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Preset

Heat Map

False-colour thermal mapping for heat-map storytelling.

False-colour thermal palettes turn brightness into heat storytelling. Even when the source is not a real thermograph, the ironbow-style ramp signals survey, night ops or speculative science.

Use it when temperature, not local colour, should carry the narrative.

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Example

Properties

  • Noise

    Enabled layer in this preset.

    Values
    strength: 2.081; grainSize: 0.5; minGrain: 0.001; chroma: 0.796; shadowWeight: 1; midWeight: 0.576; highlightWeight: 0.688; grainSpeed: 48
  • Gaussian Blur

    Enabled layer in this preset.

    Values
    strength: 0.615; aspect: 0; opacity: 1; blendMode: 0
  • Bloom

    Enabled layer in this preset.

    Values
    threshold: 0.825; intensity: 2.139; knee: 0.478; bloom_factor: 0.728; blend_mode: 0; tonemapper: 0
  • Thermal

    Enabled layer in this preset.

    Values
    invert: 1; shadows: -0.273; midtones: -0.002; highlights: 0; gradient_type: 1; gradient_shift: 0; gradient_repeat: 1; show_edges: 1; edge_range: 0.24

Command line

Requires Rethings Pro. Install the tool from Rethings → Install Command Line Tool…

rethings apply --preset heat-map -i input.jpg -o output.png

Gallery

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