I was wondering; I took some family photos over the 4th and in darktable they look soft so I didn’t edit them. On a whim I opened one of the files and they are sharp as can be. Why?
Do you have a comparison to show us?
What file (OOC jpg or raw) did you open with what program (if not darktable)?
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Without seeing the photo in question. Generally RAW images need sharpening applied. DT offers various options here including the presets in the new diffuse or sharpen module. OOC jpgs have sharpening already applied and many programs automatically sharpen RAW images when they load. There is no reason that DT can not sharpen as much as any other program.
so sorry! forgot to mention that the softness is in the darkroom view. after I export it the jpg created is sharp as can be. only in dt is it soft. as for the file viewer I can’t say. I’m not on my linux now. whatever the default viewer for mint is…
Any chance you have this enabled??
I have noted in some past posts some nuances around the display preview vs the exported result.
Basically if you zoom to 100 percent and check the detail…that is usually what you see in the export.
There is some display scaling to fit a full screen preview and I think that can soften the image that you see on screen. For me a full screen image is around 25 percent zoom so if I use the scaling parameter and set it to 0.25 and export then the jpg output matches more closely my full screen preview. Of course this is not a workflow. So I find that you have to check at 100 to get the real feel for how your output will look.
Again as I noted above you could have something set in preferences …you could also try the different scaling math and see if one works better with your hardware/software combo. I think I am using bicubic. I think a few times I have seen Aurelien in his preference screen using this as opposed to the default Lanczos one…
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no, performance over quality is not checked. Today it is being temperamental. I wanted to do a screenshot of what I am talking about but everything is sharp. It is so weird!
I’ve moved this to Software/ darktable, I think you’ll get better visibility there.
If thumbnail images in light table look soft or bad right after import that could be due to thumbs not processed from raw but just taken from thumbs inside the raw file. That would explain them looking better after editing.
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