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darktable manual reading note: a first RAW edit from import to export
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A reference note for photographers starting a first RAW edit in darktable, arranging what five manual pages say about import, review, exposure, tone mapping and export. It is the curator's reading of the documentation and was not run; module pages beyond exposure are not covered.
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darktable manual reading note: a first RAW edit from import to export
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A reference note for photographers starting a first RAW edit in darktable, arranging what five manual pages say about import, review, exposure, tone mapping and export. It is the curator's reading of the documentation and was not run; module pages beyond exposure are not covered.
Useful starting points
- The manual says the darkroom shows the mostly unprocessed Raw while the lighttable first shows the in-camera JPEG preview, so the two can look different.
- The exposure module page warns against using black level correction to add density in blacks, because it can produce negative RGB values.
- For further edits in a raster editor such as GIMP or Krita, the export page says TIFF is normally the better format.
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