So you can imagine my doubt when confronted with an email about using some material from pixls.us for their latest issue…
If the name sounds familiar to anyone it may be from a recent post by Joe McNally who is featured prominently in the September 2016 issue. He was also just inducted as a fellow into the society!
It turns out my initial doubts were completely unfounded, and they really wanted to run a page based off one of our tutorials.
The editors liked the Open Source Portrait tutorial. In particular, the section on using Wavelet Decompose to touch up the skin tones:
Yay Mairi!
How cool is that? I actually searched the archive and the only other mention I can find of GIMP (or any other F/OSS) is from a “Step By Step” article written by Peter Gawthrop (Vol. 149, February 2009). I think it’s pretty awesome that we can promote a little more exposure for Free Software alternatives. Especially in more mainstream publications and to a broader audience!
While I appreciate the sentiments, remember this is for helping to get the word out about Free Software further - so if anyone knows of other places where things might be mentioned, showcased, or talked about - please let me know so I can help promote it as well!
Great to see Open Source being acknowledged in mainstream photography.
I am now a “judge” for club photography in our region of the UK and whenever I visit camera clubs I always say a few words about Open Source editors, in particular Rawtherapee, Darktable and GIMP
Dang, that’s a really nice layout of your process. I congratulate you sir. Nice job.
I’m been hoping to use the wavelet deconstruction in the GIMP ever since I read your article, but I’m having a tough time getting my head out of Darktable. I’ve been thinking about trying a similar process by applying a blur and removing the color channel, then modifying that as I see fit with spot removal and tonal curves and such. Ultimately exporting and converting to an SVG and applying to the original with an appropriate blend mode.
Does this process interest you? It breaks the non-destructive nature of Darktable, but might be nice to compare to the wavelet decomposition technique.
English is not my first language, so please excuse any mistake. It could be possible some sort of non-desctructive pseudo-wavelet deconstrucction process with DT? I mean using, for example, some pipeline combination of highpass and lowpass layer filters in addition to blending modes and the spot removal tool or/and the parametric masks. I am a beginner with GIMP and DT, so maybe I just have written a nonsense.
You can use the watermark module just like the spot remover. It’ll work with any SVG. But you won’t be able to go back in the future unless you keep both file versions together. Hmm, now I getting excited about this.
Do you mean many instances of the equalizer module such as every wavelet layer in GIMP? If so, how can the options masks be used progressively with the greatest possible rigor to fine-tune or delimit every wavelet level? With opacity stops?, with feathers?
Thanks in advance.
