On Thursday, January 22, 2015 23:19 Ariel Kanterewicz wrote: > Reading through the thread, it looks like the general idea is that RGB > curves are pointless or redundant... but if there isn't an equivalent way > of manipulating the image, it's just another (fairly standard) tool, a > different way of manipulatin the image, that we don't have in DT. *IF* > there isn't an equivalent tool I don't see why we can't have them; I hide > many modules on my DT installation, one more wouldn't be much of a bother. Ariel;
I use the tone curves extensively, particularly with my B&W images. Where there is a color image involved I am now switching to the 'manual' mode which appears to avoid some nasty color shifts. I use this function, one way or another, with 99% of my images. 'Med-contrast' is built into most of my base styles. To date I have not been confident enough to work with the manual a and b curves ... I play with them and then find another way to exact the change that I am looking for. That is the nice thing about dt ... always lots of ways to skin the cat. Manipulating the tone curves is still (for me) not optimal. I find that making complex curves is rather like pushing a piece of string .. fragile to put it mildly. Rawstudio was for me a winner in that department in that it allowed me to do some really fine (and complex) adjustment .. easily! David ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Darktable-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
