Re: [Darktable-users] Shadows and Highlights

2016-02-14 Thread johannes hanika
yeah i guess the halo thing would best be addressed by implementing this: http://people.csail.mit.edu/sparis/publi/2011/siggraph/ (if i wasn't so lazy..) -jo On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Matthieu Moy wrote: > David Vincent-Jones writes: > >> Thanks for the ideas: yes ... I was aware of us

Re: [Darktable-users] Shadows and Highlights

2016-02-14 Thread Matthieu Moy
David Vincent-Jones writes: > Thanks for the ideas: yes ... I was aware of using a second instance > and I do use this approach with several modules. > > The low pass filter looks interesting will also give that a try. Some real-life examples on harry durgin's recent screencasts: https://w

Re: [Darktable-users] Shadows and Highlights

2016-02-14 Thread David Vincent-Jones
Thanks for the ideas: yes ... I was aware of using a second instance and I do use this approach with several modules. The low pass filter looks interesting will also give that a try. David On 14/02/16 09:08 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote: > David Vincent-Jones writes: > >> I think that the proble

Re: [Darktable-users] Shadows and Highlights

2016-02-14 Thread Matthieu Moy
David Vincent-Jones writes: > I think that the problem would be less difficult if S&H were broken into > 2 modules and wonder if others might consider this a good idea. 2 modules doing what? If you want one module for the shadows, and one for the highlights, then you can already do that: just

Re: [Darktable-users] Shadows and Highlights

2016-02-14 Thread Carlos Maiolino
I am still learning about how to properly use darktable, but one idea that comes to my mind here, is to create a new instance of the S&H modules and apply to them only the effects you need, so you can in this way separate what you want to change in each. But anyway, not sure how useful this might b

[Darktable-users] Shadows and Highlights

2016-02-14 Thread David Vincent-Jones
I use S&H extensively and in most cases I am able to readily mitigate the 'halo' effect where significantly different tones collide. There are however times where it is impossible to fully correct the problem. The best solution that I have found so far is to use a parametric mask to allow the h

Re: [Darktable-users] Low Quality Preview in Lighttable

2016-02-14 Thread Lefty Ace
Hans Petter, When I started this process I forgot I had any TIFF files in the database, so I didn't think your comment applied to my situation. Apparently there are some files in there I had forgotten about (thank goodness the database has a better memory than I do :-) I think you are absolutely c

Re: [Darktable-users] Low Quality Preview in Lighttable

2016-02-14 Thread Hans Petter Birkeland
As I said in a previous reply, I get these all the time when I open tiffs from Darktable in Gimp. My tiffs are generated from Canon CR2 raw files, so this is probably not Nikon specific. Hans Petter http://hpbirkeland.com 2016-02-14 18:06 GMT+01:00 Pedro Côrte-Real : > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 5

Re: [Darktable-users] Low Quality Preview in Lighttable

2016-02-14 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Lefty Ace wrote: > So, it appears that TIFF files generated by darktable contain the unknown > field issue. Is that because they came from NEFs with crazy manufacturer > fields? And darktable (or a library it is using) is suppressing those > messages when processin

Re: [Darktable-users] Low Quality Preview in Lighttable

2016-02-14 Thread Lefty Ace
Maybe this should go into a new thread (and maybe it doesn't matter at all). I've stumbled across some more information. It appears the messages are triggered by TIFF files that came from NEFs. Here is what I see: All of the TIFF files in my database are of the pattern %Arboretum.tif (I only have

Re: [Darktable-users] Low Quality Preview in Lighttable

2016-02-14 Thread Lefty Ace
Ah, I see. Well, if I ever figure out which files it was I'll investigate further, but for now it seems like something I'm safe to ignore. -Owen On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Pedro Côrte-Real wrote: > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Lefty Ace wrote: > > Regarding the TIFF issue, I did som

Re: [Darktable-users] Low Quality Preview in Lighttable

2016-02-14 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Lefty Ace wrote: > Regarding the TIFF issue, I did some digging and I actually have a few TIFF > files in my database that I forgot about from a panorama experiment. The > messages are most likely not coming from RAW files at all. That is unlikely actually. TIFF f

Re: [Darktable-users] Low Quality Preview in Lighttable

2016-02-14 Thread Lefty Ace
Thanks again for your reply, Johannes. > i hope that's the old configuration and not the new one, right? > You are correct, I wrote the wrong thing in my original message. My config file now says: never_use_embedded_thumb=TRUE plugins/lighttable/low_quality_thumbnails=FALSE Regarding the TIFF

Re: [Darktable-users] Low Quality Preview in Lighttable

2016-02-14 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 4:34 PM, johannes hanika wrote: >> TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, Unknown field with tag 37398 (0x9216) >> encountered. >> >> Any idea what that means? > > no but that should be relatively harmless (probably comes from > non-standard tags in tiff that is actually a raw or simi

Re: [Darktable-users] Low Quality Preview in Lighttable

2016-02-14 Thread johannes hanika
heya, On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Lefty Ace wrote: > Thanks for your reply, Johannes. > > I checked darktablerc and both of those options were the opposite of what > you listed. I changed them, so now I have: > > never_use_embedded_thumb=FALSE > plugins/lighttable/low_quality_thumbnails=TRU

Re: [Darktable-users] Exported photo without applying all changes in the stack history

2016-02-14 Thread Carlos Maiolino
On Sun, Feb 14, 2016, 14:15 Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Carlos Maiolino [02-14-16 07:49]: > > Ok, I finally figured out what is happening: > > > > For my understanding, I can't compare the pictures from darktable with > > another image viewer, instead I do a 1:1 ratio comparison, otherwise > > t

Re: [Darktable-users] Exported photo without applying all changes in the stack history

2016-02-14 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Carlos Maiolino [02-14-16 07:49]: > Ok, I finally figured out what is happening: > > For my understanding, I can't compare the pictures from darktable with > another image viewer, instead I do a 1:1 ratio comparison, otherwise > the picture can be very different. Depending on the software's > a

Re: [Darktable-users] Exported photo without applying all changes in the stack history

2016-02-14 Thread Carlos Maiolino
Ok, I finally figured out what is happening: For my understanding, I can't compare the pictures from darktable with another image viewer, instead I do a 1:1 ratio comparison, otherwise the picture can be very different. Depending on the software's algorithm used to display the image, it will inter

Re: [Darktable-users] Exported photo without applying all changes in the stack history

2016-02-14 Thread Chester
Hola tocayo, Only for Web, I compare jpeg with Firefox (not for printing, of course). Firefox is capable of managing color profiles like sRGB, AdobeRGB and the like. We'll see what Patrick Shanahan says Carlos El 14/02/16 a las 08:57, Carlos Maiolino escribió: BTW Patrick, how are you compa

Re: [Darktable-users] Exported photo without applying all changes in the stack history

2016-02-14 Thread Carlos Maiolino
BTW Patrick, how are you comparing both images? I've been using Image Viewer to open jpeg files, not sure if this make much difference. But I got a bit annoyed with it, mostly because I'm quite new on photography processing and I have no idea how to debug this issue :) But I'm still seeing very di

Re: [Darktable-users] Exported photo without applying all changes in the stack history

2016-02-14 Thread Carlos Maiolino
On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 5:14 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Carlos Maiolino [02-13-16 19:54]: >> Definitely something is wrong. I think darktable is not applying >> denoise modules on top of some other module. I don't have time to >> figure out not what is going on, but there is something wrong