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gimpaddict

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« on: December 18, 2006, 04:42:17 pm »

I figured out how to do the Tone Mapper adjustment from LightZone in Gimp/Photoshop.  This tutorial is Gimp specific, but would easily translate to Photoshop (and work better with the 16-bit engine).  The tone mapper decreases global contrast while increasing local contrast.  Unlike the USM local contrast enhancement trick which slightly increases global contrast.

http://gimpaddict.googlepages.com/tonemapper.html

I hope you find it useful!
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« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2006, 06:19:46 am »

Thanks, it seems that this does a similar job to shadow / highlight in PS. It certainly lifts the shadows and does leave halo's if you are not careful.

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I figured out how to do the Tone Mapper adjustment from LightZone in Gimp/Photoshop.  This tutorial is Gimp specific, but would easily translate to Photoshop (and work better with the 16-bit engine).  The tone mapper decreases global contrast while increasing local contrast.  Unlike the USM local contrast enhancement trick which slightly increases global contrast.

http://gimpaddict.googlepages.com/tonemapper.html

I hope you find it useful!
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Ilya Razmanov

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« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2006, 07:35:44 am »

Well, it's a new and more complicated way to simulate simple High Pass filtering. ;-)
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« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2006, 08:16:52 am »

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Well, it's a new and more complicated way to simulate simple High Pass filtering. ;-)
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Hehe, almost everything in the gimp is more complicated unless you want to write a script .

It is very similar to a high pass filter.  However, a slight variation that keeps it from desaturating the image: the guassian blurred image is desaturated and then set to a higher opacity.  In a traditional high pass the guassian blurred layer is inverted (but not desaturated) and then set to 50%.  If you were to just set the gaussian blurred layer to a higher opacity than 50% in a traditional high pass filter, it would tend to lower saturation.  So, you could look at this as a hybrid between a contrast mask and a high pass filter.

I show a comparison of high pass, this tone mapper technique and several others here:

[a href=\"http://gimpaddict.googlepages.com/contrastcomp.html]http://gimpaddict.googlepages.com/contrastcomp.html[/url] (might be slow to load on a dialup connection).

I've been looking more carefully at the lightzone tone mapper.  While this process does a decent job of emulating their results, it still is somewhat different.

Note: if you have an image that needs a really strong contrast reduction, you're better off using a full blown tone mapper algorithm like reinhard, drago, or fattal (via pfstools for instance).
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« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2006, 06:45:36 am »

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It is very similar to a high pass filter.  However, a slight variation that keeps it from desaturating the image: the guassian blurred image is desaturated and then set to a higher opacity.
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Obviously, I noticed some difference between plain highpass and this variation. Well, I'd prefer different merge mode to prevent the desaturation but frankly, for quite some time now I prefer different way of manipulating local contrast, different from highpass:

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but you are supposed to be having problems emulating it with GIMP :-)
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