underwater fotos

[huebi 1]

Hi,

 

I have a bunch of fotos taken under water and they are really crappy. I found some tutorials for photoshop like this one:

 

 

The foto is like mine and its astonishing what can be done... unfortunetly I am unable to translate this tutorial to affinity, can somebody halp me out what was done and how to do this in Affinty?

 

If necessary I can upload one of mine fotos..

 

Thanks in advance

 

[Gnobelix 184]

I think a photo could be very helpful.
In AP, it should not be a problem to get comparable results.

[huebi 1]

Ok, here we go...

[huebi 1]

Hi,

 

i now went through dozens over dozens tutorials on Youtube and learned a lot about AP. But...

 

the only thing i figured out that my photos do have enough information in the red chanelle, but i'm still unable to improve them. Everything i'm trying out results in a more worse phozto than before. Any help appreciated.

 

//Huebi

[Erwe 32]

Like so?

[huebi 1]

Oki,

 

what have you done .)

 

//Huebi

[Erwe 32]

Add an live adjustment layer -> Levels

Klick on Master and select Red

Move the Blackpoint-slider to the beginning of the histogram and on the other side the Whitepoint-slider to the end.

Do this also with Green and Blue

 

(Please excuse my bad English)

[huebi 1]

Hmmm, i tried a lot of stuff, like HSL on red or Black&White corrections... bun never tried with levels

[carl123 1,383]

It's hard to say what the actual colours were like without being there so I just had a go at brightening it up a bit.

Oh, and unlike Affinity's way of doing things the "before" picture is on the left and the "after" picture is on the right

 

[DM1 810]

Tap channel mixer adjustment and raise red to say 116%. The photo info will now appear in the red layer (previously black.) Photo looks much better already. Now apply whatever adjustments you like to finish. Maybe Levels and  Clarify.

 

 

[Gnobelix 184]

Hello huebi,
some approaches have been shown to you,
and that's my way how i would edit the photos.
So that you can understand it, I have made the editing in a macro.
Playing with the sliders, so that the photo meets your expectations.

cheers

 

subsea-photo.afmacro

[sirdrake 4]

On 17/12/2017 at 7:43 AM, huebi said:

Ok, here we go...

---- curves adjusted ---

 

fish.afphoto

Edited March 23, 2018 by sirdrake
text added and picture deleted

[huebi 1]

Hi,

thx to everyone, i will take all into account and start a new approach.

 

Again, thx for all the input.

 

//Huebi