> Message du 14/09/15 01:28 > De : "Bernard" > A : "darktable-users" > Copie à : > Objet : [Darktable-users] My best Darktable settings as a newbee > > A number of people are willing to test the resources offered by .../... > > Next I click on 'Levels', then on the left circle to 'activate' the > module, then click on 'auto'. I don't consider autolevel to be a good choice, as it (more than) often
results in bad exposure values. The photos then get not enough or too much exposed. > This being done, I click onto the module 'Tone Curve', then 'Presets > (=), then 'average contrast'. At this stage I watch the picture and > compare aspects in testing 'average contrast', 'high contrast' 'low > contrast' and 'linear'. Most times, the best choices are 'average > contrast' or 'Linear'. In every case I tested, Linear does nothing visible, and though average seems the best choice, it modifies exposure to over-expose. So one has to readjust exposure afterwards. High contrast over-over-over-exposes and low contrast gives too flat results. WB... there are cases where setting it to spot as the whole gives very good results, there are others where I have to pick the reference area, but most of the time I leave it to camera. I still can't really understant the way this is intended to work... time for a new post, I guess... My own used modules are : White Balance set to camera default : always Demosaicing : Amaze : always Exposure : manually adjusted together with under-/overeposure view activated : always Basecurve : Nikon-like : always Crop and rotate : if needed Highlight and shadow recovery : default settings : always Lens correction : with supported lenses Local contrast : average: sometimes - but, once again, I then have to decrease exposure Orientation is automatic, so no need to bother with this In some rare cases, I also use Denoise (Profiled) Oh ! and - I almost forgot this - Monochrome set to darken when I need to deal with too heavy highlights. Regards, J.-L.
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