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matjayesterday at 5:37 PM3 repliesview on HN

You can do something similar in GIMP:

1) Colors > Components > Decompose > LAB

2) For the layers of the A/B (chroma) channels, Colors > Levels > "Auto Input Levels" (maximize the contrast), and move the mid point to the median.

3) Colors > Components > Compose > LAB


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rf15today at 6:18 AM

That is very clever, thank you. Didn't even consider that yes, the contrast of the A/B channels is also the spread across the colour spectrum. Shows how little I use LAB... thanks for the reminder.

MisterTeayesterday at 6:54 PM

Can you explain 2 a bit more? I see the Auto input levels but unsure what you mean by "move the midpoint to the median."

The result I got for the original mars image was a washed out red image with some yellow around the craters.

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tyraboundtoday at 2:39 AM

Have you validated that it produces similar results?

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