How can I change which modules Darktable applies automatically to RAW files?
Asked 11/5/2014
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When I open a RAW file in Darktable, modules like sharpening and base curve are applied automatically. I’d like to change the default auto-applied modules and add lens correction instead. How can I do that?
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Automatic presets would do that, see the section "Module presets" in Darktable's user manual. Note that you need Darktable version > 1.4 for this to work sensibly with lens correction. In earlier versions the lens correction did not adapt correctly to the image parameters.
Relevant section from the manual:
A module has an expander bar
. Clicking on the name of the module expands the module's GUI with all parameters.
In its default setting darktable will only expand one GUI at a time. If you click the expander bar of another module, the previous GUI gets collapsed. If you want to see more than one GUI expanded, you may expand further modules with shift-click – all previously expanded GUIs remain opened. The expander bar behavior on click and shift-click, respectively, is controlled by a preference setting in gui options (see Section 8.1, “GUI options”).
Expanding a module does not activate it. You need to click the
icon to turn a module on or off.
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accesses the module's available presets or creates a new preset from your current settings (see Section 3.2.3, “Module presets”).
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Darktable controls this with module presets. The default sharpening and base curve you see are being applied by presets, and you can change that behavior there.
Open the module you want to adjust, then look for its preset options and create or edit a preset so it applies automatically to the images you want. You can also disable the existing auto-applied preset for modules you don’t want enabled by default.
If you want lens correction to be applied automatically, create an auto-applied preset for the lens correction module.
One important note from the community answer: this works properly for lens correction in Darktable versions newer than 1.4. In earlier versions, lens correction did not adapt correctly to image parameters, so auto-applying it was not reliable.
In short: use Darktable’s module presets to control which modules are auto-applied on import/open.
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