Graff desaturation

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Graff desaturation

Postby Bar Welt » Tue Oct 13, 2009, 14:37

Hallo. I use Graff 1.0.24, and it looks like the desaturation algorithm performs not properly. I just compared the desaturated image with the same image after the desaturation in GIMP. Should I commit the bug report on that ?

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Re: Graff desaturation

Postby Creator » Tue Oct 13, 2009, 17:16

Currently we use the following desaturation algorithm: C = (R + G + B) / 3.
Before committing a bug, I suggest to discuss desaturation here.

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Re: Graff desaturation

Postby Administrator » Tue Oct 13, 2009, 23:20

Photoshop uses the following approach. In the gray value of the pixel should the luminance be written. It is calculatd as average sum of the maximal and minimal color channel values.

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Re: Graff desaturation

Postby Creator » Tue Jan 26, 2010, 02:39

The difference can be illustrated here:
face_org_3.jpg
Original Photo
face_org_3.jpg (8.72 KiB) Viewed 17661 times
face_bw_3.gif
Desaturated Photo
face_bw_3.gif (71.81 KiB) Viewed 17661 times

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Re: Graff desaturation

Postby Creator » Tue Jan 26, 2010, 12:39

Maybe it will be better example:
color_table_org.jpg
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color_table_4.gif
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Re: Graff desaturation

Postby Creator » Tue Jan 26, 2010, 16:36

Starting from the version 1.0.30d we have corrected the Desaturate function. Now it produces the same result as in Adobe Photoshop. Basically this function, now uses the Hue/Saturation functionality, i.e C = [Min(R, G, B) + Max(R, G, B)] / 2.
To achive old result, i.e. C = [R + G + B] / 3, please use function Black & White with default settings.


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