I see that dt is making step forward with providing usable presets for some modules like tone curve, profiled denoise and so on. But some things still remain confusing for novices. Lowpass and Highpass modules are one of the most essential for me. I just wonder if there is any chance to get presets described in official documentation into dt.
To play with presets:
cd ~/Downloads && unzip presets.zip
cd ~/.config/darktable
sqlite3 data.db < ~/Downloads/presets.sql
Those presets come from official dt documentation (with little modifications) and will be available in lowpass and highpass presets as “gritty details” and “bring up shadows”. Play with them using provided image (or any you like) and commit here your results or improvements.
My idea is that dt should provide sensible and usable presets/default settings like those described in documentation (surprising that many of them didn’t make into presets). I recommended dt to some of my friends and most of them say that dt is really great but presets are very confusing or even unusable. E.g. “local contrast mask” which just gives user blurry b/w output with no recommendations regarding further steps.
In rawproc, dcraw prophoto colorspace/gamma, auto whitebalance. Then: 1) blackwhitepoint, put white to just desaturate the little bit of daylighted background, put black way into the histogram to take down the background; 2) whitebalance, mainly to pull blue down a bit, not a big difference; 3) curve - pulled shadows more, but with a slope, put the steepest part in the left third; 4) crop, emphasize the center flower, and the line formed by the three diagonal flowers, and 5) resize to 1080 on the height, minimal post-resize sharpen.
Funny, I posted 1080px on the vertical after discussion in the image size thread. In my browser, I can’t see the whole image at one time, but it made me realize there’s a better crop in just losing the bottom flower; the three above it make a nice enthusiastic choral trio…
Hello @Timur. I do not use darktable. But I take lot of flower shots and process them in RawTherapee. The common thread I have found in all my processing is to use CH curve of the LAB module to selectively enhance/desaturate colors and use Residual Image tab of the Wavelets to give a magical glowing feel to the flowers. I have used these modules to get the following.
I desaturated the greens and made yellows and violet more colorful. _DSC0283.jpg.out.pp3 (12.7 KB)
