Chroma preset of denoise profiled
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Hi Thanks for your tutorials, I really like the richness of content the choice of a website/blog gives you. You exploit this quite well. the combination of text/before-after slider image and video is, i think, a plus over a stand alone video 
I’d be delighted to see your tutorial base grow, it can be so useful to very new users and maybe tackle some stuff more advanced users are looking for like tricks shown by @s7habo .
The only thing that bothered me a bit was the video quality, I guess it’s online storage or bandwidth constrain that made you select this level of compression, do lowering the frame rate or changing codec could fix that though I don’t if it’s already the winning combination
Glad to hear you’ve found it useful! I am definitely open to ideas for future tutorials too.
The video quality seems good to me (e.g. I don’t see any pixelation at 2560x1440 in fullscreen) - what quality issues specifically are you seeing? The framerate is low since we’re mostly just interested in a series of screenshots of each of the modules with their settings (verses smooth transitions/animations when navigating between modules and other effects)
On this video ( Color Contrast | Avid Andrew ) especially I see this grainy look but not on the other ones so not a big deal I guess 
Hi,
These tutorials have been great! Darktable is re-inspiring me to shoot again after a long break.
I did have a challenge: how to revert Darktable appearance back so that I can all those controls in darkroom below the photo?–the lightbulb, the over/under exposure meters, etc.
I can’t see them after I tried messing with the font size. Tried messing back with size, with the system default size, with the GUI, nothing made it re-appear.
I see those little white arrows that help minimize the tabs on the left/right and film strip at the light table, but not when I switch to darkroom.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Use h key to display hotkeys for the given view you’re in
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I found it! It was Ctrl+b/b
Much appreciated!
Happy New Year! Let’s celebrate 2023 with a new tutorial that features the sigmoid module introduced in darktable 4.2:
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I’ve had this seasonally-appropriate tutorial partially written for awhile but was stuck on exactly how to use the channel mixer in color calibration to achieve the desired results. After watching @s7habo’s recent tutorial on the channel mixer, it finally “clicked” (thank you!) and now both pieces of the tutorial (using either color balance rgb or color calibration) are complete:
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Because they’re so commonplace, we don’t realize that smartphone JPEGs have made us all desensitized to hue shifts in highlights. This isn’t how photos are supposed to look, and fortunately it’s easy to correct with a RAW file in darktable:
I know this has been discussed before on this forum, but I think it’s helpful to have examples of a variety of types of scenes where this occurs all displayed together.
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Very true… although personally - and probably largely thanks to this forum - I’ve become a bit allergic to hue shifts. 
Especially the blue sky shifting to teal 
- I’ve seen this in the work of people who I would have expected to be aware of how awful it looks.
I do think however that in some rare cases - like your sunset shot - the ‘correct’ hue is not actually completely true to what our eyes see (or at least not what my eyes see) due to the Bezold–Brücke shift.
Hence my liking for the preserve hues slider in sigmoid.
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That is great, though I suspect you’re in the minority of people.
That’s a good point, though I think for my work I’d like to try and emulate what painters did with colors. It might not actually match how our eyes perceive the light, but if it’s a pleasing scene I’m fine with that. Something related often happens to me when I photograph sunsets with a lot of color in the sky - what I “remember” (though it might just be my imagination) is often a lot more colorful than what I see in the RAW file, so I will often use try to use color balance rgb to make it look like how I “remember” it (even if that’s more exaggerated than reality).
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You can add a desired hue shift at any time.
It’s a lot harder to remove one introduced by your tool chain…
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Same here, I see it everywhere now, on pictures, in movies, in my old edits …
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Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Your explanations are better suited for my little brain than those technical discussions i encounter sometimes on this forum 
. Looking forward to new Tutorials from you. I especially love that you address some questions about creative use of those modules. I am going to head to your Website and subscribe to your newsletter regarding Darktable.
Oh and lovely to see one more member appreciating the music of mark knopfler 
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Glad to hear you’ve found them helpful! Let me know if you have any other ideas for future tutorial topics.
It’s good to meet another Mark Knopfler fan. Are you excited for his new album, One Deep River, coming out in April?
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Count me as a fan and waiting for this new album
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One topic which i would be interested in is distribution of contrast in a image. In high contrast scenes i tend do lift shadows and reduce highlights to a amount which looks unnatural. And sometimes i would like to increase contrast in certain area’s without sacrificing a natural look. It goes in the same direction of your Article on “Directing Attention in a Scene”
About mark knopfler’s new Album, i am now. Didn’t knew he is releasing one this year.
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Thanks for the feedback. I’ll see what I can come up with on that topic.