White (dis)balance and Darktable

[priort (Todd Prior)]

@Terry

After all, other respected programs only offer the white balance module and are they so bad because of it? I say these comments with respect and not trying to be antagonistic.

Rawtherapee now has some of the same tools… its just not presented as “White balance” its packaged as color appearance model.

DIscussed a bit here and I think in much greater detail in a couple of other threads…

What tone curve in RawTherapee is the closest to a human eye?

Hello. Let’s say we have a standart 8 bit SDR monitor and a properly exposed photo of some low contrast scene with dynamic range lower than what our monitor can potentially show. What tone curve will approximate human vision best? Let’s ignore that the camera and lens are not perfect, a human eye only sees a fraction of an image at a time, and other things like that. Thanks

Perhaps the implementation and examples here in RT docs will make some sense of it to you…

https://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/CIECAM02#Color_Appearance_&_Lighting_(CIECAM02/16)_et_Color_Appearance_(Cam16_&_JzCzHz)_-_Tutorial