, description, creator, publisher, and rights), tags, and geotags. Mainly, I want to make sure that the “rights” are labeled with my name. Before doing any photo edits, I first make sure that I have the correct metadata that I want to be applied to all the photos. Workflow in the Lightable Adding Metadata and TagsĪfter importing photos into the lightroom, either from “import from camera” or manually selecting from “folder”, by default all photos are rated with 1 star. The second is the Darkroom where you edit the individual images.īelow I go over a basic workflow that I follow after importing photos into a folder. The first is the lightable – where you view the thumbnail images of all the working files. There are two main windows you will use in Darktable. The power in darktable comes from the ability to edit RAW image data. If you are only shooting in JPEG mode, there is really no need to use a RAW developer (although you still can). I find them to be more responsive and helpful than any of the big software companies, and frankly, they make a better product. Even though it’s free, you can still donate to there cause, and I highly suggest you do if you find their software helpful. The programmers that continually develop darktable are phenomenal and responsive. However, I find it important to keep a the same structure, organized by date.ĭarktable (download available at the link) is an open source RAW developer that is available for all Linux operating systems as well as MacOS, and Windows. For this reason, I often divide days up into many subfolders. ![]() The other reason I do this is there are sometimes days that I take thousands of photos, many more than are efficient to load in darktable or other processing software. This is mainly because I don’t find creating folders and copying photos particularly time consuming, and my file-structure predates my use of darktable. While this method may be convenient for many, I choose to create my file structure manually. The second reason this feature is nice, is that you can pre-apply creator, publisher, and rights information to the metadata on import (although many cameras let you apply this directly to the images as well). If you were to just dump all of your photos in a single file folder, you would end up with very slow load times in most programs, and may run into problems with duplicates since most cameras just loop through filenames after 9999 photos. It’s good to store photos in separate files by the day because then you usually won’t have too many folders to sort through at a time. One of the benefits to letting darktable import for you is that you will have a consistent file structure for storing your photos. Get my 2023 Alaska Wall Calendar here! To change your import settings including what directory to import to as well as adding creator, publisher, and rights to the metadata on import, go to the “import” tab in the “preferences” menu (the gear wheel in the top menu). ![]()
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