I have no idea. But I can see what you mean. Only idea is that my resolution is potentially even smaller.
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Oh, I’d so much love to be able to edit like you are doing, this is incredible, even boring pictures (not this one, in other threads) come to life after your edit. Do you give lessons? If not, think about it, I have to re-visit this Italian restaurant in Greater Stuttgart soon anyway, that redefined my appreciation for Pizza. I’d love to combine this with some introduction into your black magic. Or what about a pixls meeting in the metropolitan region Rhine-Main-Neckar-Stuttgart? Anyway, maybe I first start looking at your xmp and see what I can learn from it …
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Thanx for your kind words! Now I have a somewhat redish skin colour. 
… and sometimes I fail miserably 
Even so, most of the times I’m quite satisfied with my edits - especially on landscape photographs. On the other hand I’m sometime quite unsure about street photographs and other motives.
Anyway I think there are a lot of people around which are doing great edits. For example @Thomas_Do, @dqpcoxeas, @Dito_Budi and many others.
I fear, the ony lessons I give, are the XMPs. But for more technical things there are many tutorials. For example from @s7habo.
In my opinion, the most important advice I can give is to watch and THINK about what you see. Not only pictures but as well nature. Whenever you see images, think about what is special, what are the reasons, for liking this pic.
And whenever you are out in nature, don’t just watch it, but think about what you see: How saturated is gras on a sunset, how dark are shadows when you overlook a scenery without concentrating on these shadows…
To know, how the result should look, before starting an edit is in my opinion more important, than how to do it technically. The second part is in the end easy to learn, even so there are always things, which you don’t know and many ways to achieve your goal.
Unfortunately, beeing a conscious observer is a lesson, which nobody can tell you how to do it in detail. It’s a very individual thing. But it is in my opinion infinitely important.
Further things: Don’t try to copy a style without understanding what is special on it. Try to avoid using ready-made styles and LUTs. Instead create your own and improve them whenever you can. Nobody is able to learn how to cook, by heating prefabricated meals. And a really good cook doesn’t need foreign recipies. (But when learning to cook, they can be helpful to understand how to do things)
I hope this helps a little bit, whitout sounding arrogant or too teacher like. I still have a lot to learn on my own.
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Last one of the night…I have been hitting a few playraw files with the AgX tonemapper that @kofa has been experimenting with…Here all I did was add the vibrant rgb CB preset and the dehaze preset of DorS and tweak exposure with the auto picker or even less just at the default exposure in the lower one…then just a tweak to slope and power in the tone mapper. The 4 controls a great for adjusting the global tone IMO…
Very impressed how you can get a nice neutral tone mapped starting point that is easy to take whatever direction you want…
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My render with only agx and some color adjustments. I love the agx module a whole lot! Feels like cheating
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Will use channel mixer for that… 
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Van Gogh touch. Nice 
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My try with dt 5.3. Attempting to make the Kans Grass in the foreground as creamy/white as possible, and the sky the autumnal blue
Windmill_2019-10-28_16-19-49.cr2.xmp (13.7 KB)
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Fun! One day I’ll go GIMP all the way, Kind regards, Jetze
Another try, this time with AgX. I find it looks better. Made it look like a painting
Windmill_2019-10-28_16-19-49_01.cr2.xmp (12.7 KB)
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Hello, I was following the play_raw category for some time now and also recently started editing photos with darktable. I like it for being open source and a quite powerful tool.
I think the shot about the windmills is really beautiful. For my taste a 2:1 crop works good on this one.
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Bit late to the party, but nice image to work on. Challenging too, and I had to completely start over at least three times. I was aiming for something similar to the original version (still my favorite) but got lost in a tangle of messy masks…
2019-10-28_16-19-49_01.cr2.xmp (59.6 KB)
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