04-09-2023, 09:56 AM
@Punchard
Gimp has a learning curve same as anything else. Do not blame Gimp until all user error is ruled out.
As ofnuts said, various techniques. One of them is using luminosity masks. If you search you will find YT videos on the method. I refuse to recommend anything 22 minutes long, shame on you DMD
However a 40 second demo: https://i.imgur.com/kjxNF9I.mp4 with a typical blown-out sky.
Some preliminaries, I added a sky layer, sized to fit. Using the old saulgood script. A little tidy up at the end using Dilate on the layer mask.
Not going to work with every image, up to you to experiment.
I case interested, the script attached. It is old, but it works well. There are more up-to-date versions.
Gimp has a learning curve same as anything else. Do not blame Gimp until all user error is ruled out.
As ofnuts said, various techniques. One of them is using luminosity masks. If you search you will find YT videos on the method. I refuse to recommend anything 22 minutes long, shame on you DMD
However a 40 second demo: https://i.imgur.com/kjxNF9I.mp4 with a typical blown-out sky.
Some preliminaries, I added a sky layer, sized to fit. Using the old saulgood script. A little tidy up at the end using Dilate on the layer mask.
Not going to work with every image, up to you to experiment.
I case interested, the script attached. It is old, but it works well. There are more up-to-date versions.