Hi Victor, > Personally I like to use the velvia tool with a blending mode which > includes only high values in the grey channel and where saturation is not > to high. > This way its brings beautiful colors where I usually want without too much > overall saturation.
Now this is a great tip. I wouldn't have thought of using the grey channel, because I am not too familiar with each channel. I will try it out. This is the sort of tip I was looking for. Thanks! > IMHO the question is : what do expect from the velvia module ? Setting the > velvia module should be the easy part > > > 2013/12/4 Rob Z. Smith <[email protected]> > >> Hi Glad, >> >> It doesn't really need any tricks or blending modes on Velvia, just apply >> more than once if you want an even stronger effect or a mask if you want >> only a selected area processed. Or add an instance of vibrance rather than >> two velvias. >> >> Not all things have to be difficult >> >> Rgds, >> Rob. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Paul Glad Mihai [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: 04 December 2013 14:03 >> To: Victor L >> Cc: Darktable-users >> Subject: Re: [Darktable-users] Lab curves vs. velvia vs. vibrance >> >> Hi Victor, >> >> Thanks for the great tip. I will look into it. I am familiar with multiple >> instances, but I thought someone could point me some specific tricks, i.e. >> a first instance of velvia that is only applied to a certain blending mode, >> and another instance that is applied to another blending mode. >> >> Can anybody help? >> >> Regards, >> Glad >> >> On 04.12.2013 12:00, Victor L wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> You should read the blog articles about masks >>> <http://www.darktable.org/2013/04/masks/> and multi-instances >>> <http://www.darktable.org/2013/02/multi-instances/>. Remember some of >>> the masks features are only available in the nearly released version >> (1.4). >>> >>> Bye >>> >>> >>> 2013/12/4 Paul Glad Mihai <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >>> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> In order to get nicer contrasts I started playing around with the Lab >>> curves (Re: Marugulis' - Photoshop Lab Color, i.e. make the a and b >>> slopes steeper to pull colors apart). I noticed this works great but >> not >>> on all photos. Some just punch the blues, or greens or yellows and it >>> doesn't look that great. So I reverted to velvia. >>> >>> Now I heard somewhere that one can apply multiple instances of velvia >>> and use blending modes to achieve very nice effects. Can someone >> give me >>> some tips on using these? I would really appreciate that. >>> >>> Further, can these tricks also be used on the vibrance? >>> >>> Thanks for your time. >>> >>> Glad >>> >>> P.S. Is there no way to donate towards this project? >>> -- >>> Sent from my iTooth. Get your own teeth to send Emails under >>> www.itooth.com <http://www.itooth.com> >>> >>> -- Sent from my iTooth. Get your own teeth to send Emails under www.itooth.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
