[Digikam-users] RAW editing

[Gilles Caulier]

2012/1/21 Anders Lund <anders at alweb.dk>:
> On Lørdag den 21. januar 2012, Sven Burmeister wrote:
>> Am Samstag, 21. Januar 2012, 11:10:54 schrieb Anders Lund:
>> > That is absolutely right. But I don't see darktable doing a better job
>> > than digikam, albeit a different one. So far, I see darktable images
>> > being a bit more saturated/vivid than the preview, while digikam goes a
>> > bit the other way. (I use a canon EOS 30D)
>> >
>> > The problem must relate to knowing how the camera jpeg is created, maybe
>> > that knowledge is part of what you pay for using a commercial tool?
>>
>> http://www.darktable.org/usermanual/ch03s04s13.html.php has defaults that
>> work a lot better than the digikam defaults which do not apply any base
>> curve.
>
> Yes, and maybe darktable applies a few more corrections?
>
>>
>> Another example, set digikam to reconstruct the highlights and then do the
>> same in darktable. Digikam produces a dark image while darktable does not.
>
> I guess darktable have a curve to compensate -  at least that is what I do
> using digikam. I had to figure that out, of course, and create some presets.
>
> Maybe we can agree that digikam is missing some pr camera defaults to apply,
> and compensation for highlight rebuilding.
>
> It is interresting to identify how digikam could/should be improved, as I
> prefer digikams UI to darktable.

digiKam use libraw in background, through libkdcraw.

libraw as introduced curve management, but we don't have supported
this feature yet in libkdcraw.

Gilles