Experiments with a scene-referred local contrast module - proof of concept

[s7habo (Boris Hajdukovic)]

That looks promising!

Thank you for your efforts.

One instance. I have smoothed out the rough texture and enhanced the fine local contrasts:

The photo is from this thread:

How to bring life in a boring photo

On the last Play Raw I offered, @chris asked if I’m giving lessons, in bringing life to boring photos. So I thought about a mixture between a Play Raw and a How-To, describing my thoughts and intentions when editing a picture. At first, we need a really boring photo, which anyway has at least a little bit of potential. After some search in my unedited images from my last Scotland trip, I stumbled over this one. [image] This is the ooc jpg - not very promising… This is what I get after I app…