Anybody use Wavelet Processing?

It lets you edit only items around certain detail sizes - often called 'detail levels'.

Here's a moonshot after post-processing:

Some might say it looks OK but I wanted more acutance:

I increased the contrast in Levels 1, 2, 3 ... 1px,2px,4px detail size, voila:

Thing with wavelets is that one can do anything to individual levels - like change the color of grass to orange and sky to purple ... or smooth a background without smoothing fine details. And more ...

... patdavid.net/2014/07/wavelet-decompose-again/

Hope this is of interest ...

Alan this method works with older versions of PS not sure about the latest as I have not used it for a long time and only tried it out even then

community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/ps-script-fix-for-wavelet-decompose-jsx/td-p/12051393/page/2

I'm not familiar with PS but it is not specific to the GIMP as Jim said while I was typing..

RawTherapee has 'Contrast By Level Details' and also a full Tab's worth of more complicated Wavelet stuff.

Long Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubELtK_zXdE

I believe that the command-line ImageMagick can do it but not everyone likes command-line work.

Here's a quick and dirty shot at changing the foliage color and independently the sky: