Darktable Software The Complete Course For Photo Editing

Best open source software to organize edit and enhance photos

What you'll learn
Understand the dashboard of darktable
Import the photos
Classify the photos
Add informations to photos
Use basic adjustments
Use color adjustments
Add effects
Understand masks
Use masks
Work photos in black and white
Create selective black and white
Improve landscape photos
Improve portrait photos
Improve any photos
Use map mode
Use slideshow mode
Requirements
You need to download Darktable on your computer
Description
DarktableWelcome to Darktable software. Darktable is open source photo editing software. It is an image processing software which is a more than interesting alternative to the better known Adobe Lightroom. After working on both, Darktable present even more features than Lightroom in image processing. Darktable is even more complex in my opinion because many points are far from intuitive. Darktable is therefore specialized in processing in RAW format, that is to say a non-destructive raw data format. Indeed the modifications are saved compared to the original file which is kept at all times and thus allows for advanced processing. The software thus has two main modes: light table mode for importing and classifying photos, and darkroom mode for editing photos.Why use Darktable?Today if you want to work on photo editing with open source software, and you don't want to go through a Photoshop and Lightroom subscription, use Darktable. It is truly a benchmark and this tool is extremely powerful. Come and embellish all your photos with the advanced features offered by the software. Import, organize and add information about your photos so you can easily find them. Darktable, a very complete software that would be really stupid to ignore for photo editing. On the contrary, you have everything to have in retouching photos with this software.TrainingIn this course you will see how to use Darktable software from scratch. You will see step by step how to use the software with all these features in a structured way. At first you will see how to import photos, how to add information, organize them and also search them by metadata. You will then see how to edit all types of photos with the different modules, starting with favorite modules. So you will learn how to use the different editing tools. Finally you will see concrete examples of retouching to beautify and improve all your photos.

Overview

Section 1: Start with Darktable

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Install darktable and download ressources

Lecture 3 Dashboard

Section 2: Lighttable import photos

Lecture 4 Lighttable mode

Lecture 5 Navigation

Lecture 6 Import images

Lecture 7 Collect images

Lecture 8 Image information

Lecture 9 Recently used collections

Section 3: Lighttable selection and management of photos

Lecture 10 Selections

Lecture 11 Selected images

Lecture 12 History stack

Lecture 13 Styles

Section 4: Lighttable add informations and apply filters

Lecture 14 Metadata editor

Lecture 15 Tagging

Lecture 16 Export selected

Section 5: Darkroom mode start with favorite modules

Lecture 17 Darkroom mode

Lecture 18 Apply modules

Lecture 19 Import folder

Lecture 20 Add favorites modules

Section 6: Darkroom mode explication of favorite modules

Lecture 21 Module sharpen

Lecture 22 Module levels

Lecture 23 Module contrast brightness saturation

Lecture 24 Module color zones

Lecture 25 Module color balance

Lecture 26 Module basic adjustment

Lecture 27 Module base curve

Lecture 28 Module shadows and highlights

Lecture 29 Module white balance

Lecture 30 Module exposure

Section 7: Darkroom parameters

Lecture 31 Histogram

Lecture 32 Geotagging

Lecture 33 Edit parameters

Lecture 34 Presets

Lecture 35 Snapshots

Lecture 36 History panel

Lecture 37 Active modules

Lecture 38 Color picker

Lecture 39 Duplicate manager

Lecture 40 Reset parameters

Lecture 41 Tagging in darkroom mode

Lecture 42 Image information in darkroom mode

Section 8: Basic group

Lecture 43 Module color reconstruction

Lecture 44 Module crop and rotate

Lecture 45 Module invert

Section 9: Tone group

Lecture 46 Module fill light

Lecture 47 Module RGB curve

Lecture 48 Module RGB levels

Lecture 49 Module local contrast

Lecture 50 Module zone system

Section 10: Color group

Lecture 51 Module velvia

Lecture 52 Module channel mixer

Lecture 53 Module color contrast

Lecture 54 Module color correction

Lecture 55 Module monochrome

Lecture 56 Module color look table

Section 11: Correction group

Lecture 57 Module contrast equalizer

Lecture 58 Module perspective correction

Lecture 59 Module haze removal

Lecture 60 Module liquify

Lecture 61 Module retouch

Lecture 62 Module spot removal

Section 12: Effects group

Lecture 63 Module watermark

Lecture 64 Module framing

Lecture 65 Module split toning

Lecture 66 Module vignetting

Lecture 67 Module soften

Lecture 68 Module grain

Lecture 69 Module highpass

Lecture 70 Module lowpass

Lecture 71 Module lowlight vision

Lecture 72 Module bloom

Lecture 73 Module graduated density

Lecture 74 Module colorize

Section 13: Masks

Lecture 75 Blend mode

Lecture 76 Start with masks

Lecture 77 Draw mask brush

Lecture 78 Draw mask circle

Lecture 79 Draw mask ellipse

Lecture 80 Draw mask path

Lecture 81 Draw mask gradient

Lecture 82 Draw mask work with different shapes

Lecture 83 Parametric mask

Lecture 84 Draw and parametric mask

Lecture 85 Instances

Section 14: Work in black and white

Lecture 86 Work with pictures in black and white

Lecture 87 Portrait black and white

Section 15: Selective black and white

Lecture 88 Selective black and white example 1

Lecture 89 Selective black and white example 2

Lecture 90 Selective black and white example 3

Section 16: Training improve landscape photos

Lecture 91 Landscape photo 1

Lecture 92 Landscape photo 2

Lecture 93 Landscape photo 3

Lecture 94 Landscape photo 4

Section 17: Training edit portraits

Lecture 95 Change eyes color

Lecture 96 Smooth skin

Lecture 97 Light effect on portrait

Lecture 98 Edit face part 1

Lecture 99 Edit face part 2

Section 18: Map mode

Lecture 100 Map mode

Section 19: Slideshow mode

Lecture 101 Slideshow mode

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