smooth out colours

[rich2005]

(04-05-2017, 08:26 AM)Kevin Wrote: There is something there rich, it's just very dark:



I tend to think that it's run out of dynamic range as all the colours are compressed into a range of darkness.

Thanks Kevin, brings a whole new meaning to working in the dark

@tekett

You could try applying a small gaussian blur but how do you determine the effect, except by trial and error.

Suggestions: The development version, currently Gimp 2.9.5 can use higher bit depths 16 and 32 which might help initially but eventually you will probably have to export back to 8.

FWIW, a comparison here after applying a blur on the 'black' image using Gimp 2.9.5 with 32 bit depth. Then opened in Gimp 2.8 and used a color curve similar to Kevins example curve. http://i.imgur.com/QYjSGBB.png