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Digital photos contain informations about how the image was developed, this type of data is called metadata. You can edit metadata with Darktable and The Gimp to change your authorship and to describe the image with tags.

A gradients is a progrssion from one color to another. You can use this as an additionnal light source to improve your photos.

Simply put, layers are images stacked on top of each other.

Layers are mostly used in combination with a reduced opacity so that elements of the images behind are shown by transparency.

When to use:

Layers can be useful to emulate particle effects or to blend different images.

Oftentimes you will also benefit from duplicating layers in Gimp so that you can apply different settings to them while preserving the original one.

Opacity is useful to blend one editing layer on top of another.

Zoom into your photos and extract reframe them with crops !

Combine the power of sharpening and blurring in one tool

One of the most powerful tools available in Darktable, helps you improve sharpness, contrast, saturation and more !

The concept of highpass filter exist in many domains such as electronic, you can use it to sharpen your photos.

Sometimes less is more, find out how to add character to your picture or to mask areas with blur.

Colorful images are often considered eye-appealing, if you are unsatisfied witth colors intensity in your photos, that is when a saturation tool come in handy.

Light & darkness are part of our universe, and also an important component of photography, which can be highly improve through photo editing.

Have you ever heard of High Dynamuc Range ? This very useful technology improves visible contrast you can observe between light and dark area in a picture.