Yes, I do not really have any grasp on sharpening in dt, as of yet. I get completely lost trying to read the current/recent thread on sharpening. I guess I should start it again, from the top.
PS - When I used to do a lot of editing with the GIMP, a few years ago, I was even to the point of building my own overlay masks for contrast and sharpening. But, I have forgotten 85% of all that.
honestly you can usually get great results just by opening up the contrast equalizer and making a little kick like this with a large ābrushā size:
sometimes its worth using the parametric mask to keep the effect out of the highlights and shadows a bit, but this alone gets you 95% of the way there most of the time.
Some tweaking in sigmoid and colour calibration shifted it into the right direction. Lifting brilliance and saturation / chroma was done with the colour balance modules.
I think you are right and the lack of the intense colour is caused by the shadow in the canyon rsp. the absence of direct sunlight on the river.
Thanks for the tip. Iām running Windows and am not familiar with what I am seeing at that link. It looks like I would have to be running Linux, but thatās a guess. I may have to wait. I rebuilt my Windows package today, and sigmoid is not in it.
Edit: I think now the commands are issued when running MINGW64, but I havenāt figured out how to use them yet.
Itās not coming from the DT code but a fork being used by the author of the module so you are pulling it in from there if you choose. Any edits are fubared in any version of DT without it if you use it so just be careful to maybe keep them separate or managed so that you know you have used it in an edit if you do
I recall Harry Durgin did A jungle edit with.a lot of greens some years ago. He was very creativeā¦Iāll see if I can find it or you might land on it from Google if you are interested. Perhaps a tip or two might give you another angle