I think it is time to contribute to PlayRaw from my side. Here it is the photo I made in Parc de l’Aurence in Limoges, France Autumn-Limoges_0070.CR2 (9.9 MB)
Loving the sheer saturation and colour in this one; it’s criminal to overlook this. Here’s my (not as usually) rough take on this one using blurs, layer blending, G’MIC plasma and a colour transfer algorithm:
on same layer added Gaussian blur filter (Filters - Blur - Gaussian blur) with overlay as blend mode, changed opacity of the layer a bit
added new transparent layer, chosen nice yellow tone from one of the leaves and applied bi-linear gradient horizontally in the middle of that transparent layer and chosen soft light as layer blend mode to get that dreamy look more yellowish
Nice shot! Although, the reddish versions look quite impressive, I think there should be a little more greens and yellows in the image.
My try in darktable.
@Benja1972 Thanks for foliagemont, hurray for all trident gardeners • 1 =)
I took the opportunity and had “test ride” with some of the RCs. The results are not fair to what these guys are able to output - I’ve been managing some pretty solid results both with rawtherapee and darktable - more so 'cause instead of a healthy start from scratch I’m trying - as an undocumented flee market alchemist - to find the universal base preset, ja ja ja, shame on the shamepan & me
Anyway, to contradict myself went really cold with RTRC2
Then a mess with darktable and an interesting “discovery” or better, appliance of idea, to use a blur in lum blend mode and paramedics on DMT to enhance the foliage; gif at the end
time to pinguineet, I can not push the poor phf any further, cause like a hulk, it goes out of its feathered smoking to eat it ALL This is something I would stand for. The Raw colour option is a cosmos in itself. If someone is trying to use the pfi the colour input is Raw and the Raw curve custom with 1.8 gamma ,-)
And for last, a pleasant surprise: FIlmulator. As I know the developing it’s pretty fast in FLM
left it for last and much to my surprise (and must honestly say a bit of pride too) the output was pretty close of the one that which with plenty more time spent tweaking, I got out of photoflow. Literally 3 mins including 100 % drama (inexorably reminds me of Bujalki’s last Support the Girls great raw) export which is inta-matic too
I found this image a bit difficult to process. In the end, I thought that the shadowy bushy part in the left side (behind the cluster of tree trunks) will give the necessary depth to the scene. That is why used GIMP to accentuate it a bit selectively and make the sky bluer.
Sure. But switching between softwares is a time-consuming burden, so I would like to know what feature is missing in dt in order to – maybe – improve it if I can. If you need Gimp, it means darktable failed so it needs to be improved.