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.
I probably overdid the local contrast adjustment in my edit, but only noticed after I saw in posted to the forum.
Hello,
Thank you for this challenge, not easy but very interesting.
DT 4.3 & Sigmoid.
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Greetings from Brussels,
Christian
Thanks to you. Such a colorful edit. Explosive!
Your edit looks good. What settings did you do in sigmoid? Sigmoid didn’t look good in my hands for this image.
Personally, I don’t mind, I really like your edition. It highlights the details of the wall paintings.
I thought my edit was pushing colors and contrast to extreme…
Sorry, I forgot, I added it to the post.
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
It’s true that with the midi console, I tend to turn the buttons
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
Now I understand. I thought you were using the sliders in the module separately.
I like the way you recovered all the details of the fresco.
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…
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.
Never used gThumb as an image editing tool. Thanks for the tip.