I filter only the 2-star photos and I apply Styles as a starting point, I can then tweak the adjustments to fit the photo. With Darktable I had to change my workflow because the selection of the style in the Darkroom View is not that friendly, it feels stuck in the 80s. I used Lightroom for many years and I used to apply the Preset in the Develop Window. The Style is like the Lightroom Preset, if you are used to the Adobe software. With the time I have learned what is my sweet spot with the right number of tags, without overdoing. I start tagging the photos adding the destination, the type of photo (building, landscape, people, street art, etc), maybe the technique I used (panning, reflection, etc) and other possible keywords that I may need to do a lookup in future I go back in the photo grid with all the photos “except rejected” (independently from the star rating). I start screening again changing the one that I like the most to 2-star.Īll the photos with a 2-star rating will go into the Darkroom phase Tagging the photos Once finished, I filter to only 1-star photos. I go through all non-rejected photos and rate 1-star the images I like the most This is 2 steps process for me which starts with filtering all photos “except rejected” (top-left corner on the photo grid) I will do that once I finish selecting and processing the photos Rating the photos I do not delete immediately the rejected photos, just in case. The focus points are very handy to be almost certain of the sharp areas. I go in “Sticky Preview with Focus detection” (Ctrl+Alt+W) to work on full-screen mode. The fewer photos I have on my screen the better There is no point to even start tagging photos that I do not need In doing that Darktable creates XMP files (sidecar files) for each photo and it applies some editing to re-create the JPG look that you would have on your camera monitor. These photos are from 2019 and I just stored them on my hard drive but never organised or retouched them.Īfter moving all my photos from the SD card to my newly created folder I usually import the folder content adding just the creator and the rights to all my photos. I decided to not mix Melbourne with everything else just because of the enormous number of photos I have been taking in my cityįor today’s post example, I have decided to import photos from a day around Melbourne, during one of my workshops I usually run in the city. The date is referred to the first day I arrive at the destination.įor Melbourne, the place where I live, I have a special folder with a similar structure

If I spend some time in the destination, for example in Vietnam above, then I create folders also for the places I visit. In my Travel Photography workflow, I organise my photos in folders based on the year and the destination I visit. Creation of folder structure (the base of my darktable workflow)

Darktable photo workflow software