Thanks to @afre for being an buildingphile and sharing it; also thanks to people contributing their (diversified) renderings =)
I’ll start from the end, like a crab eating his own funeral snacks, what ew when… {very old man with the longest white beard advising a youngster} but sir, you’re naked. At the very end I realised that there was something wrong with the result, no it was not me mind obscured by the clouds, neither the blue sun {wink}, it was garbage, binary garbage that had given birth to a ghost wireframe (it’s like I’m writing for GITS). Anyway at first I thought was a misaligned layer in gimp but when I found out it had followed me way back from photocrostflew… there’s no way I’m processing this again… and contributing to this refreshing positiveness was the fact that editing the 32bit tif in gimpo had been a bit of a hassle. So here here:
Then back to the beginning; Dr Pinguino-coder had promised enhancements in PhF (photo hermaphrodite frankenstein), so I went on checking them as subjectively as possible. The app is fast, a bit more stable and though masks are still not working within a DR layer, my main frustration came from the scale and rotate and crop tools; it would be no crazy idea to imagine this damp frustration embodying a stupid mindless penis and attacking the image in such terrifying fashion that an entity tried to separate itself from the very zerone fabric… My main goal was to bring a touch of light to the lower foreground and try to achieve a bit of separation between elements.
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For the final stage went to gimp and g’mic. The way I deal with developing an image is a bit like painting, in the sense that there’s a lot of back and forth, tiny strokes, experimenting, mixing (separating colour and light), revealing and covering up, diluting, bring attention… and even if I have like a colour palette or an idea of what I’d like to do, I try to stay permeable to changes, to surprises, to the process’ own entropy inA suspended a have to get lost paradox. That all sound charming but it’s a royal PITA and it’s true that one can slow down and enjoy the ride, but sometimes there’s this energy that needs moving, dealing, flowing and if tools can’t keep up it can turn into a discouraging struggle. That said I used g’mic’s tools in diluted layers to gain a bit of contrast and definition, LCE, DRicrease and RLsharpening, also a monochrome layer to bring saturation down in some places and a Provia 100F emu… at this time O was a bit tired of the hustle… I even forgot the grain!!! A hell of a ride or a ride in hell je je je Cheers =)
