On 21 May 2005 at 9:31, Paul Stenquist wrote: > Once you've become accustomed to the RAW converter, you usually won't > have to use curves after conversion. The only tool I use with any > frequency after conversion is shadow/highlight. That seems to be able > to accomplish some control that can't be achieved in conversion. But > anything you can do in curves, you can do in the converter. There are > times when I wish I had given a shot a bit more contrast before > conversion. I'll then use curves after conversion and tweak the RGB > curve. But those situations are rare.
The contrast/brightness tools are controls for a curves tool however they only effectively provide a single control point along the curve. They are generally adequate but are ineffective if you need to anchor one section of the image (for instance shadows to mid-times) and adjust the gamma of another section (ie the highlights). For some of the copy work I do this would be great as any curves are best applied before the selected color-space gamma curve is imposed on the composite RGB file. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
