Hi, Couldn't agree with you more Peter. I am not trying to pick apart darktable... as I have actually just dumped adobe and am switching to darktable fully. So I am really just trying to learn the program and understand it better.
Maybe there is a way to really get to the nitty gritty of the raw file and poke around in those colour ranges? Chris On 2018/04/08 03:04 PM, Peter Cripps wrote: > > I've seen similar results to Chris. One of the (few) things that I've > found Lightroom does better than darktable is highlight recovery. > > I have noticed that the darktable histogram doesn't seem to show > content at the far right hand side that does show in the Lightroom > histogram. Don't know if this is relevant. > > I hesitate to mention this, since I'm very conscious of the fact that > darktable is entirely created by people working on their own time. It > seems ungrateful to pick out one thing that isn't perhaps as good as > with other paid programs. > > Peter > > > > > On 04/08/2018 02:51 PM, Chris wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> So the shadows & highlights module also does not seem to full >> 'reveal' the detail in the clouds that I know exists... it simply >> darkens the existing pixels that we can already see. So not really >> 'recovering detail' as such. >> >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/u3lo4oy9dokdbwh/darkt_04.jpg?dl=0 >> >> and pushed further >> >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/zih4f434frcxizu/darkt_05.jpg?dl=0 >> >> obviously I am going to extremes here... but they still just do not >> compare to the clarity revealed from LR. >> >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/suw9v3jnsszbsec/lr_02.jpg?dl=0 >> >> Thanks, >> >> Chris >> >> >> On 2018/04/08 02:30 PM, Pascal Obry wrote: >>> Le dimanche 08 avril 2018 à 14:25 -0700, Chris a écrit : >>>> Anyway, these are my adventures into highlights in DarkTable. >>> You haven't activate the "shadows & highlight" module, so indeed >>> nothing done for darktable :) >>> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________________________ >> darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to >> darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
