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list of presets shipped with vkdt

burn-guided.pst

draw brush strokes for burning, i.e. make shadows brighter. this variant introduces a guided blur for the brush strokes, so it will be easier to stick to object edges. see the documentation of the draw module.

burn.pst

draw brush strokes for burning, i.e. make shadows brighter. see the documentation of the draw module.

clut.pst

preset to use an input colour lookup table which has been generated by vkdt-mkclut from spectral sensitivity curves. assumes the standard colour module is on the graph. see characterising the colour response of your camera

ColorChecker.pst

this preset adds support for the ColorChecker colour target. the use case is you have a picture of a ColorChecker and want to use it for colour correction. it adds the colour picker locations and reference values to ciediag, colour, and pick modules to enable the rbf colour correction, press the 'import' button in the colour module after applying this preset. then copy/paste the settings of the colour module to other images in the same shoot. preset created by vkdt scanin

colourcube.pst

this preset presents a double rgb cube for the colour mapping rbf. this is useful for manual/artistic tweaking.

colour-monk-0.pst

spot white balance for skin tones using google's monk scale. assumes colour input comes directly from crop.

 

colour-monk-1.pst

spot white balance for skin tones using google's monk scale. assumes colour input comes directly from crop.

 

colour-monk-2.pst

spot white balance for skin tones using google's monk scale. assumes colour input comes directly from crop.

 

colour-monk-3.pst

spot white balance for skin tones using google's monk scale. assumes colour input comes directly from crop.

 

colour-monk-4.pst

spot white balance for skin tones using google's monk scale. assumes colour input comes directly from crop.

 

colour-monk-5.pst

spot white balance for skin tones using google's monk scale. assumes colour input comes directly from crop.

 

colour-monk-6.pst

spot white balance for skin tones using google's monk scale. assumes colour input comes directly from crop.

 

colour-monk-7.pst

spot white balance for skin tones using google's monk scale. assumes colour input comes directly from crop.

 

colour-monk-8.pst

spot white balance for skin tones using google's monk scale. assumes colour input comes directly from crop.

 

colour-monk-9.pst

spot white balance for skin tones using google's monk scale. assumes colour input comes directly from crop.

 

dodge-guided.pst

draw dodge, i.e. make highlights darker brush strokes

dodge.pst

draw dodge, i.e. make highlights darker brush strokes

draw-double-tint.pst

this is a preset that allows to change the color of specific areas of a photo in two different ways with the help of drawn masks/selections change e.g. saturation in colour tint1 and draw over an area, and change e.g. blue in colour tint2 and draw over an area

draw-tint.pst

this is a preset for modifying the color of certain areas that you paint over change the sliders in the module colour tint, e.g. saturation or white balance, and draw over the area

filmsim.pst

put spectral analog film simulation into the default pipeline instead of filmcurve and local contrast. see the filmsim module.

gamut.pst

this preset uses look up tables to drive hue-constant saturation changes in the colour module. it connects two luts which are created during the build process and assumes a 01 instance of the colour module. this is essential for hue-preserving tweaks of colourfulness and preservation of the validity of colour coordinates (inside spectral locus).

inpaint.pst

this preset is for inpainting, i.e. removing small distracting objects such as poles, power lines, etc. it works by smooth extension of the image into masked areas that are drawn by brush strokes. works best for smooth surroundings such as skies or out of focus regions.

mask-tint.pst

this is a preset to change the color of an area that is selected with the (parametric) mask module

mcraw-temporal-denoise.pst

noise-profile.pst

use this preset to quickly profile the noise characteristics of the current image without running an external profiling step. see noise reduction/profiling for more information. the preset allows you to measure noise model parameters, estimate the validity of the fit by inspecting a diagram, and provides buttons to install the created profile as well as to remove the modules from the processing graph again.

pick-neutral.pst

spot white balance for neutral D65 white. assumes colour input comes directly from crop

retouch.pst

this uses hand drawn brush strokes and the wavelet module to achieve a frequency-based smoothing of the image. this is useful for skin retouching, when you want to remove low-frequency blemishes but leave in the high-frequency skin detail. see pat's old tutorial for some context.

SpyderChecker24.pst

this preset adds support for the SpyderChecker24 colour target. it adds the colour picker locations and reference values to ciediag, colour, and pick modules to enable the rbf colour correction, press the 'import' button in the colour module after applying this preset. then copy/paste the settings of the colour module to other images. preset created by vkdt scanin

vectorscope-skin.pst

set the 10 google monk scale skin tones as reference patches in the ciediag:01 vectorscope plot.

whitebalance-camera.pst

enable camera-auto white balance in the colour module. this is just a convenience preset, you can set the values to zero for the same effect.

whitebalance-D65.pst

set D65 white balance on the colour module (this is pass-through) this is just a convenience preset, you can set the white values to 1 for the same effect.

March 2025