Use Case
When processing large event or travel photo sets (hundreds to thousands of images), one of the most repetitive tasks is manually clicking the auto-tune picker for modules such as filmic rgb and/or sigmoid on every image.
While the operation itself is quick, repeating it across a large collection becomes time-consuming when speed is the primary goal.
Background
I asked about this on IRC and received the following guidance from wpferguson:
Yes it would be possible to "auto-tune" with a Lua script. You could catch the darkroom-image-loaded event to trigger then use dt.gui.action() to enable the auto-picker, then catch pixelpipe-processing-complete, then disable the picker with dt.gui.action(). If more than 1 picker is going to be used then they should be done in pixelpipe order since the output of the lower (in the pixelpipe) pickers will affect the higher modules.
Request
Would anyone be willing to provide an example Lua script (or code snippets) that would:
- Automatically trigger the filmic rgb auto-tune picker when an image is opened in darkroom.
- Optionally support sigmoid auto-tuning as well.
- Respect pixelpipe ordering if multiple auto-pickers are enabled.
- Ideally allow enabling/disabling the behavior via a simple preference or shortcut.
An even more useful variant would be a script that can batch-apply the auto-tune operation across a selected set of images, though I'm not sure whether that is feasible with the current API.
This is my first encounter with Lua scripting. Any guidance or starter code would be greatly appreciated.
Use Case
When processing large event or travel photo sets (hundreds to thousands of images), one of the most repetitive tasks is manually clicking the auto-tune picker for modules such as filmic rgb and/or sigmoid on every image.
While the operation itself is quick, repeating it across a large collection becomes time-consuming when speed is the primary goal.
Background
I asked about this on IRC and received the following guidance from wpferguson:
Request
Would anyone be willing to provide an example Lua script (or code snippets) that would:
An even more useful variant would be a script that can batch-apply the auto-tune operation across a selected set of images, though I'm not sure whether that is feasible with the current API.
This is my first encounter with Lua scripting. Any guidance or starter code would be greatly appreciated.