For those of you who know what those sliders do, is this “correct” for achieving the same thing in Darktable, or is there a better way I should know about?
- Local contrast set to bilateral grid
- Procedural detail threshold set to around 25%
There are quite a few:
- diffuse or sharpen with local contrast preset
- contrast equalizer
- local contrast module
Details in the manual.
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So I personally turn on the local contrast module to its default values for most of my images and decide if I like the effect or not. More often than not I do like the improved look. Just sometimes I increase the value for a stronger effect or disable the module because I don’t like the look.
I also use an instance of the diffuse or sharpen module and use the preset sharpen demosaicing AA filter as my initial sharpening. This alone may be enough for many images such as portraits.
If I want more sharpening/detail, I then make a new instance of diffuse or sharpen module and select lens deblur. Hard is stronger in effect, but soft is sufficient for most images. Read the manual to understand what these modules do. IMHO I feel DT leaves Lightroom for dead. You have so much control over what you are doing. Lightroom’s strength is the ease of use. Just move a slider and the black box does its job, but at the same time puts handcuffs on you.
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