My darktable styles pack

Vintage Presets V.1.0.zip (36.0 KB)

This preset pack includes 18 different styles split in 4 categories : Kodak film, Fujicolor film, X-Trans film simulations, and Cinestill film.

I used the same modules across all of these styles (along with the regular scene-referred modules): tone curve, RGB curve, color zones, color calibration and color balance RGB. The goal was to make each module easy to understand for beginners and show which modules contribute to what aspects of the image styling.

Currently I’m also working on other fuji film simulations that aren’t currently in this, like provia, pro neg hi/std. and acros.

If I missed your favourite film stock (or any film stock that interests you) please don’t hesitate to leave a comment and I’ll try my best to emulate it in DT. Or feel free to try it yourself and export your style onto the folder to pass it on. I’m also open to anyone modifying my existing styles to more accurately emulate these film stocks :slight_smile:

Here is the original reddit post

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Great work! Thank you for sharing this!

Out of curiosity: how do you replicate the look of the films? How is the process to assure that the digital image looks like a developed film?

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thank you so so much! it is a real blessing, for beginners who are at sea with DT in particular

Hi @fujifan5000,

the styles are great :blush: :ok_hand: Maybe i share some pics with them in the future. But I’m curious how you are creating the styles. Are you just skilled enough to be able to recreate them or how you are doing it? :smile:

I really don’t recommend beginners use them. First of all, blindly applying someone else’s styles won’t teach you anything; it will merely make your photos look vaguely like theirs. Secondly, these styles in particular use a number of modules that are no longer recommended (tone curve and rgb curve), which means that even if you do learn something, it might be the wrong things, which will then actually set you back instead of helping you improve.

Instead, read the manual (!) - Overview section in particular - and watch the tutorials on the following YouTube channels:

https://www.youtube.com/@audio2u

https://www.youtube.com/@s7habo

https://www.youtube.com/@AurelienPIERREphoto