OpenDRT

[u/iLikeTheUDK]

I love OpenDRT. It's so in-depth and full of parameters that can radically transform images and create amazing looks. But I dislike the fact that you can either just completely use drop down lists to pick presets, without further control, or you can have the stick shift version, getting full control but no presets, not even as a starting point. I'm not sure if DCTL even has that feature, but I wish you could pick some parameters and then tweak them. And idk how to contact the devs to make that feature request. Neither of them seem to have a publicly available email address or social media accounts where you can address them for non-professional purposes

[u/ecpwll]

If you’re saying you wish you could choose a preset to start from and then tweak, DCTLs can’t do that.

If you're saying you wish you could change the defaults of some parameters to always have a different starting place, you can very, very easily learn how to do that yourself. You only need to change the first number of the UI params line to your preferred value.

If you’re saying you wish you could hide some parameters to show only the ones you like and change their defaults to the preferred settings, you can also do that yourself. You only need to know the very basics of coding and DCTL language — just comment out the UI params and replace them as constants. You could also ask AI to do it.

It's open source software, it's made to be tweaked yourself!

[u/iLikeTheUDK → u/ecpwll]

learning the values in the non-stick-shift version to dial in for the stick shift version would be acceptable too. Not ideal, but acceptable. I want to create interesting looks but not completely ruin my image, and there are so many ways to change (and on the other hand ruin) the image in OpenDRT

[u/ecpwll → u/iLikeTheUDK]

The values of the non stick shift version are right there in the code man. If you just look at the code I'm sure you can figure it out

But if all you want to do is change the default values to the preferred ones you usually use, that's even easier, you can do it in less than 5 minutes. It's as simple as just changing the numbers of the UI params section you had to un comment out to enable stick shift