2010/7/11 Alexia Death <alexiadeath@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Sunday, July 11, 2010 11:51:47 Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: >> >> I'll try to explain (maybe I could try to record a short video showing >> my work flow if my description is incomprehensible). >> When I open a photo I look for areas where I know how the color should >> look like. I usually look for neutrals (asphalt road, gray clothes) >> first and put some sample point here. Then I add sample points other >> places with known color like leaves. Then I open curves dialog and I >> try to set the curves so the color color "matches theory". In other >> words I try to match the curves so the neutrals are approximately >> neutrals and eg. leaves mentioned contains most green and bit of red >> but almost no blue. This is where the sample points are really useful >> because I see the numbers for all selected places at the same time. > > Thanks for the explanation. Its a very interesting use of the sample points :) > A video perhaps would bean overkill but I would like to see screenshots of > before an after with some sample image, if its not too much of a bother. > > Best, > Alexia > I made some images to show how I use sample points. Image [1] shows initial setup and image without any corrections. Screenshot [2] shows the image while working on it using curves and sample points. Image [3] is the actual result, where I did correction on b in Lab decomposed image to get rid of the blue shadows atop of the curves. [1] http://blender6xx.ic.cz/pub/sample_points/screen_1.png [2] http://blender6xx.ic.cz/pub/sample_points/screen_2.png [3] http://blender6xx.ic.cz/pub/sample_points/_MG_1242-corrected.jpg Lukas _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
