Comparison with other darktable’s tonemapping methods.

The beginning of this article is mostly directed toward a general audience, until the section Controls, which provides a complete manual showing how to use the new filmic module. The next sections are mostly directed at scientists and technical audience.

After having used it for 7 years, I begun to develop in it 3 months ago. This article shows my work and results to improve the HDR-scenes handling in darktable, in a fashion that allows better color preservation for portrait photography. Images can be added or removed from a selection by Ctrl+clicking on their thumbnails or by pressing Spacebar.Darktable is an open-source software for raw photographs management and processing developped since 2009 for Linux desktops. Since then, it has been ported on Mac OS and Windows 7, 8, 10.

A range of images can be selected by clicking on the first image and then Shift+clicking on the last one. select You can select the image under the pointer by clicking on its thumbnail or by pressing Enter. Press the Home key to scroll to the top of the collection, the End key to scroll to the bottom, and PageUp/PageDown to scroll up/down by a page. navigate You can navigate through the images using the arrow keys (←/→/↑/↓) or by scrolling with your mouse. 🔗controls zoom The number of images in each row can be altered using the slider in the bottom panel, or by holding Ctrl while scrolling over the center view with your mouse. In the default mode images are displayed in a grid with an adjustable number of images per row.

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