Creating Cinematic Look in Darktable

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You can find an example style for Cineatic Color Tone in darktable here:

Artistic styles recreation in darktable

As already mentioned, modules in Darktable can be treated as adjustment layers in Photoshop or corresponding tools in Lightroom. On YouTube there are a lot more tutorials on Color grading in commercial software from Adobe. But nothing can stop us to recreate same effects in our favorite FOSS. Here my turn. I have recreated two color grading effects I watched recently. Why not to share with our community? Here they are. Teal orange color grading Original video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

However, that thread is more than 6 years old, and now with the availability of several new color related modules, it should rather be seen as an example of end result that can be obtained, rather than the optimal method for getting there.

This thread may be of interst to you:

darktable: Style vs. LUT

What’s the difference style vs. LUT? I believe with a style you can do the whole range of what is available in the dt menu, whereas a LUT is just about color. LUTs are compatible. Is that correct? Looking at this links Teal&Orange: Is this ol’ style fully compatible with dt 3.0.2? The above loads wonky and needs a serious wb correction, but then delivers the effect. I wonder what is more suitable here, a dt-style or a LUT? [DSC04966_01]

as well as Pat Davids posting here (although primarily adressing RT):

Cinematic Color in RawTherapee

As @houz mentioned, it’s another derivative of orange/teal grading. It’s touched on in this post: And is very similar to the recent request for emulating another photographers color toning: https://discuss.pixls.us/t/achieve-the-masashi-wakui-look/ In particular, I went into a bit more depth on accomplishing this in this particular post on that topic (for darktable, but the theory is the same): Achieve the Masashi Wakui look - #11 by patdavid You’ll want to push the shadows and midtones t…

Look also into this discussion on Luts and Cinematic color (in RT forum):

HaldCLUT Set: Cinematic Film

These LUTs lack a bit of contrast, which makes it easier to tweak the contrast to taste. As a side note I figured out that tiff haldcluts packed with LZW are waaaaay smaller so enjoy. Cinematic.zip (24.0 MB) Edit: added sample pics (raws sourced from wesaturate) [xdrekx_DCP%20tone%20curve] [xdrekx_TC%20and%20fujisuperior] [xdrekx_TC%20and%20V3%2050D%205203%20DP] [xdrekx-TC%20and%20Fujipro]

Also this page on Cinematic colors in general:

5 Common Film Color Schemes – Learning Cinematic Color Design