[Digikam-users] RAW editing

[Anders Lund]

On Fredag den 20. januar 2012, Sven Burmeister wrote:
> Am Freitag, 20. Januar 2012, 14:57:26 schrieb Wilkins, Vern W:
> > This issue comes up repeatedly and I think that does say something about
> > Digikam's raw processing.  There are often responses indicating that
> > Digikam 'can' work well for editing raw files.  I love the program and
> > appreciate all the work of the developers, but I have never found it
> > suitable for my needs when it comes to raw processing.  I can get a
> > reasonable conversion if I tweak different settings for every individual
> > image, but there just doesn't seem to be much consistency and the
> > settings I need to tweak to get a decent image are not at all similar to
> > settings I'd tweak in other programs.  It just seems the initial
> > conversion is so far off that there might be half a dozen different
> > things I have to do to the image to make it look even remotely like the
> > camera jpeg.  It has always been just easier for me to use Ufraw to do
> > the initial conversion from raw to png, and then do sharpening, tagging,
> > etc., in Digikam.

I find I get better results when doing the conversion from raw in the digikam 
editor, in the same session as additional postprocessing, when saving to jpeg, 
due to the lossyness of that format.

> We need a functionality to apply luminosity curves. They work quite nicely
> for most pictures.
> 
> See
> 
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276415
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276417
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276418
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276439
> 
> Sven

Presets would be nice, but I don't understand the desire to make it look like 
the preview jpeg in the raw file - that is very often suboptimal!

One question I have is, what is it that the other utilities does different? I 
haven't tried ufraw, but darktable a little bit but I could not get that to 
make a lot of sense easily. But, do those tools provide better defaults, or 
more true to the jpeg preview defaults?

-- 
Anders