Highlight does not work

[kofa (István Kovács)]

This is mostly about shadows, not highlights, but you may find it useful:

Darktable shadows and highlights vs tone equalizer

In the thread "Aurelien said : basecurve is bad" - #136 by herbert-50 I’ve posted a comment: “The display-referred workflow and its modules still have their place and their power lies in their simplicity.” Here is an example for that what I mean. It also shows the problem which I have with the tone equalizer. Here the photo after loading it into the darkroom for the first time. The modules of the scene-referred workflow have been applied (I use exposure of 1EV instead of 0,5EV for Fuji). [19…