I apologise if I come across as insulting your intelligence, Jack, but have you also tried tweaking the opacity of any applicable module after your initial sharpening attempts? I find that this is often a useful way to further attenuate results which are otherwise too harsh.
> On 5 Sep 2018, at 08:56, kneops <kne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > First, I'm a freelance photographer and over twenty years a user of many > different pieces of software for editing images on Windows, Mac and Linux > computers. Normal, pleasant looking sharpening was never an issue, but > somehow I can't get nice looking sharpening in DT. I compared an image on my > Linux pc in Gimp, RawTherapee, DT, Aftershot Pro and Lightroom (Virtualbox), > and all look good immediately, fast and simple, except DT. Sometimes it does, > most of the time it's just not exactly right. The sharpening makes things > look almost coarse, especially in areas that are densily populated with > small/tiny details. For instance, I was editing images of horses I shot > during a horse market. The tails and skins don't look 'touchable', soft, like > hair or fur. I know tails of horses can look like a brush, but in this case > it was a breed of horses with soft hair. In DT they look like if when going > over those hairs with your hand you get your skin massaged. I have played > with the sliders in the sharpening module for monthss, but I find it > impossible to get it right. > > What are your experiences with this? And if a developer is watching this, > could this module perhaps get an update? I sometimes think these kind of > modules are so basic they just exist but never get improved ;). > > By the way, I work with Nikon and Fuji cameras. > > Jack > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org >
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