Negative opinions on RT masking

[elGordo (Gord)]

Thx. I’m used to ISVs (Independent Software Vendors)…I work for one.

[bastibe (Bastian Bechtold)]

@priort

Well I would also say generalization is not good either…For example to say that the darktable look is a salmon sky is misleading as it occurs from a choice of settings used in the edit.

Just to make sure my previous post isn’t misunderstood: that salmon sky is specific to a particular use of filmic rgb. It is not a general trait of Darktable. Quite the opposite in fact, Darktable is uniquely flexible with regards to its highlight rendering.

[sigsegv111]

Thanks much Andy … I appreciate pretty much your lengthy and elaborative post … Obviously there’s a lot ahead of me what needs to be investigated and explored … I would love to point out one important thing - the longer I am working with that (with processing my photographs) the fewer tools I am using in the end and more simple is my workflow … Also I tend to do more in GIMP (in raster/bitmap editor) Vs RAW processing over the time …

I’ve heard a lot of praise on all mentioned programs … They are certainly all good (DXO, CaptureOne, ACR, Luminar Neo, and so on) … I hope a bit now, that with GIMP 3.x (which supports non-destructive editing) the attention to foss programs will in general increase because now GIMP really shall be treated very seriously among the competition …

cheers, ~dan

[hatsnp (Nuno Paulino)]

@lphilpot

I tend to shoot fewer, rather than more, images. And I don’t shoot family, so I can take my time on editing. But for whatever reason (surely my incompetence) I’ve always found it extremely difficult to get saturated colors in darktable. I don’t mean over saturated, just brilliant enough, to get that “glow” in places, mostly landscapes.

I agree with this, especially with filmic. I would urge you to give a try and use sigmoid and the new RGB Primaries. In my opinion it greatly simplifies the process to obtain those colors

[lphilpot (Len Philpot)]

Yeah I have Sigmoid as my default, but the truth is I only experiment with darktable these days. 99.99% of my actual processing is done in ART.

[witsu (Witold)]

I would love to try translating, but I don’t know how to start. Is there a manual somewhere?

[marter (Martin Werner)]

hi, @witsu yes, there are some manuals, depending on what you want to translate:
localisation: Translating RawTherapee - RawPedia
rawpedia: Translating RawPedia - RawPedia
hth

[mikae1]

@lphilpot

99.99% of my actual processing is done in ART.

Can ART do local adjustments with “normal” selection tools (not the u-point style tech)?

[priort (Todd Prior)]

And with ctl scripts…lots of tools that can be masked…

[lphilpot (Len Philpot)]

ART has brush, color similarity, area (gradient, polygon) and parametric selection masks. All have various parameters and they can be applied to the image directly or “through” a CTL script that effectively adds another layer of selection logic.

[mikae1]

@lphilpot

ART has brush

Oh, had no idea. Have to try!