I exported the edit, then added some details in Gimp by copying part of the sky, applying a high pass-filter and blending it with the merge grain option, then I just adjusted a bit the brightness in RT again using local edits (there’s still a bit of a halo though, hard to nail it perfectly).
Mine is a bit along the lines of @jonathanBieler and @ggbutcher 's edits… all done in DT… could mess with the yellow in the sky a bit to bump or further desaturate it to taste I guess…
IMG_2395.CR2.xmp (14.4 KB)
Taking out the yellow maybe??
Why not do the high-pass in RT? I’m not a RT user, does it have a high-pass filter? Or is it just easier to mask in Gimp?
Thanks for the explanation!
Interesting, taking out the yellow like you did in the second image helps with both the sky and detail (lightness?) in the greenery.
I think I just used the colorfulness and brightness sliders in CC module for a quick tweak. They can be awesome for just pumping up or in this case knocking down a bit channel based color properties without having to go in to full on channel mixer mode…
This is a challenging image that could be processed in multiple ways. The tome equalizer is very important with an image like this. There are some YouTube videos on it if you are not familiar with this essential module.
IMG_2395.CR2.xmp (6.3 KB)
Thanks for all your input, learning quite a bit by studying the various xmp’s. Also, fun to see the various takes, the tone can be quite different
Hello everyone,
Here is a version with the development version of darktable 4.1 and the new sigmoid and highlight reconstruction modules.
IMG_2395_01.CR2.xmp (20.5 KB)
Greetings from Brussels
Christian
Nice one, thanks!
Looking forward to sigmoid (and the highlight reconstruction module) landing in stable. Those might make me finally stop being lazy and compile master
There should be lots of builds floating around and its easy to run multiple versions… or wait
Are you on windows? If so, how about this: Nightly PKG · Workflow runs · darktable-org/darktable · GitHub
I believe it is in master now … If that is stable for you.