[darktable-user] How to compare photos side-by-side

2019-01-24 Thread ey9zzhyuty
I'm a long-time Lightroom user that has been considering switching to darktable since Adobe switched to subscriptions, and I finally decided it was time to give darktable (2.6.0 on Windows 10) a real test drive on a set of wildlife photos from a morning hike.  I've completed my initial round

Re: [darktable-user] Inaccurate color display or color picker?

2019-01-24 Thread Normand Fortier
dt-l...@stefan-klinger.de : Matthieu Moy (2019-Jan-24, excerpt): dt runs the image through the whole pipeline, displays the result and uses it for the picker and histogram. A more rigorous approach would run the image through the pipeline up to the output color profile, and then export to

Re: [darktable-user] Inaccurate color display or color picker?

2019-01-24 Thread dt-list
Matthieu Moy (2019-Jan-24, excerpt): > dt runs > the image through the whole pipeline, displays the result and uses > it for the picker and histogram. A more rigorous approach would run > the image through the pipeline up to the output color profile, and > then export to monitor space to display

Re: [darktable-user] Inaccurate color display or color picker?

2019-01-24 Thread Matthieu Moy
> The global color picker works in monitor color space and takes > samples after the complete pixelpipe has been processed. > [...] > I have no idea why this would be considered useful. I don't think anyone claimed that this is useful, but this is easy to implement without breaking the way the

Re: [darktable-user] Inaccurate color display or color picker?

2019-01-24 Thread Normand Fortier
I don't know, I admit I did not check what Inkscape does by default (I'm not completely clear on color management...). However when I open the png (exported from Inkscape) in Geeqie, which uses my monitor profile (same as the one used in DT), then the rgb values it shows correspond to the

Re: [darktable-user] Inaccurate color display or color picker?

2019-01-24 Thread Jim Robinson
On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 18:22, Normand Fortier wrote: > I am creating test images in order to get a better grasp on soft > proofing for printing. These images simply contain patches of different > shades of gray. I created them using Inkscape and then exported to png > (see appended image). > >

Re: [darktable-user] Inaccurate color display or color picker?

2019-01-24 Thread dt-list
Normand Fortier (2019-Jan-23, excerpt): > For example, in the upper left group: > 24 -> (29,29,28) > 25 -> (29,30,29) > 26 -> (30,30,29) > 27 -> (31,31,30) > 28 -> (31,32,31) > 29 -> (32,33,32) > 30 -> (33,34,33) I observe this too, slightly different values though. According to the manual [1]