Avid Andrew
The new AgX tone mapper and the older sigmoid module both provide controls to adjust the color primaries of the image, but what exactly does that mean? What problem are these sliders solving? Let's examine how color shifts occur when luminance changes below.
Avid Andrew
AgX, the exciting new tone mapping module coming to darktable in December, is the natural evolution of the tone mappers that came before it. AgX reduces distortions and gives unprecedented control over the entire tone curve. Learn more about the history of tone mappers in darktable and see what...
Avid Andrew
These beautiful buildings were quite colorful, yet the vibrance of the colors is lost in this capture due to the extreme difference in contrast between the parts in direct sunlight and the parts in the shade. Let's see how to bring this scene to life so it more accurately reflects how it looked in...
Avid Andrew
Let's explore how to showcase this beautiful waterfall in Lauterbrunnen along with the colorful rock surrounding it and the iconic church tower.
Avid Andrew
Scenes with a high dynamic range can be challenging to work with - either you risk blowing the highlights or the shadows are way too dark. Let's learn how to compress a high dynamic range scene in darktable using both filmic rgb and sigmoid to compare how each of these tone mapping modules works.
Avid Andrew
Let's see an example of how to take a decent photo and really drive attention to the subject using color and saturation.
Avid Andrew
At first glance, the flower above might look fine. However, there is a hue shift going on which makes the flower look green/yellow even though it should be an orange/yellow. This phenomenon is present on a huge number of the JPEGs generated on-the-fly (also know as out-of-camera JPEGs) from...
Avid Andrew
Quickly get started with the darktable scene-referred workflow using easy, step-by-step instructions. Learn the purpose of each step rather than just clicking buttons and moving sliders, so these actions become intuitive when developing your photos.