#Darktable reddit update

#Darktable reddit update

You can then 'open with' this script instead of with darktable directly to automatically update the previews after editing. The next step would have been to write a small shell script that would open darktable for the selected images, and update the previews after darktable closes. Whether you like this better than updating them from darktable itself is up to you. It runs a shell script on the selected images:ĭarktable-cli $INPUT $OUTPUT-tmp.jpg -width 1000 -height 1000 -core -conf plugins/imageio/format/jpeg/quality=60Įnter this in the shell script field of the batch queue editor, adjust size and quality to taste and run it on the images you just edited. In addition, I set up a Digikam batch queue preset I called 'update previews'. Then in Digikam it's a matter of ctrl+a, group by filename and there you have your updated previews including a before/after comparison by simply expanding the group. Make a dt export preset for very small jpegs in the same folder as the source file and run this when you're done editing. are reloaded correctly and my dt library doesn't fill up gradually. So now if I want to edit photos, I always open them from digikam. What I did was the following: first I added -library :memory: to the darktable's 'open with' shortcut in Digikam. I instead saved a preview jpeg next to the RAW. I chose not to do that, as it violates the philosophy of sidecar files and not touching the RAW directly. For RAW files, Digikam shows the builtin jpeg preview (unless you have edited with Digikam but I could never get the hang of that), so to actually show the edited picture you would have to overwrite the builtin preview with a new one (exiftool can do this).

The goal here is to make your darktable edits show up in Digikam. Like i said I have since moved to darktable completely because it wasn't worth the hassle, but it may be for you.