note that our input colour profile module has a `BGR linear infrared'
profile for this purpose (so you can work on your swapped channels
early on in the pipe, channel mixer comes in quite late).

-jo

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Raymundo Vega <[email protected]> wrote:
> First, Thank you so much.
>
> I was following the photographylife.com tutorial, but stopped when i tried
> the channel mixer to move blue to red and green and set the blue to red
> plus green minus blue.
>
> Thanks again, my test photo looks much better now in false color and BW.
>
> ~raymundo
>
> "Obscurity is a far greater threat than piracy"
> Tim O'Reilly
>
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 11:29 PM, Robert William Hutton <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> IIRC the reason that people play around with custom camera profiles in
>> lightroom or photoshop is because their white balance sliders don't go far
>> enough to get things into the correct range. There's no such problem in
>> darktable, so the process is drastically simpler.
>>
>> For example, here's a basic process using those Adobe tools that you might
>> use as the basis for developing a workflow in darktable:
>>
>> https://photographylife.com/how-to-process-infrared-photographs
>>
>> Here's what I've come up with:
>>
>> Open the channel mixer module.
>>
>> * Pull down the destination dropdown list, and select blue
>> * Right click on the blue slider and type "0"
>> * Right click on the red slider and type "1"
>>
>> You have now put the information from the red channel into the blue
>> channel.
>>
>> * Pull down the destination dropdown list, and select red
>> * Right click on the red slider and type "0"
>> * Right click on the blue slider and type "1"
>>
>> You have now put the information from the blue channel into the red
>> channel.
>>
>> Now open the white balance module.  I guess the idea here is to play with
>> things until you get what you want, whether that be a white ground and blue
>> sky or slightly red ground or whatever.  There's no right or wrong answer.
>> One technique that seems to work for me is to use the spot white balance and
>> select some foliage, like leaves or grass on the image.  That'll get you in
>> the right ballpark.  Then play around with the sliders or try selecting
>> different parts of the image until you get the colours that you want.  Or
>> try selecting different things within the image with the spot white balance
>> tool until it looks good.
>>
>> Next, you'll probably need to go into the exposure module and play with
>> the black and white points, and then you might want to use the equalizer to
>> increase the contrast, and then perhaps color zones or color correction
>> (again keeping in mind that red and blue have been reversed).
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>
>> On 03/06/16 14:41, Raymundo Vega wrote:
>>>
>>> It may be user ignorance/error, i tried channel mixer playing with values
>>> there, but i was not
>>> able to swap (for instance) blue and red channels like the color profile
>>> bgr do.
>>>
>>> ~rv
>>>
>>> "Obscurity is a far greater threat than piracy"
>>> Tim O'Reilly
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 3:59 AM, Robert William Hutton <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     On 02/06/16 20:52, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote:
>>>
>>>         On Thursday 19 May 2016 10:33:47 Raymundo Vega wrote:
>>>
>>>             Hello all,
>>>
>>>             I am playing with infra red photography and need pointers on
>>> how to
>>>             create icc files, i like to try different channel mixtures.
>>>
>>>
>>>         I am not aware of any easy to use editor for ICC profiles. What I
>>> personally
>>>         would do is patching the sources of darktable
>>> (src/common/colorspaces.c) to
>>>         create the profile you want and then have it written to disk. But
>>> that requires
>>>         some basic programming knowledge. Maybe someone else has a better
>>> idea?
>>>
>>>
>>>     Well, infrared photography generally involves using a really extreme
>>> white balance and/or
>>>     switching the red and blue channels.  Can't you just do that using
>>> the white balance and channel
>>>     mixer modules?  No icc required.  I was going to do a video on it at
>>> one point, but having a
>>>     baby has kinda crimped my free time.
>>>
>>>     Regards,
>>>
>>>     Rob
>>>
>>>
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