Quick tips : color-grading an outdoor picture

[@bartylobethal8089]

Good stuff, thank you. I like this Quick Tips format. My tiny brain can only hold so much, so these shorter videos are quite useful to me.

You still need the full explanations and some theory to be able to adapt those tips to your particular circumstances. Otherwise you will be trapped forever into the reproduction of these. Following cooking recipes doesn't make you a chef.

[@l.968]

Thanks so much for the tips, they complement the longer videos perfectly.

[@jaredacrean]

Great work, and thank you for all your contributions to Darktable.

[@ViktorPankraz]

Thanks so much for this video as well as the other quick (or not so quick) tips for editing with darktable. It helps a lot!

[@keithclethero]

Excellent stuff, thank you.

[@pgtgd]

Merci Aurélien pour ces petites vidéos très concrètes. On voit mieux comment se servir des modules et avec quelle approche le faire.

[@MalanTp]

J'aime beaucoup cette série de petites astuces, ça permet de découvrir des subtilités dans les modules et dans l'approche du traitement, j'espère que tu continueras d'en faire de manière régulière, je trouve ça vraiment sympa ! :)

[@--dn]

Really good video! I tend to over-saturate my images, I will try your method next time. I am a bit color-blind for such small differences in the hue slider. Perhaps it is just a matter of training my eyes?

Rule of thumbs for every beginner : on each artistic change you made, apply a 80% opacity on the module you used. If you don't know why right now, in a couple of years, you will ;-) Overdoing it is very common.

[@streamsandgalaxies]

Hello, I am just starting in Darktable and I tried to absorb and understand some of your lessons for which I am very greatful! I honestly am not well versed in digital photo editing beyond some basics in the Gimp. After trying to follow the instructions for v 3.0, I realised that I could easily update to v 4.0. I attempted to follow a basic filmic pipeline and create a custom style. When I applied my style to similar photos that I want to use in a slideshow, it seems like there is a shift in contrast and colour with some of the pictures. They were shot with same cloudy lighting and settings, and look the same when imported in lightroom. Are there some specific modules that are best to fine tune for each picture and should not be saved as a style? (note: I saved ALL the module settings that I used including exposure, denoise, chomatic abberation, white balance, filmic rgb and tone equalizer, colour correction, colour balance RBG)

You can't really make styles and expect they magically work for all pictures, there are conditions to check to get some reproductibility. You can book a class if you want us to look at your specific problem with specific examples.

[@streamsandgalaxies]

@ Good news! I changed to 'modern' in settings, I cleared the history stack & started over. I left white balance from camera as it is by default, only adjusting colour calibration & colour balance RGB, overall exposure and then fine tuning with exposure levels and this time made sure I only saved the modules that I adjusted and I am quite satisfied with the results!!

[@streamsandgalaxies]

​@ Only thing that still confuses me is when and if to change input and export colour profile. For now I was using darktable's defaults, but had a posterisation effect when exporting to rec709 jpg (8 bits) and opening with image viewer or converted to sRGB in the Gimp. Other settings, such as Tiff rec709 get colour managed & look ok in the the Gimp. I assumed that it is better to use rec709 if I will be combining images & footage in a video editor such as Cinelerra or Davinci resolve? or is keeping profile sRGB just fine for that kind of workflow? BTW great work with Darktable, I am greatful that there is such an excellent tool to use in linux!

@@streamsandgalaxies You should never export to linear Rec709 in 8 bits, it's not encoded to avoid posterization. Use regular sRGB in 8 bits or TIFF 16 bits if you are set on using linear Rec709