On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 6:19 AM, Chris Siebenmann <c...@cs.toronto.edu>
wrote:
> > Manipulating the tone curves is still (for me) not optimal. I find
> > that making complex curves is rather like pushing a piece of string
> > .. fragile to put it mildly. Rawstudio was for me a winner in that
> > department in that it allowed me to do some really fine (and complex)
> > adjustment .. easily!
>
> Frequently I find myself wishing that the tone curve and the base
> curve could be visualized and manipulated in terms of (photographic)
> stops
the base curve has a logarithmic mode, that would be quite similar to stops.
-jo
> instead of their current numbers. The base curve is an especially
> glaring example of this; as it is, very fine movements of the curve can
> have drastic effects, which makes it very hard to do things with it.
> I really think that working in stops would be much more amenable to
> manipulation.
>
> (I know, the zone module kind of does this. But the zone module doesn't
> give you a 2D graph of the manipulations you're doing so you can really
> understand them, and I find that that makes things tricky in a lot of
> situations. I suppose I should experiment with the zone module and
> parametric blends.)
>
> - cks
>
>
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