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Thanks for the reply, Jakob. Comments below...<br>
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Jakob Østergaard Hegelund wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Paul Waldo wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi all,
When I try to edit a RAW image, it is very dark. Yes, I did RTFM; I
have color management enabled :-)
I'm running digikam 0.9.2-final on KDE 3.5.8
Here are my digikam settings:
Color Management
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Enable Color Management: on
Launch Color Management plugin with RAW files: on
Use color managed view: on
Color profiles selected for Monitor, Workspace (Adobe RGB), Input,
Soft Proof
Black point compensation: off
Rendering Intent: perceptual
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My guess would be that you're using the wrong profile.
I had a *lot* of problems with this, but with the right profile for the
camera (and none for the monitor as it's sort-of close to sRGB which I
also use as workspace), everything works.
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I'm using the same profiles that work great in UFRaw. That got me to
thinking about the differences. When I convert using my profile in
UFRaw, I set the gamma to 0.45 and linearity to 0.02. I see no way to
do this in Digikam...<br>
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RAW Decoding
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16 bit color depth: on
Interpolate RGB as four colors: off
Use camera white balance: on
Automatic color balance: on
Thanks for any insights!
Paul
PS
Is there any way to select a specific color balance when converting
RAW? Camera WB works most of the time, but sometimes I need a manual
WB, such as when photographing with a grey card.
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The RAW converter uses the cammera supplied WB, which means, if you set
the custom WB on the camera when you use grey card (select the grey
card image for custom WB before shooting the real photos), the correct
WB will be applied automatically during conversion.
At least this is how it works in 0.9.2 with my EOS 350D.
For actual WB adjustments later on, use the WB adjust tool in the
editor.
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Ah, OK. I had not seen that before. FWIW, I tried setting gamma here,
but it had no effect. The only thing I could do was the the EV
Compensation way up (3 EV). In order to do a manual WB with the
picker, I had to guess where to click because the image was so dark!<br>
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