Hi everyone, I'm new to both Darktable and photography in general, so I'm quite a bit confused about the "recommended workflow". I normally shoot in RAW+JPEG and try to live with the JPEG only (possibly by just cropping the JPEG within Shotwell). This is because I just tend to get carried away in an endless path of postprocessing... For some selected pictures however I'd like to just work on the exposure, white balance etc... to hopefully obtain some improvements. However, as soon as I open the RAW .CR2 file in Darktable, I'm most often presented with a much noisier version of what I have in the JPEG (especially for high ISO, of course).
I tried with the denoise (profiled) plugin, which seems to find the right profile for my camera and ISO value, but I'm really having a hard time getting close to what I have in the JPEG produced by the camera. Either I have lots of noise or the image is heavily posterized. Any suggestion? It looks like there's no way to equal the noise reduction algorithm implemented by the camera itself... Or am I missing something? Of course my dream would be to be able to open a RAW file in Darktable which looks exactly like the JPEG produced by the camera, and start tweaking from there... But I'm afraid that'll always remain a dream... Any hint would be highly appreciated! Thank you! Gerlando
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