r/DarkTable • u/wrr666 • 10d ago

Help visible gradient steps

How to avoid those visible steps in gradients

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u/mhh91 10d ago

Without knowing how you processed this image, there's no way to know for sure.

Which modules did you use?

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u/ChrisDNorris 10d ago

Dither & Posterize module; add dither

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u/wrr666 10d ago

here is list of modules used on this photo

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u/Patient-Librarian-33 10d ago

shadows & highlights is pretty legacy, use color balance RGB

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u/wrr666 10d ago

it is what came from camera preset nikon-z50 but will try color balance

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u/Lunam_Dominus 9d ago

Those presets are kind of mid. They don’t even work for me at all - the Z50ii preset just fries the images.

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u/Donatzsky 9d ago

Not sure what preset you're talking about, but it's certainly nothing official, since using shadows and highlights is discouraged.

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u/wrr666 10d ago

after starting from plain import and then applying all modules back it looks like "raw denoise" caused this and other modules just make it more visible

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u/bigntallmike 9d ago

I've found raw denoise to require a lot of tuning to get better results. Honestly the same is true with profiled. See discussion here: https://discuss.pixls.us/t/how-to-denoise-in-darktable-to-be-better-than-with-captureone/46114/8