This one should work on 5.3. Just apply neutral profile + the attached pp3
SnowOnSpiderWeb_Simple.cr2.pp3 (1.3 KB)
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I wanted to go for more of an abstract smoke-from-a-downed-jet look:
SnowOnSpiderWeb.jpg.out.pp3 (10.5 KB)
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Yes. It works. Interesting to see that there is no noise reduction applied but just a tone curve and putting saturation to -100. The simplicity of it is mind boggling!
Not to forget increasing black level in exposure tool to 1200.
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Impressed by the sharpness you (collectively) can bring out of that not-so-good picture…
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Boy in britches with hiking stick examining the ground. Anyone see that in the bottom left corner? 
I had fun playing with this image. Enjoy!
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PhotoFlow
– Export unbounded linear ACES. -
gmic
– Correct negative and hot pixels.
– Convert to B&W, smooth shadows. How I handled this step determined the overall look of the image. I spent the most time here trying different things and tweaking the result.
– Equalize local histograms. Quite slow on my machine: about 6 minutes.
– Curve to brighten image and preserve highlights.
– Reintroduce color information.
– Prep for sharing (resize, fp to jpg).
Edit: I didn’t put much thought into the color step. Just reintroduced the colors. Here is the B&W version. Which do you prefer?
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I saw red individual pixels in the image I opened with rawproc; were them those?
How did you handle them in g’mic?
Funny you mentioned red. One of my alts had blood in water as a theme (sorry if it doesn’t look right; I have a terrible screen):
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Boy in britches with hiking stick examining the ground.
I’ll stop posting here. When I post a spider the owner goes psycho, when I post ice crystals the picture acts a a Rorsach test and uncovers a bad case of pareidolia… and an obsession with blood. 
Looks more like a scab peeling off…
@Ofnuts Blame @chroma_ghost for encouraging the crazy in me, @ggbutcher for pointing out the red and your profile pic for encouraging pareidolia. 
I must say… now I’m wary of the possibility of you cuting someone’s ear and start chewing it in logarizmic ways : " " : 
That’s kind of a cross posting 
Bear-of-little-brain here had to look it up: “…is a type of apophenia, which is a more generalized term for seeing patterns in random data. Some common examples are seeing a likeness of Jesus in the clouds or an image of a man on the surface of the moon.”
Really, I’ve had to look up more words since I joined this group than at any prior time in my life. Metamerism, for instance, to tell me about what I already didn’t know regarding my socks… 
I wanted to add some color, so I turned to ideepcolor.
Auto-colorized image was not interesting enough, so I used the Global Histogram Transfer notebook to go deeper.
Reference Image:
Citation:
Real-Time User-Guided Image Colorization with Learned Deep Priors, Zhang, Richard and Zhu, Jun-Yan and Isola, Phillip and Geng, Xinyang and Lin, Angela S and Yu, Tianhe and Efros, Alexei A
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) vol. 9:4, 2017 ACM
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@afre and I have been corresponding about denoising and such, and in doing so I went looking for a good way to get a smooth background without resorting to retouch tools. The single thing that worked the best was a reduction resize, so I went with it. Also, grayscale, higher contrast, and ludicrous sharpen to make the ice edges stand out:
Sometimes, I just like to go abstract, abrogate most sense of realism…