Thanks for the shoutout! But I'm wondering if it wouldn't have been more appropriate to send this to the darktable-user list, rather than the dev list?
Cheers, Bruce Williams. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: KOVÁCS István <k...@kovacs-telekes.org> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020, 20:15 Subject: [darktable-dev] Resources for beginners / newcomers To: darktable <darktable-dev@lists.darktable.org> Dear All, There have been a number of questions from newcomers, which is, on one hand, great (means user base of darktable is growing), but it also means that people on this list keep answering the same questions. Therefore, I'd like to suggest a number of resources: - the darktable manual: unfortunately, Google may still bring up links from the old, outdated manual. The new one is linked from the resources section of the darktable.org page, but here is the link again: https://darktable.gitlab.io/doc/en/ (also available in other languages) - darktable blog and news: check out those sections on darktable.org, as announcements and descriptions of new features often appear there before the manual is fully updated: https://www.darktable.org/blog/ and https://www.darktable.org/news/ - Google (or your favourite search engine): please use it. Chances are, you are not the first person to ask. This saves time for you, and also effort on the other side (those answering). - Facebook: there's a group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/darktable/ - pixls.us: this is a great site about open-source apps for photography and graphics. There are articles (https://pixls.us/articles/) and also a forum with a darktable category (https://discuss.pixls.us/c/software/darktable/19) and posts tagged with darktable (https://discuss.pixls.us/tag/darktable). Many of the developers hang out there, so you can get great help (but search first, please!), take a peek at coming features, learn about the technical details. To ask how to process a picture, just post it in the 'Play raw' category (don't forget to set a licence that actually allows others to play with your image - you'll see a reminder when you post!). Some highly recommended first reading: https://discuss.pixls.us/t/darktable-3-0-for-dummies-in-3-modules/15849 and (maybe later) https://pixls.us/articles/darktable-3-rgb-or-lab-which-modules-help/ Videos: - all the stuff by Aurélien Pierre (one of the core developers), e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP5m1YmSRw8 (but check out his theoretical/technical videos as well, you'll learn a lot!). Also, on the (yet unreleased) version 3.2, especially for people coming from other tools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yod6iH4qJEw - Bruce Williams is also popular: https://www.youtube.com/user/audio2u - Hand-on videos from Boris Hajdukovic: https://www.youtube.com/user/s7habo - rawfiner (another of the devs): great videos on noise reduction https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEz-0EYZTx03UdQszbL8xDA - Rico's videos are also popular: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC126kKAgMILMnVIi7HvQGlw Please respect others' time and do your homework before you ask. Happy learning, Kofa ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
