Timeless graffiti in Genoa

[Terry (Terry Pinfold)]

What interesting graffiti. What a challenging image to work with. You have done a great job with your edit to bring out the detail and colour in both the sunlight and shadows. I recently rediscovered the fusion option in base curves and applied that to the problem here. I then had to play a lot to sort out the contrast and saturation to a stage I was happy. Thanks for the challenge.
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[anon42681393]

I knew it was a challenging photo and I forgot to tell you in first place. I’ve read you rediscovered the fusion option in base curve (while I haven’t tried it myself). Thanks for your edit(s), and for the details you always post accompanying them; your explanations are always informative and instructive.

[Terry (Terry Pinfold)]

I probably overdid the local contrast adjustment in my edit, but only noticed after I saw in posted to the forum.

[Christian-B]

Hello,
Thank you for this challenge, not easy but very interesting.

DT 4.3 & Sigmoid.
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Greetings from Brussels,
Christian

[anon42681393]

Thanks to you. Such a colorful edit. Explosive!

[Terry (Terry Pinfold)]

@Christian-B

Sigmoid

Your edit looks good. What settings did you do in sigmoid? Sigmoid didn’t look good in my hands for this image.

[Christian-B]

@Terry

I probably overdid the local contrast adjustment in my edit, but only noticed after I saw in posted to the forum.

Personally, I don’t mind, I really like your edition. It highlights the details of the wall paintings.

[anon42681393]

@Christian-B if you want you can share you XMP sidecar file so that anyone can study your edit.

[anon42681393]

I thought my edit was pushing colors and contrast to extreme…

[Christian-B]

@anon42681393

if you want you can share you XMP sidecar file so that anyone can study your edit.

Sorry, I forgot, I added it to the post.

@Terry

Your edit looks good. What settings did you do in sigmoid? Sigmoid didn’t look good in my hands for this image.

Thank you very much
I regularly use Sigmoid with two instances of the local contrast module, one for highlights and one for lowlights.
I also use the contrast equalizer and the DS module

[Christian-B]

@anon42681393

I thought my edit was pushing colors and contrast to extreme…

It’s true that with the midi console, I tend to turn the buttons

[Terry (Terry Pinfold)]

@Christian-B

two instances of the local contrast module, one for highlights and one for lowlights.

Interesting, why two separate instances? What is the advantage?

[Christian-B]

@Terry

Interesting, why two separate instances? What is the advantage?

I noticed that Sigmoid gives very nice contrast in the mid-tones, but easily loses details in the high and/or low lights. So I have two presets with parametric masks that allow me to adjust them separately.

Greetings from Brussels,
Christian

[Tim (Tim Cuthbertson)]

I just played until I was pleased. dt 4.2.1

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[Terry (Terry Pinfold)]

Now I understand. I thought you were using the sliders in the module separately.

[Jean-Marc_Digne (jmdigne)]

Thanks for posting
darktable 4.2.1

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[anon42681393]

I like the way you recovered all the details of the fresco.

[dqpcoxeas]

My version…

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[anon42681393]

Original, playful, bizarre at least!
Thank you.
BTW, I hadn’t noticed before that there’s a St. George killing the Drake (that’s me) in the fresco…

[phobrain (Bill Ross)]

Here are two from the jpg using gThumb curve, then adding Uniform+curve+saturation. In the original, I originally saw the overpass as the side of a building next to the muraled ones, which need masking.