Masks - Can't seem to get it right

[AceMcHammer]

(Yesterday, 06:44 AM)denzjos Wrote: Over the years the same difficult problem has come up here on this forum. Here are some of the possible solutions:

1 - Try this with the two photos : https://github.com/samrocketman/home/blo..._match.scm (script)
Channels to use : 'LAB - Preserve Luma' or 'YCbCr - Preserve luma'

2 - https://patdavid.net/2012/07/getting-aro...more-color

3 - You can try this : GMIC-Qt / Colors / Transfer Colors (PCA)

4 - https://www.dustfreesolutions.com/CT/CT.html

I tried a couple things.  First I figured out the aspect ratio of my high res image of pixel length and width and added canvas size to my preferred image to match the aspect ratio of my high res image.  I then copied selections from the colored areas of the image and pasted them into the blank sections of the new canvas area in an attempt to fool the filter into just coming up with something other than white in those side sections of the canvas.  I then upscaled the preferred image resolution to the same as my high res image at 4039 x 2412 so that now the low res preferred image matched the high res image in aspect ratio and pixel count/resolution.  So then I used that and my high res image for my two layers to get the cube file and externally applied that cube file to my high res image.  It turned out a complete mess.

I did have some good success with the Colors/Transfer Colors [PCA] filter.  Funny thing is my "manual" piece meal adjustment of the high res image that I posted in post #5 to try to match it to the preferred image looks almost identical to the result of the Transfer Colors [PCA] filter result, which turned out like this here...

 

That's the high res image with the transfer color filter.  It looks pretty good.  I like it.  It's got that brownish look on the hull of the ship like in the preferred image.  Still wished I knew what software and filter that person used on that other image though.

Here's the bottom image layer I used for the color transfer of the preferred image with the addition of the canvas space on the sides and then scaled up to 4039 x 2412...