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Coloring Help
#21
With a crude luminosity mask:
  • Duplicate the layer
  • Colors>Desaturate>Luminosity
  • Colors>Invert
  • Open the Channels list, drag any of the RGB channels to the general list to make a copy of it
  • Right-click the copied channel and Channel to selection.  You now have a progressive selection on the image where the dark pixels are more selected than the light ones, so tools will apply more to them and leave the light ones almost untouched.
  • Open the Layers list, delete/hide the black and white layer, select the image layer
  • Use Colors>Brightness/Contrast to bring out the kid's face, you will see that the light parts of the image are mostly unchanged.
  • Select>Invert to have a progressive selection mostly on the "light" parts of the image (the raincoat)
  • Use Colors>Hue/Saturation to add some saturation to the raincoat.
   
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#22
(02-08-2018, 05:58 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: With a crude luminosity mask:
  • Duplicate the layer
  • Colors>Desaturate>Luminosity
  • Colors>Invert
  • Open the Channels list, drag any of the RGB channels to the general list to make a copy of it
  • Right-click the copied channel and Channel to selection.  You now have a progressive selection on the image where the dark pixels are more selected than the light ones, so tools will apply more to them and leave the light ones almost untouched.
  • Open the Layers list, delete/hide the black and white layer, select the image layer
  • Use Colors>Brightness/Contrast to bring out the kid's face, you will see that the light parts of the image are mostly unchanged.
  • Select>Invert to have a progressive selection mostly on the "light" parts of the image (the raincoat)
  • Use Colors>Hue/Saturation to add some saturation to the raincoat.

That's not the image I was wanting to improve, the stuff explained before helped with that pic, this is the scene Im wanting to improve now

   

This is the closest to how I want it to look


   
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#23
(02-08-2018, 07:56 PM)SolidSnake2003 Wrote:
(02-08-2018, 05:58 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: With a crude luminosity mask:
  • Duplicate the layer
  • Colors>Desaturate>Luminosity
  • Colors>Invert
  • Open the Channels list, drag any of the RGB channels to the general list to make a copy of it
  • Right-click the copied channel and Channel to selection.  You now have a progressive selection on the image where the dark pixels are more selected than the light ones, so tools will apply more to them and leave the light ones almost untouched.
  • Open the Layers list, delete/hide the black and white layer, select the image layer
  • Use Colors>Brightness/Contrast to bring out the kid's face, you will see that the light parts of the image are mostly unchanged.
  • Select>Invert to have a progressive selection mostly on the "light" parts of the image (the raincoat)
  • Use Colors>Hue/Saturation to add some saturation to the raincoat.

That's not the image I was wanting to improve, the stuff explained before helped with that pic, this is the scene Im wanting to improve now



This is the closest to how I want it to look


I did look at it before, but no real good match.  Your image (screencapture?) has lost a lot of detail

A real quick 'maybe' using g'mic light patch filter, showing possible settings. 
https://i.imgur.com/lzFYwLD.jpg

Can be 'tweaked' using a selection to constrain the filter. Hopefully someone will come up with a 'recipe'.

Using my netbook so a little stretched for battery time Wink
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#24
So:
  • some Curves to lighten the darkness a bit,
  • the "quickmask" to paint a selection over the eyes,
  • Select>Feather the selection a bit (20px)
  • another shot of curves to lighten that area some more:
   
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#25
The screencaps used were made from the DVD version of movie. I hate it on Blu-Ray, but had to use the DVD to get the screencaps. My PC doesn't have a blu-ray player. The only way I can maybe get better screencaps is to watch the Digital version, and printscreen caps that way I guess, but I don't know if that works.
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#26
(02-09-2018, 11:36 PM)SolidSnake2003 Wrote: The screencaps used were made from the DVD version of movie.  I hate it on Blu-Ray, but had to use the DVD to get the screencaps.  My PC doesn't have a blu-ray player.  The only way I can maybe get better screencaps is to watch the Digital version, and printscreen caps that way I guess, but I don't know if that works.

Depending on the viewing application there might be provision to tweak the output before the screencapture. Have a look through the application menus.

This example using the freeware player VLC which will play a DVD on your computer.

1. VLC will export a frame as a png. Better than using the computer screencapture.
This example from VLC before any adjustments: https://i.imgur.com/uusdxWd.jpg

2. Tucked away is a filters section, all sorts in there: https://i.imgur.com/Vkwn4xb.jpg

3. Which gives an exported frame like this: https://i.imgur.com/5pg6EBu.jpg

Still not great. What is the difference? Analysis shows about 1600 colours before and 2600 colours after.
Still a low base for editing but a better low base.

Caveat: I am firmly embedded in old technology. No blueray here. 
Using a blueray disk? Still possible with VLC. Do a search for the keys and how to set up.
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#27
(02-10-2018, 09:18 AM)rich2005 Wrote:
(02-09-2018, 11:36 PM)SolidSnake2003 Wrote: The screencaps used were made from the DVD version of movie.  I hate it on Blu-Ray, but had to use the DVD to get the screencaps.  My PC doesn't have a blu-ray player.  The only way I can maybe get better screencaps is to watch the Digital version, and printscreen caps that way I guess, but I don't know if that works.

Depending on the viewing application there might be provision to tweak the output before the screencapture. Have a look through the application menus.

This example using the freeware player VLC which will play a DVD on your computer.

1. VLC will export a frame as a png. Better than using the computer screencapture.
This example from VLC before any adjustments: https://i.imgur.com/uusdxWd.jpg

2. Tucked away is a filters section, all sorts in there: https://i.imgur.com/Vkwn4xb.jpg

3. Which gives an exported frame like this: https://i.imgur.com/5pg6EBu.jpg

Still not great. What is the difference? Analysis shows about 1600 colours before and 2600 colours after.
Still a low base for editing but a better low base.

Caveat: I am firmly embedded in old technology. No blueray here. 
Using a blueray disk? Still possible with VLC. Do a search for the keys and how to set up.

This is the best I could get it


   
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#28
any advice on how to improve the image, and get rid of the blocks, and make it look sharper?
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#29
Here is a link to an HD Blu-Ray capture, can you help me improve it?

http://kissthemgoodbye.net/horrors/album...346529.jpg
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#30
The face is too dark on that one.
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