The problem of printed photographs being darker than what we see on the computer screen is a problem shared by all editing programs. The issue lies in the fact that our screens are artificially bright because we like them that way. Others have made good suggestions here including calibrating the monitor and installing printer profiles. I just wanted to reinforce that Darktable is not the problem here. I have had the same issue with Lightroom. The answer is calibration and also checking the look of the image on the printing labs monitors if possible. Many consumer labs have printing kiosks. Professional labs will usually provide printing profiles and provide excellent advice to give you great prints going forward. Personally, I print at home and use the printer's software to tweak my prints to match my computer screen as close as is reasonable. I also like to toggle on the ISO 12646 color assessment conditions option in the darkroom view when doing my critical exposure adjustments such as filmic. This colour assessment condition places a white border around the image and helps the user a lot with getting correct adjustments of the highlights so they are not too bright. Another great Darktable feature that ensures I get good edits.
On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 at 03:13, KOVÁCS István <[email protected]> wrote: > When you develop your photos, if you use a dark darktable theme, they > will appear brighter than when printed (or shown on a lighter > background). Plus, now we have an option to provide a more consistent > viewing experience. You can read here: > https://discuss.pixls.us/t/neutral-theme-for-darktable-and-gimp/9504/40 > > Currently, I use darktable-elegant-grey with the following tweaks: > @define-color bg_color #7F7F7F; > @define-color fg_color #eee; > @define-color base_color #444; > > @define-color text_color #eee; > @define-color selected_bg_color #666; > @define-color selected_fg_color #eee; > > @define-color tooltip_bg_color #666; > > @define-color tooltip_fg_color #111; > @define-color really_dark_bg_color #595959; > > @define-color darkroom_bg_color #777777; > @define-color darkroom_preview_bg_color shade(@darkroom_bg_color, .8); > @define-color lighttable_bg_color @darkroom_bg_color; > @define-color lighttable_preview_bg_color shade(@lighttable_bg_color, .8); > > > BTW, are you really in 2.4.1, or was that a typo, and you're, in fact, on > 3.4.1? > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to > [email protected] > > -- ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
