Highlight Bloom and Photoillustration Look

I worked on the script again, I set the default opacity of the graphic novel layer to 50%, and I added two more options, so now you can toggle:

  • tone mapping
  • a slight desaturation
  • a vintage toning

Here’s a photo downloaded from pixabay (CC0 Public Domain, https://pixabay.com/en/music-guitar-electric-guitar-sound-890877/):

After running the script, all three options turned OFF:

With tone mapping ON:

With tone mapping + desaturation ON:

And with tone mapping + desaturation + vintage ton ON:

To finish, here’s another neat image (CC0 Public Domain, https://pixabay.com/en/hat-fashion-style-happy-man-591973/):

And after running the script with tone mapping + desaturation, and afterwise turning off the graphic novel layer, and duplicating/masking the detail layer to make the face and clothes grungier:

Pretty cool, isn’t it?

Edit: here’s the updated script:
hillustrative.scm (3.3 KB)

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