I use Darktable for 9 months now and it works great for me. This may make JPEG a second-class citizen in Darktable. The developers of Darktable seem to shoot in RAW exclusively. If the JPEG is not yet distortion-corrected, you may well do so, though.Įverything after (top of) the 'colorin' module really is the same for JPEG and RAW and can be used freely. The 'lens' correction module should be used with care because TCA and vignetting correction need proper linear pristine colour spaces to work, but this is usually not the case for JPEGs (normally sRGB). You may easily overlook what type of picture you are about to edit. Darktable tries to do the right thing™ in both cases. (No basecurve is applied because this has already been done by the JPEG engine in the camera.)īy and large, that's the whole difference.

RAW import), 'temperature', 'demosaic', 'basecurve', and 'sharpen'.įor JPEGs, no module is pre-activated. The user can switch on an off every module, and set parameters.įor RAWs, Darktable activates by default 'rawspeed' (i.e. So, the arrows are followed in reverse direction. This diagramm is loosely processed from the bottom to the top by darktable. See the Darktables module dependencies diagram. the demosaicing module is of no effect for obvious reasons. It just activates different processing modules by default, and e.g.

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