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    Object of the Fortnight - Discussion thread.

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    I'm sorry @welshblue won't be able to submit a modified entry upon having flattened the project file. It was a worthy piece to view, with or without paper cup. If my opinion counts for anything, I'm not a big fan of flattening. I prefer to preserve all layers, and take notes of what I did to produce them for future reference, if possible, and hardly ever flatten anything at all unless strictly unavoidable. Just an idea :)

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    Photo too orange

    in Paint.NET Discussion and Questions

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    I first ran Surface Blur with a Radius of 1 and a Threshold of 5 to reduce some of the graininess on her face. Then I applied Local Contrast Enhancement as shown in the pic below:

     

    too-orange-Local-Contrast-Enhancement.jp

     

    The result is this:

     

    too-orange-LCE-tweaked.jpg

     

    Then I ran G'MIC (Boost-Fade filter with settings as shown below):

     

    too-orange-LCE-G-MIC-Boost-Fade.jpg

     

    Which resulted in this:

     

    too-orange-LCE-G-MIC-Boost-Fade-tweaked.

     

    (There's still a good amount of graininess on her face, so these are intended merely as possible starting points for further improvement)

     

    Alternatively, I also tried applying the Boost-Fade filter alone, with no previous effect, but I think the outcome turned out rather colorless, although her face seems to look a bit less grainy than with the previous method:

     

    too-orange-G-MIC-Boost-Fade-tweaked.jpg

     

    So, in order to enhance colors, I applied the Laplacian Pyramid Filter with an Outlier reduction of 50 and an Extra contrast of 0.55 (all other settings at defaults), rendering the following result:

     

    too-orange-G-MIC-Boost-Fade-LPF-tweaked.

     

    I tried other methods as well, but didn't like the outcomes very much. I hope my take on the matter may help somehow (I feel I prefer the second method but that's up to each eye's taste).

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