I see, thanks.  I was under the impression that it was normal to do the full 
calibration once per scene/lighting setup, but looking around some more I guess 
it's typical just to generate a profile once for the camera and reuse it.  I'll 
go ahead and use the chart tool to generate one for mine :)

On January 25, 2018 12:41:08 AM PST, johannes hanika <[email protected]> wrote:
>hi robert,
>
>you can use the colour lut module to calibrate to a checker. you'd use
>the darktable-chart utility to create a style for you.
>
>there's some very short example about half way through this:
>
>https://www.darktable.org/2016/05/colour-manipulation-with-the-colour-checker-lut-module/
>
>and if you want a full lut, you may actually do it a bit differently
>(and leave away the white balance and camera matrix processing for the
>input?).
>
>let me know how you go with this, we might be able to help you with
>details (or fix workflow issues in the iop or the darktable-chart
>utility).
>
>cheers,
> jo
>
>
>On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 7:23 PM, Robert Bieber <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>> I've gotten my hands on a proper color checker recently, and I wanted
>to try
>> using it with the color look up table module to correct the colors in
>an
>> image.  If I'm understanding it correctly though, it seems like the
>module
>> is the opposite of what I need for this process?
>>
>> If I have it right, you can use the color picker to select colors
>from the
>> image to set as a source, but then you have to manually adjust them
>to get
>> the target color you want from that source. Shouldn't it be the other
>way
>> around, though?  Picking the actual colors captured in the image as
>the
>> source, and automatically setting the target value to be the known
>color of
>> the chart?
>>
>> Am I just fundamentally misunderstanding what this module is for? 
>And if so
>> is there some other one that could do what I'm looking for?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Robby
>>
>>
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