It's very tempting to want to start with the jpg setup and modify from there. Using the basecurve is as close as darktable will come for a raw. You can always convert a jpg to a tif and edit that, but you are starting with all the changes made to produce the jpg and cannot get back to what was originally there.
darktable is used by people that want total creative freedom, and it is designed to provide this while being accurate in making color changes without mathematical distortions. Much work has been done to convert to linear RGB by the developers. I suggest you search Pixil for Aurélien Pierre, aurelienpierre, and read his latest posts. Also study Play Raw posts, where you can download image files and the xmp files produced by multiple posters and examine them. Boris Hajdukovic, s7habo, has produced a ton of videos on editing with darktable. And so have many others. The whole idea is to produce something better than the jpg. On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 1:47 PM Mikael Ståldal <[email protected]> wrote: > That sounds quite complicated. I just want to be able to use the > profiles that are built-in in my cameras. With Lightroom, I could > extract them with Adobe DNG Profile Editor. > > > On 2020-07-24 12:16, KOVÁCS István wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 at 11:24, Mikael Ståldal <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In Lightroom, I could apply camera calibration profiles to make RAW > >> images look like JPEGs from from camera. And also chose between > >> different profiles from the camera (like portrait, landscape, > >> monochrome, vivid). Is it possible to do this in Darktable? > > > > You may find a ready-made style, but if not, you can make your own: > > https://pixls.us/articles/profiling-a-camera-with-darktable-chart/ > > 'Either we fit to a JPEG generated by the camera, which can also apply > > creative styles (such as film emulations, filters), or we profile > > against real color reproduction. For real color a color target ships > > with a file providing the color values for each patch it has. > > In summary, we can create a profile that emulates the manufactures > > color processing inside the body, or we can create a profile that > > renders real color as accurately as possible.' > > > > Kofa > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > darktable user mailing list > > to unsubscribe send a mail to > [email protected] > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to > [email protected] > > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
