No, I appreciate that fact cometely and admitted I'm new to using it. I'm not suggesting the application of a number of preparatory steps is confusing.
The HDR creation section of the help pages is 5 lines long, 2 of which are "you can generate them in another package" :) There's no info I can find as to what each module is auto-applying and why (and why the result is initially very unlike every other HDR generated by other packages). The only other documentation I can find on it via darktable.org is a blog post from 2012 which says turn off all auto applied modules as they "make the image strange". Can you provide a link to where it tells me why each module is applying values? Maybe a workflow to get to a usable image? Jeezo, it's not like I'm not trying here - I've spent an hour or two searching and faffing and I'm just asking for a little support. Cheers James On Thu, 20 Aug 2020, 12:35 Patrick Shanahan, <p...@opensuse.org> wrote: > * James Buckle <james.buc...@gmail.com> [08-20-20 05:15]: > > That’s curious, shouldn’t it just pull the mean (or at least one) value > from > > the constituent input files? > > > > > > > > I’ve just tried opening a fresh DNG HDR file and copying the WB values > from the > > first image in the series, and it won’t actually allow me to apply the > values, > > the sliders move dependant on each other and I can never reach the same > value. > > > > > > > > The workflow is really baffling me at the moment as I’m quite new to this > > package, in the history list it has a bunch of operations including > input and > > output colour corrections that I have not applied manually – not that > they seem > > to make any difference to the inability to get back to a nice neutral > colour > > tone. I can get close with the WB sliders, but then it has pretty much > lost all > > saturation. I’ve tried following some youtube tutorials but they don’t > seem to > > have this issue at all. > > and this "bafflement" is a direct result of not perusing the ample > documentation for darktable. some operations must be applied to the image > to display it in a manner suitable for you to proceed with your editing. > Those operations are what you are seeing. > > > -- > (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri > http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri > Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode > ___________________________________________________________________________ > darktable developer mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > > ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
