B&W enhancement experiments...

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I have with great interest followed the B&W with filmic thread – and since I do not want to tarnish that thread, here is a new one.

After the “normal” B&W darktable conversion procedure, I have used two modules:

  • diffuse||sharpen → simulate line drawing, to enhance structure, and
  • color balance → gamma / power to make the black just a trifle colder

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Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden

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Follow-up: Just for fun — same model but treated differently in dt’s color balance module. In this case, I made the blacks warmer and the highlights yellowish.

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Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden

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The second one looks more “monochrome” than b&w :wink:. Interesting experiments. I often add some blue to the shadows and red to the highlights to make the image look somehow more b&w than an actual grayscale image. Fore exampe here.

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@Thomas_Do
Exactly!
And if you are sufficiently old, you will remember
Agfa Brovira, which gave a neutral to cold black, while
Agfa Record-Rapid was warm black…

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