JPEG out of Google Camera:
It’s arguably a bit too contrasty, a bit too dark in places, but the sky in particular looks fantastic. The golden light spilling onto the platform and reflecting off the rails and train is lovely too.
I’ve been trying to understand how to achieve this with ART. Here is the raw:
PXL_20241217_070245198.RAW-02.ORIGINAL.dng (35.8 MB)
All images CC-BY-SA licence. Thanks for looking.
Hi,
a bit over the top for me, but something like this maybe?
Thank you both, I will study these settings to try to understand what you did. Most of my photos come out looking a bit flat.
Try using the waveform scope for editing if you don’t already… You will see areas of your image that should be dark… make sure they have enough black
Apologize; didn’t see that the post wasn’t in playraw (so deleted it). 
I almost always use the Auto Matched Curve - it gives a nice pop in contrast for images from Nikon Z6 and Sony A7IV. Sometimes too much though and then I may try Adobe DCP profiles for the cameras.
I changed the curve model and settings in the tone curve…these can really impact tone and color…
I am sure those that use ART day in and day out will do better…
Just for fun, here’s a rendering that I like more than my previous one above. You need the integration with agx-emulsion though if you want to reproduce the look (which you can do by just loading the jpg as an arp sidecar):
This is closer to the one of @age than to the camera-produced one, and to my eyes it looks more believable.
Thanks you everyone. @agriggio agx-emulsion looks complicated but I’ll see if I can get it working, because the results look pretty nice. I need to really study what you guys have done as I think with me it’s still an issue of getting the basic workflow down. I usually try to use dynamic range compression and then widen it up again with other tools, but the results are very hit and miss. Maybe I’m lacking that intuitive understanding that people doing YouTube tutorials seem to have.
Also remember to use the gain map for these images…I would consider adding it automatically to all those pixel dng images…It might save you correcting as much in the image…That is done if you recall in the flat field correction by setting embedded…
Hi,
well it can be a bit tricky to set up but it really does give great results.
Anyway, here’s a variant along the same lines using only built-in tools of ART:
HTH
Nice and simple in RT 5.11. AutoMatched tone curve, plus 22 global contrast
PXLc22-1.jpg.out.pp3 (15.1 KB)
Hi Alberto, how exactly can I use a jpg file as an arp sidecar?
You just load a sidecar as usual, but select a jpeg:
Note you need to check the “save parameters with image” option when exporting for this to work:
HTH
You can do the same in DT with the jpg usually…just as noted by @agriggio for the ART sidecars…
Hi @cedric if you switch on highlight reconstruction, it makes a big difference to your edit. Alternatively you can limit the colours on the used colour space. Both checkboxes are located in the exposure setting.
