After watching your XMP I found you rely on a LUT but I wonder if it would be replicable with color lookup table or something else …
Once the contrast and details job done maybe gimp would be a better tool for the job …
Indeed, I have used a LUT, it is my first time…
My intention was to make a black and white version.
My intention was to make a black and white version.
While I was playing with this beautiful photo and was about to finish it, I remembered a trick that @difrkaguilar recently shared with me.
It’s a false color LUT to visualize the different exposure areas of an image and better compensate for highlights and shadows, but as soon as I turned it on, I liked how it looked and changed my plans.
If you are interested in the LUT, I have no problem sharing it.
The truth is that I do not master gimp.
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I’d be delighted 
A polarising filter helps of course, but yes, the water in the loch is extremely clear.
Here you have it…@difrkaguilar ,besides sharing the LUT’s… made a graph to put as a watermark (reference).
I would like to thank you again for your generosity
LUTs (3DL).zip (70.5 KB)
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Here is the graph to use it in the watermark module as reference
false_color_graph.zip (60.4 KB)
This file is licensed Creative Commons, By-Attribution, Share-Alike.
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_CTW0005-1.jpg.out.pp3 (20.5 KB)
Sim Ilford 5, thermalized in CIE with local adjustments for a few zones.
New filter added to our G’MIC-Qt plug-in today!
ation1|690x436](upload://bMcs3FGQqdcMZpy7GFRG1oHKWpC.jpeg)
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This really works, I love the squaring of the image, monochrome pallet, clarity & sharpness you’ve achieved. Though I think I would have liked to see the wateline treat as the horizon & leveled. really nice though.
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I really like this image, did you invert the colours ? Has a Chinese/japanese art feel to it. I like that you’ve leveled the water. congrats on a really nice image,
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Thank you very much for your kind and constructive comments,
