Since you specifically mentioned purple haze, I used the CH module of LAB to get rid of it and then used final touchup and residual image modules of wavelet on top of your pp3 file to get following: DSC_0892 - Copy.jpg.out.pp3 (11.3 KB)
Maybe that was a bit to desaturated (looks like the denoise profiled wavelets removed a lot more saturation in the final output than in the preview) here with some more saturation and tweaks:
Well, your idea seems to work but it worked too much where almost all colour was lost. Let me play around with those settings and see what I can come up with
I gave it a go. I used a technique I learned from a Lonely Speck YouTube tutorial for processing Milky Way photos and mixed in little color picker trick I learned from @harry_durgin.
Sorry, I used darktable for the edit. First I turned saturation and vibrance up all the way then used the color picker tool and switched it from point to area and selected an area with the worst purple. In the color picker tool you can see the RGB values for the area. Then I used the white balance module to adjust the red, green and blue until the values were withing a few points of each other.
The rest was using parametric masks to reduce noise in the darkest parts of the image. Finally, I used more parametric masks with curves, levels and saturation to get to the final image.
I think I spent about 10x more time on that than the DT one and I like the results significantly less.
I like RT a lot. I use it to develop the base images of a lot of my edits, I used it on all of my sisters wedding photos.
But as soon as heavy noise reduction & complex editing is required it doesn’t work for me. Because of the lack of previews of the noise reduction (when zoomed out) the wysiwyg nature completely breaks down and everything turns into a giant guessing game (unless there is a way to force full previews which I don’t know about?). The lack of masking/local edits is also a serious restriction when edition such photos. I generally want to bring out the color and detail of the milky way a bit more, what I don’t want is to magnify all of the noise in the image with it.
One more tentative. This time I was specifically trying to emulate the Darktable result of @Jonas_Wagner, but only using RT. Still not quite 100% there, but closer…
All I can tell you right now is that 2.4.0 will have Windows support and that I am pushing for a release this autumn. We might be able to have a development release (kind of a preview) earlier but there won’t be any promises.
Yeah I have seen few pretty harsh responses from darktable folks Re OS Windows support on darktable users mailing list… but looking at houz’s response above it looks like the things have changed.
I would appreciate that very much if darktable was to be released for windows. And by Autumn you mean which month? We don’t have seasons here in Kenya . Though this would be my third raw editing software that I would be trying
I think you’re right about the limitations of RT in noise reduction - I’ve noticed it myself
but I have a question, you menti0oned masking/local edits. I don’t know what masking is but if I understand local edit correctly, you edited part of the photo and not the whole of it? Possible the milky way region?
If that was the case, how would I apply local edits on the milky way across 300 photos when the milky way keeps moving in every photo? This is for a timelapse