Hi Bruce, I came back to this video, because I had found that the Local Contrast module does a great job of sharpening, as does the Sharpening module. On coming to the High Pass module, before, I had discovered that I could not get rid of the gray scale treatment. So I came here again to find that I have to select a blend mode. Very helpful. My initial work with DT has been rudimentary, but I am getting better with each video. Thanks for your diligence and persistence.
There are multiple ways to use the low pass. You can use it as a tone mapping module by setting the saturation to 0 and negative contrast (inverting the image basically) or to enhance the contrast of a certain scale of the image. I'll probably do a video sometime soon
I find this really makes images pop esp on a cloudy day or lower light....there is a preset that comes with DT in this module called the contrast mask...I use it at about 75% opacity and like the look...sometimes i combine this with a little bit of high pass as well....in any case ....I think it works great....
I've (incorrectly) used low pass to create 'fake' bokeh, thanks for the mentions and thanks for the link, now found and supported you :) (I was looking for the link the description rather than the video, I use a magnifier, so I might have missed it in the video before as might not have zoomed into that part :) ), thanks again.
I've used the lowpass for a forced Bokeh or deeper of field, for a dreamy landscape. I use (usually) an inverted circle mask and with normal blending mode and gaussian. Never thought it was possible to soften skin with bilateral and overlay, cool trick
Thenks for the Input! i`ve learned very much from your previous videos, now is maybe a time i can give something back... I`ve been using the lowpass as a means to create the Orton-effect. What i speciffically like about using it is the adjustability hat you don`t get with other methods and software. Cheers!
@@audio2u Hey Bruce, the Orton effect is a photo enhaceing method that brings an ethereal glow to the image. It`s heavily used in landscape photography. Here is a quick video explaining an easy way to achieve this look in photoshop ua-cam.com/video/hgEAI0WxflM/v-deo.html There are also other ways to achieve a similar look but they tend to be more complicated. Also in Photoshop it seems impossible to "dial in" the amount of blur and contrast after the layers have been changed. That`s why im so excited about daktable and the lowpass tool. With lowpass you can adjust blur, contrast and brightness even after the effect is applied. Hope this answers the question. Looking forward to your next video :-)
That's one of the occasions when I turn on my Virtual Machine. Stitching ist so much easier with Windows programs. Autostitch is available for such a long time now and you just add your images and wait a few seconds. Or buy an old version of Phosothop Elements. Mine is still version 6 and it does the job easily. Hugin is still terribly complicated.
Harry is amazing with these two filters. He does almost all of his editing using only these two filters. IMHO, these filters are very low level, they give you a lot of control, but using them requires more experience and it takes more time. On the other hand, if you understand how they work, you can easily apply the same principles in gimp as well, whenever you need.
the highpass as sharpener looks a lot better to me than the jpg output with the sharpen module - which seems to dull down everything (?) ... I've been using it how you showed, although I prefer hardlight and play with the contrast slider to get where I want to be... Good video Bruce
Here is another really great use for the Lowpass filter - bring out the details in clouds/give clouds more contrast. Here is a longish video based on an older dt module: ua-cam.com/video/s0kjSvW93L0/v-deo.html
In the Low Pass module, after you set Bilateral Filter, Uniformly and overlay, soften with jumps back to Gaussian. Is this intentional? Thanks Again for some excellent tutorials.
Mate, I don't remember exactly. It might have been that I edited 2 video takes together and the settings in darktable weren't the same between takes. If so, my apologies. :)
Hey Bruce, how's it going? Looking forward to your next video and I've got a question as well! My request for the darktable FB group is pending for quite some time now, are you in the position to have a look at this? Hope all is well, greetings Rico
Hi Bruce, not sure if you even considered to host your scripts in some localization management platforms, such as crowdin.com/ or translate.zanata.org/?dswid=-2234 then enable all the languages you could. Many platforms are free for open source projects.
I recently tried using a high pass and low pass filter on the same image. I used a carefully drawn mask using a path for local contrast, contrast brightness and saturation, and high pass. I used the same mask invented for low pass. In a number of the photos in this project it worked perfectly. However, in some there is a halo around the primary subject. I'm not sure how to attach the original raw, sidecar, and final image files. How can I remedy this problem
Claude if you go to the bilateral setting that reduces it alot and then play with brightness and opacity...also overlay is harsher or stronger so maybe softlight blend mode in this case....a few things to try anyway
I am a native french speaker and am moderently fluent in English. Personally I am fine with listening to your comments in English, I just add the English subtitles to help me when needed. I had a look at the french automatic translation and found the results quite good for an automatic translation. I am rather positively surprised to be honest.
Hello Bruce i can say the same for the german translation, even it is 3 years ago when it was perhaps more important to have this information. Even the translation is good, i switch it off, cause i want to concentrate on the video and your voice. For me, your english and accent is very good understandable.
Great video Bruce, as always! You have a new patreon supporter :) I actually started out by throwing money at software to do my post processing. It was only after I found your videos, and the speedy power of Darktable, that I realized I had wasted $$$ on the others. Your videos truly are the de facto source for learning this wonderful bit of kit! Don't worry about pace... youtube makes it easy to speed up, or slow down, the playback (I typically watch at x1.25, not just yours... nearly all instructional videos!) A consistent pace is more important, something you do quite well! dtstyle.net really is a neat repository although it's made me aware that perhaps darktable could improve how it manages a larger collection; or maybe I'm missing something?
Thanks for the support! Much appreciated! I have over 10,000 images, but that might not be large by your standards. How many images are you managing, and what issues are you facing?
First of all thanks for the great video again. I use the Low Pass filter for lightening pictures. You can adjust shadows more detailed like in the Shadows and Highlights filter. In a block post from 2012 it is described on darktable.org. www.darktable.org/2012/02/shadow-recovery-revisited/
I saw you can do a " tilt-shift" in a image with the Low-pass filter, it is a very nice effect ! or is this not what you mean for other uses of the Low-pas filter ? ( i have a UA-cam address if you want )
@@audio2u , o.k. misunderstanding then, the germen said a tilt-shift effect an d he did it with the lowpass filter, so I touhgt that is a other way to use the filter ;-)
@@audio2u Indeed, but they are rarely really good translations lol if you would see the language mistakes....Sometimes they are really laughable!!! I love your tutorilas, been watching them for more than 2 hours straight lol hahahahhah Wishes of a great weekend for you and your family!
Cosmo..try the preset called contrast mask that comes with DT....it really works nicely on image tone....I use it with bilateral instead of Gaussian and often use it overlay at about 75 %...you can tweak sat and brightness as well after that and get some really nice results...often I find just doing this and a little bit of sharpening is all an image needs.....There is a German video that I found that demonstrates it...I can't really follow it but it is where I came across the contrast mask preset...Tried to find it again for a link...it is an edit of black and white cows in a field....anyway I often use it instead of shadows and highlights module.....just FYI
Hi Bruce, I came back to this video, because I had found that the Local Contrast module does a great job of sharpening, as does the Sharpening module. On coming to the High Pass module, before, I had discovered that I could not get rid of the gray scale treatment. So I came here again to find that I have to select a blend mode. Very helpful. My initial work with DT has been rudimentary, but I am getting better with each video. Thanks for your diligence and persistence.
No worries!
I have learned so much about Darktable thanks to you, massive kudos!
Cheers!
There are multiple ways to use the low pass. You can use it as a tone mapping module by setting the saturation to 0 and negative contrast (inverting the image basically) or to enhance the contrast of a certain scale of the image. I'll probably do a video sometime soon
I find this really makes images pop esp on a cloudy day or lower light....there is a preset that comes with DT in this module called the contrast mask...I use it at about 75% opacity and like the look...sometimes i combine this with a little bit of high pass as well....in any case ....I think it works great....
I was wondering when you'd drop a new video Bruce! You've went off the radar for a bit! Always nice to see your stuff!
Thanks. Still working out my new video editing regime.
I've (incorrectly) used low pass to create 'fake' bokeh, thanks for the mentions and thanks for the link, now found and supported you :) (I was looking for the link the description rather than the video, I use a magnifier, so I might have missed it in the video before as might not have zoomed into that part :) ), thanks again.
Thank you for the support (again), Leona! Much appreciated!
I've used the lowpass for a forced Bokeh or deeper of field, for a dreamy landscape. I use (usually) an inverted circle mask and with normal blending mode and gaussian. Never thought it was possible to soften skin with bilateral and overlay, cool trick
Thenks for the Input! i`ve learned very much from your previous videos, now is maybe a time i can give something back... I`ve been using the lowpass as a means to create the Orton-effect. What i speciffically like about using it is the adjustability hat you don`t get with other methods and software. Cheers!
Hey JanÓ, what's an orton effect? And how are you doing it?
@@audio2u Hey Bruce, the Orton effect is a photo enhaceing method that brings an ethereal glow to the image. It`s heavily used in landscape photography. Here is a quick video explaining an easy way to achieve this look in photoshop ua-cam.com/video/hgEAI0WxflM/v-deo.html
There are also other ways to achieve a similar look but they tend to be more complicated. Also in Photoshop it seems impossible to "dial in" the amount of blur and contrast after the layers have been changed. That`s why im so excited about daktable and the lowpass tool.
With lowpass you can adjust blur, contrast and brightness even after the effect is applied.
Hope this answers the question. Looking forward to your next video :-)
Thank you !
You're welcome!
The first image your mentioned, 12 pic panorama stitch. Do we have panorama stitching in DT?
No. On Linux, I use Hugin.
That's one of the occasions when I turn on my Virtual Machine. Stitching ist so much easier with Windows programs. Autostitch is available for such a long time now and you just add your images and wait a few seconds. Or buy an old version of Phosothop Elements. Mine is still version 6 and it does the job easily. Hugin is still terribly complicated.
Harry Durgin has a very interesting video on these filters, it will complement this work.
Harry is amazing with these two filters. He does almost all of his editing using only these two filters. IMHO, these filters are very low level, they give you a lot of control, but using them requires more experience and it takes more time. On the other hand, if you understand how they work, you can easily apply the same principles in gimp as well, whenever you need.
the highpass as sharpener looks a lot better to me than the jpg output with the sharpen module - which seems to dull down everything (?) ... I've been using it how you showed, although I prefer hardlight and play with the contrast slider to get where I want to be... Good video Bruce
Thanks! I also prefer this over the sharpen module.
Here is another really great use for the Lowpass filter - bring out the details in clouds/give clouds more contrast. Here is a longish video based on an older dt module: ua-cam.com/video/s0kjSvW93L0/v-deo.html
In the Low Pass module, after you set Bilateral Filter, Uniformly and overlay, soften with jumps back to Gaussian. Is this intentional? Thanks Again for some excellent tutorials.
Mate, I don't remember exactly. It might have been that I edited 2 video takes together and the settings in darktable weren't the same between takes. If so, my apologies. :)
Hey Bruce, how's it going? Looking forward to your next video and I've got a question as well! My request for the darktable FB group is pending for quite some time now, are you in the position to have a look at this? Hope all is well, greetings Rico
Rico, nah mate, I'm not a mod on that group. Sorry. :( Maybe hit up Shane Milton, he's one of the mods.
@@audio2u Thanks Bruce! I already got admitted! Thank you for your time anyway, much appreciated. Looking forward to your next video!
It'll be public on Wednesday.
Hi Bruce, not sure if you even considered to host your scripts in some localization management platforms, such as crowdin.com/ or translate.zanata.org/?dswid=-2234 then enable all the languages you could. Many platforms are free for open source projects.
I recently tried using a high pass and low pass filter on the same image. I used a carefully drawn mask using a path for local contrast, contrast brightness and saturation, and high pass. I used the same mask invented for low pass.
In a number of the photos in this project it worked perfectly. However, in some there is a halo around the primary subject. I'm not sure how to attach the original raw, sidecar, and final image files. How can I remedy this problem
Did you try playing with the feathering radius and mask blur sliders? That's probably where I'd start.
Claude if you go to the bilateral setting that reduces it alot and then play with brightness and opacity...also overlay is harsher or stronger so maybe softlight blend mode in this case....a few things to try anyway
your speed is good we also can watch the lesson over or pause, until we absorb it to our happiness
Excellent!
I am a native french speaker and am moderently fluent in English. Personally I am fine with listening to your comments in English, I just add the English subtitles to help me when needed. I had a look at the french automatic translation and found the results quite good for an automatic translation. I am rather positively surprised to be honest.
Good to hear!
Hello Bruce i can say the same for the german translation, even it is 3 years ago when it was perhaps more important to have this information.
Even the translation is good, i switch it off, cause i want to concentrate on the video and your voice. For me, your english and accent is very good understandable.
Cheers!
Great video Bruce, as always! You have a new patreon supporter :) I actually started out by throwing money at software to do my post processing. It was only after I found your videos, and the speedy power of Darktable, that I realized I had wasted $$$ on the others. Your videos truly are the de facto source for learning this wonderful bit of kit!
Don't worry about pace... youtube makes it easy to speed up, or slow down, the playback (I typically watch at x1.25, not just yours... nearly all instructional videos!) A consistent pace is more important, something you do quite well!
dtstyle.net really is a neat repository although it's made me aware that perhaps darktable could improve how it manages a larger collection; or maybe I'm missing something?
Thanks for the support! Much appreciated! I have over 10,000 images, but that might not be large by your standards. How many images are you managing, and what issues are you facing?
Thanks for the interesting video!
Could you maybe make a video about how you made the panorama?
Darktable can't stich. You need other tools, like Hugin / hugin.sourceforge.net to stich them - and then bring the TIFF back to darktable.
That's not darktable! That's Hugin. 😃
@@audio2u maybe another series? 😉
I did mention a few episodes back that I didn't want to pollute this feed with non-darktable stuff. Maybe one day I'll start a Hugin channel. 😃
First of all thanks for the great video again. I use the Low Pass filter for lightening pictures. You can adjust shadows more detailed like in the Shadows and Highlights filter. In a block post from 2012 it is described on darktable.org. www.darktable.org/2012/02/shadow-recovery-revisited/
I saw you can do a " tilt-shift" in a image with the Low-pass filter, it is a very nice effect ! or is this not what you mean for other uses of the Low-pas filter ? ( i have a UA-cam address if you want )
Right. I haven't seen that. Sure, drop a link here. 😃
BTW. If you know a easier way to do this can you drop me a line ?
To do a tilt-shift effect? No, I'm not sure about that technique. I thought you had a link to another video about that. Sorry if I misunderstood.
@@audio2u , o.k. misunderstanding then, the germen said a tilt-shift effect an d he did it with the lowpass filter, so I touhgt that is a other way to use the filter ;-)
I did appreaciate a lot the translations!!! Spanish was almost perfect!!!! I can collaborate if you want as well , thank you so much Bruce!!!!
I have since realised that UA-cam does translations automatically!
@@audio2u Indeed, but they are rarely really good translations lol if you would see the language mistakes....Sometimes they are really laughable!!! I love your tutorilas, been watching them for more than 2 hours straight lol hahahahhah Wishes of a
great weekend for you and your family!
Thanks Daniela!
Could you make tutorial on removing or reducing eye glasses glares in dark table?
Interesting concept. Might be possible, but probably the kind of thing you'd go to gimp for. I'll investigate.
Another great video :O
Thanks man! :)
Personally I don't need translation, your english is slow and clear enough, but I would like to help with translation in italian, if it worth!
Tone mapping-video... when?
I'll get onto that! 😀
Actually, I'm pretty sure I covered that in the episode on producing HDR's.
ua-cam.com/video/tMn37-xf6X0/v-deo.html
never used it
Me either, until now! :)
Cosmo..try the preset called contrast mask that comes with DT....it really works nicely on image tone....I use it with bilateral instead of Gaussian and often use it overlay at about 75 %...you can tweak sat and brightness as well after that and get some really nice results...often I find just doing this and a little bit of sharpening is all an image needs.....There is a German video that I found that demonstrates it...I can't really follow it but it is where I came across the contrast mask preset...Tried to find it again for a link...it is an edit of black and white cows in a field....anyway I often use it instead of shadows and highlights module.....just FYI