Hi, recently I had to edit some portraits for business use. With masks darktable seems to work very good for most of it. But I would like to know if there is a better workflow for eye retouching, as I keep repeating a lengthy pattern:
1. First, using the contrast/brightness/saturation module, I select the sclera (eye white) with the path tool, blur the selection a few pixels, increase brightness a bit, e.g. .08, reduce saturation a lot, e.g. .30. 2. Then I select the iris in the same way, increase brightness slightly, e.g. .02, increase saturation a bit, e.g. .06. 3. Then I select the bags under the eyes in the same way, reduce contrast a lot, increase brightness a bit, reduce saturation a bit. 4. Then I use the same selection as No. 3 with the blur module, setting the additional exposure to zero or near zero. 5. Then I use the same selection as No. 4 with the color correction module, moving about half a square towards red. 6. Then I fiddle with the transparency settings for steps 3-5 until it looks natural, e.g. 100% for the contrast module, 75% for the color correction, 66% for the blur. (Modeled after http://gimps.de/gimp/bilder-fotos/augen-retuschieren/) I am happy with the results, but I am wondering if there is a more efficient way to achieve this with darktable. Any hints welcome. Cheers Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
