Tone Equalizer Playtime

I watched the latest @s7habo (Boris) videos about contrast, It opened my eye, brain to a topic I did not understand correctly.

So with that I tried to edit a picture from signature edits. No great improvements where done on the colors of the image, concentrated only on contrast with Contrast Equalizer (thats what I think I did).

XMP Included, Darktable 5.0.1.

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I am on the fence about this. Play raws are for your own work, and signature edits does not say you are free to redistribute their file. Their license is not super clear…

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Does their license allow us to redistribute the file or not? since you uploaded it.

It does:

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This license does not include the right to compile photos from Signature Edits to replicate a similar or competing service or to misrepresent the authorship of these photos as your own original work.

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I’d still rather see Play Raws be people’s own work. I personally don’t have any interest in being a signature edits forum

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Done before I realized that it is not your own work because I had no idea what “signature edits” is.

Here’s G’MIC’s Equalize Local Histograms

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Boris’s videos are very good and he knows his stuff, but I haven’t seen the video that inspired your edit. I personally use contrast equalizer for some denoising but I don’t use it for contrast myself. I am not saying it shouldn’t be used and it may be my bad for not using it that way. But here is my edit without contrast equalizer.
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Might have been the tone eq given the nature and content of those videos

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Double exclusion and created a convolution layer to enhance the contrast more. Also punched the saturation up. :slight_smile:

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Definitly like how you punched up the gold, Terry. :slight_smile:

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@lylejk I used the color zones module to puch up the warm tones.

My excuses too you all who replied, I did mean the tone equalizer! Shame on me.

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darktable 5.0.1


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Well, damn. You got me to looking into the Contrast Equalizer, again, and I must say it is very interesting.

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My edit, using Contrast Equalizer, not Tone Equalizer. Virtually everything in the photo is in shadow, so I chose to leave it that way.


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