On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 14:33:17 +0000 "Ricardo Kozmate.Net" <rica...@kozmate.net> wrote:
> I also note that image editing is a technical but also an artistic task, > giving 'the artist' as much freedom to follow their flow intuition as > possible is a good thing. That's actually the main disagreement point - darktable team doesn't believe that raw development is something that should be done by intuition, instead 'the artist' should understand how the instrument works (e.g. how painters learn how to get specific color by mixing the available paints and which brush to use to get specific stroke width). 'The artist' should envision the result he wants to get (that's the artistic part of the process) and then use the instrument to get it, knowing how to achieve it (of course it can take some number of iterations), instead of fiddling with random sliders trying to get something that "looks good". If you want the latter, darktable is not a tool for you, there are alternatives you should try instead of asking darktable to change its concept. darktable team doesn't aim at pleasing everyone or increasing its "market share" at any cost - it doesn't make sense for free software project to have such goals when developers are doing it for fun at their spare time. Instead the goal is to maybe teach some photographers the modern way to process raw files from their cameras, getting more predictable and consistent results. It's impossible to do without some good will from the users to learn something new and to not be stuck with the habits they got from other image processing software out there. So please don't post any feature requests to github about this, because they will be just closed by pointing to https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/issues/7841 as the only possible way forward on this subject. Which by the way I hope will get implemented and will cover the discussed "custom workflow" problem. Better developers spend time on doing actual work instead of arguing on the Internet;) ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org