I concur that the best way to achieve this is to make a pre-set. I have made a list of pre-sets with the black level correction set to -0.0002 which is recommended by AP to avoid negative numbers.
[image: image.png] On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 at 02:45, Jack Bowling <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2023-03-14 07:54, Remco Viëtor wrote: > > On mardi 14 mars 2023 11:19:55 CET Thomas Schweikle wrote: > >> Hi! > >> > >> How can I reset a module, here exposure, to defaults? > >> Whatever I did this module keeps "compensate camera exposure" active, > sets > >> exposure to +0.7ev and black level correction to -0.0002. > >> I'd like to have it: > >> * "compensate camera exposure" inactive, > >> * "exposure" set to 0.0ev, and > >> * "black level correction" to 0.0 > >> > >> Any idea how to set defaults without creating a new setting? > > If you want exactly those values, best use a auto-applied preset. > > > > I *think* the black level correction is always set to -0.0002 to avoid > > introducing negative values. "Compensate camera exposure" and the +0.7EV > > exposuse are the defaults when you use the "scene-referred" for > "auto-apply > > pixel workflow default". If you use "none" there, those should be > inactive (?) > > (but you get *no* default activated modules) > > > > Remco > Yes, the only way to get what you want is to have no default workflow, > i. e., setting workflow to "none" in the Preferences. I have set up a > number of styles for the various workflows I use (black and white, > colour film, colour digital, etc) which I apply to whichever image I am > working on. Creating a style is easy: enable and set up the the modules > you always use for the type of image, then right-click on the symbol on > the bottom right of the history stack, then fill in the pop-up with name > and check the modules you would like to be part of the style. When you > have an image in front of you, you can then apply the style by clicking > on the Styles from the right margin in lighttable view, or clicking on > the middle symbol on the bottom left of the darktable view. Should you > wish to tweak a style, follow the same procedure but give it the same > name and dt will ask if you want to overwrite it. I find this better > than using auto-applied presets since you do not have to worry about an > inappropriate module being activated for a particular workflow. > > Jack > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to > [email protected] > > -- T ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
