Terry said it better than whatever I was attempting to write. Totally agree with him and kudos to all Devs.
Emanuele On Tue, Feb 2, 2021, 23:44 Terry Pinfold <tpinf...@gmail.com> wrote: > A raw file has no sharpening applied by the camera. When you open a raw > file in programs like Adobe's Lightroom they automatically applied a level > of sharpness which is usually the unsharp mask approach. Darktable leaves > all of these adjustments to the users discretion. When you open a raw image > in Rawtherapee you will notice a progress bar along the bottom of the > screen for 'capture sharpening'. This is why you see the 'better' image > from Rawtherapee. I opened your image in both Darktable and Rawtherapee and > viewed them at 100% on a 43 inch 4K monitor. Yes, I can clearly see why the > Rawtherapee image looks better to you. It looks so much sharper because of > the capture sharpness. > > In the end you have a choice of two great open source softwares to process > your raw files. I am really thankful to the developers of both of these > great programs. In my ideal universe I would love to see a marriage of both > of these programs (hint to the developers). They both have individual > strengths. For me Darktable wins out because I can localise adjustments > using drawn and parametric masks. These masks are so superior to any > masking or adjustment brush offered in Adobe's Lightroom. Rawtherapee only > does global adjustments to the whole image. Another advantage of Darktable, > especially when combined with masks, is the ability to do multiple > instances of the same module. For instance you could use the Contrast > Equalizer module to apply sharpness in one instance, then clarity in > another, then deblur in another, and finally denoise in another instance. > This module is based on wavelets and is an excellent tool for all of > these tasks. > > In the end you have decide which of these two great programs gives you the > best results from your camera. But in terms of sharpness Rawtherapee > automatically applies some capture sharpness and Darktable leaves these > adjustments to the user. > > cheers, > Terry > > On Wed, 3 Feb 2021 at 02:26, Victor <vdem...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I developed a raw image (DSC00662.ARW) taken with my sony a6600 with both >> DT and RT using minimal intervention (see attached DT xmp file and RT pp3 >> file). As you can see from the details I enclosed in this message the RT >> resulting image looks by far better in terms of sharpness with respect to >> the DT one. >> >> Why is that and is there anything I can do to improve DT performance as >> far as sharpness is concerned? >> >> Here is the link to the dropbox directory containing all the relevant >> files >> >> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2iojfjmnu9ronoa/AADu4kLIm_rD_L6AhXGvBUNMa?dl=0 >> >> Ciao >> >> Vittorio >> >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________________________ >> 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
