Thanks. This is the darktable sidecar:
2009-04-04 at 12-30-44.CR2.xmp (15.2 KB)
After that I just did a bit of sharpening (RL deconvolution) & denoising (anisotropic) using Gimp & GMIC.
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After you add a shape the retouch module stays in ‘add new shape’ mode until you click the right mousebutton. Then you see the shapes again.
Move the mouse above the target area, hold the SHIFT key and scroll down with the mousewheel. This increases the fading area around your shape. Maybe it’s initially so small that you can’t see it.
Ahhhh that does it, but I still think something is not right. When I make the selection, left clicking the points and right click to finish the shape that I have just drawn disappears the mouse pointer still has the little + attached and it is only when I right click that the path reappears. Thanks I’ll get there in the end.
@Chris_Harris If you want, start a new thread with your questions. Would make it easier to find in the future.
OK I will in the future… Not sure this any further to run as I can make it work, can you shed light on whether it is intended behaviour? If not I’ll file a bug report.
2009-04-04 at 12-30-44.CR2.xmp (13.4 KB)
Here is my take on your picture, I tried not to over-do it :
I upped and contrasted the colors (velvia - vibrance - chroma equaliser - white balance)
Manipulated the dynamic a bit to enhance the light cast/shadow effect on the land (filmic rgb and bloom properly set with multiply layer effect and a gradient mask, a trick I learned here!).
I still can’t manage blown highlights (clouds) properly in DT (and looking for some advices).
It’s a very nice picture, thanks for sharing, just the clouds … 
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Incredible scenery!
My try using GIMP. Adjustments using luminosity masks, slight colour boost, and finally a touch of sharpening using wavelet decompose.
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Thanks for that Bloom tip. Not something I use often but I’ll try to remember that trick with the mask and blend mode. As for the sky some the posts here I think have handled it well and as far as advice goes have you watched the video that @pphoto posted showing his edit?
That’s a nice photo for the ol postcard saturation edit.
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Wonderful image, with beautiful colors.
Did a 5 minute take in RT and it felt right already:
2009-04-04 at 12-30-44_R.jpg.out.pp3 (12.0 KB)
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I did watch but di not pin point yet what part of the edit gave his clouds a less saturated look but I’ll diownload his sidecar file and play around with it
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I really like this photograph, it was fun to edit and I learned a lot. The biggest trouble for me was to get rid of the vignette, its far from perfect, but I don’t know what I could do besides cropping.
Thank you very much for sharing!
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Hi,
this is my attemp with darktable 3.0.2
the sidecar file
2009-04-04 at 12-30-44.CR2.xmp (55.1 KB)
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@AndreLehner Very nice, my favourite of all the efforts I think. What software did you use and would you mind sharing your process? Thanks
Oh, thank you 
I used darktable and played around a lot, here is the xmp:
2009-04-04 at 12-30-44.CR2.xmp (45.4 KB)
After that I opened the exported file in Gimp and sharpened it a bit more with the unsharp mask at radius 3 and 0,4.
It is one of those pictures where I immediately get a feeling that I want to be expressed and I try to get as close as possible with the colors and lighting first and then I see what I can do to have as much details as possible.
In this case I wanted it to be bright, the mountains and background more cool, just the sunrays making them a bit warm and in contrast the fields and houses quite warm. The sky as dynamic as I could and again in contrast to more warmish teal of the lake. A bit of the highlights in the clouds and the darks in the trees are blown out, but thats totally fine for me in a picture like this. With the saturation I always need to play around so that its vivid but still somehow natural.
Thank you again for the great shot, I really enjoyed the editing!
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