I made color cast correction tool for ART with CTL.
Download link is following.
Its purpose is especially for color cast correction of film (or color photo print) scanned images. Different in algorithm, function of my tool is basically similar to Equalizer by hue or Tetrahedral color warping (RGB). But it has one different feature. It is color threshold adjusting function and I think this is definitively important for color cast correction of film scanned images. Why this is important?
Please see following sample image. It has uneven yellow cast parts in image.
With other tools, you can correct yellow cast of sky, but you cannot correct yellowish parts of roof simultaneously. Because it is ‘perceptually’ yellow but it is not ‘objectively’. With my tool, moving ‘Pivot of color threshold’ slider to upper, you can correct yellowish cast in sky and roof simultaneously.
Human color perception is not based on ‘objective’ color value, so this feature may be useful for other image editing like color grading of digital camera images.
That’s the great thing about the CTL filters, there are several suitable for color balance and colorcast correction. I will definitely try out the filter you made, thank you very much.
I have revised my ctl script and renamed it “Relative Color Area Correction”. This is because the threshold of the color to be corrected can be changed and is determined relatively.
In this revision, two parameters have been added: “Lightness” and “Skew of target color”. ”Lightness” is a function for adjusting the lightness of the target color area for correction. The “Skew of target color” is a function to shift the target color. For example, if green is selected as the target color, moving this slider to the right will shift the target color area to a bluish green area, and moving it to the left will shift the target color area to a yellowish green area.
I have revised “Relative Color Area Correction” tool again. This time, I have added target area view function. You can download the program from above same link.
If you check “Show target area” on, correction target area will be shown in yellow, so you can easily confirm your editing area in anytime. It’s very convenient.
And if you move pivot, skew, strength sliders, target area view will be changed.
For example. This is “Show target area” check box off. Target color is Cyan.
That’s very kind of you. I was already thinking how to translate these scripts in other languages. I suppose we have to translate the scripts per language, so we end up with a series of CTL scripts in Japanese, French, Dutch, etc. On the other hand, I saw that the script Equalizer by Saturation has the Target already translated (in Dutch), but not the sliders. Perhaps Alberto @agriggio has a solution for this.
Anyway, your tool is fascinating, as are some of the other CTL scripts. This afternoon I was playing with a photo of my daughter Julia. I used to use G’Mic to create these effects, but it can be done in ART as well now. Never mind the slight color cast on the background on a few images, that can be avoided using masks. Upper left is the original tif.
If you use labels starting with a $, they will be interpreted as keys in the language translation file of ART. So one way is to add translations there. I suppose I can make this a bit nicer by supporting both a system-wide language file and a user-specific one, so that you can add all the translations you want without the risk of being overwritten by new ART releases. I’ll see what I can do…
For basic and general words, it is preferable using ‘global’ labels in ART. For complex text and proper words to the scripts, how about having the CTL script read the “local” labels from a “local” language file (a file with the same name as the CTL script in the same directory)?
I think this is too complicated for such a limited use case. Imho a user-specific language file that complements the global one should be enough, and it’s much easier to implement.
I have revised my Relative Color Correction CTL script. In this time, I have added Gamma adjustment for correction value and applying uniform strength option. And I have rearranged parameter control items in the UI.
For Gamma adjustment, originally correction amount was based on perceptual (Gamma 2.2) data (Gamma value was fixed and not adjustable), however in this time, I have changed its Gamma value adjustable (0 to 2.2). You can confirm this adjustment effect with target area preview.
