Re: [Darktable-users] Gnome color manager

2014-11-13 Thread Riley Brandt
If you launch the System Settings in Gnome, choose Device Color Profiles, then select your monitor and/or printer from the list and choose Add Profile in the bottom right. I find it very easy in Gnome. If you use dispcalGUI to create your color profile, it will automatically add it for you. Ri

Re: [Darktable-users] Gnome color manager

2014-11-13 Thread Federico Bruni
Il 13 novembre 2014 22:02:07 CET, David Vincent-Jones ha scritto: >I have switched over to using the gnome desktop and do have the >gnome-color-manager installed but cannot find how to add the profiles >for my monitors and printers. I do have the required profiles on my >system. > You can add

Re: [Darktable-users] Gnome color manager

2014-11-13 Thread Milan Knížek
David Vincent-Jones píše v Čt 13. 11. 2014 v 13:02 -0800: > I have switched over to using the gnome desktop and do have the > gnome-color-manager installed but cannot find how to add the profiles > for my monitors and printers. I do have the required profiles on my > system. > AFAIK, there is

Re: [Darktable-users] 30bit display support?

2014-11-13 Thread Milan Knížek
Michael Below píše v Po 03. 11. 2014 v 17:14 +0100: > Hi, > Hi, > the graphics card is a NVidia GTX 750ti card, precisely this one: > http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=02G-P4-3751-KR > Have you got it work with any other application to really display 30bit depth? I have the same card

[Darktable-users] Gnome color manager

2014-11-13 Thread David Vincent-Jones
I have switched over to using the gnome desktop and do have the gnome-color-manager installed but cannot find how to add the profiles for my monitors and printers. I do have the required profiles on my system. Strangely when I used KDE the setup was much easier! David -

Re: [Darktable-users] Question regarding handling of highlights.

2014-11-13 Thread David Vincent-Jones
On Thu, 2014-11-13 at 17:46 +0100, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: > When I try this with default settings, reducing exposure by -2 EV and setting > highlight reconstruction to "restore color" I get a nice picture with good > highlights. > > Using darktable 1.5+2272~g575742b > > Matthias I agree .

Re: [Darktable-users] DT fails to launch

2014-11-13 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
First, have you checked if your have any free space in your home partition? El 13/11/2014 14:10, "Francesco Scaglioni" escribió: > Using GIT from a couple of weeks ago on attempting to launch > DT on thsi ubuntu 14.04 system I got the error "moving > database into new XDG directory structure" and

Re: [Darktable-users] Question regarding handling of highlights.

2014-11-13 Thread Bambasti
Restoring color within the module for highlight reconstruction did indeed the trick and worked wonders. Thanks for the hint! Darktable is now on par with the other programs I tried. What I don't understand though: Why isn't this integrated into the "normal" tool for highlights and shadows or

[Darktable-users] DT Git fails to launch

2014-11-13 Thread Francesco Scaglioni
Hi, Apologies for thread hyjacking but direct messages to the list seem never to get delivered. I have been using DT from GIT for quite some tim ewith no problem. Worked fine yesterday afternoon. Then this morning I was met with the "moving database into new XDG directory structure" error on st

Re: [Darktable-users] Question regarding handling of highlights.

2014-11-13 Thread Chris Siebenmann
> I'm using Darktable for a while now, believing that it is indeed a > great program with an amazing set of features. > > But lately it has come to my attention that the handling of highlights > in not on par with other programs, like shown in this example: > > http://abload.de/img/dsc_1284dt_1a8u

Re: [Darktable-users] Question regarding handling of highlights.

2014-11-13 Thread Matthias Bodenbinder
When I try this with default settings, reducing exposure by -2 EV and setting highlight reconstruction to "restore color" I get a nice picture with good highlights. Using darktable 1.5+2272~g575742b Matthias -- Compre

Re: [Darktable-users] Question regarding handling of highlights.

2014-11-13 Thread johannes hanika
http://picpaste.com/pics/highlights-Ars8Wv8B.1415893141.jpg my result. xmp in jpg. -jo On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Rob Z. Smith wrote: > Which version of dt are you using? > > > > With dt 1.4 or an early 1.5 I had much the same problem and whatever I > did couldn’t get near lightroom f

Re: [Darktable-users] Question regarding handling of highlights.

2014-11-13 Thread Rob Z. Smith
Which version of dt are you using? With dt 1.4 or an early 1.5 I had much the same problem and whatever I did couldn’t get near lightroom for cloud detail. However there have been big improvements and after updating to current master two or three months ago dt was much better, in fact at l

Re: [Darktable-users] Question regarding handling of highlights.

2014-11-13 Thread Bambasti
I didn't pay much attention to the shadows. Of course they could be optimized, but the difference in the highlights is much more evident, especially with those nasty tonal breaks using Darktable. When I tried to recover the highlights I ended up with the image I provided. Other programs do a

Re: [Darktable-users] Question regarding handling of highlights.

2014-11-13 Thread Jamie Kitson
I'm not sure that's a fair comparison, you've got a lot more detail in the shadows in the Darktable image. Also looks like the contrast is quite different. -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 serve

[Darktable-users] Question regarding handling of highlights.

2014-11-13 Thread Bambasti
Hello! I'm using Darktable for a while now, believing that it is indeed a great program with an amazing set of features. But lately it has come to my attention that the handling of highlights in not on par with other programs, like shown in this example: http://abload.de/img/dsc_1284dt_1a8

[Darktable-users] DT fails to launch

2014-11-13 Thread Francesco Scaglioni
Using GIT from a couple of weeks ago on attempting to launch DT on thsi ubuntu 14.04 system I got the error "moving database into new XDG directory structure" and DT fails to launch. Thought I must have done a stupid so updated GIT as of about 10 minutes ago ( 1135 GMT ) and still the same error.

Re: [Darktable-users] Color management, LUT and swapped matrix

2014-11-13 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
There are some confusion here. So to simplify Profiles have much more information than just color space.The lighting of the original subject (and surrounding) is very important for an input profile. Unless you have specific input profiles for every lighting, it is not so useful to have an input pr

Re: [Darktable-users] Color management, LUT and swapped matrix

2014-11-13 Thread Rob Z. Smith
Nope, if the input image is a jpeg the 'input profile' if one was used at all would have been applied by the capture device/system so that has already been done for your jpeg and it is not needed except for raws. Specifically for dt an input profile isn't needed even for raws as we have colour