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With a crude luminosity mask:
- Duplicate the layer
- Colors>Desaturate>Luminosity
- Colors>Invert
- Open the Channels list, drag any of the RGB channels to the general list to make a copy of it
- Right-click the copied channel and Channel to selection. You now have a progressive selection on the image where the dark pixels are more selected than the light ones, so tools will apply more to them and leave the light ones almost untouched.
- Open the Layers list, delete/hide the black and white layer, select the image layer
- Use Colors>Brightness/Contrast to bring out the kid's face, you will see that the light parts of the image are mostly unchanged.
- Select>Invert to have a progressive selection mostly on the "light" parts of the image (the raincoat)
- Use Colors>Hue/Saturation to add some saturation to the raincoat.
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(02-08-2018, 05:58 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: With a crude luminosity mask:
- Duplicate the layer
- Colors>Desaturate>Luminosity
- Colors>Invert
- Open the Channels list, drag any of the RGB channels to the general list to make a copy of it
- Right-click the copied channel and Channel to selection. You now have a progressive selection on the image where the dark pixels are more selected than the light ones, so tools will apply more to them and leave the light ones almost untouched.
- Open the Layers list, delete/hide the black and white layer, select the image layer
- Use Colors>Brightness/Contrast to bring out the kid's face, you will see that the light parts of the image are mostly unchanged.
- Select>Invert to have a progressive selection mostly on the "light" parts of the image (the raincoat)
- Use Colors>Hue/Saturation to add some saturation to the raincoat.
That's not the image I was wanting to improve, the stuff explained before helped with that pic, this is the scene Im wanting to improve now
This is the closest to how I want it to look
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(02-08-2018, 07:56 PM)SolidSnake2003 Wrote: (02-08-2018, 05:58 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: With a crude luminosity mask:
- Duplicate the layer
- Colors>Desaturate>Luminosity
- Colors>Invert
- Open the Channels list, drag any of the RGB channels to the general list to make a copy of it
- Right-click the copied channel and Channel to selection. You now have a progressive selection on the image where the dark pixels are more selected than the light ones, so tools will apply more to them and leave the light ones almost untouched.
- Open the Layers list, delete/hide the black and white layer, select the image layer
- Use Colors>Brightness/Contrast to bring out the kid's face, you will see that the light parts of the image are mostly unchanged.
- Select>Invert to have a progressive selection mostly on the "light" parts of the image (the raincoat)
- Use Colors>Hue/Saturation to add some saturation to the raincoat.
That's not the image I was wanting to improve, the stuff explained before helped with that pic, this is the scene Im wanting to improve now
This is the closest to how I want it to look
I did look at it before, but no real good match. Your image (screencapture?) has lost a lot of detail
A real quick 'maybe' using g'mic light patch filter, showing possible settings.
https://i.imgur.com/lzFYwLD.jpg
Can be 'tweaked' using a selection to constrain the filter. Hopefully someone will come up with a 'recipe'.
Using my netbook so a little stretched for battery time 
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So:
- some Curves to lighten the darkness a bit,
- the "quickmask" to paint a selection over the eyes,
- Select>Feather the selection a bit (20px)
- another shot of curves to lighten that area some more:
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The screencaps used were made from the DVD version of movie. I hate it on Blu-Ray, but had to use the DVD to get the screencaps. My PC doesn't have a blu-ray player. The only way I can maybe get better screencaps is to watch the Digital version, and printscreen caps that way I guess, but I don't know if that works.
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(02-09-2018, 11:36 PM)SolidSnake2003 Wrote: The screencaps used were made from the DVD version of movie. I hate it on Blu-Ray, but had to use the DVD to get the screencaps. My PC doesn't have a blu-ray player. The only way I can maybe get better screencaps is to watch the Digital version, and printscreen caps that way I guess, but I don't know if that works.
Depending on the viewing application there might be provision to tweak the output before the screencapture. Have a look through the application menus.
This example using the freeware player VLC which will play a DVD on your computer.
1. VLC will export a frame as a png. Better than using the computer screencapture.
This example from VLC before any adjustments: https://i.imgur.com/uusdxWd.jpg
2. Tucked away is a filters section, all sorts in there: https://i.imgur.com/Vkwn4xb.jpg
3. Which gives an exported frame like this: https://i.imgur.com/5pg6EBu.jpg
Still not great. What is the difference? Analysis shows about 1600 colours before and 2600 colours after.
Still a low base for editing but a better low base.
Caveat: I am firmly embedded in old technology. No blueray here.
Using a blueray disk? Still possible with VLC. Do a search for the keys and how to set up.
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(02-10-2018, 09:18 AM)rich2005 Wrote: (02-09-2018, 11:36 PM)SolidSnake2003 Wrote: The screencaps used were made from the DVD version of movie. I hate it on Blu-Ray, but had to use the DVD to get the screencaps. My PC doesn't have a blu-ray player. The only way I can maybe get better screencaps is to watch the Digital version, and printscreen caps that way I guess, but I don't know if that works.
Depending on the viewing application there might be provision to tweak the output before the screencapture. Have a look through the application menus.
This example using the freeware player VLC which will play a DVD on your computer.
1. VLC will export a frame as a png. Better than using the computer screencapture.
This example from VLC before any adjustments: https://i.imgur.com/uusdxWd.jpg
2. Tucked away is a filters section, all sorts in there: https://i.imgur.com/Vkwn4xb.jpg
3. Which gives an exported frame like this: https://i.imgur.com/5pg6EBu.jpg
Still not great. What is the difference? Analysis shows about 1600 colours before and 2600 colours after.
Still a low base for editing but a better low base.
Caveat: I am firmly embedded in old technology. No blueray here.
Using a blueray disk? Still possible with VLC. Do a search for the keys and how to set up.
This is the best I could get it
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any advice on how to improve the image, and get rid of the blocks, and make it look sharper?
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Here is a link to an HD Blu-Ray capture, can you help me improve it?
http://kissthemgoodbye.net/horrors/album...346529.jpg
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The face is too dark on that one.
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