Editing moments with darktable

[s7habo (Boris Hajdukovic)]

Thank you @vbs . I am glad that you find my videos useful.

@vbs

Question 1- when I am in tone equalizer - the mouse wheel is used to increase / decrease the exposure. More often than not I find I have to zoom in / out the picture. My cumbersome solution is to close tone equalizer then zoom in / out then open tone equalizer again or use alt+1,2,3 and the navigation window.

I have the same problem and don’t know a solution for it.
Maybe GUI developers can help here @elstoc? , @Nilvus?

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Question 2 - In the previous video - you are using defuse or sharpening module with bloom and multiply to improve sub contrast. I tried to emulate… Are you targeting specifically the darker areas that need improvement? Or maybe I am misunderstanding a bit when to use the approach or simply I am not grasping the ideal quite well.

The idea is to increase soft contrast while making the texture smoother, similar to the Orton effect but with more control:

Original:

First, contrast with exposure module and multiply blend mode for comparison:

You see how the contrast is very nice but harsh.

And now diffusion and sharpen module with “bloom” preset and multiply blend mode. First higher radius span…

…and lower radius span:

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Question 3 - I was watching Joanna Kustra’s video Secrets of color-grading in photography - YouTube on color grading and she points to https://paletton.com/ for finding pleasing color combinations. And you have touched a few times on color grading in your videos. I am also trying to use the vectorscope for understanding the colro more.

What I am struggling with is identifying more precisely the underlying hues. One option that I am using is to apply lowpas - radius 10, contrast 0, brightness 0, saturation 1. Can you please advise if you know a better option how can I approach this?

I don’t know what you want to do with this, but for that you have a view at the parametric mask for hue. if you go over the hue slider with the mouse and press “c” key: