organization on darktable 5.6 user manual

overview

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Processing modules are organized and accessed via the right-hand panel in the darkroom:

Click on the icons at the top of this panel to reveal, from left to right,

quick access panel: A customizable panel allowing quick access to commonly-used module controls.
active modules: A group containing the modules that are currently active in the pixelpipe. Right-click to show all modules that are present in the history stack within the active group, regardless of whether or not they are actually active.
module groups: One or more groups of processing modules. These groups are user-defined but some default groupings are provided as presets.
presets menu: A menu that allows you to access stored module layout presets and create your own (via the “manage presets..” option). You can also directly access the “manage presets” dialog by Ctrl+clicking on the presets menu.

Click once on a module group icon (including the active group) to show only the modules in that group. Click a second time to show a list of all modules that are currently active or present in any group.

module groups

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A number of pre-defined module groups are shipped with darktable and are selectable as presets. These are summarized below.

All of these presets (with the exception of modules: deprecated and search only) also include the quick access panel. All except the modules: deprecated group include the search bar.

🔗modules: all

This preset contains all modules, sorted according to the traditional module groupings used prior to darktable 3.4, as follows:

base modules: The minimal set of modules normally required to render a presentable image.
tone modules: Other modules related to tone levels and contrast.
color modules: Modules related to color grading and color profiles.
corrective modules: Modules related to correcting problems such as lens distortions, sensor noise, sharpening, etc.
(special) effects modules: “Special effect” modules such as bloom, diffuse or sharpen, etc.

🔗workflow: scene-referred & workflow: display-referred

These presets define groups of modules relevant to the scene-referred and display-referred workflows, sorted into groups as shown below:

quick access panel

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The quick access panel allows you to access widgets from a number of processing modules all in one place.

The initial set of modules (and widgets) in the panel is determined by the auto-apply pixel workflow defaults setting in processing preferences.

You can add or remove widgets in the panel by:

right-clicking on the .
right-clicking on the module name.
using the manage module layouts screen.
Ctrl+clicking on a widget in a processing module while in visual shortcut mapping mode.

Click on the icon to the left of the module name to enable/disable the module.

manage module layouts

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Manage the layout and grouping of processing modules and the quick access panel.

This maintenance screen can be accessed from the presets menu beside the module search box or module group icons (below the scopes module in the darkroom view). Ctrl+click on the preset menu to open this screen directly.

Settings are automatically saved when you exit the screen. Click reset to abandon any changes made in the current editing session.