What does your default set of nodes look like?

Software vkdt
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Just really getting my head around things, and wondering what everyone’s default node graph looks like. Please share!

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perhaps unsurprisingly my default is just the shipped default :slight_smile:

20260430_09h15m29s_grim
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though i’d often use presets to modify this for special cases such as denoising or replace the display referred transform by arctic’s film simulation or jed’s opendrt. presets are really key to efficient workflow with graphs. messing around with nodes and connections just takes so much time, especially if there are more modules involved (see dodge and burn with guided filter blur on the mask etc).

i like to keep the disconnected modules around on the canvas so i can quickly drop them in when i need them, though i very rarely use lens correction. more often i abuse the module for translation/mirroring/non-uniform scaling.

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I usually just swap filmcurv and llap with filmsim. It does 90% of what I want to do and is so much fun.

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I’ve only just begun to actually try and use vkdt, but here is my default graph at the moment:

vkdtGraph
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The module differences being:

  • deconv, though I might remove this from the default. In Darktable I’m a particular fan of the diffuse and sharpen lens deblur presets, and it was suggested here that deconv was the most suitable replacement in vkdt for now.
  • autoexp as I shoot a lot of my photos at my camera’s base ISOs. I might only keep this for default thumbnail processing in the future (so I can at least tell what shots are of in lightable).
  • i-lut:clut as luckily my camera is already profiled here. To my eye, it reliably improves the colour in images even across different illuminants.
  • No llap.

Here are the actual default files (with .txt appended):
default-darkroom.i-raw.txt (1.2 KB)
default.i-raw.txt (981 Bytes)

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glad you like the spectral input device transform via clut. i think it makes so much more sense than a matrix. also it interpolates between tungsten and daylight. never produces out-of-physics chromaticity coordinates. unfortunately the spectral responses are so hard to come by for new cameras. would be great if the sensor spec simply included such data… the guesswork spectral sensitivity reconstruction only inherits some of the benefits and doesn’t quite give me the level of satisfaction that a real measurement does, in terms of colour rendition.

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Looks like I need to do some profiling!