And I really can't expect them to take their time to look up why their pictures 'look weird' in comparison to how they have looked before here on GitHub. Except for the most advanced photo retouchers, I continue to assume.Įven if I know how create new presets and auto-apply them, I really can't expect new users to understand that. And I suspect (without statistics and only by the knowledge about how other photographers I know works) that most other peoples workflows look(ed) the same. Hence, the base curve that almost represents the camera JPEG was a great beginning point for my editing workflow. But the RAW images allow me to manipulate them further and bringing back details and recovering mistakes afterwards in a way I can not do with my JPEGs.

I am quite happy with the JPEGs from my cameras.

Let me rephrase That's how I have worked in other photo processing software and thus I expect it to work that way. Previously with my setup colour saturation looked very natural and close to in camera rendering. This is the expected behavior in a lot of photo processing software, including Darktable.Įxpected by whom ? Do you have a poll ? If you like your camera JPEG, you don't need darktable.Ĭreate a preset with chroma preservation off, and set it to auto-apply for new raw. As you have said yourselves, the advanced users might not even use base curves. Please do it the other way around, and/or implement a setting where advanced users can change the default behavior. I have created new base curves for myself which auto-applies to my RAWs, but I can never ever recommend Darktable to someone else if they would have to go through those steps just to get the images to look 'normal'. But I really think beginners or hobby-photographers don't want this behavior as the default. Wouldn't this be quite easy to implement as a general setting for Darktable? Something like a 'preserve colors'-setting? If you're looking to please the advanced users here, I don't think they would mind turning on a setting to 'preserve colors'. This is the expected behavior in a lot of photo processing software, including Darktable. And I don't care if this is 'wrong' color-wise. I think is right when he says a lot of people (including me) expects the old behavior of the base curve, where the RAW image looked a lot like the JPEG.

I strongly dislike the new luminance-setting as default as well.

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