Editing (Raw) images in Darktable. Workflow Clarification?

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Following on from the conversation in another thread, thought it best to avoid derailing the other topic.

@priort

You might also want to look at the rgb color balance module. You can modify shadows and highlights there both luma and color and you can now define the shadow, highlight and midtone images and display the mask of each tonal range…

In time, will adapt and get familiar with this one. It works, just need to try it out on a few more images, to become comfortable with using it, and appreciate how much scope it has for recovering details. Hard to measure the amount of alteration possible, in comparison to other approaches, but it did seem a bit subtle even at the maximum settings, fortunately it was easy to duplicate and add a 2nd or 3rd instance to amplify the shadow lifting effect.

Thank you, for bringing this new module to my attention.

Note for anyone reading this, who is still on version 3.4.1.1 or earlier, the color_balance_rgb module, is expected to be included in a later official release. I’m running a custom build, derived from a “work in progress” version of dt.

@paperdigits

I don’t think we’ll get a scene referred Shadows and Highlights module because, as you mention, Tone Eq can do what S&H did and a lot more.

Accepted.

[priort (Todd Prior)]

You can go much higher than the original limits presented by the sliders just FYI in case you did not try to enter larger values…

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Thanks. Will try this “feature” out. At the next opportunity.