@s7habo This in continuation of our discussion on your latest youtube video. I requested a tutorial for light and airy editing style widely used in post processing mainly for wedding photographs but not limited to it. E.g https://www.samanthashannonphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/White-shirt-and-jeans-family-photos-683x1024.jpg
I can send you my own RAW file if you would like to try that out.
Hi @sherebiahtishbi and welcome to the forum!
I have contacted you privately and you can send me the raw files via wetransfer or another way. I’ll see about recreating the style in one of the next darktable episodes.
There is also an extra thread for my episodes, so you don’t have to create a new one:
Thank you so much Boris! Really appreciated.
The struggle I have is that the groom is fair while the bride has dark complexion. So increasing the exposure blows up groom. Also what I noticed is that adding Vibrance, Chroma and Saturation makes bride skin real orange! Would appreciate your guidance preferably a tutorial!
_6I_6817.CR3 (11.7 MB)
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That sounds like bad white balance. Or some kind of color cast that needs correcting.
Edit:
Had a look, and the default WB is indeed horrendous. The following color calibration settings, however, are pretty close to correct:
Did a quick edit as well. Here’s the xmp:
_6I_6817.CR3.xmp (10.8 KB)
Looks nice when you just stop at the white balance! But once you increase the Vibrance, Chroma & Saturation things starts going south.
Did you look at my edit? While there was still some yellow in her skin, you would have to push very hard to really break the colors.
In any case, here’s a second version, where I fully fixed the yellow skin using rgb primaries:
_6I_6817.CR3.xmp (10.3 KB)
Ummm…looks much better than what I achieved …background I really liked however the skin tone is way too whitish and almost ghosty. Is there a way to preserve the skin tone while background with what you have here?
Yes Boris way better! I would go with it. Will you be able to send the XMP please?
I would say skin tone has some scope of improvement though!
OK. What would you change about the skin color? In which direction should the color go? To magenta or to yellow?
Here is a version with more blue in the shadows, which makes a better color contrast to the skin tones:
I liked both equally. About skin I would love to see it bit more pink. Currently it looks either pale or over exposed. Sorry if I am dragging it too much but I myself have spent couple days on this one photo. Its a great learning for me but obviously at a cost of time and energy! I truly appreciate you giving time on this.
Thank you Thomas giving your time on this. But eyes looks bit weird!
By default, darktable embeds the history in the exported JPG, which you can load as a sidecar, the same way you’d load an XMP (just change the filter in the file dialogue to show all files). I’m not at my computer, so I cannot check if Boris had the option enabled.
Okay have never tried that but will check it out.
darktable 4.6 user manual - history stack under load sidecar file and darktable 4.6 user manual - export under develop history.
Since everyone else are sharing their edits, here’s the second I did. Didn’t try to make it light and airy, only focused on the colors.
Does it fit better with the colors?
Here are the xmp files of all three versions. Unfortunately I am using the developer version of darktable and I am not sure if your version can read them.
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_6I_6817_05.CR3.xmp (27,4 KB)
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