Images are best viewed full screen on a laptop or bigger. Take note of all the extra steps needed in Filmic versus Sigmoid! They will ensure your output (either display referred or scene referred) enables you to see the blacks, whites and all the colours in-between.įor the examples below, we will see an image with the same basic adjustments applied to all three identical images ( All images have lens correction, exposure set, global saturation 20%, global chroma 10% and local contrast 130%), the second images are with Filmic V6 (going into the Filmic RGB module, the auto tune levels was selected, and then in the reconstruct section I adjusted the highlight reconstruction settings using the mask) while the third images are simply applying the Sigmoid module with no changes. In basic terms, Filmic and Sigmoid are modules to control and contain the dynamic range of your images. You already know the exposure triangle and understand the basics of your camera, and editing should just be an extension of this.įilmic RGB, Sigmoid or Nothing? How do you decide? I’m a strong believer that you should only need basic knowledge of sliders and then as you gain knowledge you can look into the technical side if you really feel the need to… This slider increases/decreases saturation, this slider increases/decreases exposure etc in order to make an edit should be all you need to worry about. I am not going to make this article technical in any way. I am a full time photographer, and this is how I earn my living.
DARKTABLE SOFTWARE
However, my preferred software is Darktable (along with Gimp) for the more creative edits (don’t ask me why, I just really enjoy using it!). Because I teach photography, I am also proficient at other software packages such as Adobe Lightroom, Luminar Neo, DXO PhotoLab, ON1 and more.
I’ve been using Darktable since around 2010, in that time I’ve developed many thousands of images using Darktable.
They are both intended to do the same, or very similar things, but both give quite different results.įirst of all some information about me and my photography and the use of Darktable. Darktable is an amazing piece of software, however, the decision to develop a separate module from the Filmic RGB module which they have named Sigmoid has caused some confusion among Darktable users.
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