I made some panorama’s in Photoshop (starting from NEF’s) and saved them in DNG. When opening the DNG in Darktable however, the photo has a strong red hue. It looks like the color space isn’t correctly recognised, as far as I can guess.
The original photo’s were taken in NEF-format with the Adobe RGB color space. These NEF’s are recognised perfectly in Darktable. The color space of the panorama is also Adobe RGB.
When saving the panorama in a lower Camera Raw version, Darktable can display the image correctly when in lighttable view, but not in darkroom view. After the image has been opened in darkroom view, the image isn’t displayed correctly anymore in the lighttable view.
Does anybody know how this can be solved?
Save in 16 or 32 bit tiff. DNG is doing nothing for you here, and the DNG is likely a tiff inside anyway, just with all adobe’s confused DNG crap.
Thanks for the tip! Why would DNG not be doing anything here? Doesn’t a RAW-file, such as a DNG, have a larger margin for post-processing?
DNG can contain unmoasiced (raw) data or it can contain demoasoced data (jpeg/tiff/etc). What you’re exporting out of Photoshop is demoasiced (non raw) data. DNG is a container format, so it can hold all sorts of different formats. In the best case scenario in exporting from Photoshop, the DNG has high bit depth tiff, in the worst case it’s a jpeg.
So just cut the DNG format all together and go for a tiff, darktable will be able to read that for sure.
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