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RE: Coloring Help - SolidSnake2003 - 02-01-2018
I take it don't mess with brightness/contrast, or hue/saturation?
Edit: Well I began playing around around a little using the gmic from this, and an auto curves thing in photoshop elements, what do you think?
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RE: Coloring Help - rich2005 - 02-01-2018
(02-01-2018, 02:00 PM)SolidSnake2003 Wrote: I take it don't mess with brightness/contrast, or hue/saturation?
Brightness-contrast is another way of using the color-levels, I find curves easier. I do not think Hue-saturation works very well with you image(s) but give it a try.
Quote:Edit: Well I began playing around around a little using the gmic from this, and an auto curves thing in photoshop elements, what do you think?that looks ok to me
This all gimp
Back to Gmic, in the colours section and curves, there is a CMYK (cyan-magenta-yellow-black) option, pulling those curves around gets reasonably close. A frame from the gif is inset for comparison. https://i.imgur.com/xe3h0Cq.jpg
Then to get it closer to the gif, wreck it by posterising (Gimp menu: colors -> posterise) and reduce the number of colors. https://i.imgur.com/IUKwNsd.jpg
RE: Coloring Help - SolidSnake2003 - 02-01-2018
I don't want to do the posterising, I don't like the gif look. I just want to make the colors pop more like they do in the gif without reducing colors. Sorry if Im not explaining well, Im new to this whole way of doing things.
RE: Coloring Help - rich2005 - 02-01-2018
Quote:...I don't like the gif look. I just want to make the colors pop more like they do in the gif without reducing colors...
Well the gif colors pop because the crappy gif format limits the number of colors to 256 which reduces blending between adjacent areas.
However I am beginning to think that we are not seeing the same image the same way, maybe your computer monitor has a high brightness setting.
Really it is now up to you. Dive in and experiment. For example again using Gmic, after using the curves to brighten up, try a stage using some of the other filters, this for example using color-grading.
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Lots of settings in this one, start at the top slider and see what each does. screenshot with gif frame to compare. https://i.imgur.com/JkINqd2.jpg
RE: Coloring Help - SolidSnake2003 - 02-01-2018
(02-01-2018, 06:27 PM)rich2005 Wrote:Quote:...I don't like the gif look. I just want to make the colors pop more like they do in the gif without reducing colors...
Well the gif colors pop because the crappy gif format limits the number of colors to 256 which reduces blending between adjacent areas.
However I am beginning to think that we are not seeing the same image the same way, maybe your computer monitor has a high brightness setting.
Really it is now up to you. Dive in and experiment. For example again using Gmic, after using the curves to brighten up, try a stage using some of the other filters, this for example using color-grading.
Lots of settings in this one, start at the top slider and see what each does. screenshot with gif frame to compare. https://i.imgur.com/JkINqd2.jpg
Should I start testing these with the base images, or after the first thing of gmic?
RE: Coloring Help - SolidSnake2003 - 02-02-2018
I played around with some of your suggestions, what do you think of this?
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RE: Coloring Help - rich2005 - 02-02-2018
Looks ok to me, the important thing is to keep experimenting.
One more to tryout, sometimes, not always.
Duplicate the layer, change the mode of the top layer. Overlay mode generally reinforces colours but will make dark darker, Run through other modes and see what happens, Screen mode for example will lighten everything. Dodge will give a really strong effect.
In the end, it is up to you.
![[Image: bWwQfa6.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/bWwQfa6.jpg)
RE: Coloring Help - SolidSnake2003 - 02-02-2018
(02-02-2018, 08:54 AM)rich2005 Wrote: Looks ok to me, the important thing is to keep experimenting.
One more to tryout, sometimes, not always.
Duplicate the layer, change the mode of the top layer. Overlay mode generally reinforces colours but will make dark darker, Run through other modes and see what happens, Screen mode for example will lighten everything. Dodge will give a really strong effect.
In the end, it is up to you.
I like using blend modes, alot of my "grading" is typically just making a copied picture desaturated, then setting it to soft light, or overlay, lowering the opacity to suit what I want, then add what ever color I want on top set to color with varying opacity
RE: Coloring Help - SolidSnake2003 - 02-05-2018
Any tips on how to improve this image?
https://imgur.com/a/P74Tf
Here is a sample of how I would like for it to look?
https://imgur.com/a/ctdP7
Here is a picture of my screen
https://imgur.com/a/LN0t4
RE: Coloring Help - SolidSnake2003 - 02-08-2018
Is it possible to brighten the image without distorting it?