Just starting out. Please help.

Also, try this: darktable 3.0 for dummies (in 3 modules)
It’s a bit old.

  • Instead of filmic, we now have filmic rgb and sigmoid (many find the latter easier to use).
    darktable 4.2 user manual - filmic rgb
    darktable 4.2 user manual - sigmoid
    Those two are responsible for mapping the potentially large dynamic range of the scene to the limited dynamic range of the screen. You can adjust contrast in both (as well as in color balance rgb).
  • Instead of color balance, we have color balance rgb. I’ve mentioned that above.
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