I am an avid photographer and dt user, but since … 3 or 3.2 dt is less and less understandable for me. Now on opening 4.4 I find it VERY hard to use, limit crappy. That might be because of me, but it hinders me and my workflow.
If I understand things correctly, dt allows for multiple approaches when working on a photo. Mine is and will always be the Basiskurve (Base-Curve) and Werte (Values?). The latter has disappeared (SHIT, SHIT, SHIT)) and the former is deactivated because Filmic RGB and Belichtung are set automatically and my way of working seems to be actively hindered.
I don’t want Filmic RGB, I get along with Basiskurve, I want Werte back and I want those “automatic” presets to disappear completely from my workflow. So I activate my personal BAsiskurve, hit “Diese Voreinstellung automatisch anwenden” and … the next phot is opened with Filmic RGB and Belichtung again.
What do I do wrong? Or is it just that dt isn’t what I am looking for anymore?
Werte (Values?) is my absolute GoTo for a first impression of what I can do (especially because i Work 90% in B&W) - and … it’s gone. That’s really, really difficult
display-referred (legacy) is the legacy mode (used by default in darktable 2.6 and earlier) and assumes that most processing will be performed in the Lab color space. Selecting this option automatically enables the base curve module for tone mapping and sets the module order to legacy. This workflow uses only the white balance module for chromatic adaptation.
Werten is levels in English. That has been deprecated, and rgb levels is the recommended module. However, you can always make a style from an old edit containing any module (even hard-deprecated ones), and apply it to new edits.