Here is my first take with PhotoFlow. @isagalaev - thanks for sharing this image, it’s an excellent example for testing the various shadow adjustment methods!
My edit is mostly based on exposure compensation + ad-hoc masks, plus some fine tuning with RGB curves:
And the corresponding PFI file: DSCF3284.pfi (84.5 KB)
I have downloaded your .PP3 file and tried to apply it to the RAF file of this playraw, to see how you achieved your excellent result in practice. However, after opening the RAF file in RT and applying your PP3 file with the “Load a profile from file”, this is how the processed image looks like:
Also, if the image still doesn’t match, you might want to checkout a commit from dev from the day I posted that image, as Fattal’s behavior changed over time and I’m not sure whether its behavior from the day I posted hadn’t changed till today. Backwards compatibility is absolutely not supported for development builds, but we do try to support it for stable releases.
Specifically for darktable. Mask features in darktable is what I would love to use and what I am missing in LR. I was thinking about GIMP when I saw tutorials with masks in dt so I decided to give it a try.
There’s still a lot I don’t like about this particular end result, but thanks to you all I now have all the power to do with pixels whatever I want! (Deciding what that is is a whole another story )
Wow, interesting picture. Very difficult to get what was in my mind (and I couldn’t get it, still working on it), but it worth trying!
I know I’m a bit late, but I couldn’t resist to the challenge.
My workflow in DT is based on global tonemap and everything after it was to give back some contrast and 3rd dimension feeling to the picture. Eventually I had to use a drawn+parametric task for levels in order to bring back the green part in the shadow. Still not happy with the green color!