This is a simplified darktable tutorial, that should help anyone from beginners to advanced users gain some insights and pick up a simplified workflow.
*Credits:* I learned a lot about darktable from these amazing creators:
Boris Hajdukovic: https://www.youtube.com/@s7habo
* Boris’ videos are incredibly in depth, and cover basically everything you’d need to know about darktable if you search around his channel enough.
Darktable Landscapes: https://www.youtube.com/@DarktableLandscapes
* Darktable Landscapes is a great channel that generally covers their workflow on a per image basis, and I regularly learn lots about masking from this channel.
Nick Long: https://www.youtube.com/@deepskypics
* Nick’s channel is great and covers darktable in a very easy to consume fashion, with lots of great ideas as well.
Studio Petrikas: https://www.youtube.com/@StudioPetrikas
* Studio Petrikas has great videos covering their own workflow, in an easy to consume fashion as well. Great videos on filmic rgb and sigmoid as well.
Bruce Williams Photography: https://www.youtube.com/@audio2u
* Bruce’s channel is extremely exhaustive, similar to Boris’ channel. The more time you spend here, the more you will learn about darktable.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:20 - Configure Settings
00:58 - Optimize System Resources
01:26 - Enable Scrolling
01:45 - Creating a Simple Workflow
04:36 - Default Module Presets
07:18 - History and Snapshots
07:51 - compress history stack
08:27 - Reset Image to Original
08:55 - Taking Snapshots for Comparison
09:55 - The Edit
10:09 - Exposure
10:33 - White Balance
12:29 - Crop
13:33 - Rotatation and Perspective
15:15 - Recover Shadow and Highlight Details
16:52 - Compress Shadows/Highlights Preset
18:06 - The Color Tab
18:19 - Saturation - color balance rgb module
20:01 - Contrast
21:36 - Scene-referred Explained, AKA tone mapping
23:41 - Using the sigmoid module
26:19 - Color Grading
26:49 - rgb primaries module
28:23 - Individual Color Grading via color equalizer
30:40 - Module Layering, create new instances
32:38 - split toning with color balance rgb
34:27 - Creative Tab
35:43 - Masking Basics
39:16 - Uniform Masks
40:20 - Clarity
42:38 - Diffusion
43:37 - Haze Removal
44:04 - grain
44:32 - Adding a Frame
45:31 - Retouching Image
47:23 - Style Presets
50:50 - Updating Style Preset
53:16 - Handling Duplicates
53:57 - Export Images
55:37 - Thank you for watching!