Thanks, and thanks for the style, but i had also tried that. The problem
isn't that i can't get a neutral-ish image--i can. The problem is i end up
with an image with increased contrast, that has lost subtle detail, that
looks like some curve is applied to it.
With your style, don't you see that the image has lost shadow detail
because of clipped shadows? Try it once by disabling "invert" and applying
a reversed tone-curve ( \ ), you'll see the image is actually much
richer/subtler in tones compared to what invert does.
What i'd really prefer is an "unedited" positive that i can work on. That's
why i suggested to add an option for simpler inversion.
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Pascal de Bruijn <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Emre Meydan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thanks Pascal, but i had already tried that. Even though the image has
> pure
> > (clipped) white in it, what the invert plugin results in is a badly
> clipped
> > purple image. That's why i said the plugin was showing weird behaviour.
> I've
> > also tried selecting the actual film color and also black and a mid-grey,
> > nothing seems to get me usable results. I think there is a bug with the
> > plugin. Or does it malfunction only on my computer (because of a library
> > issue maybe)?
> >
> > Here's a RAW file of a negative "scan", you can try it yourself:
> > http://emremeydan.com/tempor/IMG_2649.CR2
>
> Erhm, the film isn't neutral to begin with. So a pure white inversion,
> on a non-neutral image, will not give you a non-neutral result.
>
> If you use the colorpicker in the area between the negatives
> (resulting in green being subtracted) works fairly well (resulting in
> a reasonably neutral image). This is basically how the plugin is
> supposed to be used in the first place.
>
> And if you want a perfectly neutral end-result you'd need to keep the
> monochome plugin enabled at all times anyway.
>
> I've attached a style which worked well for me to illustrate.
>
> Regards,
> Pascal de Bruijn
>
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