OMG a brother from another mother, I've been editing photo's I took in June! But I'm retired I need to do something when I can't sleep. What's with a circular gradient mask, didn't know you could do that in Darktable! Now I have something to investigate. Thanks??? Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the comment. Yes, darktable's masking is great. Has circle, elliptical, drawn, gradient, and parametric masks too. Much more powerful than lightroom.
Hi Jason, I see you use display-referred modules instead scene-referred ones. I thought scene-referred the bes ones to use. Perhaps you would tell us what your thought process is? Cheers Glyn
Thanks for the question! But, that is not quite correct. In fact, I do use quite a few scene-referred modules such as color balance RGB, RGB primaries, diffuse or sharpen, and color equalizer. Probably most of the modules I use are scene-referred. However, the exception is the tone curve mainly. Why is that? My philosophy is that I use what works most easily and intuitively to get the results I want. Often, that means using the tone curve even though it is display-referred. The tone-equalizer is another option that can often work as a replacement for the tone curve, but not as easily if you want to really separate two tones that are very close together. Moreover, the tone curve, in my opinion, is much more intuitive that the tone equalizer because it is a smooth graphical curve that can even display tonal ranges with the eyedropper. Frankly, I really have not heard one convincing argument against use of the tone curve, even if the rest of the modules used are scene-referred. Some people speak of artifacts, but I have rarely seen them. The Color lookup table is another module I use frequently even though it is not scene-referred. If used gently, it can accomplish some very interesting effects that are hard to do with other modules. In other words, while I try to stick mostly with scene-referred modules, I still have not perceived a reason to avoid other modules completely. Some have abstract arguments but so far, I haven't seen or heard anything that negatively impacts the final result. I'm open to hearing new ideas about it of course, but basically my approach is to choose what works, rather than be religious to some mathematical approach...and I am a mathematician.
Hugely helpful video, as usual-thank you!
Very glad it helped!
OMG a brother from another mother, I've been editing photo's I took in June! But I'm retired I need to do something when I can't sleep. What's with a circular gradient mask, didn't know you could do that in Darktable! Now I have something to investigate. Thanks??? Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the comment. Yes, darktable's masking is great. Has circle, elliptical, drawn, gradient, and parametric masks too. Much more powerful than lightroom.
Hi Jason, I see you use display-referred modules instead scene-referred ones. I thought scene-referred the bes ones to use. Perhaps you would tell us what your thought process is? Cheers Glyn
Thanks for the question! But, that is not quite correct. In fact, I do use quite a few scene-referred modules such as color balance RGB, RGB primaries, diffuse or sharpen, and color equalizer. Probably most of the modules I use are scene-referred. However, the exception is the tone curve mainly.
Why is that? My philosophy is that I use what works most easily and intuitively to get the results I want. Often, that means using the tone curve even though it is display-referred. The tone-equalizer is another option that can often work as a replacement for the tone curve, but not as easily if you want to really separate two tones that are very close together. Moreover, the tone curve, in my opinion, is much more intuitive that the tone equalizer because it is a smooth graphical curve that can even display tonal ranges with the eyedropper.
Frankly, I really have not heard one convincing argument against use of the tone curve, even if the rest of the modules used are scene-referred. Some people speak of artifacts, but I have rarely seen them. The Color lookup table is another module I use frequently even though it is not scene-referred. If used gently, it can accomplish some very interesting effects that are hard to do with other modules.
In other words, while I try to stick mostly with scene-referred modules, I still have not perceived a reason to avoid other modules completely. Some have abstract arguments but so far, I haven't seen or heard anything that negatively impacts the final result. I'm open to hearing new ideas about it of course, but basically my approach is to choose what works, rather than be religious to some mathematical approach...and I am a mathematician.