Took this last night and quickly turned it into a wallpaper with ART. Putting this up here because I’d like to see how others handle saturation/vibrance, one of the many areas of editing about which I’m still quite insecure.
(For reference, I only just installed ART for the first time and being already familiar with RT, I’m liking it a lot so far. For more complex edits, e.g. on long exposures which require a lot of color correction work, I’ll probably stick with RT, but for quick appealing results, ART with its focused module line-up seems to be very powerful.)
I rather liked your rendition with regards to saturation, and only made slight changes. Since I don’t use ART I am including only the jpg. Basically, I desaturated the highest street lamp highlights and increased the brightness of the blue interior light (which desaturates it a bit too).
I also slightly brightened the left window sticker, but darkened the right window sticker using very sloppy masks. Then cropped for my taste.
ART is massively expanded by the ctl scripts too if you have not seen them…they can be used in the film sim or color and tone if masking is needed…ignore this tidbit if you know that already…
I’m not as experienced with ART as DT but I took a quick run at it…
I saw CTL scripts mentioned. I’m hoping at some point AgX will get included as a feature, the results I’ve seen from @Popanz and others are amazing and unlike anything I’ve seen or achieved using RT. (I suppose tech-savvy people can install it somehow, but that’s way beyond my abilities so I’m happy to wait and hope.)
Actually ART has a very simple but effective curve somewhat AGX like just not with the primaries called the ART ouput transform…There is also the Open DRT and the one tone mapper scripts…so there are 3 to try in addtion to the core ART features…actually sigmoid is in there as well.
And I used the AGX film simulation which has been partially adopted and included…
There’s a CTL script called “the one tone mapper” (in a tongue-in-cheek way) that’s basically blender agx plus a couple of sliders for basic “contrast brightness saturation” adjustment, if that helps. It’s actually pretty good for my taste.
