An improved Basecurve Module

[Donatzsky (Nis Donatzsky)]

@europlatus

Personally, I never use Base Curve anymore because it was designed specifically for the display-referred workflow.

Just as a note, while Base Curve has some limitations, there’s nothing inherently wrong with using it in a scene-referred workflow.

"Aurelien said : basecurve is bad"

I pride myself in the fact that, when I give advice and people follow it, their life usually improves. And people who keep ignoring them often complain that darktable is bad, scene-referred sucks, and why-the-fuck-did-you-change-display-referred-that-got-me-faster-results. But said advice usually have a context, out of which they become irrelevant. The context of scene-referred is a need for more accurate colorimetry as sensor dynamic ranges increased while display dynamic range stayed mostly t…