Michael, Thanks so much for your response. My question was asked before I appreciated how the embedded jpeg preview worked. Your nice summary and the friendly feedback I got on the darktable IRC channel was helpful in framing that. I'm starting to appreciate how much more flexibility and discretion RAW development allows.
In case anyone else is also new to darktable and RAW development, I'd like to point out the terrific materials and especially the screencasts that are available at the website below. I've only just started going through them but they're very helpful so far. http://www.darktable.org/resources/ Best regards, Will On 1/13/15 2:33 PM, Michael Below wrote: > Am Di 13 Jan 2015 13:55:12 CET > schrieb "Monroe, Will" <[email protected]>: > >>> I am trying to find out more about why RAW images from my camera >>> (Nikon D50) appear so different in several different RAW image >>> viewers/editors. Specifically, I'm trying to find out why the >>> images I open in DarkTable 1.6 lack the range of color and contrast >>> that Geeqie and RawTherapee seem to provide. > darktable is displaying the RAW data. The efforts to match the preview > as provided by Nikon inside darktable are limited. The other > programs you mentioned may be displaying the preview JPEG that is > embedded inside the RAW data, or they might have different presets as > a starting point. darktable can show the preview JPEG image in the > lighttable (gallery) view, before you have done any editing. But for > the darkroom view darktable accesses the RAW data and processes in a > basic way, without image styles etc. > > Feel free to make the image darker, add contrast and saturation to > taste. You can create a custom style for your images, if there are > certain settings you want to apply to many images. > > Cheers > Michael > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. > GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. > Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. > Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet > _______________________________________________ > Darktable-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
