These areas will be where our “source” image colors and “target” image colors appear. You’ll see there are two main areas in this module, the “source clusters” and “target clusters,” and that each of these areas has a set of grids (outlined in green in the image above). If, for whatever reason, this icon isn’t highlighted, click on it to make it active (red arrow). The “power” icon should now be highlighted, indicating it is activated. When you click on this module to activate it, it should expand as shown in the image above. Once you find it, click this module to activate it (green arrow). Once you’re in this tab, you’ll likely need to scroll down (using the scroll bar on the far right side – red arrow in the image above) to find the “Color Mapping” module. In earlier versions of Darktable, this feature was located in the “Color” tab). To do this, I’ll navigate over to the “Effects” tab (red arrow in the image above – assuming you are using Darktable 3.4 or later. Now that we have the images we want to use for this effect opened up into Darktable, we’ll want to activate the “Color Mapping” module on the image that we’re stealing the color grading from. You can double click on any of the thumbnails to open that image into the Darkroom tab – which essentially means that is the image you are now working on. Your images will usually open in the Darkroom tab (outlined in green in the image above), and if you opened multiple images they will display as thumbnails in what’s called the “Filmstrip” area towards the bottom (red arrow). You’ll notice all the photos I’m using for this example are JPEGs, but you can also use any of the filetypes supported by Darktable. Once your images are selected, click the “Open” button at the bottom of the dialogues (blue arrow). Click on the image you want to select, then hold the shift key and click on any other images you’d like to select if selecting multiple images from the same folder (red arrows in the photo above show the three images I opened for this tutorial).

Navigate to the folder on your computer where your images are saved (in my case, my images are in my Downloads folder). Click “Image” (blue arrow) to select images from your computer. Once in the Lighttable tab, click the “import” dropdown arrow (red arrow in the image above). To do this, navigate to your Lighttable tab if you aren’t there already (usually you are taken to this tab by default when you first open Darktable – click on the “lighttable” text, outlined in green in the image above). Step 1 : Import Your Images Into Darktableįirst, you’ll need to bring the images you want to use into Darktable.

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