Quite pleased with the latest DT version. Just another bird .....

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Brown-hooded Kingfisher on a rainy day.

Used the AI object mask on the bird and branch, works well. Inverted the mask to use Blurs on the background.There was a faint edge/halo around the bill and belly area… Adjusted feathering as per guidelines and changed the blend mode for the background to “harmonic mean”. It “removed” the halos and edge. Applied Tone and Contrast Equalizer modules and slight color calibration.

Edit done in Darktable running Zorin OS 18.1 (Linux)

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I love this… will try the blending method to see if I can get rid of the halos in my own pictures, very nice suggestion, thanks!

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@Eddie_Lambrechts I can’t find this option, where did you select it?

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To me, it still looks like there is some halos around the bird, especially above the bill and the ruffled feathers near the tail. The background also looks like it has quite a few artifacts (blue splotches against gray?)

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Only shows up in RGB scene mode.

Geometric Mean is like Average, but it leans towards the lower of the two values.
Harmonic Mean is like Geometric Mean, but it leans a bit further towards the lower value.