[Digikam-users] Digikam - Darktable workflow - Color profile

[Wolfgang Mader]

Thank you for your replies. Perhaps they drive me back to raw shooting, which 
a stopped because I did not know how to handle them "corretly".

On Tuesday 03 January 2012 07:10:39 Wolfgang Mader wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> are you guys who do RAW development using calibrated work stations and color
> profiles. If so, how do you obtain the color profile for your camera. I am
> using a Canon 40D and have no clue on how to get the Canon color profile.
> Or is color profiling not important when working with RAW files?
> 
> Thank you very much and a happy new year.
> Wolfgang
> 
> On Tuesday 03 January 2012 08:42:06 Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:
> > I'm a Linux/Fedora 16 user, and have been using Digikam since I switched
> > from Windows to Linux 2 years ago. I have about 30.000 pictures in my
> > Digikam database, about half of them having been migrated from the
> > Photoshop Elements I had used when running Windows.
> > 
> > About one year ago, I gave up shooting JPEG, and I now use RAW files
> > only, produced by Canon EOS 450D at the beginning, and EOS7D currently.
> > I began to treat RAW pictures with Digikam, then RawTherapee, and
> > 'upgraded' to Darktable some weeks ago.
> > I'm very satisfied with both programs - Digikam and Darktable - and
> > intend to use them consistently in the foreseeable future
> > 
> > My workflow is usually the following:
> > 
> > 1) in Digikam:
> > - import pictures straight from memory cards to a 'buffer' folder (I've
> > named it 'A trier')
> > - first selection/rating: the pictures I want to keep are moved to their
> > final folder. Some that I'm not yet sure about will remain in the 'A
> > trier' folder till I take time to have another look; they will be moved
> > to the same album as their 'sister' pictures in the case I decide to
> > keep them For this step, I mainly use the rating function; as I
> > upgraded to version 2 quite recently, I've not yet decided how/when (at
> > what stage) I will use pick and color labels.
> > I roughly maintain two main albums trees, one for 'events' when I
> > produce
> > between 30 and 500 or more pictures, the other for pictures taken at any
> > moment, that I regroup in a monthly album. The events tree is organized
> > by year (level 1) and event (level 2) named 'NN - this specific event'
> > so they remain sorted in their own year. The 'day to day' tree is
> > classically organized by year (level 1) and month (level 2)
> > So, whatever I'm looking, I always know in which folder I can find the
> > picture I'm looking for.
> > - I might do some commenting and/or tagging at this stage, when I still
> > have a lone CR2 file; but I have no strict rule on the matter: I can add
> > information any time to any picture when I browse and work on the whole
> > collection.
> > 
> > 2) in Darktable:
> > - I use Darktable to produce TIFF files that will serve as 'master' full
> > size pictures for whatever publication/export I'll need.
> > - I usually don't treat all the pictures of an event at the same time;
> > I'm more or less in a hurry to publish a couple of the best ones, and
> > take time, days or weeks later, to derawtize the remaining pictures
> > - I would like to be able to find easily the RAW files that have been
> > previously selected in Digikam, but the information is not passed on to
> > Darktable ... In the beginning, I created sub-sub-folders in Digikam, in
> > order to select them easily in Darktable, but that is not convenient as
> > I
> > never know from the beginning, which pictures I will treat - or not - in
> > the future ... and I want/need to keep in the same folder all the files
> > (CR2, TIFF, JPEG, XMP) related to the same pictures and some of them
> > (XMP
> > for example) are not displayed.
> > - if I want different treatments for the same picture (color treatment,
> > effects, etc.), I will clone the RAW file and produce a different TIFF.
> > To make things easier, I've defined in Darktable an 'export Digikam'
> > style that always save the TIFF in the folder the RAW file comes from.
> > - as there is currently no information transferred from Digikam to
> > Darktable, when I want to treat just a couple of pictures, I find it
> > easier to use the 'open in Darktable' function in Digikam, rather than
> > the 'import folder' or 'import image' in Darktable.
> > 
> > 3) in Digikam:
> > - from Digikam I export pictures regularly to a FB page, and several
> > Piwigo and Picasa galleries.
> > - I usually open each picture in the editor in order to resize, then
> > adjust the sharpening it before saving it as a new JPEG version. If
> > sharpening is not so critical, I might use the batch queue treatment,
> > or the resizing option of the Piwigo export to quicken the process.
> > 
> > I'd like very much to read from others about their own DK-DT workflow.
> > 
> > Marie-Noëlle
> 
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