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- October 24th, 2011, 11:26 am
- Forum: Picture Window Support
- Topic: Equalize to recover a sky
- Replies: 5
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Re: Equalize to recover a sky
Thank you for the reminder and quote. Sometimes Equalize brings out detail, as in the example of the clouds. Sometimes Equalize brightens most of the image without bringing out a noticeable amount of detail. I'm trying to relate the histogram-leveling Equalize operation and the change it produces to...
- October 24th, 2011, 12:35 am
- Forum: Picture Window Support
- Topic: Equalize to recover a sky
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3484
Equalize to recover a sky
The top image came out of a raw converter. I reduced exposure in the converter to avoid blowing much of the sky, but it has a dull uniform overcast. Stumbled on the idea of applying Special Effects | EqualizeHSV through a mask of the sky. The bottom image is the result - amazing recovery of clouds. ...
- October 17th, 2011, 7:59 pm
- Forum: Picture Window Support
- Topic: Foggy picture...improvements possible??
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6879
Soft light with itself
A start that solves the bulk of the problem is: Composite | Soft light using the original image as the overlay image, too.
- September 15th, 2011, 6:07 pm
- Forum: Picture Window Support
- Topic: Soft Light blend mode
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5158
Re: Soft Light blend mode
Perhaps this recipe does something like to goal of the original post:
- FullRange-HSL (might leave image badly desaturated; don't worry)
- make a mask by brightness, inverse diagonal
- Composite | Soft light through mask, amount to taste around 50%
- compensating contrast with a Brightness-RGB S-curve
- August 28th, 2011, 4:16 pm
- Forum: Picture Window Support
- Topic: What does No WB mean in the Raw dialog?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3771
Re: What does No WB mean in the Raw dialog?
Thank you, Kiril. Yes, the occasions to select No WB are rare. (Odd reversal here concerning who deprecates a PWP option.) Occasionally, No WB is the easiest start when you want to keep a desired color cast, like a late afternoon "golden hour." Also, when you have a shot of a scene and ano...
- August 27th, 2011, 8:29 pm
- Forum: Picture Window Support
- Topic: What does No WB mean in the Raw dialog?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3771
What does No WB mean in the Raw dialog?
One of the options in the Color tab of the Raw dialog of Picture Window Pro is No White Balance. Is that literally true? Or does it mean a kind of standard white balance, applying a fixed triple of ratios to the (R, G, B) values or a standard temp and tint like 6500K and 1.0? The answer will presuma...
- August 19th, 2011, 11:36 pm
- Forum: Picture Window Support
- Topic: Rotating A Picture In Three Dimensions
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4186
Re: Rotating A Picture In Three Dimensions
The sample image shows a fairly flat scene, so it minimizes the problem with 3-D rotation: such rotation brings new things into view, but the camera did not capture pixels for them. Imagine a photo showing the earth from a camera in a fairly low orbit satellite over Chicago, Illinois. Now rotate so ...
- July 24th, 2011, 6:17 pm
- Forum: Picture Window Support
- Topic: Levels and Colour - Midtone contrast preserving WP and BP
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4378
Another method using Equalize
Another method: Look at Special Effects | Equalize, examining both HSV and HSL and make a choice. Sometimes the amount slider will find a suitable result. When it does not, Composite | Soft Light the original as the base image and the equalized image as the overlay, adjusting the amount slider of th...
- June 21st, 2011, 6:38 pm
- Forum: Picture Window Support
- Topic: Printing and the HSV versus HSL histograms
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1700
Printing and the HSV versus HSL histograms
This problem image has a dramatic disparity between its HSV and HSL range of values. It printed with much weaker colors than seen on the monitor. http://www.flickr.com/photos/41790885@N08/5858286412/sizes/l/in/photostream/ For comparison this image printed close to what is seen on the monitor. Same ...
- June 17th, 2011, 9:07 pm
- Forum: Picture Window Support
- Topic: masking fine detail
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2414
Re: masking fine detail
den's tutorial about masking wispy hair might apply.
http://www.ncplus.net/~birchbay/tutoria ... pyhair.htm
http://www.ncplus.net/~birchbay/tutoria ... pyhair.htm