Am Fr, 19 Apr 2013 08:47:56 CEST schrieb Rob Z. Smith: > That said the 'perfectly clear' auto-optimization might be rather > nice, at least if it anywhere near as good as the 'relight' in > lightzone I used a while back it could be. I know that this isn't > the direction of darktable - but it was still nice. Actually very > nice, usually, on many photographs. The effect was a combination of > obvious exposure/contrast fiddling but also tone mapping and > shadow/highlight processing, now that lightzone have folded the > source for this has been published - there again I'm sure it doesn't > do anything dt can't but just has the auto optimisation bit.
I think too, that dt can do anything that "perfectly clear" of ASP does, even better, but it is a question of time if you have a series of hundreds of photos (as usual). If you want to optimize 1 very important photo and if it is worth to spend 1-2 hours for 1 photo, than you will get the best result doing everything manually. Ok, the time depends on the experience with the image processing programm. I usually spent 1 minute for 1 photo with ASP and "perfectly clear", but I am willing to spend more time, but not 1 hour for 1 photo. These photos eg did _not_ get a _lot_ better with "pefectly clear" http://www.bognerart.eu/index.php/2012-12_gnigler_krampuslauf_2012 (available light) although I tried a lot with Aftershot, it was hard to get the colors of the street light better. If I am experienced with dt, I will try them again. But there are a lot of other series including from old photos which have been improved a _lot_ by "perfectly clear" automatically, eg http://www.bognerart.eu/index.php/2011-09_krypta_im_salzburger_dom (available light) http://www.bognerart.eu/index.php/010637_arabische_wueste (taken from a plane) If you have hundreds of photos and you do not have a lot of time, since the photos are needed ASAP from someone else (someone mentioned wedding photography, but there are a lot of other situations, eg sport, events, aso), you have to look for something which speeds the process. Ok you don't get 100% with auto optimisation, but if the automatic result is a lot better than the original shot looks, it is worth to use it and rarely I got garbage with "Perfectly clear". So I would be very happy, if there is something that makes the workflow faster, but of course this is my wish and the priorities have to be set by the developers. I am not able to code this, but I am willing to help if I can, eg with testing. -- Αl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
