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2026-08-03 09:28 UTC

@miranda_blue@eldritch.cafe I just had a quick look over your pictures and I genuinely think they're pretty great. You clearly have a good eye for the art. The vast majority of the camera's own color profile is really just "more saturation, more contrast". It genuinely isn't all that much more complex. The different profiles are simply how much extra you'll get. To understand what you like about an image, you have to understand its basic components. What are the most prominent colors? do you wanna strengthen said colors? mute them? Figuring out a goal for the edit of a specific picture is part of this. These pictures are an AMAZING example for editing, besides the fact that they are already amazing pictures. (not saying they need editing, but they're relatively easy ones to give an idea): https://queer.roboctopus.org/@miranda/statuses/01KGFPNHBWSBXJBF5YDEG5XCHD All pictures in that collection have two primary colors: dark green and light blue. You wanna emphasize the contrast? pull up blue and green in saturation and push the rest down. You wanna just emphasize one side? I'd personally emphasize the green. In a way that space feels more personal, while the blue feels more sterile. Even here it's a personal choice on what you wanna do with it. This is also where Darktable has a really nice UI to edit saturation. It's interface allows you to saturate parts of the spectrum, leaving others alone.

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@miranda_blue@eldritch.cafe 2026-08-03 11:28

@siblingsofthevoid@void.lgbt Thanks for the compliments :blob_cat_blush: and the advice! I also had a look and I do like what you do with landscape :blob_cat_aww: As you maybe saw, the pictures you linked (mine) were taken with my film camera (it's a scan of the negative), so I don't have a RAW to work with. Still, I could do a bit of editing. Actually I did some on several film pictures scans but using GIMP, mostly tweaking the curves to correct over- or under-exposure, and sometimes trying to denoise some of the underexposed ones, though that's tricky. I don't think I touched those ones, though. The thing is, I absolutely love how they turned out but it's nothing like the scene looked like: the library lighting is actually very warm and pleasant, it's completely different from that sickly green hue, it was a complete surprise when I got them developed (and again, I loved it!). It was a special "retro" film I got from cheap at my local photo lab and I think it has a unusual chemistry that does something weird with the spectrum of that specific lighting.

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