Fred's ImageMagick Scripts



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DAVEHILLEFFECT


Applies a DaveHill-like effect to an image.

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last modified: December 15, 2018



USAGE: davehilleffect [-b brightness] [-c contrast] [-g gain ] infile outfile
USAGE: davehilleffect [-h or -help]

-b ... brightness ... brightness factor; float>=0; default=1 no change
-c ... contrast ..... contrast; float; nominally -10 to 10; default=0
-g ... gain ......... effect gain; 0<=integer<=100; default=40

PURPOSE: To apply a DaveHill-like effect to an image.

DESCRIPTION: DAVEHILLEFFECT applies a DaveHill-like effect to an image.

ARGUMENTS:

-b brightness ... BRIGHTNESS is a brightness factor. Values are floats>=0. The default=1 or no change. Increase brightness is larger than 1. Decrease brightness is less than 1.

-c contrast ... CONTRAST is a sigmoidal contrast. Values are floats nominally in the range of -10 to 10. Positive values increase contrast and negative values decrease contrast. The default=0 (no change).

-g gain ... GAIN is the effect gain. Values are integers between 0 and 100. The default=40

REFERENCES:
http://www.diyphotography.net/creating-that-dave-hill-look
http://logosdesign.blogspot.com/2008/07/dave-hill-effect-photography-tutorial.html

REQUIREMENTS: IM 6.6.1.9 due to the use of -morphology DoG

CAVEAT: No guarantee that this script will work on all platforms, nor that trapping of inconsistent parameters is complete and foolproof. Use At Your Own Risk.


EXAMPLES


Example 1

Original
(source image)

Arguments:
-b 1 -c 0 g 0

Arguments:
-b 1 -c 0 g 40
(default)

Arguments:
-b 1 -c 0 -g 70

Arguments:
-b 1 -c -5 -g 40



Example 2

Original
(source image)

Arguments:
-b 1 -c 0 -g 40
(default)

Arguments:
-b 1 -c 0 -g 20

Arguments:
-b 1 -c -5 -g 20



What the script does is as follows:

  • Read image, enhance brightness and sigmoidal-contrast
  • Clone and apply high pass filter using DoG
  • Do vividlight composite between the two images
  • Clone result and apply high pass filter
  • Set up gray image of appropriate value to use as mask
  • Use hardlight composite of the last three images

This is equivalent to the following IM commands

  • grayval="gray$gain"
  • convert $tmpA1 -evaluate multiply $brightness +sigmoidal-contrast $contrast,50% \
    \( -clone 0 -bias 50% -define convolve:scale=1 -morphology Convolve DoG:0,0,4 \) \
    -compose vividlight -composite \
    \( -clone 0 -bias 50% -define convolve:scale=1 -morphology Convolve DoG:0,0,6.9 \) \
    \( -clone 0 -fill $grayval -colorize 100 \) \
    -compose colorize -composite $outfile