On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Russell Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the relevant doco link.

yeah, sorry it doesn't solve your problem. the levels module is in Lab
and works on L only. i would try to play with the tonecurve and
individual a/b color contrast curves for your usecase:

http://www.darktable.org/2012/02/mastering-color-with-lab-tone-curves/

-jo


> So it sounds like I was deluded in thinking I was altering R, G, B
> levels independently with the histogram.
>
> If I get time I might have a look at contributing some code. (I have
> also been wanting to add a loupe to lighttable.)
>
> Russell
>
> On 2013-02-04 08:27, johannes hanika wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Russell Edwards <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have some digital photos of faded old colour prints. The R, G, B
>>> histograms are squashed and shifted with respect to eachother due to
>>> the
>>> different fading characteristics of the different pigments in the
>>> paper.
>>>
>>> It seems to me the best way to fix what I am seeing would be if I
>>> could
>>> apply the exposure or levels module to the R, G, B modules
>>> independently.
>>>
>>> What's the closest feature in darktable to achieve such a thing?
>>>
>>> I can kind of do it dragging the histogram but that is extremely
>>> slow
>>> and jerky, and I can't find which module actually implements that
>>> processing, nor documentation of it, so am hesitant to use it.
>>
>> http://www.darktable.org/usermanual/ch03s04s05.html.php#idp619488
>>
>>> I can partly do what I need by playing with channel mixer or color
>>> correction, but it is not flexible enough to really do what I need
>>> to
>>> do, which to first order is move the left end of the red histogram
>>> to
>>> the left and the right end of the red histogram to the right.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
>>>
>>> Russell
>>>
>>>
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