Display vs scene-referred terms and i18n

[kofa (István Kovács)]

@Donatzsky

Darktable is to my knowledge the only raw editor with a scene-referred workflow (though ART has some parts).

It is my understanding that RawTherapee also supports the scene-referred workflow.

Scene-reffered and Display-reffered – Part 1

Excuse my bad english Cinema and Photography : Cinema: When you watch a movie, it’s (was) often in a movie theater (Cinema - often called “Salles obscures” in french). Now, with streaming, we often watch movies at home. The evolution of TV (or projector) technology - dimensional, OLED, etc. - makes it possible to feel at home “at the movies”. Let’s note the differences (I’m not talking about sound): At the cinema, the room is dark, the screen very bright, the background dark (admit…

Scene-reffered and Display-reffered – Part 2

The particularities of Ciecam in Rawtherapee (here in Local Adjustments). Process 1 - Scene conditions (Scene-reffered) Let’s take a look at the main components displayed in the Cam16 module: Mean luminance (Yb%) and Absolute luminance are calculated very early in the process, to avoid pollution by other processing. This data is essential not only for Log encoding (Mean luminance) calculations, but also for taking into account image characteristics at the time of shooting. Absolute luminance …

Scene-reffered and Display-reffered – Part 3 – Summary : what choices?

Chromatic adaptation Curiously, you may have noticed that I haven’t talked about this (or very little). There are several reasons for this: Some software programs use this tool (along with other adjustments, of course) under the term « White-Balance », which for the user can lead to some confusion with Rawtherapee’s vocabulary. The “Chromatic adaptation/Cat16” slider in Local adjustments is not there to perform an operation of the type mentioned in this previous paragraph, but to slightly ada…