Thanks. That was clearly a lot of work.
Chuck Norcutt
Moose wrote:
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> You lost me here. Explain: "I simply set ACRS to retain all the
>> detail in the RAW file within the output range. I then processed that
>> one image as usual."
>>
> Sure. With this image, settings were:
> Exposure: -1.65
> Shadows: 0
> Brightness:- 93
> Contrast: -30
> Curve: linear.
>
> The result is not a particularly good looking image, quite dark. But,
> there are only a few clipped brightness values on either end. So the
> data may not be correctly arranged, but it's all there. I suppose it
> would be possible to do some of the further adjustment in ACRS, with
> Curves in 3.3 and whatever may have been added since, but I am simply
> more experienced and comfortable with the tools in PS and some are
> unique to it.
>
> You can see what's going on in these examples. I've refined the clipping
> identification Actions to roughly equal what shows in ACRS. You can see
> the large amount of clipping at both ends in the default version. In the
> custom version based on the above settings, although it is dark overall,
> you can see that there is only one small area of blue in the cave and
> that there are a few irretrievably lost highlights at the top of the
> falls and in a couple of spots at the base. (The differences in the size
> and shape of the red areas in the custom and final versions are not
> 'real', but the result of applying the Action at full size on one and to
> the downsized version on the other, sorry.)
> http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/tech/Process/hdrq/hdr2.htm
>
> Notice also how many small blown areas there are on the default rock
> face, altering its color as channels top out unevenly.
>
> In the current version, I've let some areas of shadow go black in
> processing for the effect I like, but you can see that is not necessary
> from the custom ACRS version.
>
> One thing that I think has to be learned to get the most out of PS is
> that some steps make the image look worse, before later ones make it
> look better. If you want improvement at each step, you limit what you
> can do.
>
> Moose
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