Lighttable on darktable 5.6 user manual

overview

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The lighttable view allows you to view and manage your image collection.

The centre view contains thumbnails of your images – how they are displayed depends on which mode you are working in.

While the mouse is over an image thumbnail or images are selected, there are a number of actions you can perform:

🔗keyboard shortcuts

The following keyboard shortcuts are enabled by default in the lighttable view:

F1, F2, F3, F4, F5 adds or removes a color label (red, yellow, green, blue, purple, respectively). A color label will be added if any selected image does not currently have the label; otherwise the label will be removed

lighttable view layout

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🔗left panel

From top to bottom:

import: Import images from the filesystem or a connected camera.
collections: Filter the images displayed in the lighttable center panel – also used to control the images displayed in the filmstrip and timeline modules.
recently used collections: View recently used collections of images.
image information: Display image information.
lua scripts installer (optional): Install lua scripts.

🔗right panel

From top to bottom:

selection: Select images in the lighttable using simple criteria.
actions on selection: Perform actions on selected images.
history stack: Manipulate the history stack of selected images.
styles: Store an image’s history stack as a named style and apply it to other images.
metadata editor: Edit metadata for selected images.
tagging: Tag selected images.
geotagging: Import and apply GPX track data to selected images.
export: Export selected images to local files or external services.
neural restore: Apply AI-powered raw denoise, RGB denoise, or upscaling to selected images.

🔗bottom panel

undo/redo

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Most changes made within the lighttable are recorded and can be reverted to a previous state. This includes modifications to color labels, ratings, geo-localization, tags, metadata, orientation, copy/paste of history, image duplication, or application of a style. Note that the facility to undo/redo actions is unlimited in the number of steps while in the lighttable view, but it is reset each time you switch to a different view.

Press Ctrl+Z to undo the last modification and Ctrl+Y to redo the last undone modification (if any).