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_MG_1095_R.jpg.out.pp3 (13.8 KB)
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Thanks @jinxos for letting us play with the face of our ancestor; so many nice variations everybody!!
For the occasion I chose to test a 32b workflow with newest Phofofloss. So I developed a starter point in PhF and then into gimp for g’mic’s massage hands, LCE and DRI with a child drawn mask, ‘cause the BG didn’t need touching, me like touching, touching statues in the museum, anyway, back to PhF to make vanilla fog lite, thanks god at least my last preset still works, everything else (older stuff) doesn’t {angry face with huge head veins ready to blow or maybe start laughing}. So achieved desired smooth HL stuff and back into gmic hands… I feel such a prostitute… and for free, je je eje. This time was a homy LUT, an ever so slightly bit of sharpening and grain a tutti pleni, ah and still went back for a vignette (curves blended in multiply mode, filtered through blurred mask, aliens give back brain). Export, resize with IMs, their downscale is badass good and nail it to the livingroom’s wall… so I can uninterruptedly envy forever those ass’ cushions
many screengrabs during process to assess the crooking =)
Cheers
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@chroma_ghost Nice butt hairs. The boulders could be less coarse. Wouldn’t want to sit on them.
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Hi - first time poster, just starting out in photo processing and just learning…
_MG_1095.CR2.xmp (12.5 KB)
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@mikew Welcome to the forum. I hope you enjoy your stay. The PlayRaws were what one of the things that attracted me to join instead of just lurking. Part of it is sharing what your workflow was to achieve your result so that we may learn from one another 
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@afre - thanks for the comment, I’ll certainly try to expand.
Two things I thought I wanted to do with the picture, inspired by the sometimes “mystical” aura suggested by Japan in general, and also the fact I can sort of see a “witchdoctor” in the monkey’s rear end. So I wanted to make the monkey “pop” a little and then try to both emphasise the mist rising from the pool and use that to detract from the background… I thought black and white best suited what I was trying to achieve
Gave me a chance to start learning darktable and use some masks. Overall my workflow was very much on the hoof, and could certainly be refined.
I started by boosting the exposure in all three channels using the histogram and white balance. Overall I’m roughly 1.4EV up on the original. Channel mixer user to convert to monochrome, with bias to the green channel. Shortened L using a tone curve (flattened at the top) (Still learning what these things do, let alone what they mean, so really just playing until it looked right for me!)
Used a gradient mask to then reduce the exposure in the background, with a slight boost to black point.
Then a rotated gradient mask following the line of the stones in the foreground where the exposure, blackpoint and opacity of the mask are reduced.
Quite a tight drawn mask around the monkey itself, blurred significantly and reduced opacity. Increased the blackpoint a little.
Using the soften mode, reversed the existing monkey mask, and softened the remainder of the image (excluding the monkey), hopefully making the monkey stand out a little, and yet give the image a little “mystical” glow.
Finally a small amount of sharpening.
Not sure if I did all the steps in any kind of “correct” order, or indeed if any cancel each other out, but that’s learning. Good to use someone else’s image and see what you can do with it. So thanks to @jinxos for the opportunity.
Apologies if above is a bit of a ramble!
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@mikew thanks for the reply! I like your take. We strongly encourage people to upload their sidecar file, which for darktable would be the xmp file in the same folder as the raw 
Looks great! but what is Phofofloss ?
I think he means photo flow
It is a portmanteau of PhotoFlow and FLOSS typed by a 
eating piping hot phở.
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Ooo 
Welcome to the forum @mikew, and thanks for sharing your take on my photo. I like the exaggerated foggy look over the water, but I’m not sold on the same being applied to the rocks in the foreground as it makes them look a bit “spongy”.
At any rate, nice work and don’t worry about “getting things wrong” or “in the wrong order”, this is not a forum for showcasing your mad editing skills to attract followers or potential customers. This is all about sharing our learning experience and improve the tools we choose to support while having fun.
Seeing how seriously people here took my silly snapshot makes me happy
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Sorry for bumping this old thread, but this is my take on it.
I actually use haze removal tool to add haze using negative to add a more foggy feel to it and use invert mask to protect monkey and rock color.
_MG_1095.CR2.xmp (8.8 KB)
@jinxos, would you mind adding a license to your image? I’d like to use it in this year’s [PlayRaw] calendar (see PlayRaw Calendar 2018 (A Calendar Making Tutorial using FLOSS Software) – Part 1 & 2 for last year), and I would feel more comfortable if you would give an explicit license statement rather than relying on license defaults here on pixls.us.
@chris I didn’t realise the ones I originally uploaded here were missing the license, sorry. Here you go, and thanks for using my silly snap for the calendar :
_MG_1095.CR2.xmp (5.2 KB)
(CC-BY-SA)
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