Re: [CinePaint] masks; detail 8 vs. 16+ bits

Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.cinepaint.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Frank Peters wrote:
> After downloading the NEF file, I converted to PNM format using
> dcraw:
>
> dcraw -v -w -c -4 -q 3 -o 0 DSC_1180.NEF > DSC_1180.pnm

I notice that the image is very very noisy.  There must not have been 
enough light for the camera.  Some filtering is useful in order to 
improve the appearance:

dcraw -c -a -H 5 -q 3 -4 -w DSC_1180.NEF | \
   gm convert - -enhance -resize '50%' -sharpen 0x0.5 -gamma 2.2 \
     -quality 85 DSC_1180_enhance.jpg

or

dcraw -c -a -H 5 -q 3 -4 -w DSC_1180.NEF | \
    gm convert - -noise 1.8 -resize '50%' -sharpen 0x0.5 -gamma 2.2 \
       -quality 85 DSC_1180_noise1.8.jpg

does ok.  Note that these commands also reduce the image size by a 
factor of two since the smaller image looks better. :-)

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
[email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/


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