Re: Huge Image! Larry and GuhNoo mediocrity on display

On 2/21/25 19:22, DFS wrote:

On 2/21/2025 5:52 PM, Lameass Larry wrote:
 

I have, using the phenomenal GNU/Linux image tools, converted
a detail from color to grayscale using the bt709 algorithm.
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Here is the result:
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https://i.postimg.cc/YM2dQpDW/gray.png
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Try that with that junk known as Microslop Winblows.

 Sure thing.
 https://imgur.com/a/b6SgFIu

Was thinking the same thing...
<https://photo-hh.com/usenet/no_one_answer.jpg>

top pic   : via python PIL library (3 lines of code)
middle pic: via the superior Windows-only irfanview
bottom pic: original 200% color enlargement
 Big deal.

 > > Using a simpleton bash script, you converted a color image to grayscale

- alert the media!  Why none of your "extraordinary" C programming?
 Year after year you do something very trivial and ignorantly / dishonestly claim it can't be done on Windows.
 wtf lameass?  Get a new schtick.
 Linux, loneliness and testosterone really is a bad mix.

Plus when it comes to artistic understanding of images, as John Shaw illustrated in his books, there is no one "correct" interpretation.
As such, even derivatives are free to take on their own tangents, which is what I chose to illustrate.
Plus if one wants to emphasize the gnarly crinkled texture, simply crank up the contrast, sharpen, or use an unsharp mask (BTDT).
Plus all have been very available as GUI tools with preview functions such that one can tweak to one's heart content prior to committing the CPU (& human) time to rendering the full image, which results in a more productive workflow than Feeb's scripting from a more immediate artist feedback loop.
-hh