Re: [Darktable-users] Luminosity Masks in Darktable?

2015-01-06 Thread Jack Bowling
On 2015-01-06 10:25 PM, Mueen Nawaz wrote: > Hi, > > So I experimented with both DT and Gimp, and indeed parametric masks can > give the same luminosity masks in the blog post. The results were almost > identical. I decided to write a small tutorial on it: > > http://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2015/Jan/l

Re: [Darktable-users] Luminosity Masks in Darktable?

2015-01-06 Thread Mueen Nawaz
Hi, So I experimented with both DT and Gimp, and indeed parametric masks can give the same luminosity masks in the blog post. The results were almost identical. I decided to write a small tutorial on it: http://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2015/Jan/luminosity-masks-in-darktable/ Thanks for pointing out

Re: [Darktable-users] Luminosity Masks in Darktable?

2015-01-06 Thread Jack Bowling
Agree re. dt focus. Besides, I think most of us just need to learn better what dt can already do compared to other programs out there (especially me). I was going by one of jo's blog posts from last year about gegl plans for dt. I have been using gimp 2.9 beta for a while now without any seriou

Re: [Darktable-users] Luminosity Masks in Darktable?

2015-01-06 Thread Rob Z. Smith
It seemed to me that his tequnique was essentially creating a series of 'luminiosity bands' with the various selections. What I didn't see was any blending or feathering between the apparently sharp edged bands but perhaps there was some overlap between them not apparent to me. I'm not sure t

Re: [Darktable-users] Luminosity Masks in Darktable?

2015-01-06 Thread Michael Below
Am Di 06 Jan 2015 00:11:10 CET schrieb Jack Bowling : > I believe that once gimp 2.10 is released and the dt graphics engine > becomes gegl-enabled, we can pass images back and forth between the > two programs as we see fit. We should guard against loading too much > into dt when what we need is

Re: [Darktable-users] Luminosity Masks in Darktable?

2015-01-06 Thread Mueen Nawaz
Rob Z. Smith writes: > > Does anyone understand the mechanics behind these 'self feathering' claims? I had a quick look at the > referenced article and it seemed to me to be essentially just creating a bunch of luminosity ranges > somewhat analogous to the zone iop and I didn't see any obviou

Re: [Darktable-users] Luminosity Masks in Darktable?

2015-01-06 Thread Mueen Nawaz
Dave writes: > Luminosity masks would be lovely. Perhaps a preset could be made? > 3 instances of with 3 masks,  one for each L, M, D? Or do I not understand it correctly? Well, my original intent was a preset for all 7 (or 9) masks in his article - not just for L, M and D. However, after think

Re: [Darktable-users] Luminosity Masks in Darktable?

2015-01-06 Thread Mueen Nawaz
Jack Bowling writes: > I believe that once gimp 2.10 is released and the dt graphics engine > becomes gegl-enabled, we can pass images back and forth between the two > programs as we see fit. We should guard against loading too much into dt > when what we need is time before the two converge.

Re: [Darktable-users] Luminosity Masks in Darktable?

2015-01-06 Thread Mueen Nawaz
johannes hanika writes: > > hi, > On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Mueen Nawaz nawaz.org> wrote:Hi, > Has anyone considered adding luminosity masks > > oh i'm glad you asked.. there might be a blog post coming up exactly about that (translating this word into what it's called in darktable, and

Re: [Darktable-users] Problem with X-Trans RAW files: color artifacts

2015-01-06 Thread Dan Torop
Hi Francisco, Ulrich's advice seems right on! In the newer NEF file I'm still not seeing areas of reds with low enough luminosity to trigger these artifacts. It may just be that the X-Trans image by a particularly fortuitous chance recorded such saturated dark reds, but that's a hard to replicate

Re: [Darktable-users] Brightening Shadows

2015-01-06 Thread David Vincent-Jones
Nice Jo !! Very clean and close to the intent of dpreview. A good example of dt vs 'others' David On Wednesday, January 07, 2015 02:01 johannes hanika wrote: > my try attached. i really don't like the overly saturated colours in the > dpreview example, also the black fringes (several 10s of pix

Re: [Darktable-users] Shadows/highlights

2015-01-06 Thread KOVÁCS István
Robert, Thanks for the advice. I've viewed the mountains tutorial again (your videos are really helpful, so I watch them as soon as they become available), but that does not appear to explain why: - a positive shadow correction *darkens* and - a negative shadow correction *brightens* some parts of

Re: [Darktable-users] Luminosity Masks in Darktable?

2015-01-06 Thread Francesco Scaglioni
Hi, I am quite fond of a mid tones luminosity mask in overlay mode with a mod s curve ( in gimp ). In DT I have tried palying with the tone curve and parametric masks on luminosity but have never managed to get anything like the gimp method without strong arteficts. I am not skilled especially i

Re: [Darktable-users] Brightening Shadows

2015-01-06 Thread johannes hanika
my try attached. i really don't like the overly saturated colours in the dpreview example, also the black fringes (several 10s of pixels wide) around the high contrast edges look displeasing to me. looks like something like our shadows/highlights has been applied, but without the bilateral blur, wi

Re: [Darktable-users] Luminosity Masks in Darktable?

2015-01-06 Thread johannes hanika
hi, On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Mueen Nawaz wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone considered adding luminosity masks oh i'm glad you asked.. there might be a blog post coming up exactly about that (translating this word into what it's called in darktable, and we've had this feature for quite some ti

Re: [Darktable-users] Luminosity Masks in Darktable?

2015-01-06 Thread Rob Z. Smith
Does anyone understand the mechanics behind these 'self feathering' claims? I had a quick look at the referenced article and it seemed to me to be essentially just creating a bunch of luminosity ranges somewhat analogous to the zone iop and I didn't see any obvious basis for overlap between t

Re: [Darktable-users] Brightening Shadows

2015-01-06 Thread Martin Schoepf
i got a fairly good image with the following modules: base-curve (off) tone-curve- low contrast shadows and higlights: shadow: 90 with bilateral filter: radius 175 chromatic aberrations white balance: 6500k graduated density: 2.50ev with blue hue and 0.09 saturation i also added velvia local contr

Re: [Darktable-users] Luminosity Masks in Darktable?

2015-01-06 Thread Dave
Luminosity masks would be lovely. Perhaps a preset could be made? 3 instances of with 3 masks, one for each L, M, D? Or do I not understand it correctly? Regards Dave On 6 Jan 2015 09:46, "Mueen Nawaz" wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone considered adding luminosity masks to Darktable? For details of >

Re: [Darktable-users] Luminosity Masks in Darktable?

2015-01-06 Thread Jack Bowling
I believe that once gimp 2.10 is released and the dt graphics engine becomes gegl-enabled, we can pass images back and forth between the two programs as we see fit. We should guard against loading too much into dt when what we need is time before the two converge. Many thanks to the dt devs for