raw from the Q, not demosaiced, channel mixed, tone curved, and then b&w converted in rawtherapee. editing a non-demosaiced image is uhhh annoying. the preview is no help, even the 1:1 zoom is not exactly accurate either.
then, export to darktable, blur tool used on 4px radius, local contrast tool blasted because the image was too flat, trial and error exporting until result is acceptable.

is the end result any different from the demosaiced image? uhhh it's nearly impossible to compare, the second image is all the exact same edits, just with AMAZE demosaic in rawtherapee and the blur turned off in darktable, and it's a completely different result so no 1 to 1 comparison can be made. if anything at all it illustrates how distinctly different these 2 editing pipelines are despite only swapping one module for another.

for fun, same process just without the b&w conversion in rt and with white balance in dt in images 3 and 4

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the major difference i think is that colors are weighted when demosaiced, so you had to do it fully manually when non-demosaiced. you might be able to reproduce it. any way, i like the end result, and the pink one is so cute

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and that finishes what we started back in october. there's various other photoshoots i've been avoiding touching but I think I'm ready to get em done now.

coming back to this shoot with a better idea of how to edit it

redgraph can really be foul huh

without a prominent red in the scene getting the balance right between the two shots is very vibes

what is a redgraph? it's one photo taken with a red filter, one with no filter, then the difference between the two becomes the green and blue layers and the red one is the red layer. then a little bit more editing and voila, it's horrifying! for extra fun i took a buncha redgraphs without a tripod so everything has that anaglyph 3d eyesore to it!

its like a trichrome without the tri part?? it's a less-involved and more loose version of a thing I did nearly a year ago: https://streak.club/p/56991/trichrome-by-999999999

image #3 with bouba has some masking stuff going on to bring out midgrey detail in the environment but still keep her fur contrasty black and white im proud of the result

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