By blending these three photos with different exposure values together, you get the best lighting from all the photos.

Some cameras allow you to take more than three exposure bracketed images.Īll this is important because exposure bracketed images allow you to blend the three exposures together during the image editing process to create an “HDR,” or High Dynamic Range, Image. So, in the end, this setting will produce three different exposure values of the same image (assuming I am set up on a tri-pod – you still have to press the shutter button three times to create each exposure bracketed image). By default, there is also a middle exposure value. With my Canon 7D, I can access the “Exposure Comp./AEB Setting” (AEB stands for Auto Exposure Bracketing) via the main menu and use my main dial to set a lower exposure and an upper exposure value. Different cameras have different capabilities, but here is an example. a darker image), one image with a middle exposure, and one image with a higher exposure (i.e. With this technique, you’ll produce one image with a lower exposure (i.e. Note: While JPEG is useful for most purposes, if you wish to perform further edits in a raster editor like GIMP or Krita, it is normally better to export in TIFF format.Some of you may or may not have heard of a technique in photography known as “Exposure Bracketing.” This is when you tell your camera you want to take multiple versions of the same image using different exposures. Choose a “file format” of JPEG and keep the default settings.Ĭlick the “export” button to save your processed images in the selected location. Select which images to export (if you are in the lighttable view), open the export module, set target storage to “file on disk” and select a location to save your images – by default, they will be exported to a “darktable_exported” directory within the directory that contains your Raw file(s). You can either export the currently-edited image directly from the darkroom view or select one or more images from the lighttable view and export them all at once. The export module offers many options, but by far the most common use is to “save a developed raw image as a JPEG”. You therefore need to export images in order to bake your edits into an output file that can be distributed outside of darktable.

Darktable is a non-destructive editor, which means that all changes are recorded in the library database (with a backup stored in an XMP sidecar file), and the original Raw file is left untouched.

Darktable export from darktable tab