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Posted by alexis on 2023-09-08.
Hi
I ’m really liking this fork of darktable but some things that are missing are preventing me from using it.I ’m in general very experienced in editing but i must say i ’m totally new to ansel and darktable. One thing that came up right after i switch from darktable to ansel is the highlight recontruction. The segmentation based highlight reconstruction in darktable produces far better results than what i could achieve in ansel which does not have that many options in the highlight module and filmic cannot achieve what the highlight module does in darktable. So i ’m not sure if it is possible to achieve same results as darktable with some other way or this feature is just missing for some other reason.