[Digikam-users] Re: Processing RAW images to get to the look of the jpg preview

[Sven Burmeister]

Am Sonntag, 19. Juni 2011, 16:40:26 schrieb Martin:
> For raw processing I use a specialist in this area (ufraw in the past,
> darktable since about a half a year). These programs have much more
> options to get a pleasing photo. All the other stuff (organizing and
> tagging) I do with digikam.

I tried darktable and I like the default results. It performs better at 
handling highlights (even when clipping! and even if one uses unclipping there 
is no need to apply gamma) and its colours are better. Since if I understood 
correctly it also uses libdcraw, how come its results are better?

Or to put it the other way around. Why do I not have to use gamma when working 
with highlights and why is there no way for me to get the colours the same way 
with digikam's demosaicing?

I noticed that using the camera's whitebalance shows three sliders for the 
colours, i.e. it seems to read values for red, green and blue from the 
camera's whitebalance. Does digikam maybe fail at doing so?

Also, there is a noise reduction module but it is labeled as obsolete and it 
seems that there is no other module for noise reduction yet the noise 
reduction works very well nonetheless.

Sven