Editing moments with darktable

[s7habo (Boris Hajdukovic)]

New episode: Use of masking options in the color balance rgb module

Darktable Episode 63: Use of masking options in the color balance rgb module

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Sunflower Sagas and Solutions

For the last several years I have traveled to a sunflower farm in KS for a photo shoot. The field of rich color is hypnotic and it’s a lot of fun. Unfortunately this year I discovered that the new filmic RGB v6 doesn’t deal with the rich colors without it applying excessive amounts of desaturation and in some cases color shift. To deal with it you have back off on highlights color brilliance and/or exposure and perhaps throw away a significant portion of the histogram range. You end up with …

by Brian Poindexter (c)
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I didn’t try the processing additionally also with sigmoid, because I focused first on color balance module. I will do that in the next episode, since I wanted to introduce sigmoid briefly anyway.