What I was indicating was that for a beginner, it is tempting to think that a good starting point is the jpg, but as I explained, that's not what dt is designed for, nor what users want.
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 4:57 PM Pascal Obry <[email protected]> wrote: > Le vendredi 24 juillet 2020 à 15:53 -0400, Bill Martz a écrit : > > It's very tempting to want to start with the jpg setup and modify > > from there. > > Why? Out of camera Jpeg is "designed" by the engineer of the camera. > Not two jpegs from different vendors are the same. So why it is even > good? Why it is even a good start? > > This question comes very often and I'm still not understanding the > goal. The out of camera jpeg is one possibility out of many others and > most the time the vendors do boost the colors as it please the > beginners. > > Try Filmic, do the rendering yourself... Create your own preset, be > creative and stop trying to follow designed paths which are not not to > be the ultimate choice. > > -- > Pascal Obry / Magny Les Hameaux (78) > > The best way to travel is by means of imagination > > http://www.obry.net > > gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key F949BD3B > > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
