Darktable shadows and highlights vs tone equalizer

David talks about a custom plug in for gimp that he made. Hopefully David sees my question.

It was up in the thread… Darktable shadows and highlights vs tone equalizer - #34 by Claes

Just seen your question. The plug-in was available on the gimplearn website, but unfortunately that site is down at the moment.

I have attached a zipped version - I hope that is allowed.
It goes in the plug-ins folder and linux users will need to make it executable.

Feedback on its usefulness would be appreciated.

eq_lum_mask_h_m_s.zip (2.5 KB)

Thanks David. I will try and test it out. I know some people swear by luminosity masks, but I have struggled to get results that look natural across the gradients of tones. Hopefully I will have some luck with your version because you have some overlaps.

Have you also tried the tone eq in Art. It has a nice color display of the zones …bit like a heat map and you can target them after evaluating… It quite effective and can be coupled to the log tone mapping module…just another option

Thanks for your suggestion, I am just notsure how many program’s ji want to explore