My GIMP-file is 651 MB…, with 33 layers…how to share that?
In the beginning I scaled down the RawTherapee neutral image, because my PC is antique.
I first used two times “Normalize Brightness” with sRGB and CMY (CMY is not in the original filter). Then mixed the results.
I forgot I used (on this mixed result) also “Pyramid Processing” thereafter, in the 6th layer . This two filters restored the highlighted region in the center.
The Mixer [PCA] (used after Pyramid Processing) also helped to restore the region in the center (A higher value with the Primary Factor slider).
With “Normalize Brightness” and “Pyramid Processing” the whole image looses overall contrast. Therefore I used G’MIC “Tone Enhance” (in last layers) to have more global contrast.
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True. I’m new here, can someone point me out where should I post a suggestion in this regard for RT?
Because I was thinking that there are some tools (like the dehaze and channel mixer) that would really benefit if there was an option where you could choose their output only affecting the luminosity channel.
Thanks @Timur for sharing the paw. Comrades {very silly monty pythonesque, old fashioned and cumbersome greeting}
How do I gaze, where does my pupils go? The golden stream, scattered thoughts around those clouds, the pastures maybe of green… It remind me of bill calhaham’s riverguard taxi drive. After the first read, me eyes got caught in an “Y” shaped track on the fields… and that’s all I need to get started, no need to be beautiful, just enough teeth to smile.
Anyway RT 5.5
Hey Gustavo. I just copied the code (cannot really remember if was from one of Fred’s scripts, likely). The _rez to 800px part I must have introduced for some purpose that cannot recall, edited for clarity. For the rest, as I understand it, IM’s script “scales” the image down to a mere strip of (here it depends on the scale parameter) several individual pixls, and then upscales it and smooths them to a gradient. Without gradient and upscaled in nearest neighbor mode, gives you this
That’s the idea… a loose one though, never tested the accuracy of the method. I stopped using it here (not FLOSS) but for my own stuff I prefer the well-sorted and now discontinued mcolor designer (quant); which for the current image (ref to my edit), 12 samples ordered by value will give the following:
As the others have said, this one was kind of hard. When I focused on one aspect of the image, the others suffered. In particular, the sky became washed out and splotchy when I pushed things to fit my vision. It was a look that I didn’t want. As usual, my edits were global in nature; I suppose if I did some local editing, things would have been much simpler.
Since the brightness and contrast of the sky and earth were so different, I used enfuse to merge the original image with a brighter version. Another thing I did differently was resize the image to width=3600, which is twice that of my typical entry, to let the fine detail in the trees show. I do regret that the river reflection isn’t nearly as golden as some of the other entries but overall, despite the compromises, I am okay with how it turned out.
Edit: Also, the high contrast of the dark clouds against the sky is too distracting now that I have re-read the post. Oh well, too late to change things…