(Martin says): darktable processing is done in a fixed order.
I’m confused…and perhaps it’s because I misunderstood or don’t know enough…
My understanding is:
a) darktable processing is “in a fixed order”, the order being reflected in the listing of modules, with those above following those below, and the modules themselves differ depending on whether scene- or display referred;
b) modules available for scene-referred are unavailable or sometimes inapplicable to display referred. E.g., in scene referred it makes no sense to use Contrast Brightness Saturation or Color Contrast modules nd hence they are unavailable. Instead you use Filmic and Color Balance RGB and Color Calibration etc.
c) Color Calibration always appears before i.e., lower in the list compared to Filmic. So, after applying Filmic if you are to need to use Color Calibration you have to create a new instance of the latter, move it above Filmic and then tweak the new instance of Color Calibration.
is this what Steven meant by “swap around…”? if not what else can swap around mean?
And if, as Martin says, “sequence doesn’t matter”, what can be behind Boris’s creating a new instance of modules lower in the list, moving them above those higher in the list, etc. (as he did with Color Calibration vs Filmic and other such modules in his videos)? if “sequence doesn’t matter” why is the processing in a “fixed order” disallowing modules to be moved up/down the list?
I hope, naive as I seem and am, my questions (and the answers from those that know better) might also help others similarly situated (and I’d like to think I’m not the only one with these Qs!)