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Beautify your renders using LUT LookUp Tables NEW End-of-May '22 version!

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  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,616
    edited July 2021

    Hmm. This is an idea.

    Not for DS, but I have had an interesting time creating a cross stitch chart generator where images are converted into thread colours. A .cube LUT may well work as an approach to speed up the conversion. Or at least as an alternative approach for the user to try out to see if they like the conversion. The image below is one I stitched up as a test piece to check the program:

    Regards,

    Richard

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  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,607
    edited July 2021

    i only have Ps CS2 which Adobe gave for free a few (many) years ago and it doesnt have LUTs

    so i installed the 7-days CS6 Trial

    when i'll update mcjLUT ( the .exe part of it not the script )

    i'll add a 0..100% slider 

    and it will blend the input image with the output image

    so it will be the equivalent of Ps's Normal/Opacity setting

     

    juvesatriani said:

    mCasual said:

    Thanks, do you mean preserving the alpha/transparency layer? 

    or mix the original with the recolorized?

    i never used lookout tables outside of my script&app

     

    juvesatriani said:

    Great tool !!

    Any chance the blend mode - opacity - strengh fx will be included in future ?

    Like always ,this really useful tool . DAZ should include most of your tools/scripts in default instalation package

    Thanks for reply .. I mean like Blend or Opacity option in Photoshop 

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  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,607
    edited July 2021

     this could be done with the free command line utility imagemagick

    here's a command line or batch file for the older version of imagemagick

    H:\imagemagick\composite -compose multiply -gravity center threads.png Heavysmokings2021.png wagadoogoo.png

    and the images used

    richardandtracy said:

    Hmm. This is an idea.

    Not for DS, but I have had an interesting time creating a cross stitch chart generator where images are converted into thread colours. A .cube LUT may well work as an approach to speed up the conversion. Or at least as an alternative approach for the user to try out to see if they like the conversion. The image below is one I stitched up as a test piece to check the program:

    Regards,

    Richard

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  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,616

    Just want to make clear, that photo is of a stitched panel, not a photo-edited image designed to look like it was stitched (might not have been clear from my original post), and it took about 3 months to stitch. It's the idea of look-up tables that I'd not come across before, and it might be a useful concept for a quick & dirty conversion rather than the 'as close to a photo as it's possible to get with threads' aim of my original conversion method - which can take quite a few minutes to do with a big image and slow computer.

    Regards,

    Richard.

     

  • perlkperlk Posts: 854

    This looks amazing. I can't wait to try it! 

  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,607
    edited July 2021

    that's the plugin which will be backward compatible with the mcjLUT and mcjLUTB scripts

    i will also fix a little bug in the script which didnt always display the correct output image

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  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,607
    edited July 2021

    good news the upcoming windoze version of the plugin works with daz studio 32bit and 64bit 

    and bugs were fixed in the scripts mcjLUT mcjLUTB and mcjLUTB_Widescreen

    other good news: you wont need the recently posted LUT normalizer script since the new version of the plugin does it automatically

    but

    i will work on the MAC plugin before uploading all those files

    that's a Daz Studio 4.9 32bit test so it should work with 4.5 and up 

     

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  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,607
    edited July 2021

    How nigh is it you ask?

    very nigh

    i compiled and tested the MAC version minutes ago

    yeah that nigh

    so i just have to zip the plugins so that google-sites wont block you from downloading it 

    ok that's my embarassingly old used macbook but it has xcode

    my newer macbook pro ... i forget if it has daz studio or xcode, because i never play with my macs

    why ? because i'm not comfortable in it

    now the unsharp photo proof

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  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,607
    edited July 2021

    the debugged (none critical) free and improved mcjLUT plugin+script for Daz Studio PC/MAC is online ! twas an all night long all night ight ( Fifth Element ) long affair, you're welcome https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts9/mcjlut

     

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  • RbugRbug Posts: 166
    edited July 2021

    mCasual said:

    the debugged (none critical) free and improved mcjLUT plugin+script for Daz Studio PC/MAC is online ! twas an all night long all night ight ( Fifth Element ) long affair, you're welcome https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts9/mcjlut

     

    Cannot seem to find the correct file I downloaded it again and all the script says is that I am using an old version of mcjLUTplugin, so blend effect is not available?

    What did I do wrong? (edit) ok seems that for some reason the new .dll didnot show up until a few minutes after posting this querry, so problem solved thank you for all your hard work..

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  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,607
    I think Studio only checks the plugins upon start, so if it's running when you drop the dll in the plugins folder it wont be detected. Also you may not be able to overwrite the old dll when Studio or its remnant is holding on to it
    Rbug said:
    ... work..
  • juvesatrianijuvesatriani Posts: 556

    Super awesome !! I hope DAZ will including your excelent + useful scripts in next DAZ major release 

  • Catherine3678abCatherine3678ab Posts: 8,307

    Thank you mCasual :-)

  • y3kmany3kman Posts: 792
    edited July 2021

    mCasual said:

    the debugged (none critical) free and improved mcjLUT plugin+script for Daz Studio PC/MAC is online ! twas an all night long all night ight ( Fifth Element ) long affair, you're welcome https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts9/mcjlut

     

    Thanks for the update!

    I'm probably blind but the preview image doesn't change for me when I use the blend slider.

    edit: Figured it out. The right pane only updates after creating the output image.

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  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,607

    i could add a 'refresh' or 'preview  blend' button under the slider 

    y3kman said:

    mCasual said:

    the debugged (none critical) free and improved mcjLUT plugin+script for Daz Studio PC/MAC is online ! twas an all night long all night ight ( Fifth Element ) long affair, you're welcome https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts9/mcjlut

     

     

    Thanks for the update!

    I'm probably blind but the preview image doesn't change for me when I use the blend slider.

    edit: Figured it out. The right pane only updates after creating the output image.

  • TugpsxTugpsx Posts: 738

    Great to see all the improvements on this script/plugin. Again thanks for creating awesome scripts for the community.

  • HamsterHamster Posts: 41

    This is very cool and helpful ! Thank you very much!

  • TugpsxTugpsx Posts: 738
    edited May 2022

    Coming soon an updated version of mcjLUT for Daz Studio.

     

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  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,607
    edited May 2022

    maybe today who knows 

     

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  • mCasualmCasual Posts: 4,607
    edited May 2022

    NEW END-OF-MAY 2022 version !

    with resizable canvas and UI cleaning and some minor bug fixes

    Be the first on your street to snatch it

    https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts9/mcjlut

     

     

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