Thank you for being able to do what I wanted to do. Now I will calmly study the video in order to understand how you used the various tools. Now a practically equal result I had already obtained using Photoshop and camera raw (which I know well because I have always used it for the conversion of wedding files. Now the note I want to do both for raw therapee and for Art and perhaps also Darktable (the I know little) is that they are complete and equipped with a myriad of tools, but to achieve an optimal result you have to act on a lot of tools (and it is not always easy to understand which ones).
With Camera raw with three or four clicks you can get a (almost always) good result. This is the thing that I find missing in these software (I understand that they are free and therefore do not have a whole series of technicians and experts behind them who work only for that), but in my opinion it would be useful to divide the menus with a quick menu in order to apply the basic corrections immediately.
I then decide whether to use other tools if the result does not satisfy me, for a professional use (as I would have liked to do) when you find yourself with a thousand shots to fix in the shortest possible time, here is the possibility of performing with a few interventions the necessary corrections, it becomes basic.
I am now retired and I have time to sell, but I do not think that if I had used Rt or Art, I would have never been able to correct all the images I had in the necessary time. It is not meant to be a criticism, simply an advice dictated by my experience
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